Sentence examples for shockingly recent from inspiring English sources

As a Magnetic Fields reference, it's also shockingly recent.

And of course the most famous federal intervention of all was Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 decision (shockingly recent) that overturned the laws of Virginia and 15 other states prohibiting marriage between people of different races.

Their new dining companions have been installed to celebrate a shockingly recent event: the 40th anniversary of the admission of female undergraduates to Hertford, one of the formerly all-male colleges.

Even during the highly publicised and shockingly brutal recent Petit murder case in Connecticut, where the two perpetrators were sentenced to death, the Hartford Courant condemned "hugely wasteful" spending on "a system that doesn't work".

Arizona ACORN members have been protesting his brutal police tactics, most shockingly his recent publicity stunt of separating out 200 inmates from the county jail who are undocumented immigrants and marching them in chains to a separate "tent city" surrounded by an electric fence.

The level of justice denied was shockingly documented in recent years when the Fort Worth, Tex., police submitted 960 kits for testing to the Center for Human Identification, a DNA science project at the University of North Texas.

Employment, poverty, and inequality rates have either stagnated and/or shockingly increased in recent years, while there is a necessity to revisit the scope -- deepening support for existing beneficiaries as opposed to expanding the list of beneficiaries -- of the current poverty-alleviating measures such as the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) scheme.

Mr. Momm said, somewhat shockingly, that in the recent past some of his rivals have spied on his establishments ("We've had people come in, talking to the staff, like where did you get your furniture and so forth").

It seemed possible things could turn around late in Season 2, with the shockingly good episode "Red Team III," but the recent finale rendered the show nearly unwatchable.

Recent events have been shockingly bloody.

A Kentucky sheriff has said he will not enforce any "unconstitutional" new gun laws.Most shockingly, gun sales have soared in recent weeks.