Sentence examples for example astonishing from inspiring English sources

The golden touch of City chequebooks has extended far beyond London, causing, for example, astonishing rises in the cost of holiday homes in favoured resorts on the coast of Cornwall in the south-west.When Mr Blair pulled off an historic third-term victory in 2005, southern voters were grumpier: there was an unexpectedly sharp swing against Labour in constituencies around the capital.

Smartphones are the most relevant example, astonishing us every day with how ubiquitous the devices have become.

To take just one example: the astonishing success of the Delacorte Theater has come at a price.

Some of the incidents in the new book are drawn from fact; others are invention, for example the astonishing adventure of a surgeon who is kidnapped by rebels and forced to operate on the wounded behind the lines.

It was a horrible mixture of meanness (slashing support for carers and people with disabilities, for example) and astonishing generosity (a policy of "no bondholder left behind" in which investors who gambled on reckless Irish banks were repaid in full from the public purse).

His fearless, faith-filled example is astonishing and compelling.

In low-income countries, for example, an astonishing one in 10 children dies before the age of five.

Examples of astonishing eccenstricities, recently noted by the press.

The New Yorker, November 2, 1929 P. 48 Examples of astonishing eccenstricities, recently noted by the press.

By W. E. Farbstein The New Yorker, November 2, 1929 P. 48 Examples of astonishing eccenstricities, recently noted by the press.

Following that astonishing example, we actually found another case, at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, in which two students were again told that they could not approach students to hand out Constitutions.