Sentence examples for extraordinary exercise from inspiring English sources

It is an extraordinary exercise in large-scale clarification.

It is in my view an extraordinary exercise in self-congratulation.

Mr. Rumsfeld did not fire General Brown, but he did something that was nearly as bad: He put the nation's top military officer through an extraordinary exercise.

In an extraordinary "exercise in self-flagellation," as he calls it, he admits: "I am no longer qualified to take an active role in managing a hedge fund.

"They are embarked on an extraordinary exercise in rebranding," David Axelrod, the former political adviser to President Barack Obama, said of the Kochs.

On the other hand, closer listening, or maybe a different kind of listening, identifies in "Ibéria" not local color but an extraordinary exercise in abstract art.

This month, 95,000 troops took part in extraordinary exercises in Russia, he said.

Theirs was "one of the most extraordinary exercises in tenacity and in will to survival within the dance world," Anna Kisselgoff wrote in The New York Times in 1981.

This may sound like a Halloween special conceived by Quentin Tarantino, but it's part of an extraordinary academic exercise called "A History of Britain," which begins tonight on the History Channel.

It's pretty amazing how such a simple notion can be quite extraordinary when exercised.

State Supreme Court judges usually serve for decades and exercise extraordinary power.