Sentence examples for more astonishing when from inspiring English sources

They are so human, it feels all the more astonishing when they hurl themselves off poles.

This made it all the more astonishing when, last month, she was tapped to run the beleaguered California Department of Corrections by the state's Republican, tough-on-crime, tough-on-criminals governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Mr. Prince said CloudFlare's network experiences "more traffic than Amazon, Wikipedia, Zynga, Twitter, Bing and AOL combined" and claimed the service was signing up 1,500 new customers a day — which is all the more astonishing when you consider that CloudFlare has yet to hire one salesperson or spend one dollar on marketing.

"This Oxford- and Harvard-trained neonatal pediatrician had some jarring testimony about the subject of fetal pain," announced the Republican congressman Mike Pence to the House of Representatives in 2004, "and it is truly made more astonishing when one considers the fact that Dr. Anand is not a stereotypical Bible-thumping pro-lifer".

The Academy's voter demographics are even more astonishing when compared to actual census data.

All of this is even more astonishing when one remembers that the Clintons were one of the most feared and respected political machines in contemporary politics.

Which makes it all the more astonishing that when the tax transparency laws came before the Senate on Thursday Labor forgot to call a vote on them.

I had always known of him as this godfather of the American theater, and here am I talking to him, thinking, 'How did this happen?' " It is no small thing, in this or any age, for an unknown playwright to be tapped by the artistic director of a major theater company, and more astonishing still when it happens twice in the same season.

It's an astonishing output, made all the more amazing when you consider how few duds there are among the 40 theatrical features he has written and directed, beginning with "Take the Money and Run".

It was also fast: the first draft took him little more than a month, astonishing when you consider that he had a fulltime teaching job as well.

Witnesses who gave statements before his first trial in 2008 recalled more astonishing incidents, including an occasion when Bellfield offered to sell his 16-year-old girlfriend and her younger sister for sex.