It was a shock for everyone.

It was a great shock to me.

The death of my grandmother was a great shock.

That was a genuine shock for me.

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A complete shock. I was a little ill.

It was a shock to hear about Tom's divorce.

For a moment, the news about the checkpoint came as a shock.

Even for battle hardened Venezuelans, it all came as quite a shock.

We were quite shocked by her sudden death.

Policymakers should be wary of imposing a regulatory shock simultaneously with a fiscal shock.

On Twitter, people from African countries have reacted with shock and humour.

But the Bush administration, backed by a few handpicked Iraqis, is pushing Iraq towards an even more radical form of shock therapy than was pursued in the former Soviet world. Indeed, shock therapy's advocates argue that its failures were due not to excessive speed too much shock and not enough therapy but to insufficient shock.

Indeed, shock therapy's advocates argue that its failures were due not to excessive speed too much shock and not enough therapy but to insufficient shock.

The second shock was EU integration, including the northern and southern enlargements.

The fifth shock was German unification, which is a failure in economic terms. GDP per working age person in East Germany had been 61 of the West German level in 1996, but it is now only 59 .

The fifth shock was German unification, which is a failure in economic terms.

A surprising win for many, expected for others, and a total shock for more than a few.

Indeed, ECB officials are starting to worry aloud about the rise in inflation due to the oil shock.

The first type are those caused by major shocks, say an outbreak of war or a sudden, sharp increase in the price of petroleum.

LONDON Last year s Libor scandal was a shock to the body politic in London.

The first thing I learned well, I'm mortal, that's a really big one.

His death was a shock for many in the country, which has been rocked by anti government protests throughout the last year.

Days later, the ECK s head publicly acknowledged that Kibaki supporters had pressured him to announce the results immediately, despite the clear evidence of vote rigging.

Shockingly, he declared that he did not know who really won.

With a full banking union, cross border lending should resume and remain stable, as common institutions would absorb national shocks.

Online reactions from Ukrainian and Russian users were mostly those of shock and anger, although not surprise.

CAMBRIDGE Al Qaeda s attack on the United States ten years ago was a profound shock to both American and international public opinion.

The sheer savagery of riot police and army men shooting teargas canisters haphazardly at any concentration of people they saw in front of us was a shock to us all.

Of course, such a disorderly eurozone break up would be as severe a shock as the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, if not worse. Avoiding it would compel the eurozone's core economies to embrace the fourth and final option bribing the periphery to remain in a low growth uncompetitive state.

Of course, such a disorderly eurozone break up would be as severe a shock as the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, if not worse.

Recently, the Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga became the first prisoner to be tried at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for the recruitment of child soldiers.

More important, Russia has not cut off natural gas supplies to Western Europe, which would be a major shock for gas dependent EU economies.

The third shock was the euro, which has induced a rapid convergence of long term interest rates, which in some countries had been five to seven percentage points above the German level.

Unfortunately, his streak of success will inevitably call forth an economic reckoning that will shock France s apparently unsuspecting citizens and doom the French elite s approach to the construction of Europe.

And could a weakened Europe cope with an oil shock at all? A regional and global security shock caused by asymmetric warfare could add still further to the world economy s troubles, causing exports to slump even more.

The fourth shock was eastern EU enlargement, which has brought extraordinary chances for trade and investment in the east, but has also brought massive low wage competition. On average, wage costs in the ten countries that joined the EU in 2004 are only 14 of the West German level.

And could a weakened Europe cope with an oil shock at all? nbsp A regional and global security shock caused by asymmetric warfare could add still further to the world economy s troubles, causing exports to slump even more.

The fourth shock was eastern EU enlargement, which has brought extraordinary chances for trade and investment in the east, but has also brought massive low wage competition.

Given this, the recent sharp decline in world oil prices obviously represents a major shock large enough, when combined with the effect of increasingly strict Western sanctions to provoke a sizeable recession.

Still, the reach and technical sophistication of US spy agencies exposed by the Snowden revelations have come as a shock to some companies who previously thought the biggest surveillance risk was posed by China.

As they dominated the world s media for three gruesome days, the killers achieved a startling success for their cause, one that must have shaken anti terrorist experts around the world, who now realize how easy it would be for ten men unafraid of death to hold any city in the world hostage.

For example, during the financial crises that followed the oil shocks of the 1970 s, the French government hosted the leaders of five leading economies to discuss and coordinate policies.