"I was expecting just a click, but the force when it went off was a big shock to the system, " Ranger Barry said.
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Crystal Lancaster, who lives next door to the tan, stucco home, said it was "a big shock" to hear Dorner was the subject of a manhunt.
She said the win had come as "a big shock" to her and her family and asked the media to give them "space and privacy to absorb the implications".
It may not sound like a big shock but it was: the government announced it would borrow about the same amount in this financial year as it did last year.
While the threat of a bonus clampdown has been hanging over the City for almost a year, the severity of the overall package will come as a big shock, especially given the lack of significant exemptions.
In a correction, housing prices are likely to revert to the mean, economists say, potentially a big shock to home owners and investors who have grown accustomed to double-digit increases in property values and low interest rates that have allowed them to refinance and unlock more of the equity in their homes.
"It's a really big shock, " Damien Comolli, former Director of Football at AS Monaco, Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham told CNN.
The fear is that this might lead to higher inflation, and that the government's demand for funds will push up interest rates, crowd out private investment, weaken the financial system and leave the economy vulnerable if hit by a big macroeconomic shock.
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They feared Thatcherism was too big a shock to the British system and trusted in the wisdom of Westminster and Whitehall.
He said a simple maximum charge would prevent the shock of a big bill.
"There are very few fans in the mainland for a big-bang or shock-therapy approach, " he notes.
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But Samoa could not take advantage as Tonga produced a series of big hits in defence to claim a shock victory.
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"His death has caused a very great shock to the parliament and has left a big void in public life in this country, " he told Doordarshan television.
The latest upheavals have come as a bit of a shock, partly because the world's big currencies have been relatively stable in recent years.
"It's a shock move and a big step but one I'm delighted with, " Wigan-born Gleeson told BBC Radio 5 Live.
If things don't go well for the Mayo midfield early on, David Brady will be introduced and it wouldn't even be a shock to see the big Ballina man starting the game, as John Maughan is not averse to changing his selected line-ups.
But like previous releases, Casio's G-Shock GB6900AA series seems to lack a big marketing push, despite its CEO's assertion that it remains a "leader in cutting-edge technology for timepieces".
"The smart way for the retailer to do it is to ... raise prices a little bit here, a little bit there over time so that the consumer doesn't have one big sticker shock, " says Wharton marketing professor Stephen Hoch.
Thus, it shouldn't come as a shock that despite their declared preference for small government, many in the tea party embrace big government when necessary.
For Austria the loss of the AAA will be a bigger shock - although the financial woes of Hungary have conspicuously weakened the finances of Austrian banks that have big Hungarian loans.
Seeing as Apple is basically the only big company that hasn't announced a Santa Rosa laptop, an announcement at WWDC wouldn't exactly shock us, but Munster decided to get a little wackier with his predictions, saying that by his calculations, Apple releases new pro lappies every 182 days, and that the current MBP has been on the market for 209 days.
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