Sentence examples for certain extraordinary from inspiring English sources

He expresses perplexity at what he deems a "certain, extraordinary insecurity" on Kissinger's part, which he traces back to Kissinger's origins as a young Jewish refugee from Nazism.

"This great quality [magnanimity] is not banned from appearing in certain extraordinary women" [CN, p.64].

It is well known that William Ockham took exception to this view, holding that we can, in certain extraordinary (i.e. supernatural) cases, have intuitive cognition of non-existent objects.

This sort of skepticism might also be called "prima facie pacifism": this is the idea that war is usually wrong except in certain extraordinary circumstances when it is compellingly shown that the evil of war is a sort of lesser evil that is necessary for some greater good.

He has the kind of singularity of presence I've noticed in certain extraordinary people; at once utterly familiar and totally strange in their carriage and appearance.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Wednesday that the nation's statutory debt limit will be reached on December 31 and the Treasury Department will take "certain extraordinary measures" to postpone the date.

This is an aspect of the work more likely to be pursued by academic scientists than by those working in industry, because its commercial uses are much less certain, although extraordinary discoveries might be made.

I keep thinking about an intriguing article I read in yesterday's New York Times op-ed section by T.M. Luhrmann, which asks the question, "What gives certain places their extraordinary power to move people so deeply?" It starts with a story of a teenager who went to Jerusalem.

And it wasn't until I started to see a certain kind of really extraordinary reaction, like the one that I wrote the letter complaining about, concerning, you know, I mean it was an art critic who wrote it.

In 2012 the firm lost money selling electricity, bringing the margin across its domestic supply business down to 6.6%.In this section High water everywhere Forward progress The ascent of the city Fuel on the fire Freedom fighter Wish you were here The Goveometer The British Vikings ReprintsThis figure is high; but it is not extraordinary, or certain to be sustained.

However, he argues that just as judgments of distance by the naked eye break down in certain cases, judgments about extraordinary modal claims based on conceiving or imagining a situation that appears to verify a statement equally break down.