Treasury traditionalists may regard these apparently footling changes as a shocking breach of time-honoured tradition.
It's shocking the first time you realize how many people who live on these streets are elderly or disabled.
It's shocking the first time you see women here with their children.
All this is a shocking waste of time and taxpayers' money, incredibly inefficient and if you want to do something about the NHS, you should seriously send people here to learn about what medicine is about, which is getting people well and not inflicting patients with a bureaucratic nightmare.
One campaign tool that gets rolled out every election year at this time is the shocking campaign ad, and this year is no different.
When prices fell as hard as they did at the time, it was shocking.
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The way this exponentially plays out over time is nothing short of shocking.
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At a time when Dickens was documenting the shocking plight of the poor in contemporary Britain, the village had a unique egalitarian identity that attracted important figures to speak at the Hall, including Benjamin Disraeli, David Livingstone and John Ruskin.
Even though clinical guidelines exist for practices like these, McGlynn and her colleagues found something shocking: physicians get it right about 55 percent of the time across all medical conditions.
The whole time the scientist running the experiment would urge the teacher to continue shocking the learner at higher and higher levels.
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"The shocking thing is that Pfizer didn't know about this effect ahead of time, " says James Stein, a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin who works with Merck, Pfizer and other drug makers.
Scenes spin off into the unexpected, each seemingly more stylishly shocking than the last, and many people return to watch it a second time, drawn back to look more closely at the surprise props or intricate aerial dance numbers.
Shocking as this is, it is not, in fact, the first time such decisions have come down in Western courts: a German judge came to a similar conclusion in the case of a Muslim woman (also Moroccan) in 2007, and other cases have ended similarly in Canada.
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At the time, the concept of deducting potentially private information about someone was more shocking.
"This was a shocking betrayal of trust by one of Wall Street's most trusted names, " Spitzer proclaimed at the time.
Risk assets are taking a nosedive around the world on this shocking twist, half the banks in Italy are halted and credit default swaps have blown out to all-time record spreads.
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