From Shock Therapy to Sleep Therapy

Shafiq s success shocked many revolutionaries.

Treatments included peripheral nerve stimulation, electrical muscle stimulation and electric shock therapy.

Kuwaiti artist Shurooq Amin is in shock after her exhibition of paintings was shut down without an explanation.

Saddam Hussein s invasion of Kuwait in 1991 shocked the world oil market.

Most young journalists, especially those in radio, have been shocked by the censorship.

Extremists kill innocent people in order to dramatize their message in a way that shocks and horrifies their intended audience.

No one would wish the trauma that Argentina went through in 1999 2002 on any other country.

Once again, Europe is shocked the two great powers of the Cold War seem not to be taking Brussels seriously.

Many in the audience were shocked by his remarks, but Cheney seemingly failed to grasp how appalled his audience was.

NEW YORK Whenever I hear people on America s Republican right call themselves conservative, I experience the mental equivalent of a slight electric shock.

The gruesome murder took place in Dubai, UAE, and Thursday's sentence was met with shock and bewilderment as the blogosphere comes to terms with the verdict.

But when the world s finance ministers recover from their April shock therapy, they also need to look at the opportunities.

I have here with me a dictum from social anthropology that I guard closely you learn a lot about any culture by the list of things that it is shocked by.

The ultimate goal should be to move beyond the simple extension of temporary relief to traumatized populations to meeting their expectation of an enabling environment for the attainment of sustainable peace.

If the 1990 s was the era of economic shock therapy, the present decade may be remembered for economic reform paralysis.

The shock therapy of the Balcerowicz Plan unsettled Poles, but it brought the country s terrifyingly high inflation under control.

It was also shocking to learn from agencies on the ground that there is a widespread practice of counter prosecution against rape victims.

Everyone pretended to be shocked at the failure of internationalism. But, at the same time, they were delighted to have found someone who could be blamed for the failure of the conference.

Andreessen s aim is to shock his listeners not just for effect, but to get them to do something about it.

It also reassures the French business community, which was shocked by Dominique de Villepin s flamboyant opposition to the United States when he was Chirac s foreign minister.

So the arrest of Politburo member and Shanghai Communist Party boss Chen Liangyu on corruption charges has sent shock waves across the country.

Imagine if the director of the CIA published a new assessment of Iran, saying I hope this report will shock people, governments into taking more serious action.

The people of Pakistan are shocked and saddened by this natural calamity, and it is our utmost desire to contribute in whatever way we can to restore normalcy in the areas struck by the calamity.

We felt shock when television screens showed the images of the tragic deaths, the destruction and the suffering of our fellow human beings in the devastated areas, reaching from the Asian to the African shores of the Indian Ocean.

The third class of treatment was electric shock therapy, in which an electric shock was delivered from a galvanic battery (later electromagnetic generators) via an induction coil to greatly increase the voltage.

So they spread out all the census data, and what they found, the guy described to me as a shocker, which is that in 1,997 out of 2,000 communities, women, young women, were making more money than young men.

Today, it is mundane. Yet people continue to react to explicit revelations of such manipulation with shock and outrage.

A few years ago I am sure all of you were shocked, as I was, with the revelation of American soldiers abusing prisoners in a strange place in a controversial war, Abu Ghraib in Iraq.

As millions go online to buy train tickets home for Chinese New Year, which falls on Jan 30 this year, users are shocked again at how inconvenient and inefficient the site is.

The ghastly threat of terrorist attacks which, once more, have revealed in a shocking manner the indiscriminate brutality and cruelty of that scourge is another, sadly recurrent, reminder of the need to update our threat perceptions and appropriately adapt appropriate structures to deal with them.

Elsewhere calling for immediate and substantial cuts in carbon emissions, the IPCC s director even declared that he hoped the IPCC report would shock people, governments into taking more serious action.

Each new revelation of physical abuse, maltreatment, and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by American and British soldiers shocks international public opinion, leaving officials to scramble desperately to contain the damage.

Now the US says it has reached agreement with Poland and the Czech Republic to study the concrete details of the stationing of the necessary defense systems. Once again, Europe is shocked the two great powers of the Cold War seem not to be taking Brussels seriously.

In Europe, mad cow disease shocked many people, not only because it shattered beef s image as a safe and healthy food, but also because they learned that the disease was caused by feeding cattle the brains and nerve tissue of sheep.

The emotional debates over shock therapy vs. gradualism have been replaced by a broad consensus that, while we need to exploit windows of political opportunity, not everything can be done at once, and reversal is always a threat.

That is hardly an overreaction to a few rare cases. On the contrary, people are justifiably shocked at the steady stream of stories calling into question whether the companies that provide so many essential services in countries around the world deserve their confidence.

Instead, instability builds up until the system is shocked and resets, with the exact timing unpredictable. This means that addressing systemic risk requires a longer timeframe than that associated with the non systemic, stationary risks to which investors devote most attention.