Sentence examples for striking measures from inspiring English sources

One of the most striking measures of voters' engagement has been Mr. Obama's fund-raising, built in large measure on small donations made over the Internet.

Among the most striking measures of his art (rivalled only, in this regard, by the Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi) is the prominence that Bergman gives to women in his films.

Perhaps one of the most striking measures is a rider that would prevent the Fish and Wildlife Service from adding new species to the endangered species list, upgrading species listings or protecting vital habitat by eliminating all funds for those activities.

A striking measure of that is the latest campaign finance reports.

In a large and striking measure the Progressive agitations turned the human sympathies of the people downward rather than upward in the social scale".

An even more striking measure of Ali's aura is his impact on the legacies of two fighters who did reach the summit in their own right.

In a particularly striking measure of economic distress, birth rates among Hispanics, who are concentrated in states hardest hit by the economic downturn, like Florida and Arizona, declined by 17 percent from 2007 to 2010, Mr. Johnson said.

In a striking measure of personal popularity, her party captured all the seats contested in Naypyidaw, the new capital city built by the former military junta and populated largely by government employees.

It's a striking measure of the nervousness of the country right now that a movie so full of holes should be as gripping as it is, at least for its first two-thirds, after which it collapses into a swamp of sentimental mush.

That the Adamses succeeded both in helping to shape the American Republic and in securing for themselves a striking measure of domestic bliss was, as Joseph J. Ellis shows in "First Family: Abigail and John," a testament to the exceptional strength and vitality of their marriage.

The prevalence of dangerous strains of the human papillomavirus — the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States and a principal cause of cervical cancer — has dropped by half among teenage girls in the last decade, a striking measure of success for a vaccine that was introduced only in 2006, federal health officials said on Wednesday.