Sentence examples for remarkable leaps from inspiring English sources

Since then, they have made remarkable leaps.

The state of Georgia alleges that those remarkable leaps rested on neither pedagogy nor determined study, but something far more invidious: cheating.A report issued in June 2011 by a special investigative team created by Sonny Perdue, who was then Georgia's governor, found widespread evidence of cheating dating back to 2001.

Those would be remarkable leaps even in a blazing chip market, let alone one with inventory bloat and price pressures.

And nearly every year we are treated to a Christmastime television special that traces Santa's history back even farther, to Nicholas, the fourth-century Turkish bishop of Myra, and, through a series of remarkable leaps, to the Roman Saturnalia or the Norse god Odin.

There is a remarkable leap of skill and ambition from these formative works to the big screw drawings.

"It took a remarkable leap of faith on the part of Maxie's parents to send him to us," Ms. Bentley said.

The Sun's circulation soared to almost twenty thousand — a remarkable leap for the young paper, and for the new penny-press model it exemplified.

No wonder bankers have dubbed FATCA the Fear And Total Confusion Act.An OECD tax official describes the law as "awful, in a way, like a nuclear bomb" but also sees it as "a remarkable leap forward for transparency".

Eric McVadon, a retired rear admiral, told a congressional commission in 2005 that China had achieved a "remarkable leap" in the modernisation of forces needed to overwhelm Taiwan and deter or confront any American intervention.

It was a remarkable leap forward in medical knowledge, yet it came a few decades too late to be included in the Sistine ceiling, which Michelangelo finished in 1512.

A slashing point guard whose remarkable leaping ability often takes him to the basket, where he is routinely banged around by far bigger forwards and centers, Rose is the only player other than LeBron James to win the Most Valuable Player award in the last five years.