In her 195-page decision, Judge Scheindlin concluded that the stops, which soared in number over the last decade as crime continued to decline, demonstrated a widespread disregard for the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures by the government, as well as the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause.
Asked about the use of drone strikes, which have soared in number during his presidency, Mr Obama said "a lot of these strikes have been in the Fata", or Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Business school applications soar in number during recessions.
But 15 years later, encouraged by feminist legal theorists, judges and juries began to stretch the limits of what constituted sexual "discrimination".In 1991 two events led sexual-harassment suits to soar in number and value.
After going through an experimental phase of development, mini-satellites began to soar in number, said Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer who tracks global launches and publishes Jonathan's Space Report.
That's the term the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life uses to describe the religiously unaffiliated, a category that its new report, "Nones on the Rise," shows has been soaring in number over the past few years and now surpasses white evangelical Protestants as well as white mainline Protestants, second only to Catholics.
DRAWINGS: Reeve Carney: 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark':While stuntmen do most of the much-touted flying in the musical, Mr. Carney gets his heart rate soaring in numbers like "Bouncing Off the Walls," when, with the aid of rigging equipment, he brings the song to life by doing aerial flips and cartwheels in Peter Parker's bedroom.
Property prices have soared in a number of cities. And unlike in China, where inflation remains subdued the cost of living has been rising at a worrying rate.
After the chaos of this series, in which homers soared in record numbers and bullpen decisions endured unceasing scrutiny, a winner will be crowned Wednesday.
As gas prices soared in 2005, the number of miles driven - including commercial and personal - began to fall, and continued to drop after 2008 even as gasoline became cheaper.
The number soared in the 1990s, and by 2005 had reached 68,000.
