Shocks in example sentence

Despite massive government efforts in Europe and the developed world to restrain immigration after the oil price shocks of the 1970s, labor inflows into the rich countries started to increase in the 1980s to an annual average of about 1.4 million in Europe and 2.3 million in the US.

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And they gave them a series of painful electric shocks.

So it was a series of five painful shocks.

Half of them are told that they're being given the shocks by somebody in another room, but the person in the other room doesn't know they're giving them shocks.

So if you have an animal in a cage, it might be candy and electric shocks.

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