That is a startling measure when you consider that China, a generation ago, had a barren Soviet-style science system.
Perhaps the most startling measure of Leonard's resurgence dates to his victory at the Valero Texas Open last fall, the third time he won the event.
She is somehow able to infuse what can sound like dowdy, common words — words like courtesy and kindness, shame and forgiveness, transgression and grace — with a startling measure of their old luster and gravity.
Newark has outmatched Detroit by another startling measure: in 2013, fifty-four per cent of Newark's owner-occupied homes were underwater, compared to forty-seven per cent in Detroit, according to a 2014 report by the Haas Institute.
For all the reaction that deluged Twitter — a "veritable technology 21-gun salute" as the Times put it — the Chinese reaction was, perhaps, a more startling measure of his reach.
These results indicate that a number of behavioural variables in two of the tests, the novel object and startling test, are measures of fear of novel and startling stimuli, respectively, in dogs and furthermore provide a useful methodology to study fear-induced aggression in dogs.
This section of the book — which covers 26 years, and Lily's complex journey into American life — feels like the heart of this novel; it would be wrong to give too much away about Lily's adventures, for they are moving and startling in equal measure.
PricewaterhouseCoopers projects the sector's earnings this year at $15 billion, down from $16.1 billion in 2002 but still a startling performance when measured against the airlines' expected losses of $10 billion and the hotels' own losses of $5.7 billion in 1991, in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf war.
In equal measure, startling humor or shocking violence could erupt at any moment.
The lump-in-the-throat elements take care of themselves — the sight of sweet and lively children in hospital beds has a way of opening up audience tear ducts, even without swelling musical cues — but the startling thing about "Extraordinary Measures" is not that it moves you.
