Sentence examples for the startling changes from inspiring English sources

Can there be any other explanation, you wonder, for the startling changes that have taken place at the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles?

The startling changes in the Olympic schedule, and the fact that only one rider is allowed per country, almost certainly means Britain's cyclists won't replicate the feats of Beijing.

The result is a record of landscape architecture's cultural contribution - as distinctly different in history, intent, and procedure from its sister fields of architecture and planning - during the years when it was acquiring professional status and struggling to define a modernist aesthetic out of the startling changes in postwar America.

Only gradually are the relationships between these characters and their ancestors revealed, resulting in an elliptical, jigsaw puzzle of a narrative that italicizes the hold that time past exerts over time present, and the startling changes that have swept through the reservation and the small towns nearby in the space of a couple of generations.

When Bernie Pringle started farming at age 16, the United States was neck-deep in the Great Depression; Jim Crow had black America by the throat and the struggle to survive left little time to imagine the startling changes time would bring.

Some evidence on the startling change in Dutch men's heights is provided in Table 4, which presents summary statistics for men 25 59 from the POLS and the DNB for each of the three periods, 1981 82, 1995 96 and 2006 10.

In this pamphlet, James Elkins surveys the last fifty years of art criticism, proposing some interesting explanations for these startling changes.

One of the most startling changes of the past decade is how much porn appears to have affected attitudes and practices.

The stylistic innovations that made themselves felt both in painting and mosaics of the late 13th and beginning 14th century bear witness to one of the most startling changes that ever took place within the framework of Byzantine culture.

And though pregnancy prevention efforts have long focused almost exclusively on girls, it is boys whose behavior shows the most startling changes.

This is only one of the many startling changes to have occurred recently in a country that formerly took pride in its inherent conservatism.