Sentence examples for gripped public from inspiring English sources

In the true crime history of Australia, nothing has gripped public imagination like Melbourne's gangland war.

Last year he gripped public attention with a series of revelations of corruption in politics and business.

With the same Acropolis complex that has gripped public architecture for centuries, it becomes one more placid Greek temple.

Ebola gripped public attention in 1995 as it rampaged through Zaire killing 244 people.

That, in a nutshell, is the root of the funding crisis that is gripping public higher education.

While that's good in a sense, Anderegg said, his and Goldsmith's results also suggest that climate change as a whole does not top the list of gripping public topics.

That began to change as the concept of retirement gripped the public imagination, Achenbaum said.

The scale and daring of the crime gripped the public imagination.

The televised hearings gripped the public and made his conviction appear increasingly likely.

The world has started to move in that direction as "tax fairness" has gripped the public imagination in the wake of the global financial meltdown.

Having never gripped the public imagination like those other sports, swimming has not been helped by its lack of similar match-ups.