Sentence examples for impressive world from inspiring English sources

* El Hadji-Diouf, £11m from Lens in 2002 Failed to live up to expectations at Anfield after joining in the wake of an impressive World Cup for Senegal.

The United States was coming into the game off the high of two impressive World Cup qualifying results in March, a win over Costa Rica and a draw against Mexico.

Off the back of an impressive World Cup performance for the Boomers, the imposing centre almost doubled his average minutes per game from the previous campaign, with corresponding increases in scoring and rebounding.

For all that, Souths still have the personnel to give the competition a shake — and their Auckland Nines win and impressive World Club Challenge thrashing of St Helens shows they've hit the ground running.

The record book was wiped clean then, and Zelezny's 98.48-meter (323 feet 1 inch) throw from May 1996 remains the rather otherworldly standard: more than 5 meters better than any other man, which may make it a more mathematically impressive world record than Usain Bolt's 9.58 seconds in the 100 meters or 19.19 in the 200.

He will add further experience along with Philippe Senderos, Kieran Richardson, Aly Cissokho and Joe Cole who have also been added –  yet there remain doubts over the future of the Dutch centre-back Ron Vlaar, an impressive World Cup performer who is entering the final year of his contract.

Sound problems aside, her singing also seems impressive, world-weary but compelling.

Some local environmentalists say that Daley favors flashy projects over substance — recycling, for instance, lags behind programs in other cities — but Al Gore told me that Daley's environmental initiatives are "an incredibly impressive world-leading effort.

Given a big budget and major-studio backing after the success of his 2009 independent sci-fi hit District 9, the South African writer-director Neill Blomkamp is able to do some pretty impressive world-building.

An impressive world-leading 1500m victory for Kenya's Silas Kiplagat (3 30.47) was overshadowed by a fight between Mahiedine Benabbad Mekhissi and Mehdi Baala after the race, who had to be separated by race officials, in a long-running feud between the Frenchmen.

A few newspaper ads, personal contacts, and word of mouth drew impressive world-class faculty from some of the leading universities as well as other outstanding professionals from the arts, the corporate world, and government.