Sentence examples for a startling state from inspiring English sources

DETROIT — The Detroit Pistons appear to be in chaos, a startling state for a franchise that has clicked so well on so many levels over the past decade.

Such seeming absurdities turn out to have foreshadowed -- and no doubt, facilitated -- a rather startling state of affairs: In the current edition of the Harvard Encyclopedia of Ethnic Groups, "Mormons" have their own entry.

She may fumble and grimace her way through news conferences, but she genuinely likes shaking constituents' hands and startling state employees on field visits by chatting them up.

Put another way, fishers today have to work 17 times harder to get the same catch as people did in the 19th century". And the reason for this startling state of affairs is straightforward: we have caught so much fish in our own waters over the past 150 years, there is little left for us today.

And in one of the most startling state-level attacks on the right to choose, Arizona's governor recently signed a bill making it illegal to seek an abortion because of the "race or sex" of the fetus -- allowing the biological father or the woman's parents to sue an abortion provider based on suspicion of the pregnant woman's motivations for choosing the procedure.

"That was a startling miscalculation," said state Sen. Andy Biggs (R-Gilbert), a Pearce supporter.

But it was not until last September that she was informed of what struck her as a startling fact: The State of New York does not have a single full-time staff psychiatrist charged with overseeing the treatment of the 800 or so young people who are detained in state facilities at any given time.

It was a startling shade of blue.

She sobs--a startling, terrible sound.

This is a startling turnabout for a state that was once a reliable Republican bastion.

Nevertheless it was a startling admission in a state that has fiercely defended the significance of an event that plays an outsize role in shaping nomination contests — and the state's own sphere of influence — and it highlighted the relative unreliability of a voting process already criticized as being undemocratic.