With the publication of Glen Greenwald's book No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, there are going to be reams more written on the astonishing acts of electronic surveillance primarily undertaken by the NSA.
"It was an astonishing act of defiance," said Callum MacLeod of USA Today.
An astonishing act of moral conscience that would be a shock today, let alone in 1895.
But in an astonishing act of corporate blackmail, the banks themselves then insisted that they be subsidised by the state.
It was an astonishing act of altruism that would not only change both of their lives but would help change the landscape of organ donation in the UK.
In an astonishing act of self-isolation, the Ming dynasty unrigged its entire heavy merchant fleet of 3,500 ships, and abandoned trade contacts by both land and sea".
So intense is his passion, in fact, that when Shun-kin suffers a facial disfigurement, he performs an astonishing act of self-sacrifice.
Avedon did, in fact, have certain idées fixes about the essential whomever; and then, through some astonishing act of photographic magic against that white paper, could make clothes, expression, collude in imprinting the essential them.
Here, in an astonishing act of ventriloquism, she is both the subject of the narrative and the omniscient narrator: "The Tartar imperiousness; the theatrical panache; the dislike of the bourgeois, the stuffy, or the second-rate; above all, the savagely mordant sense of humor: the spirit is the same.
As the executive director of Camfaids, Lembembe was one of Cameroon's most prominent and outspoken LGBT rights activists and openly gay – an astonishing act of bravery in a country where homosexuality is punishable with prison and violence against LGBT people is common and almost never investigated.
