"Making decisions about whether or not to grant refugee protection is often a matter of life or death, yet the government's own statistics reveal it gets a staggering number of decisions on Eritrean cases wrong," said Maurice Wren, the chief executive of the Refugee Council.
Orchestrally, much was staggering, though the curious decision to place the chorus in the stalls rather than off-stage wrecked the balance in the closing scenes.
The Washington Post sports columnist Michael Wilbon, who has decided that his son will not play youth football, cited the "staggering importance" of the decision by league medical advisers to admit the long-term risks of concussions.
The number of lives lost due to this decision is staggering and the cost is in the trillions.
But no one disputes that voters here face a staggering number of policy decisions, or that the official voters' guide hardly helps cut through the fog for voters who mark their ballots at home in a state where almost all votes are mailed in.
Further, there is a staggering short-sightedness to the decision.
At scale, those decisions will have staggering consequences for patient outcomes as well as health care costs, and more work has to be done to properly and rigorously develop these workflows.
Past credit decisions have resulted in staggering losses.
"I find it rather staggering that the minister can overturn a decision by the parole board.
It was a staggering display of whiplash-inducing (and maybe panicky) decision-making by coaches and, perhaps, owners in Kansas City, Tampa Bay and Buffalo.
