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One eyewitness described how the man took three shocks from the controversial weapon but said it had little effect.
The various shocks that have convulsed the Japanese economy in the past decade have tested traditional management shibboleths to destruction.
Although the plot is trashy and derivative, this film has some merit as a brutally effective series of gore and shocks.
However, the doctor warns that her heart is still very weak and any sudden shocks or surprises could kill her.
The morning after is one of the most serious gastronomic shocks you will ever experience.
The doctors warn the children that mother must not experience any shocks or they may lose her for real this time.
And over recent months, not one but several shocks have been experienced across the continent.
As a developing nation, Brazil has adopted punitive interest rates to stay afloat in the midst of economic shocks.
It would be irresponsible to assert that information technologies can counteract any or all external economic shocks.
Japan's obsession with energy efficiency started when the oil shocks of the 1970s ended two decades of double-digit growth.
The capacity of stock markets to absorb external shocks should not surprise us.
Between 1971 and 1989, the productive sector of the Australian economy experienced four major external shocks.
The need for exchange rate adjustments depends on the importance and character of economic shocks.
In part, the persistence reflected what was thought to be the special, and transitory, impacts from the initial oil shocks to the economy.
The economic shocks in late 2000 caused an unexpectedly sharp drop in demand, and inventory began to build up.
At least you can sleep at night regardless of sudden shocks on the global economic and political stage.
These theories range from economic shocks like the oil crisis of the 1970s to changes in government policy.
In the past, when India was an insulated economy, big oil shocks dented the country's national income and household savings.
In the control group, all patients received their shocks from the ambulance personnel.
Defibrillation shocks stop the heart's waves and prevent new ones from occurring.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is, however, better to employ the additive effect of a definite number of feeble make-and-break shocks.
From the 12th of April to the 30th there were ninety-eight or ninety-nine shocks of earthquake.
Platonic love hasn't the slightest idea where it is going, and so there are surprises and shocks in store for it.
Would you advise me to offer you shocks as a sort of vacation from suavity?
In the end, shocks like these gradually roused him from his anguished abstraction.
She shocks him this way and that, but gradually he tames her, and makes her nearly as dull as he is.
It is said that some shocks of earthquake in New Zealand have been felt in Tasmania.
In all respects, tectonic earthquakes differ widely from the Ischian shocks.
Distinctions, so great as these are, evidently remove the Ischian shocks from the category of tectonic earthquakes.
A cartilaginous fish allied to the rays, furnished with electrical organs, by means of which it is able to give powerful shocks.
There were shocks and recoils in every part of every thinking soul, in every part of the object-world!
The choreic shocks were found to be arrested by section of the sciatic nerve.
It is hung on leather springs, so as to be fitted to maintain the shocks of a corduroy road.
Perrey records several shocks during the two years 1856-57 that were felt at places as far apart as Naples, Melfi, and Cosenza.
In order to get a record of the successive shocks another form of apparatus must be employed, a form known as a seismograph.
But even at noon the disturbance had not subsided, as slight shocks are recorded at frequent intervals on the seismograph.
What shocks one part will edify the rest, Nor with one system can they all be blest.
The Torpedo or electric ray is a name given to any one of the numerous rays having the power of giving electrical shocks.
The result of observation indicates that our heaviest shocks are in the direction south-southeast to north-northwest.
The continued shocks since that fateful night of the cards had told upon me.
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