But when Riccardo was charged with attempted theft and damage to a police car, the judge, Roberto Di Bella, followed his acquittal with a startling order: the 'Ndrangheta family prince would be banished to Sicily until he turned 18. Di Bella had sent Cordi's brothers to prison but wanted to spare the youngest.
These startling civil orders criminalize legal behavior, individually, tailor-making offenses.
A startling 538 of those orders were issued in absentia, meaning that the final order was given with neither the family facing deportation, nor their representative, in attendance at the court hearing.
Should diners be advised to remember Pearl Harbor and order this startling opener, or give it a miss?
This book contains many startling confidences on the order of "Jean-Paul Sartre told me in 1953," or "Groucho Marx said to me," or, about Mitford, "I met her in Paris in the early '50s".
The Mets bullpen flingers had matters their way by now — they combined with Estes for what became a nine-inning midgame shutout, in fact — but Braves manager Bobby Cox slipped out of a pickle in the tenth, when he ordered a startling intentional pass to the dangerous Alfonzo, moving the winning run up to third base, before Jeromy Burnitz struck out to end the threat.
I suggest you read the books in order for startling revelations, explanations and a whole new perspective on a beautiful story that shows why it's so important to hear both sides of a story.
Machine orders fell a startling 11.8percentt in January from the month before, a much sharper decline than economists had predicted.
For Mr. Cavallo, who last month was prohibited by judicial decree from leaving Argentina, the imprisonment order caps a startling fall from grace.
The musicians -- the magisterial Coleman Hawkins among them -- played passionately, but the most startling section was "Protest," featuring ordered, wordless screaming by Ms. Lincoln.
