Sentence examples for astonished for from inspiring English sources

Powell was astonished, for instance, that Trump would hire Roger Ailes, the disgraced former head of Fox News, who now sits in a cesspool of sexual harassment claims.

"Had I not been in the U.S. for such a long time, I would have been astonished for the Secretary of State of the adversary to start calling me by my first name".

Readers might be astonished, for example, to learn that much of the German government's recent evaluation of glyphosate - favourably compared to the IARC's evaluation by the agrochemical industry - was not actually written by scientists working for the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), but rather by the European Glyphosate Task Force, a consortium of agrochemical firms.

I was astonished for a second time, but in a much more sobering way.

I hope we are astonished". For background, images, animation and more on what scientists hope will happen at 10 52 p.m. PDT July 3, visit deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov.nasa.gov

The behaviour of the Royal Navy was "astonishing for a non-interventionist power".

The love of art! Astonishing for a theorist to even utter such a retrograde formulation.

Not only is she a "great reader", but her interest in politics is "astonishing" for one so young, and her involvement in the Green Party's Brighton campaign during the most recent election did her the greatest credit.

Anthony Rainey, 39, a graduate student of anthropology who lives in the West Village, was astonished that, for the first time ever, he voted for two people in the same election in the span of two weeks.

"I'm astonished, even for who it is, at the amazing reaction that it gets," he said.

The production crew sat astonished, waiting for Meredith to engage in some act of fundamental football analysis, to actually grab the chalk and sketch some X's and O's, a performance that no one in the room could recall previously witnessing.