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Shaken in sentence

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I'm not sure how a movie so god-awful can make it to screen, but my faith in the system has been shaken.
She is shaken by the truths he shows and hopes to help the less fortunate-but it's more than she bargained for.
As a director, Fincher seemed to have shaken off his obsessions with fashionable nihilism.
Even a brief look at the metamorphosed Caroon in the museum would been better than what we were supposed to have seen over the television monitors(that was fiberglass insulation being shaken by off-camera grips, to portray the "alien fungi", right?
When Frank tries to kill, with a pistol, Alucard for what he's supposedly done to Kay, he is shaken when the bullets go completely through the Count hitting Kay.
Now, this is a well-balanced story that takes you for an emotional roller-coaster ride and leaves you shaken at the end.
But their pastel tranquility is shaken when Armand's son announces that he's getting married to the daughter of ultra-conservative Senator Keeley . . .
Lady Longford is made to say (shaken to her core): "I had no idea (about prison conditions)".
Then, a week later, Obama had to make his 11th trip as president to a US city – this time Dallas – to comfort a community shaken by gun violence and the country’s racial divide.
During a boom capital flows from the center to the periphery; when confidence is shaken it tends to return to its source.
This temporary collapse has shaken public confidence and endangered the balance sheets of Ukrainian banks and companies that have hard-currency debts.
PARIS – US President Donald Trump has shaken a transatlantic alliance that had long seemed unshakable.
Iraq, ravaged by war and now shaken daily by violence, is known as the most intellectually inclined of the Arab countries.
Hezbollah has also been shaken by the abduction and continued detention of a dozen Lebanese Shiites – some close to Nasrallah – by opposition forces in Syria.
Now, for once, comes a scandal that breaks that rule: the United Kingdom’s phone-hacking affair, which has shaken British politics to its foundations.
In both France and the United Kingdom, the success of insurgent populist parties has shaken the political landscape.
Had women been in charge of the AU, they would have known that the machismo of African men doesn't allow them to be shaken by threats of violent confrontation.
Second, Iran’s regional standing has been shaken by the wave of Arab revolts, especially in Syria – a decisive country, given its strategic relations with both Iran and Russia.
After decades of contentedly relying on the US for protection, Japan is being shaken out of its complacency by fast-changing security and power dynamics in Asia, especially the rise of an increasingly muscular and revisionist China vying for regional hegemony.
Everyone was hurt, and America's role in world affairs was shaken.
While he continued to enjoy respect and admiration abroad, if only for continuing his fight against human-right abuses around the world, his popularity at home was shaken.
Of course, if there were no banks, there would be no central banks, either; but cognitive dissonance has seldom shaken central bankers’ confidence in their models.
For me, a compelling hypothesis is that workers, shaken by the 2008 financial crisis and the deep recession that resulted, have grown afraid to demand promotions or to search for better-paying employers – despite the ease of finding work in the recently tight labor market.
As a result, the government’s confidence and hold on power were shaken.
Should Mousavi persuade Khamenei to reconsider his position, the Supreme Leader’s hold on power will be shaken.
Donald Trump has shaken up the way a campaign is run, how a nominee communicates with voters, and the Republican Party’s platform, with many of his positions deviating from GOP tradition.
Europe's political systems are being shaken by the rise of populist parties, many of which are winning support with an anti-European platform.
Brexit’s Blow To GlobalizationCAMBRIDGE – The United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum has shaken equity and financial markets around the world.
But the ultimate test for our proposal is whether the eurozone countries – their confidence shaken by the debt crisis – have an interest in coming together and participating in this voluntary scheme.
For example, Apple’s brand was recently shaken by revelations about brutal workplace conditions at Foxconn factories in China, where most of its iPhones and iPads are assembled.
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