Signs of economic resurgence began to appear in the wake of the shock therapy that the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) labelled the " big bang " of January 1991.

Coming home to backward, poor, xenophobic Paraguay from cosmopolitan, prosperous Buenos Aires was a big shock for the Legionnaires.

In October 1991, as the USSR was on the verge of collapse, Yeltsin announced that Russia would proceed with radical market-oriented reform along the lines of Poland's " big bang ", also known as " shock therapy ".

The combatless loss of the Dannevirke, which in the 19th century played a big role in Danish national mythology due to its long history, caused in Denmark a substantial psychological shock, and de Meza as a result had to resign from supreme command.

By the end of this particular story arc, Marcie, in a fit of exasperation, angrily informed Peppermint Patty exactly what the " funny looking kid with the big nose " actually was, which left Patty in stunned shock for several strips.

The deforestation is a big problem in this department because of the continuous advance of the human activity, creating a great shock to the natural resources of the region.

Desmond saves him by building a big metal pole to absorb the shock instead.

He called that " the big treason of the French Left, which came as a shock to the Jews who used to see the Left as their true friend ".

Since the government ( what little there was ) depended on import tariffs ( also called Custom duties and ad-valorem taxes ) for its income there was virtually no property tax — the property tax when introduced with U. S. statehood was a big shock.

Further experimentation showed how the coil device could bring the shock from a small battery up the strength level of a big battery.

Allan is astonished by his physical resilience, surviving an electric shock from generators big enough to power several cities, and is convinced he is the solution to the destabilising Cybermen.

The sack of Megalopolis came as a big shock for the Achaean League.

There is also the shock of images placed side by side: houses standing empty while homeless people sleep in the street, near-famine conditions with no aid, whereas big sums of money go to construct a church ...

Also, the big twisted shock is when it is revealed that Rahul is actually not blind, and in fact, had an eye operation to cure his blindness, but he keeps up the act of being blind.

Jack was found dead by his father Tony at the end of the 2009 Series Return – his death made the cover of TV WEEK magazine and was a big shock for Home and Away fans.

For 1997 Lego discontinued the Pirates theme ; the theme's end at this time came as a shock to fans, because the Pirates line had always been a big seller.

The logic of that is impeccable, of course, except that I feel like a fool being driven up to work in a little car, by my wife, when everybody knows I have a big car and am capable of driving myself.

`` I'm going to tell everybody how big a snake I killed ''.

Music critic Jon Savage pinpointed Be Here Now as the moment where Britpop ended ; Savage said that while the album " isn't the great disaster that everybody says ," he noted that " t was supposed to be the big, big triumphal record " of the period.

8in., nice butt, Midwestern American, kind-of-German last name, green eyes, big pouty lips, fair skin, ahhh .... sinewy bod ..." However, during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on June 11, 2008 when Jay Leno questioned him about anything related to rumors of engagement and pregnancy, Timberlake jokingly responded that he " is engaging in a conversation with Leno " and " everybody in general can get pregnant ".

Banana, it was important to include all five members because " it was the big, long-awaited reunion so I wanted to include everybody who had ever been in the band.

“ I just think it would be better for all concerned if they just let them go ahead and get out and everyone goes their own way, and not make such a big deal of it, the policy hurts everybody .” J. Gordon Melton, Institute for the Study of American Religion, Santa Barbara, California.

A few days later, I wrote additional lyrics to it but kept the title, Cokey Cokey, and, as everybody knows, it became a big hit.

After listing the ingredients, he sings the lines, " Say, everybody, have you seen my balls / they're big and salty and brown / if you ever need a quick pick-me-up / just stick my balls in your mouth ", starting the chorus.

This causes a big problem, because there is not enough land for everybody.

The environment of Mount Thomas Police station was like that of a big family where everybody usually got along.

One of the book's main points is that a few big media corporations cannot control the news we get any longer, now that news is being published in real-time, available to everybody, via the Internet.

* < big >∃ x ∀ y ∃ z ( H ( x, y, z ))</ big >: " Somebody made everybody hit somebody.

* < big >∃ x ∀ y ∃ z ( G ( a, z ) ∨ H ( x, y, z ))</ big >: " Either Socrates hates somebody or somebody made everybody hit somebody.

And he sought everybody out, to the degree that pretty soon the whole studio was a big team.

: In my first big science fiction novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, the only person from Earth is a black man, and everybody else in the book is Inuit ( or Tibetan ) brown.

Game also references the song in his 2010 song " Big Money " with the Hook: " I got big money, I drive big cars, everybody know me, It's like I'm a movie star.

We have all these big issues that everybody is looking at and then you don ’ t really hear anyone say the ‘ p ’ word .”

He stepped inside Jess's guard and landed two blows to the big man's belly, putting everything he had behind them.

The water in Thor's big swimming pool had been covered with a blanket of thick, foamy soapsuds -- fashioned, of course, from zing -- Joyce had dived from the board into the pool, then swirled and cavorted in her luxurious `` bath '' while cameras rolled.

For several months now, Jack Carter, a big overgrown boy of fifteen with a fuzzy, pimpled face and greenish catlike eyes with a lot of red in them, had been haunted by a dream, a vision, of a Woman.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

Then they were tumbling again, and the big man reached into the same pocket he had gone for earlier, and came up with a vicious switchblade.

When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.

He told me that he had a big newt and a little newt and that he was transplanting a big eye of the big newt onto the little newt and a little eye of the little newt onto the big newt.

He was then noting that the big eye on the little newt hung back until the little eye had grown up to it, while the little eye on the big newt grew rapidly until it was as big as the other.

in three months the Army spent three-quarters as much as had been expended on the `` big Ditch '' in ten years.

He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.

But for the safety of Southeast Asia, and for the sake of the Laotian people -- who would not be well-ruled by either militant minority now engaged in the fighting -- this last big effort to seal that country from the cold war had to be made.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

I worked on the Schuylkill Expressway and if it had not been for the big trucks carrying rock and concrete there wouldn't be an Expressway.

When he had stored his stock in the great oak chest, locked the two big hasps and secured the additional chain, tied the fly of the tent, and picked up the cash box, he moved up the darkening street.

It had been a big battle, and the Confederate forces had won.

Once there had been big glittering rooms where Ulanys bowed and kissed the ladies' hands as they flirted from behind their fans.

Afterwards I learned that Eileen had called Thelma on the telephone and made a big scene about Thelma trying to take her husband away.