Sentence examples for startling state of affairs from inspiring English sources
Put another way, fishers today have to work 17 times harder to get the same catch as people did in the 19th century". And the reason for this startling state of affairs is straightforward: we have caught so much fish in our own waters over the past 150 years, there is little left for us today.
Such seeming absurdities turn out to have foreshadowed -- and no doubt, facilitated -- a rather startling state of affairs: In the current edition of the Harvard Encyclopedia of Ethnic Groups, "Mormons" have their own entry.
This startling, and highly controversial, state of affairs follows a Cabinet Office decision, revealed by the Observer in February, that researchers who receive government grants will be banned, as of 1 May, from using the results of their work to lobby for changes in laws or regulations.
They survey the literature fictional as well as academic studies; outline the progress of space programs in the United States and other nations; and assess the current state of affairs to offer a conclusion startling only to those who haven't spent time with Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke: to traverse the cosmos, humans must embrace and entwine themselves with advanced robotic technologies.
It's a strange state of affairs.
This is a desperate state of affairs".
"That is the correct state of affairs.
What a sad state of affairs!
A completely sad state of affairs.
It was an unsustainable state of affairs.
