Sentence examples for swift jolt from inspiring English sources
Before the bailout even got under way in October, Mr. Paulson had to sideline his original strategy — to buy up banks' bad assets — because, he soon came to realize, it was too complex and indirect to deliver the swift jolt the financial markets needed.
A macabre dream about a motorboat colliding with my kayak and sending me tumbling into the swift current jolted me awake.
The competition has jolted SWIFT into action.
So we will refrain from handicapping the Oscar chances of Ben Affleck's "Argo," which arrived in Telluride as a semi-surprise sneak preview and provided a jolt of swift and slick entertainment.
They can also deliver a more significant jolt, likened to a swift kick in the chest, to halt potentially life-threatening rhythm disruptions.
There are analysts and policy makers who worry about speculators and momentum traders in Chicago jolting the stock market with swift moves in and out of stocks and the financial products linked to them.
With a swift swing of his shiny black bat, Jeter jolted himself into historic company, homering off Tampa Bay ace David Price in the third inning Saturday.
But like all "ouch" jolts, the impact is really the swift delivery of a life lesson -- one that feels more like a brick to the gut than a feather on your shoulder, and the awareness this particular life brick granted me just may save a couple people from encountering their own surprise deliveries.
Cutting Russian banks and companies from the Belgium-based Swift international transaction system would, by contrast, impose a serious jolt.
Such slow growth was a jolt for investors, and Wall Street's judgment was swift, with Groupon shares down 27 percent on Tuesday, the day after the earnings were announced.
ANCHORAGE — The magnitude 7 earthquake that jolted Anchorage on Friday cracked buildings, damaged roads and buckled bridges, drawing swift comparisons to a temblor in 1964 that devastated the region and remains a dominant part of Alaskan history.
