Sentence examples for caused amazement from inspiring English sources

That possibility caused amazement among many people in Montvale.

In 1971, the possessions of a legendary Hôtel Drouot figure, known to old Drouot buffs by his surname, Hautmont, caused amazement at the viewing that preceded his sale.

Yet in the country's jails, Mr Baptista da Silva's sudden appearance among the intellectual elite caused amazement among his former cellmates.

"The announcement of her prize caused amazement to several economists, including some prominent colleagues, who had never even heard of her," Avinash Dixit, a Princeton economics professor, said when introducing Professor Ostrom's work at a luncheon in 2011.

It is disturbing that a win for an Italian club at home should cause amazement.

The Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints announced that it had verified a second miracle by the late Polish pontiff that "would cause amazement".

(JPMorgan Chase has not been accused of wrongdoing and says it is co-operating with the investigation).The probe will cause amazement in China, a country in which the idea of guanxi loosely translated, relationships is ingrained.

His detailed interpretations of the internal structure of the braincase in this and other early vertebrates (e.g. Stensiö 1925, 1927) caused some amazement and suspicion that it could not be possible to extract such information from fossils that old (see Janvier 1996, p. 315).

In their courts, "This noble and inspired man fashioned a great number of rare and delicate works of art which caused considerable amazement" (3 ).

Consequently, they tend to have to fear for their lives, and anything beyond a season or two causes amazement.

Once we were in for a vote and crossed paths going to the two division lobbies, she to the "content" lobby and I to the "not content" – and we kissed in the chamber, which caused some concern and amazement.