Sentence examples for striking step from inspiring English sources

And when it became clear that veteran hockey players had lied during an earlier investigation of the hazing, the university president took a bold and striking step: she canceled the college hockey season with two months to go.

This striking step signals the two airlines' intention to aggregate their purchasing power in order to reduce their reliance on a single fuel, while at the same time significantly reducing their carbon emissions.

Mr. Swartz's supporters called M.I.T.'s decision a striking step for an institution that prides itself on operating an open computer network and open campus — the home of a freewheeling programming culture.

But consider this: if the government were to take the striking step of calling a tax amnesty, as Mr. Schneider, the economist, suggests, the 30 billion to 40 billion euros that he thinks would return to the country could produce as much as 7 billion to 8 billion euros.

But there were times when Mr. Nebrada could not match Stravinsky's dramatic score with equally striking steps.

One of the things that separates Courchevel from other resorts is that it has built its villages at various elevations - on striking, stepped plateaus.

Interestingly, flux toward glycine exhibits a striking step-wise increase in each of the MCF10 cells as they become more aggressive (Table  1).

I think that, taken collectively, the exploration of ideas and techniques that occurs within the many pages of CC provides striking evidence of a dramatic step towards expanding the scope of what netart can visually undertake and encompass.

Guillem had a completely different physicality: the sheer length of her movements was striking, every step and gesture longer and wider than anything I'd ever seen.

On Wednesday night, Ewing scored 10 of the Knicks' 21 points in the third quarter to keep them within striking distance, stepping aside with foul trouble in the fourth quarter while Johnson and Latrell Sprewell picked up the slack.

And that's what Amok sounds like: a striking, if flawed, first step.