Sentence examples for startling extent from inspiring English sources

Since the old Five Nations was expanded to include Italy a dozen years back, England have lorded it over Wales at Twickenham to a startling extent.

Yet the goods the rich consume are, to a startling extent, mass consumption; their claim on the output of Starbucks, Procter and Gamble, Haagen Dazs and so forth is a trivial drop in a very large stream of consumer dollars.

Savage also reveals the startling extent to which the business machinery of modern youth culture - hit songs, heavily marketed stimulants, commercial venues for dancing - was up and running, particularly in America, before the 20th century had even begun.

But a new report published this week by the reproductive health advocacy group the Guttmacher Institute highlights the startling extent to which abortion restrictions across the United States fly in the face of evidence about what abortion is and isn't—and what actually benefits women's health.

More recently, next-generation sequencing has allowed for unbiased identification of mutations that are found within tumor cell clones, and has unveiled the startling extent to which genetic diversity and intratumoral heterogeneity are present within most human cancers.

Perhaps more startling is the extent of cross-border mergers.

The list of alarming statistics goes on, but most startling is the extent to which global death and disability from preventable causes can be efficiently and cost-effectively mitigated if we only had the political will to do so.

Note also Scalia's gravelly sarcasm.UPDATE: Another startling discovery is the extent to which state governments and even private litigators have used campaign-finance laws to attempt to silence the little guy.The website of the Institute for Justice gives several examples.

Their projections are fairly startling: And to the extent that we believe advanced countries will suffer from the burden of large elderly populations, France will suffer less: Germany should enjoy its hegemony while it lasts; Europe's future, such as it is, may belong to France.

Overnight, the Guardian and the Washington Post have made startling claims about the extent of the US government's surveillance of web communications.

However, the rapidly accumulating phylogenies of congeneric taxa with mismatches between gene trees and an expected species tree [ 15, 16] is yielding a startling picture of the extent to which the expectation of monophyly is not met.