The shark attacked with a suddenness and swiftness that took them all by surprise. |
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Suicide is devastating, its suddenness can leave many unanswered questions. |
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Peter's been gone long enough that the suddenness of his passing has gone by but the ache is still there. |
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The remarkable fact about this inpouring of wealth is its extraordinary suddenness. |
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He was taken ill in the last two weeks and the suddenness of his departure left the whole community shocked and numb. |
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Even sadder was the mid-2002 suddenness with which Our Man Geoffrey, large as life, disappeared from the small screen. |
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The suddenness of the tsunami caught literally tens of thousands of people unaware along the coastlines of southern Asia. |
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With his separation ability, suddenness and speed, Winslow consistently gets open. |
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We moved briskly along at the edge of Sloan's Lake, when Fred stopped short with such suddenness that he fairly yanked my arm out of the socket. |
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He opened his blue eyes and, seeing Wesley, grinned with a suddenness that was startling. |
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On the other hand, legal fees proven to have been necessary due to the suddenness of the bankruptcy were awarded. |
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Because of the suddenness of the failure, the pilot had no warning that a problem existed. |
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The suddenness and the increase in redundancy programmes have made employees think seriously about the delays in building a social Europe. |
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This time, the suddenness of the fall was reinforced by the fact that it immediately followed her latest explosive re-entry into the political firmament. |
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And with that suddenness comes tenuousness: Will the greening of business disappear just as quickly as it came? Hardly. |
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The fact that most were wearing nightclothes indicates the violence and suddenness of the wreck. |
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But it was the suddenness of his proposal to Megan upon arriving back in New York that had even her gasping with surprise. |
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The suddenness of Sarah Palin's resignation Friday raises the question about whether Palin is leaving to avert a major scandal. |
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The depth and suddenness of the crisis underlined the relevance of our theme. |
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The suddenness of the capsizing precluded efforts by three of the crew to successfully abandon the vessel. |
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At the end of 2008, a violent financial crisis, shocking in its suddenness, spread right across the world. |
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It is also probable that the suddenness of the casualty prevented the crew from safely abandoning the vessel. |
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This suddenness is surprising, even if such phenomena are not rare in the field of art, and less so in photography in particular. |
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Variations in the price of oil and derived products took on a magnitude and suddenness in 2008 that had never been experienced before. |
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After a few years, when all the richest mining claims had been staked, this small city imploded with equal suddenness, turning almost into a ghost town. |
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Not all things disappear with dramatic suddenness and it might be decades before the various depredations to which wild life is exposed begin to have a noticeable effect. |
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And so, with a surprising suddenness, it has recently bloomed up among Republicans and Democrats alike. |
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The suddenness of the attack left no time to launch lifeboats, so the 900 sailors who escaped the sinking ship found themselves floating in life jackets. |
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It was the suddenness with which the drop opened, more than a thousand feet from Hualapai Hilltop to the pale thread of the track below, that took my breath away. |
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The seriousness of the harm involved, together with the suddenness of the emergency's occurrence, justifies the measures required by the draft article. |
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Crises turn into 'systemic crises', shocking in their suddenness, but they are also crises that were foreseen although no preventive mechanism could easily be deployed. |
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This could explain the suddenness of the drop in trade, especially in countries that are heavily involved in the fragmentation of production chains. |
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Since the modern PDO era changes have had a profound effect on the climate of western North America one can but wonder at the change that would occur if an 1840 AD sized change occurred again with its apparent suddenness. |
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The fightback, on behalf of cooperative public values, coming from many quarters, has been slow to gather strength because of the suddenness of the economic downturn in many countries. |
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The suddenness of the roll to a large angle and the breaking wave caused the passengers and the operator to be thrown over the starboard side and into the sea. |
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The extent and suddenness of these events as well as the costs sustained by air carriers prompted the Member States to consider special compensation schemes. |
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They are part of a building boom that is quietly transforming Mexico under the noses of the quarrelling politicians. The size and suddenness of the developments at Tecámac is startling. |
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But that sudden closeup, in which the preparations for war focus, with poignant suddenness, on a single hopeless old has-been, has indelible power. |
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While it is agreed that the sequence of events described did occur, there is debate over the suddenness, dating and magnitude of the events. |
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The sequence of events closely followed what eyewitnesses had reported, particularly the suddenness with which the ship sank. |
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In any event, the suddenness of the assault lead them to believe they were facing a much larger host. |
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The mark of biblical theophanies is the temporariness and suddenness of the appearance of God, which is here not an enduring presence in a certain place or object. |
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But the scale and suddenness of the bad news rattled investors. |
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Sustainability of public finances, inflation, the interest rate, signature: what changes can be envisaged in the medium term, bearing in mind the suddenness of the deterioration of the situation in France and Europe. |
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A gushing current of ice cold water jerked me back to reality with stunning suddenness, jerked me back to the misery and pain of my existence in the stone oubliette. |
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The extreme suddenness with which automotive manufacturers and their suppliers have had to change their manufacturing programs to deal with this drop in vehicle sales was astonishing. |
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The suddenness of the downturn in prices struck derivatives particularly hard, because it confounded all the forecasts that had been based solely on observation of the most recent period of growth. |
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Of course, Guy's own family, including his widow, son, daughter, brothers, and nephew were present, clearly devastated by the enormity of the loss they had suffered and the suddenness with which it happened. |
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The S-curve relationship between effort and result demonstrates that success and income generation arrives with a suddenness that is often difficult to anticipate. |
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