He more emphatically reported from his firsthand experience the shocking conditions in which he found Catholics, especially the clergy.

He said: 'It is in a shocking condition.

"There were bodies in shocking condition," he said.

Its many examples of shocking conditions for African Americans shaped beliefs about America in countries across the world.

After the shocking condition the dogs were tested in a shuttle box where they could escape shock by jumping over a partition.

Joyce summarised the situation: "I have never known such shocking conditions.

The very familiarity of his visage made Novak's condition all the more shocking.

On his watch, state programs for housing the mentally ill have left some of the most helpless New Yorkers in sometimes shocking conditions.

In places like China, the low wages and shocking conditions present an opportunity not unlike what came of the Industrial Revolution.

The room was in a shocking condition, and he had never seen anything like it.