Rep. Anna Eshoo, whose district includes Silicon Valley, engaged in a testy exchange with Hess, calling the FBI's approach to Apple in the San Bernardino case "breathtaking" and criticizing the agency for resetting the phone's iCloud password without first consulting Apple.
While no criminal charges are expected, local children's services councillor Ralph Berry said the case was "breathtaking".
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the bitterly contested presidential election case a "breathtaking episode" and a "December storm over the U.S. Supreme Court".
It is a case of breathtaking arrogance, a call for recognition that the US is not only the world's policeman but the world's enforcer.
"The implications of this case are breathtaking," Justice Stephen G. Breyer observed at one point to Solicitor General Olson, who called the Washington program "the plainest form of religious discrimination".
Seven former senior executives of Symbol Technologies were indicted yesterday in an accounting fraud scheme that the chief federal prosecutor in the case called "breathtaking in its scope".
Coates' ongoing examination of institutional racism — as in his breathtaking Atlantic essay "The Case for Reparations" — is, in certain respects, the opposite of Twitter: it is dense, analytical writing about policy and history that shows us how systems operate.
"The size of the case is breathtaking and there are some unique constituencies," said H. Jason Gold, a lawyer whose firm, Wiley Rein & Fielding, represents more than 20 telephone companies and governmental authorities that have claims affected by the reorganization plan.
In an era where taxpayers and markets are confronting bad numbers in the trillions, the price tags on some of his initiatives do not seem quite so breathtaking, and, in any case, good economic policy demands that the fiscal floodgates remain open for a while.
"Their ignorance of the basic facts in this case is breathtaking.
