As the staggering destruction of wealth in the stock market has recently revealed, executives can sometimes appear to own shares in a company, but have actually pledged them as collateral for a loan.
Plot holes obstruct a dramatically logical path to Mr. Margulies' ultimate destination, which has much to do with the staggering destruction of a family, some 45 years after the terror.
It's a staggering rate of destruction, but when the destruction is done, there's an ascertainable chance that the disease will have been contained.
The new UN and Arab League envoy for Syria has said the death toll in the conflict is "staggering" and the destruction "catastrophic".
The staggering toll of destruction wrought by the super storm thrust the issue of climate change back into the political conversation after it was largely ignored during the campaign season.
The Department of Agriculture is testing the lake's water Reming is certainly not the first typhoon to have caused misery and hardship – in a country prone to natural disasters, Bicol seems to be one of the worst sufferers - but Reming is reckoned to be the most powerful, leaving behind a staggering inventory of destruction and visibly altering the landscape.
The damage in areas hit by Haiyan was staggering -- miles of destruction, piles of debris and needs seemingly too numerous to quantify.
In today's superhero movie, you will see untold destruction and staggering casualties, but you will never see (or hear) a parent physically strike her child without suffering grave consequences.
So staggering was the scale of destruction unleashed by the Sichuan earthquake that, much like the Haitian quake in January, its horror was often reduced to a series of statistics: more than 87,000 dead or missing, nearly 400,000 injured, upward of five million homeless.
In some primarily antimodern forms, millennial movements can become highly authoritarian, suffused with conspiratorial thinking, implacably opposed to imagined enemies (e.g., Jews, independent women, denominational opponents), and capable of staggering acts of violence and self-destruction.
"The destruction of assets is a staggering number, especially when you translate it into the work that gets done because of foundation grant-making," said Bradford K. Smith, president of the Foundation Center.
