If the aim was to apply shock and awe to the administration, it worked.
It seems people actually want to see shock and awe business failure in China.
China's stimulus package was the earliest and best-known example of fiscal shock and awe.
In safe distance from the cloud, hundreds stood in shock and awe as the impossible had happened.
But in my teenage years I was on a warpath, with one goal in mind: SHOCK AND AWE!
The view from my office is the position the world watched shock and awe from their living rooms.
The "shock and awe" campaign that deposed the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003 also included extensive air strikes.
"I'm in shock and awe at how bright it is, " said Julie McEnery, project scientist for the Fermi gamma-ray telescope.
The film "has that same sense of wonder and shock and awe, " as some of the bigger summer films, he says.
"Our enemies thought they can shock and awe us, " the spokesman said.
The director of the IFS, Paul Johnson, said this week that we shouldn't lose our sense of "shock and awe" at what we've been living through.
This is the shock and awe version of education reform.
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But, even more prominent than those developments, two aggressive players in North Asia sought to achieve shock and awe: North Korean dictator Kim Jong-eun and Japanese central banker Haruhiko Kuroda.
For NBA sponsors and their Madison Avenue agencies, June also means a blizzard of 30-second spots designed primarily to "shock and awe" millions of American consumers about (mostly) their products.
The doctrine of "shock and awe" is based on a book by military strategist Harlan Ullman, who is admired by both Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell.
His aim must be not only his own place in history, but also America's: both will require more sensitivity and unity, and less shock and awe than in his first term.
With Gehry, we get to wave adieu to what Tom Wolfe memorably called the "Rue De Regret" of International Style German workers' cubes and replace our yawns with a little shock and awe.
Considering that the standard turbine size is roughly one third of this size, the new breed of mega offshore wind turbines would seem sufficiently massive to inspire shock and awe in most people.
Given the shock and awe expressed by many Baghdad businessmen at the scale of the changes, it is not clear that such a future regime would be able to resist pressures to reimpose protectionism.
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No, this turned into Shock and Awe.
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Mr Ullman wrote that the use of air power to achieve "nearly incomprehensible levels of mass destruction" could achieve "an overwhelming level of shock and awe against an adversary on an immediate basis to paralyse its will to resist".
"The shock and awe" campaign promised by President George W. Bush at the time succeeded in putting a swift end to a brutal regime that lasted for more than three decades but what followed continues to roil Iraq till this day.
Anil's accusation, made at a shareholders' meeting of his firm, Reliance Natural Resources, on Tuesday in Mumbai, has caused shock and awe in the business community for its blatant exposure of the country's worst-kept secret: the unholy nexus between business and politics.
Importantly also for London, Wiggins' triumph provided a sporting counterpoint as memorable as Danny Boyle's opening ceremony, which had celebrated homegrown diversity, creativity and self-confidence with an intelligence, irreverence and humanity that set a distinctly British tone in contrast to the shock-and-awe spectacular of Beijing four years ago.
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