But whatever the explanation, the astounding contribution of the foreign-born in creating new technologies and new companies to market them can't be denied.
This is a truly astounding contribution to the debate, at a time when commentators all over the world have been analysing the deep resentments and hostilities which alienate the US from other parts of the world and from the pressure groups which are based there.
An astounding contribution to world music.
I owe Bill a great debt, as do many others who passed through this university that he loved so dearly". The Mellon Foundation observed: "Bill made an astounding array of contributions to the way that we understand and improve higher education in this country.
He has received an astounding $1,671,521 in contributions to his campaign committee and Leadership PAC from the oil & gas industry over the course of his political career, including $489,250 in the 2014 election cycle alone.
The Obama campaign leveraged multiple technology platforms and social immersion strategies to engage constituents directly, raising an astounding $660 million in campaign contributions.
The corporate and financial elites threw astounding sums of money into campaign contributions and high-priced lobbyists and think tanks and media buys and anything else they could think of.
Meanwhile, Iran, which pays a paltry 0.18% of the U.N.'s core budget, or less than 1/100th of the U.S. contribution, has wangled itself an astounding array of influential U.N. slots, which by next year will include seats on the governing bodies of at least eight prominent U.N. agencies.
His list of contributions to Nintendo's flagship franchises was astounding including Super Smash Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Mario, and Animal Crossing, but it was his passion that made him a rare breed of CEO.
