Sentence examples for astonishing step from inspiring English sources

His admission to killing Bailey came only after police took the astonishing step of allowing Yusuf Bey IV into the interrogation room.

The governing body spoke out after a day of claim and counter-claim during which counterparts in the Balkan country took the astonishing step of attempting to blame a victim of racism, Danny Rose, and denied claims of abuse.

In September November 1936, the CNT was brought into the government of Catalonia and into Largo Caballero's ministry in Madrid an astonishing step for a movement that had consistently rejected "bourgeois" politics.

It is an astonishing step for Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS), which has long accused its opposite numbers at the Pakistani military's Inter-Services Intelligence directorate (ISI) of practically directing the Taliban insurgency.

With Merkel facing unrest within her governing coalition, Trump this week took the astonishing step of attacking her government in what amounted to a presidential intervention in German politics.

"Bizarrely, once again he praised Russia's strongman Vladimir Putin – even taking the astonishing step of suggesting that he prefers the Russian president to our American president," Clinton said on the airport tarmac, in front of her campaign plane.

At that moment, Mary Poppins and her bit of rough, Bert, lead a chorus of chimney-sweeps in an astonishing dance, Step in Time.

While most states have not taken the astonishing, ecocidal step of making it a legal obligation, almost all are pursuing the same policy as the United Kingdom: maximising the production of fossil fuels.

It opened with astonishing footage of Emily Wilding Davison stepping in front of the king's horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby on 4 June 1913 and being trampled underfoot.

It represents another step in the astonishing ratcheting down of tensions between the neighbors.

Philippa Langley, of the Richard III Society, said: "This is an astonishing discovery and a huge step forward in the search for King Richard's grave.