Sentence examples for striking margin from inspiring English sources

The image of the company is not helped by the immoderation of Sam Walton's widow and children, who together control forty per cent of Wal-Mart's outstanding shares, and who are worth roughly eighty billion dollars; they are, by a striking margin, the richest family in America.

A study on the "Cadillac tax" proposal conducted by the American Academy of Actuaries in January 2010 concluded that the proposal would disproportionately impact early retirees by a striking margin, not because their plans are more generous, but because they are actuarially more expensive to cover.

Secretary of State Kerry's challenge to Maduro's 270,000-vote victory margin struck me as particularly poignant.

Four magnitude 6 earthquakes struck the southern margin of Long Valley Caldera in an area that was close to the Mono–Inyo fissure system.

The court agreed, saying that Britain had "overstepped any acceptable margin of appreciation" in striking a balance between individual rights and public interests.

I highlighted sections in the text and made comments in the margins on anything that I found striking.

Striking workers at Sikorsky Aircraft Company voted by a narrow margin to approve a contract with the company, Sikorsky announced yesterday.

Setting aside Wisconsin, these are pretty narrow margins, but the stability of Obama's lead is striking.

Chelsea have been vulnerable on their travels of late but they outclassed Swansea to a startling degree and would not have been flattered by an 8-0 margin – Willian struck the framework of the goal twice with Lukasz Fabianski beaten.

We model province wide along- and across-strike expansion within the margin of the Basin and Range Province as regional dilation accompanying northward propagation of the Walker Lane transform.

Striking demographical differences and source sink dynamics of populations between the centre and the margin of the niche can play a major role in the emergence and spread of adaptive alleles.