Sentence examples for staggering earthquake from inspiring English sources
OTTAWA — On the same day earlier this month that the Canadian company Cameco, a global leader in uranium mining and processing, gathered its executives from around the world for a strategic planning session, news broke of Japan's staggering earthquake.
Built in 1874, the indestructible Granite Lady at Mission and Fifth fought off staggering earthquakes and scorching infernos in its time.
THE N.G.O.'S Existing charity mechanisms have been revved up to try to match the staggering scale of the earthquake, and new ones are being invented.
Rather than budgetary pragmatism, the changes seem to be the fiscal equivalent of a firework set off during an earthquake the earthquake being Mr Darling's staggering debt projections, his Panglossian growth forecasts and a public-spending squeeze of a kind Labour once excoriated.
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.
"The power of this earthquake, and its huge geographical reach, are just staggering," said UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy.
Their dishonesty was staggering".
"The volume is staggering".
His potential's staggering".
