Sentence examples for staggering prosperity from inspiring English sources

The staggering prosperity of this country, of the whole developed world, floats on oil.

His comments echoed those of the UN deputy secretary general, Jan Eliasson, who told the Guardian in August that the world's lack of progress in building toilets and ending open defecation was having a "staggering" effect on the health, safety, education, prosperity and dignity of 2.5 billion people.

Last year, the the UN deputy secretary general, Jan Eliasson, bemoaned the lack of action on clean water and sanitation, warning that the slow progress in building toilets and ending open defecation was having a "staggering" effect on the health, safety, education, prosperity and dignity of 2.5 billion people.

After seeing their country plunge from the heady days of debt-fueled prosperity earlier this decade to economic shocks and staggering deficits, people here now find their political system, too, in at least temporary disarray.

Billionaire industrialist David Koch, patron of Americans for Prosperity and the Republican Governors Association – which, combined, pumped a staggering $20m into Walker's campaign – said in February: "What Scott Walker is doing with the public unions in Wisconsin is critically important.

Replicating this model of moderation and pious prosperity will be hard work in Tunisia, a country with staggering levels of unemployment and 25 percent illiteracy.

Changing Policy Environment The unprecedented prosperity that the global economy is currently enjoying has not trickled down to benefit the staggering 40 per cent of all the children in developing countries -- over half a billion -- who are still struggling to survive on less than $1 per day per child.

Like prosperity".

THE staggering deficit.

Their dishonesty was staggering".

"The volume is staggering".