Sentence examples for surprising leap from inspiring English sources

The assertion in our March 6 article that the Chinese made a surprising leap in the miniaturization of nuclear weapons remains unchallenged.

"A Surprising Leap on Cloning" (editorial, May 22) does not address the basic question in the debate over human embryonic stem cell research.

No team made a more surprising leap last season than the Philadelphia 76ers, who made the playoffs with a 40-42 record, then pushed the Pistons to six games in the first round.

Mr. Nesbitt, most noted for his hand in the design of the Chrysler PT Cruiser, will become the top executive of General Motors' top brand -- a surprising leap for a designer -- and will report directly to Robert Lutz, a vice chairman.

On the other hand, the news value of the corrida has taken a surprising leap in the past decade, thanks mainly to matador José Tomás – front-page news across the world when he was nearly gored to death in Mexico in April, requiring 17 pints of blood after a bull called Navegante ripped a 15cm hole in his thigh.

The scene has the feel of a religious conversion and Adam justifies his stirring and surprising leap with a rhetorical flourish: It wasn't enough to trust in your future, you had to seize your future, pull it up out of the stream of time….

As well as darting about chronologically, the narrative makes surprising leaps in register and tone, so that characters speak in a mixture of world-weary teenspeak, pitch-perfect realism, and mannered theatricality, sometimes within the same scene.

"The Dark Knight Rises" provokes the opposite effect: it's neither more nor less than the sum of its parts, all of which are crafted with extraordinary care, none of which suggest spontaneous or surprising leaps of imagination or dazzlements of fantasy.

Math tells us that chains have no problem instantly turning even the sharpest corners, the physicists say, so they had to look elsewhere to explain the chain fountain's surprising vertical leap.

Given the government's subsidizing and promotion of homeownership, it's not surprising that borrowers leaped at the chance to buy a home even on onerous terms.

The squat, barrel-chested Müller possessed surprising acceleration and leaping ability, making him a threat to score nearly every time he touched the ball in the opponent's end.