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What happened to him was shocking to the conscience.

We were overwhelmed with the evidence. That was the most shocking thing to me. It was, 'Yeah, he's guilty.' It just hit home.

With (Katrina), it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a shocking event and a tragedy, but somehow as a big event it doesn't seem to carry as much weight with the public as 9/11 did.

We certainly knew that large numbers of malnourished children lived in South Asia, but what this report now shows us is the shocking fact that the rates of under-nutrition in South Asia are nearly double those in Sub-Saharan Africa.

To me it's not really shocking because he always had weed on him. I figured he would be high, but I still don't think that is reason enough to crash the way he did,

Today's revelation that the government listened in on thousands of phone conversations without getting a warrant is shocking and has greatly influenced my vote. Today's revelation makes it very clear that we have to be very careful. Very careful.

Even though the surge in inflation was one-off, it was pretty shocking and the jump in fuel prices is likely to have some knock-on effects. It's better to move now than to be forced to move more later.

Attack the medical evidence. Remember the jury's full of rheumatism and arthritis and shocking gastric troubles. They love to see a medical man put through it.

Coming into the study, we knew that the low-wage market is rife with violations of basic labor standards, but we still found the statistics shocking and disturbing.

And you'd be right to do that. But the funny thing is I haven't watered down Alice. Alice the character on stage is just as dastardly as ever. If you sit in the first 20 rows of my show, you're covered in fake blood. The attitude behind it is totally for fun. The audience in the '70s was so easy to shock. Now I can't be as shocking as CNN.

And when other people get that first shocking heating bill, I look for a lot more wood stove customers.

Enron's deceptions were shocking, and equally shocking was the extent to which respected U.S. financial institutions like Chase, Citigroup, and Merrill Lynch helped Enron carry out its deceptions and mislead investors and analysts about the company's finances,

Father Vincent jumped last year and he talked about it as one of those shocking things to do. It has a dangerous feel to it that helps you examine your life, like the start of the new year does, and make sure you're living a life worth living and doing all you can with it.

The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.

There's no agreement in the industry on this. It's shocking to me that a public official would craft and deliver legislation that directly affects an industry without engaging its leaders.

The United Nations is in Iraq on a mission of peace, and for the reconstruction of the country and to support the Iraqi people. Therefore it is all the more shocking that this attack occurred,

Things like this happen anywhere, but it's still shocking when it happens here.

I've never seen anything like this. It's quite shocking to a lot of folks who depend on the snow. There could still be a miracle turnaround; don't underestimate Mother Nature. But the trend doesn't look good for us right now.

I've never seen anything like that before. This was really just a shocking incident.

I've never seen it staged or on film, but the story is so intense that I could feel the adrenaline running through my body while reading it. There's this chest-tightening anxiety of being thrown into the middle of this conflict between the different characters. I also love the idea that you can be drawn in by hateful characters. It takes a very good writer to create a character that you despise, yet find engaging. And there's the twist of the imaginary child. As it develops, you realize what is actually going on beneath it all. It's shocking and pretty horrifying.

It was truthfully very shocking to me that we weren't better prepared

It was very shocking and outrageous, ... It put us in shock that someone could just change the warranty deed without our acknowledgement.

It was very exciting and shocking at the same time, ... It was very emotional and, I don't know, it was just amazing.

It was worth it. It was quite an experience just to see the devastation firsthand. It was such a shocking thing.

It was an unbelievable yacht race, no doubt about that. I got a shocking start and had to dig our way out of that and we were on the pace on the first beat. I told the guys it was going to be a long race and that we would have to dig in.

These charges are shocking and outrageous. They strike at the heart of Ethiopia's journalist community by criminalizing essential work of the press.

The shocking thing about these findings is that the numbers are still getting worse. One of the things the study really shows is that information and education alone aren't going to be enough to solve the crisis.

The thing that's so shocking of his 37, he only took 14 shots. He got to the free-throw line tonight. That was the difference.

I've lived with God every day for a long time. When I got busted in 1987 I turned myself in because I knew I'd messed up. What I did was so shocking to me. I hurt people, stole from them. For about three weeks I just lost myself, my morality, values. I didn't care about anything or anybody in the world. I knew it couldn't go on. For several years after that I read books to try to find out what happened to me, and I finally decided I got bitter, I was addicted to heroin. I was in a bad marriage where drugs were involved and I got to a point where I didn't care about myself because I had such a horrible life.

After all, we've been saying for a generation that fathers aren't really necessary. Why is it so shocking that some men are starting to believe it?

The most shocking thing, the single most shocking five-second thing, is to see a bunch of 12-year-olds freak dance,

The most shocking thing about this is the reforms we were looking for were so modest. They were nothing more than bringing cell phone companies in line with the standards that consumers expect in their other commercial interactions.

That shocking picture of that young child without arms and legs, that was burned into our minds.

A little bit over 4 percent. But knowing the guys like I know 'em, it would be shocking to me if they didn't believe in themselves.

You put your trust in companies not to abuse something like that and to use it for the greater good and it's kind of shocking when someone abuses it.

This is a shocking setback. We need to know what on earth is going on.

This is a shocking misrepresentation of reality and of the audience watching these programs.

This is a shocking attempt on the life of a respected human rights defender and champion of the rule of law.

This is horrifying and it's sickening. Aside from the beating itself, the other thing that was shocking to me was the officer keeping him face-down when he's in obvious distress and trying to turn on his side so he could breathe more easily. That's the classic position for asphyxia. Those officers are lucky he didn't die.

This is shocking to me, I thought we'd be up.

This is shocking information and there is no good explanation. It's uncharacteristic of a driver with a commercial driver's license, presuming it was Evan Parker, though that is still inconclusive.

This, coupled with shocking devastation in the Southern US states from Hurricane Katrina, dealt a heavy blow to the dollar, which surrendered all of this week's gains against European currencies.

This exclusive Web scene between Ryan Wolfe and Erica Sikes contains a dramatic revelation about someone in our lab -- a revelation that threatens to tear the team apart, and will lead to a shocking conclusion at the end of our season,

This a shocking thing this man is doing to you! ... It's all politics.

They were just kind of simultaneous - the film ending and the sets being destroyed. I was struck the first time I saw the Great Hall become a big pile of burning rubble and getting scattered around. It's really quite shocking for the fans.

There was some shocking poverty exposed in New Orleans and other places ... We need to recommit ourselves to making sure we are a society where everyone who's willing to work and get an education has the opportunity to do it.

There was just no other way to play it. There was no question this was a man who was tortured and troubled and filled with so many inconsistencies, plus the pain of dealing with the shocking task he was asked to undertake.

It's just shocking how far off the charts 9/11, the tsunami and the hurricanes are.

It's a shocking score, I don't think there's any question about that.

It was shocking to us. He was here for one year, and then all of a sudden he took off. A lot of us had our heads down. We're thinking coaches are looking at us as a team where you get your credentials up and then head off to a high-profile place.

It was shocking to learn that a prominent city official was gagged, which made her unavailable during the so-called investigation. When she complies with the gag order, she's fired.

It was shocking today. I just wish it was shocking in the other direction.

It was shocking today, and I wish it was shocking in the other direction. We had two of the best guys in the race and came up short. Bode was really close. He was fast in training, and he's focused to go hard here. They'll have to live with their performances.

It was shocking just seeing him, ... I couldn't do anything but look at him the whole time. I left out of the courtroom I have so much anger.

It was shocking for a lot of people at our school.

It was shocking because his mother called me and told me he was in a terrible accident. I didn't know how bad. I got down there and found out he had these tremendous injuries, primarily to his foot, ankle and leg. That day was a sad day throughout the whole area.

It's a bit shocking no movie has done it by now.

It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

It is shocking. I don't mean it's shocking because I knew it was going to be (a) different (number). It's just scary.

It is shocking for it to happen all at one time. The fact that they were all killed at one time is significant. ... It certainly sends a message.

It is shocking for any team. I mean this is the NFL. The parity that is around the football league, most games are close. They pretty much dominated on both sides of the ball.

It is shocking for any team, ... I mean this is the NFL. The parity that is around the football league, most games are close. They pretty much dominated on both sides of the ball.

It is shocking but not a surprise. The components of these things have been seen before.

It is shocking and ironic that this one-sided boycott effort comes at a time when Israel is making a series of dramatic steps toward peace, including the recent withdrawal from Gaza.

It's a family-oriented neighborhood. That is very shocking to have it happen next to your house.

It?s a little shocking when you have a university like West Chester wanting you to give up your rights to anonymity and free speech. But that?s what this policy is doing. It is stifling all speech and it is unconstitutional.

It is understandable that someone with longstanding concerns about immigration such as Feinstein would react to the shocking news about tunnels on the US border.

For an organization and a stadium with the richness and history that it has, to be traded over in '02 and selected to this, it's surprising, shocking and much appreciated,

It's obviously very shocking and troubling. We'll wait and see how things develop, but certainly a shooting this serious and when it's in your own neighborhood, it's even more so.

It is very shocking because it is a very close-knit neighborhood.

It's kind of shocking to me, actually, that I've almost been stereotyped, in a way - physically - because, I didn't get good grades in school; I got in a lot of fights. I wear glasses because I don't want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn't consider myself a 'nerd.' I don't know what really makes someone a nerd.

It's kind of shocking that we came in and knocked them off. But we buckled down on defense and executed our offense much better than usual.

It's kind of shocking that a private investor can own a crossing between two countries. He can impact two very large state and provincial economies.

It's kind of shocking news, ... It's difficult, but God is giving us strength. ...It's kind of numbing right now. I suppose the full impact will hit us later on.

It's kind of shocking because sometimes things just pop in your head, like, oh this weekend, I have to go to my babysitting class and then I think, oh no I'm not. It's starting to sink in that I'm not going back for a while this time. I mean, the hurricane just changed everything.

It's going to be a significant, really, a shocking increase in prices this winter that we're anticipating.

It's hard to look back and remember how surprising and shocking that was -- that human beings can actually be made outside the body.

It's a very shocking and profound change of the EU's position. The EU's proposal seems to represent an historic shift in the regulatory approach to the Internet from one that is based on private sector leadership to a government, top-down control of the Internet.

It's shocking and surprising that this stuff happens in a college town.

It's pretty shocking that the guys in Europe who cover traditional media will cover Google, whereas in the U.S., there are five different equity analysts that will cover the internet universe.

That's shocking in itself. This is a lot bigger than the average case.

It's still shocking he could get himself into the mental state where he could walk into a jewelry store and do that. He's certainly one of the celebrated closers of the game, always totally under control.

It's status quo, I don't see anything that changes. It's shocking that, after six weeks, you would be happy with just letting it go for as long as it takes to get a deal.

It's starting to happen in high-tech professions which we felt were 'ours,' ... That's what's shocking people.

It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.

It's shocking to think about how little the travel industry cares about sustainability - and it's the basis of their business!

It?s shocking to the family, it?s shocking to the friends.

It's shocking to see the kind of devastation that occurred there and to know it's still going on. I am working with Timberland -- a company I respect and whose pursuit of social justice I admire -- to inspire others to help bring a halt to these atrocities.

It's shocking to find the difference in the level of knowledge between parents and children these days.

It's shocking that you're looking at almost no growth anywhere else.

It's shocking that there are people in charge at the Downey School that believe that is an appropriate way to proceed, regardless of what the alleged conduct was.

It's shocking that he would leave a message like that. It's the type of behavior that we don't condone at any level. He will be reprimanded.

It's shocking news. It obviously takes a lot for Duncan to leave the tour - he's a very loyal bloke - but family must come first.

It's shocking how much damage one person can do. We are thrilled that the guilty pleas were entered today because all along we wanted everyone to know what really happened. ... Now everyone does.

It's shocking because it's such a long season, ... Losing like this sucks.

It's stunning, shocking use whatever word you want. We're in disbelief. When you know somebody well, and you don't have any idea of something like that happening, it's a whole range of emotions.

the blatant patronage ... is shocking and disgraceful.

It is the shocking split that has left Hollywood stunned.

It's devastating to us. I've cried three or four times. Seeing kids without any food, elderly people dying and the government saying that help is on the way -- that's the most shocking part.

It's definitely shocking what's been thrown out there. He was an example on and off the ice when I was there. I learned a lot from him how to handle myself around the dressing room and on the ice.