Sentence examples for calls astonishing from inspiring English sources

But with ever more students pressing at their gates, admissions officers find themselves having to reject what Anthony W. Marx, Amherst's president, calls "astonishing applicants".

With a relatively small team of 15 full-time staff and 15 associates, the ODI has created a level of interest that Starks calls "astonishing", as he considers the past year's successes: 43 corporate members have joined and the institute has incubated a dozen startups, generating more than £0.5m in revenue, and raising more than that in investment finance.

And much of that has come as a result of television show-runners' (writer-producer hyphenates who oversee the day-to-day operations) widespread and early support of the strike, a show of solidarity that Brian Walton, who served as chief negotiator for the Guild during the 1988 strike, calls "astonishing".

The cheapest season ticket available at Arsenal's Emirates stadium is £985, a figure Clarke calls "astonishing", although the FSF concedes that, with half of the clubs in the top flight offering season tickets below £400, there is value to be found.

One athlete used 29 permissible substances, which Schamasch called astonishing.

RICKI LIEBERMAN New York, Aug. 20, 2007 The angry frustration on the part of readers that you call astonishing meanness might better be seen as a response to a journalist's passing on what is being said by an official — in this case, Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno — without asking obvious, critical questions.

In a retrospective of the first season in Entertainment Weekly, "Roland" was rated a B+, with guest star Željko Ivanek's portrayal of the eponymous Roland being called " astonishing (and convincing)", and the episode's "excellent death scenes" noted as highlights.

Eve told the Guardian that he was "extremely surprised" to discover what he calls "an astonishing degree" of variance in the editions of Cloud Atlas.

In retrospect, to call this astonishing is an under-statement.

Mr. Wolfram, who was born in Britain, published his first paper on particle physics in 1975 at age 15, and obtained a doctorate at Caltech at 20 (where Richard Feynman called him "astonishing").

In a telephone interview from Paris, Mohammad Mohaddessin, a top official of an Iranian opposition coalition that includes the Mujahedeen, confirmed that the bases had been attacked by the United States in what he called "an astonishing and regrettable act".