Sentence examples for perform extraordinary from inspiring English sources
They have led human beings to perform extraordinary acts of both good and evil.
"These men and women perform extraordinary service on a day-to-day basis, protecting me, my family and other U.S. officials," Mr. Obama said on Sunday.
"But those who worked with him admitted that the trait, infuriating as it might be, led them to perform extraordinary feats".
He describes the work of the psychologist Anders Ericsson, who wondered if he could train an ordinary person to perform extraordinary feats of memory.
People can perform extraordinary acts of altruism, including kindness toward other species — or they can utterly fail to be altruistic, even toward their own children.
Custom-car fanatics short on cash will inevitably perform extraordinary experiments on whatever discarded autos flood the police auctions of the future.
Ordinary men and women who had performed extraordinary feats, who had, in some cases, literally taken a leap into the dark to help maimed and injured passengers in desperate need of help, repeatedly down-played their heroism.
It was a moment's camaraderie binding Mr. Bradley not only to the ordinary Americans who performed extraordinary acts of heroism in the fiercest battle of World War II but also to one man in particular.
After the battle, and during the long storm that followed, with Nelson dead from a musket ball in the spine, English sailors performed extraordinary feats of seamanship and bravery, saving the lives of thousands of injured and exhausted opponents.
Hubbard is presented as "the master of a multitude of disciplines" who performed extraordinary feats as a photographer, composer, scientist, therapist, explorer, navigator, philosopher, poet, artist, humanitarian, adventurer, soldier, scout, musician and many other fields of endeavor.
The U.S., rather than seeking to extradite Nashiri so he could stand trial, handed him off to the CIA, which performed extraordinary rendition on the suspect, ensconcing him in "black prisons" overseas, where they subjected him to waterboarding and other forms of torture.
