Sentence examples for staggering step from inspiring English sources

It appears that the capacity of adult SCs to proliferate is a staggering step in the efforts to stimulate hair cell re-growth.

The paragraphs trace the path of her infancy: we watch her learn to smile, speak, take staggering steps through spring's first flowers.

Dressed in a silver mini-dress, with a microphone coiled around her neck like a necklace, she undergoes transformations: powerful, whipping stomps become staggering steps as her movement becomes more frenetic.

The principle of causality, so deeply embedded in humans' minds that it has been thought of as immediately evident, is the very foundation not only of all three monotheistic world religions but also of the first staggering steps of science [ de nihilo nihil (nothing can be born of nothing); Lucretius 1951].

Dembski publishes at a staggering pace.

An initial statement released by the RSPCA following the BHA announcement claimed that jockeys had "a licence to beat them [horses] with impunity" and though the phrase was subsequently amended to "use the whip excessively", David Muir, the RSPCA's equine consultant, has also described the move as "absolutely staggering", "a backward step" and "a black day for the racing industry".

"We were Nassau County in 1994, with staggering debt, bonds one step above junk, recurring deficits, budgets passed by default," he said, adding that he worked with the Republican supervisor to stabilize taxes, halve debt payments and improve the town's bond rating from the worst to the best on Long Island.

That is a staggering set of numbers.

The technical demands of this part are staggering, yet Ms. Bouder etched every step burningly into the score, and at the end looked ready for more.

It consists of Mr. Rigal working his way slowly up to a final full stand, legs suddenly staggering as in a baby's first steps.

It's wonderful to see again this astonishingly intricate and step-packed piece, with its staggering demands of footwork, turns and jumps for five supporting women, as well as the lead couple.