The statistics at Cambridge are particularly striking, with acceptances up from 165 in 2010 to 170 in 2014 despite fewer applications.
In striking contrast to Democratic acceptance speeches going back a generation, Mr. Kerry's was from start to finish heavily weighted toward foreign affairs and national security, underlining the urgency Mr. Kerry sees in trying to compete with Mr. Bush on that terrain as the men fight a political campaign against the backdrop of a war in Iraq and the threat of another terrorist attack.
Yet Britain still feels British.For sale, but not selling outThat acceptance of foreign investment is the more striking because the British are outliers in the opposite way when it comes to resenting encroachments on parliamentary or judicial sovereignty.
One of the more striking recent developments in economics has been economists' growing acceptance of the idea that globalization has held down pay for a large swath of workers.
The BBC's Kevin Connolly says that Israel's rapid acceptance of the Egyptian ceasefire proposal is striking, and represents a smart tactical move.
It was just one of several striking and demonstrably misleading elements of Ryan's much-anticipated acceptance speech.
Pope John Paul II's acceptance of Cardinal Bernard F. Law's resignation was perhaps the most striking development yet in the Roman Catholic Church's efforts to manage the crisis in the United States of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests.
Perhaps because of the events of this week, the discussion leaned more toward class than toward race, though there was a striking exchange about Obama's failure to mention Martin Luther King, Jr., in his acceptance speech in Denver.
In his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, Bush said, "We are staying on the offensive, striking terrorists abroad so we do not have to face them here at home.
"But what I got that was striking is that when he talked about how Hispanics are suffering, there is absolutely not acceptance that anything that the administration has done has contributed to the recession lasting longer".
