Sentence examples for heady standards from inspiring English sources

Though the fee for such "fairness opinions" is low by the heady standards of investment banking, it boosts Merrill's position in the all-important mergers-and-acquisitions league tables.Will the combined bank be a successful one?

Reached by what local messenger services agree may well be the slowest elevator in town, it is a warren of offices, furnished with desks assembled from door panels and two-by-fours, that reflects a business whose accelerated rate of growth is remarkable even by the heady standards of Seattle's software startups.

But it may be too much to expect him to maintain that heady standard for very much longer.

But these are, by many measurable standards, heady times.

After all, Google's hoped-for valuation of 187 times its latest after-tax profits was heady even by the standards of its dotcom peers for example, eBay, the dominant internet-auction website, trades at around 83 times latest profits.While Google is the clear leader in online searches, its profits are still modest: it made $143m after tax in the first half of the year.

It's not Der Stürmer, but it is heady stuff, even by the standards of the time.

By normal standards, that is a heady sum, about 25 percent of Turkey's G.D.P., and it is about the size of the economy of Greece, Turkey's longtime rival.

Some remain from the heady decades of the early- to mid-20th century, before current standards kicked in.

— When Bertrand Piccard was growing up in Switzerland, heady discussions about the boundless potential for human endeavor were standard fare.

It is heady to know that a book you loved as a child conforms to such meticulous standards of mythical realism.

Grilled chicken (satay) on bamboo skewers proved standard; and a soup of shrimp, lemon grass and lime, usually a hearty, heady potion, was lame.