Sentence examples for a staggering state from inspiring English sources

This is a staggering state of affairs for what has been, for some 60 years, the central theme of British politics, crucial to defining our post-imperial national identity.

After all, as Marie tells us, every day the workers "take The Restaurant from pristine and silent down to a staggering state of chaotic, deafening and excessive disarray, and then put it all back together like no one was ever there".

Under this formula, the clock would start ticking for the University of California system after its $1,000 increase this year, caused not by campus profligacy but by a staggering state deficit.

He knew he had his work cut out: he had seen Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph Of The Will – a staggering, state-of-the-art display of both film-making expertise and Nazi military might.

At the start of his term, facing a big budget deficit, Romney announced staggering state cuts to local budgets.

This year, according to the Associated Press, a staggering 22 states are confronting budget shortfalls.

In my previous column, I discussed how a staggering 22 states are confronting budget shortfalls this year.

The storm and the flooding that came with it here uprooted families, leaving them in staggering states of stress and uncertainty.

Only the former state giants in France and Italy escaped the license trap on their home turf because, after auctions in Britain and Germany raised a staggering $81 billion for state coffers, telecommunications operators and investors cooled to such auctions.

According to a 2009 study commissioned by the state legislature, government regulation costs the state a staggering $500 billion per year – the equivalent of one quarter of California's entire gross state product.

Legislators claimed that the company's takeover would have a "staggering" effect on the state.