Sentence examples for unprecedented shock from inspiring English sources

Sept. 11, 2001, was a day of unprecedented shock and suffering in the history of the United States.

"That is why for us the impact is stronger," he said, "to go from the summit of optimism, of positive results, to the unprecedented shock of the terrorist attack".

Switzerland's central bank rarely raises its head above its snowy parapet, but early in January 2015 it caused an unprecedented shock when it unexpectedly abandoned a ceiling put in place three years earlier against the euro.

So it was an unprecedented shock that confronted the country on May 8th when Peter Hollingworth, the present governor-general, and a former Anglican church leader, appeared on television from his official residence in Canberra, the capital, to deny a charge that he had raped a woman.

9/11 was a historically unprecedented shock and we acted accordingly.

Despite years of experience as the Vatican official in charge of investigating clerical sex abuse and then as pope, Benedict voices his "unprecedented shock" at the "great crisis" provoked earlier this year by revelations of widespread clergy abuse in several European and Latin American countries.

To keep things from spiraling out of control, the United States government (along with other governments around the world) unleashed what Mr. Roubini calls an unprecedented "shock-and-awe campaign against the crisis".

But in a lecture at the Cass Business School in the City of London, Mr Darling ran up the white flag, saying that "to apply these rules rigidly in today's changed conditions would be perverse".The chancellor did his best, blaming "unprecedented global shocks" for the government's change of heart.

Through the experiences of James -- the bike messenger who awakens from a collision-induced coma 28 days after the animal facility break-in, then leaves his London hospital bed to wander through the nearly empty city -- we learn that the behavior of the virus is unprecedented and shocking.

The unprecedented attack shocked France and there has been an outpouring of sympathy and solidarity worldwide.

Indeed, they write, "At some level this must be so, as the Lehman collapse was unprecedented and the 'Lehman shock' was new; so too for TARP, the auto bailout, and the other extraordinary events of this recession".