1.   All week, the country has been shaken by a deepening financial crisis in which the value of the ruble seems to be evaporating by the hour.

2.   But an epidemic of violence has shaken the country, touched off, as in Solo, by an unsettling variety of causes.

3.   But most of all, unending scandals involving the widespread corruption of the previous administration have shaken the country and embarrassed its elites.

4.   Each of those events shook this country and underscored the precarious nature of U.S. interests in the volatile Middle East.

5.   It was so powerful a message that it helped set off the revolutions that shook countries like Nicaragua.

6.   Press freedoms have been increasingly under threat as war and political uncertainty have shaken countries across southern Africa.

7.   Tensions subsided, but both countries were shaken by the crisis, which included the dispatch of American naval forces to waters off Taiwan.

8.   The contractors had built countless apartment blocks with sandy concrete and reinforcing rods far too weak to withstand the forces of nature that regularly shake the country.

9.   The events shook the country and led hundreds of people to flee.

10.   The issue shook the country last year after the tragic Columbine High School shooting.