Sentence examples for would be abrupt from inspiring English sources

"It would probably be foolish to suggest that there would be abrupt change in course or direction," he said.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, a top climate scientist and scientific adviser to the Vatican, said the impact of global warming would be "abrupt, surprising, and irreversible", and that it would shut down parts of the earth much in the same way that the body dies of a fever.

The available reports suggested that the potential cardiovascular toxicity would indeed be immediate and transient and that the outcome would be abrupt (2, 3, 5).

Mary said that he'd seemed distracted and that she'd tried to engage him in conversation, thinking he was still locked in that first stage of grieving and just needed a little nudge to get him on track again, but he'd been abrupt with her.

Barnett describes only "micro-signs" of change in Beijing, but he believes that a policy change would probably be abrupt, rather than telegraphed in advance by softening rhetoric.

If so, that would be an abrupt about-face.

An immediate jump to $15 would be too abrupt a change.

But for the Lebanese, peace with Israel is not yet part of the vocabulary; it would be too abrupt.

The most profound, obvious and immediate consequence would be the abrupt and shocking displacement of close to a million racehorses.

There have been worries among GOP senators from Medicaid expansion states that the House bill's rollbacks to Medicaid would be too abrupt and severe.

But even that claim looks suspect: if America's GDP growth this year slows to the average forecast of 1.5%, then the decline in growth from 5% last year would be very abrupt indeed.