This decision was just astounding," he said.
What really would have been astounding, on my scorecard, would have been a decision to give the job to someone, male or female, of excessive girth.
"To serve us with a demand to direct us to redraw the boundaries counter to the lawful decision of the BOCES district superintendent is astounding to us," responded Mr. Smith.
Dickerson asks Grassley about Palin's decision, and he says the decision was "astounding," and that while he's not an Alaskan, he imagines if he would, he'd rather she remain as governor of Alaska.
The results have been astounding: plaintiffs have prevailed in 20 of the 26 decisions of the highest state courts, and the causal relation between adequate resources and improved educational outcomes has been firmly established.
The decision, most economists agree, helped spark the country's astounding growth.
By April of 2003, a month after the United States launched its preemptive strike against Iraq, the decision to invade that nation drew support from an astounding 87percentt of all white evangelical Christians.
The eye is seduced into re-experiencing the decisions, fortuitous accidents and devotion that brought these astounding works into existence.
"I went down swinging," Vick said, handing metaphorical ammunition to those who might argue that his decision-making prowess still runs a distant second to the astounding maneuverability of his famously fleet feet.
"It's astounding to read back then the kind of involvement the board had in those decisions," Ms. Haws said.
