The performance in question moved me to tears on several occasions and then jolted me out of myself into laughter in an instant.
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In short, many powerful, household-name firms, headquartered in a range of countries, have been jolted out of their relatively stable existence and into a more complex and challenging era.
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He is mystified intentionally, now presented with illusion for reality, now reality for illusion, jolted from one to the other until in complete befuddlement he is sure of nothing.
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The salutaryjoltencourages reflexion on the accounts so far given.
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The formal models show that under specified conditions, groups of intentional agents among stochastic populations canjoltthe system from one equilibrium to another.
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The world economy was given a deflationaryjolt.
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The stark tartness of his statistical relishes willjolteven jaded palates from the customary response to familiarity.
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The aim of these is to hit home, tojoltthe reader into paying attention to what the writer has to say.
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The chapter on service users' and carers' views on the benefits of integrated care gave this reader something of ajolt.
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Several of the articles in this issue encourage us to re-think taken for granted attitudes and practice, tojoltus out of complacency.
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Here our ethnocentric values receive a furtherjolt, since these pastoralists literally divide their sheep from their goats, associating sheep with men and goats with women.
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I hope that will helpjoltthe summit into action.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
If he goes too fast, the passengers are jolted, and if he goes too slowly, the couplings are not properly effective.
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I believe that we need to be jolted, because time is short.
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They considered an international stoppage, which would have severely jolted the airlines and might well have forced the pace in reaching international agreement.
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