The sudden noise scattered the birds.

His sudden visit took me by surprise.

Her sudden departure surprised us all.

A sudden noise abstracted their attention from the game.

The sudden decline in revenues for host communities has been devastating.

My eventual escape to New York had nothing to do with tourism. Sudden terror before this omnipresent, all devouring monster was soon overtaken by fascination.

Sudden withdrawal of credits was enough to push them to the edge of recession.

Sudden terror before this omnipresent, all devouring monster was soon overtaken by fascination.

Unfortunately, when she goes to unwrap the prosciutto, Ajax makes a lunge for it.

But a sudden backward regression can lead to despair, which we feel today.

Moreover, any sudden rise in the tax burden results in deadweight losses.

This sudden fear of emerging countries presents a major dilemma. The fear is real and visceral, and politicians ignore it at their peril.

This sudden fear of emerging countries presents a major dilemma.

Growth is wonderful inflation is terrible a central bank cannot avoid choosing it must restore price stability even if that means sacrificing growth.

This is what lies ahead, unless there is sudden relief from an upturn in the euro.

These are the data. You failed the pop quiz, and you're hardly five minutes into the lecture.

The sudden disruption of these essential materials from the production process forced a reassessment of how these supply chains function.

Indeed, the recent sudden rise in market volatility suggests that they are as bad as rating agencies at detecting the early warning signs of trouble.

The barometer of stress watched most closely by experts, the LIBOR OIS (Overnight Indexed Swap) spread is down substantially from its stratospheric crisis levels.

The Soviet Union s sudden collapse was a strategic boon to Asia, eliminating a menacing empire and opening the way for China rapidly to pursue its interests globally.

This sudden scarcity of an element whose symbolic and spiritual importance matches its centrality to human life will cause stress and exacerbate conflicts worldwide.

While higher world farm prices help producers, they hurt urban households in developing countries, many of which are also poor. That is why the recent spike in food prices has led many food growing countries to impose export restrictions and has caused near panic among those concerned about global poverty.

That is why the recent spike in food prices has led many food growing countries to impose export restrictions and has caused near panic among those concerned about global poverty.

Suddenly there was a sudden squeak somewhere. It was very sudden. Sudden... Try saying that word fifty times then using it in a sentence...

CAMBRIDGE It is time for the world s major central banks to acknowledge that a sudden burst of moderate inflation would be extremely helpful in unwinding today s epic debt morass.

South Korean public opinion is split on how to handle the North, but the majority fear that a sudden collapse would have catastrophic effects on the South s economy.

When capital flight forced François Mitterrand to abort his program in 1983, France s Socialists performed an abrupt volte face and embraced financial liberalization on a global scale.

The sudden surge in young voters has called into question the long presumed victory of the governing GNP s likely candidate, Park Guen hye, in the presidential election due to be held in December.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice s recent tour of Middle East capitals helped spread the word to Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf states that any US failure and sudden withdrawal would be certain to destabilize them.

Despite some evidence that trade volumes grew over the summer, recovery has been patchy and so fragile that a sudden shock in equity or currency markets could once again undermine consumer and business confidence, leading to a further deterioration of trade.

But when the bank announced a first half loss of 3.6 billion ( 4.7 billion), the sudden collapse of confidence was alarming, and nervous investors are asking whether there are similar time bombs ticking elsewhere.