(1) Philip Van Deusen, an analyst with Tigress Financial Partners, said: “They did say they would be cutting jobs, but the magnitude of them is definitely a shocker.” A number of global oil companies such as BP and ConocoPhillips have cut jobs after a fall of nearly 60% in oil prices over the past six months.
(2) The second shocker also showcased the Globes’s more offbeat taste: two big wins (best comedy series, best actor for Donald Glover) for Atlanta, about the city’s rap scene.
(3) Anyway, take it from me, the Arsenal man is having another shocker.
(4) Next came the enfant terrible of Portnoy's Complaint (1969), the late-60s comic sensation, dubbed "a wild blue shocker" by Life magazine.
(5) Hardly a week passes without Hodge's committee uncovering some new pay shocker that the Treasury has ignored.
(6) For your amazing, illustrious career of defying stereotypes – and most of all, for showing how to best use Twitter and shut up trolls who still have not learned that – shocker!
(7) Marcelo has been caught out of position time and again and Maicon and Dante are both having the mother of all shockers: missing some tackles and lunging carelessly into others.
(8) But before Argo, Affleck had pretty much had to retire from being a frontline movie star because he almost without exception ensured any movie's eternal epithet would be "the Ben Affleck shocker — ".
(9) ::goes to make coffee:: Oh look, what a shocker, Gonzalez strikes out Adam Wainwright.
(10) Though in evident pain, García was not seriously injured and was able to continue, yet Whelan's unpunished tackle was much more of a shocker than the recent one involving Kompany that hurt no one and led to the Manchester City captain being dismissed.
(11) The Wichita State Shockers , who surprisingly made the Final Four last year, won’t be flying under the radar this time around as the still-undefeated Shockers top the Midwest Region with a shock- er, um, impressive 34-0 record.
(12) Brian Murphy, head of lending at mortgage broker Mortgage Advice Bureau, said: "September's figures are a shocker – down on August, usually the quietest month of the year, down on last September when we were still in the grips of recession, and no sign of the traditional post-summer bounce in mortgage activity, which doesn't bode well for the rest of the year and early 2011."
(13) You can sit down and say, ‘I’ve had a shocker of a day.’ People do want to help.” She spends a lot of her time now visiting schools because – wait for it – she is writing a book about “character education”.
(14) He could not rely on it to go right, and was something of a scatter gun, combining the odd brilliant throw with a series of shockers that threatened anyone unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity of the infield.
(15) PwC's 2010 study in econometrics also came up with this shocker: "England remain a good bet for reaching the quarter-finals."
(16) The AEC, it must be said, has had a shocker of a year.
(17) Civil servants next: Porritt says working in Whitehall after years in business and non-governmental organisation groups such as Friends of the Earth and Forum for the Future has been a real shocker.
(18) Indeed, last week he brought forth some shockers of his own.
(19) Children's contained fewer shockers than last time , though Match of the Day might be in the relegation zone with a 20% fall.
(20) "Although in the this tournament, one never knows..." He's on three or more goals on this match Richard, he may yet be smiling ... 79 min Arshavin, who has had a shocker tonight, has a rare touch on the ball ... but his cross goes about 10 yards over Pavlyuchenko.
Startle
Definition:
(v. t.) To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
(v. t.) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.
(v. t.) To deter; to cause to deviate.
(n.) A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.
Example Sentences:
(1) These later results suggest that dopamine agonists increase sensorimotor reactivity measured with acoustic startle by acting on sensory rather than motor parts of the reflex arc.
(2) The hypothesis that the standard acoustic startle habituation paradigm contains the elements of Pavlovian fear conditioning was tested.
(3) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
(4) Both startle amplitude and onset latency showed significantly greater facilitation in the preschool children than in the 8-year-olds and adults.
(5) flexion, stretch, rolling, startle, jumping (stepping), and writhing.
(6) Three response patterns were scored: (1) no startle, (2) startle without response decrement, and (3) response decrement by 12 stimuli.
(7) More importantly, motor and cardiovascular responses to startle may be separated through discrimination of afferent stimuli suggesting either differences in neural pathways for acoustic and tactile stimuli or a differential dependency of the various responses on stimulus characteristics.
(8) The startle-elicited increase in blood pressure was significantly elevated in SHRs and at the same time the acoustic startle response was depressed as compared to WKY rats.
(9) A placebo effect could not definitely be ruled out, but the startling changes seen in patients who had been followed for years with other forms of therapy suggest strongly that this improvement was genuine.
(10) In general, conditions that affect the amplitude of the acoustic startle reflex similarly influence the disruptive effect of a noise burst on motor performance, but the two measures are not correlated in the detail necessary to suggest a causative relationship.
(11) The results are compared to other drugs known to affect the startle reflex.
(12) In awake rats the latency of auditory startle recorded electromyographically in the neck is about 5 ms, suggesting that the primary component of this brainstem reflex is mediated by a neural circuit with only a few synapses.
(13) A series of seven experiments related amplitude and latency of the pigeon's startle response, elicited by an intense visual stimulus, to antecedent auditory and visual events in the sensory environment.
(14) The acoustic startle response (ASR) of male rats was measured during several sessions over a 24-hr period in both a light-dark cycle and a constant-dark condition.
(15) That dramatically shifts the focus back to us, the programme makers, to come up with more, new, startling ideas, absolutely unmissable storylines and settings, the sharpest writing.
(16) Because ammocoetes are burrowing filter feeders, this startle behavior results in rapid withdrawal of the head into the burrow.
(17) Startle was indexed by the eyeblink, which was measured by vertical electro-oculography.
(18) In the present work no significant differences were found between the behaviour of FG7142-kindled rats and vehicle-treated controls in social interaction test, elevated plus maze, or the Vogel conflict test of anxiety or in tests of home cage aggression or startle responses.
(19) The first attempted to determine a sonic boom level below which startle would not occurr.
(20) It is able to (1) sample startle responses from 5 animals simultaneously during a specific time band after the eliciting stimulus; (2) convert the analogue startle amplitudes into 2-digit numbers; (3) print the digital results of each startle in each animal; (4) add up the startle amplitudes for each rat over a preset number of stimuli and print the totals; (5) print the interstimulus interval and (6) code for up to six diferent types of trials.