Sentence examples for unusually prompt from inspiring English sources

And in an unusually prompt trial -- apparently a reflection of Chinese leaders' fears of further unrest -- a Xilinhot court on Wednesday handed down a death sentence to the Han driver convicted of running down Mergen, the Mongolian herdsman.

After passing the antiterrorism bill in record time in the fall, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees are making an unusually prompt and thorough, if sometimes unsuccessful, effort to determine how the Justice Department is using its new powers.

(Or it could have been that all the Vogue assistants standing along the way to Ms. Wintour's receiving line had been strictly instructed not to speak to anyone, not even to people they recognized, or that so many guests were unusually prompt).

For one thing, the Palestinians issued an unusually prompt and stern statement about the attack, warning that the Palestinian leadership "will not be lenient towards the parties that claimed responsibility for it, and will take all strictly legal measures to bring the perpetrators to justice".

And the unusually prompt and firm response of West African leaders, who have demanded that Captain Sanogo restore the country's democratic order within 72 hours or face a closing of the landlocked country's borders and a freezing of its account at the regional central bank, is shaping up as a test case for whether the region can stamp out what had been its longtime curse: the military coup d'état.

The unusually harsh tactic prompted some to wonder if the race was tightening.

Violence by neo-Nazi and other xenophobic gangs is common in St . Petersburgand other Russian cities, but the brutality of the act prompted unusually strong denunciations by the city's leaders.

It prompted unusually cautious words from Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, who said that Snowden could remain in Russia provided he would do no more damage to the US government, which Putin referred to as the Russian government's partner.

Unusually warm weather prompted a change in the starting location for last year's race, while 7,000 gallons of snow was shipped in ahead of this year's event in case of a lack of powder.

Intense public reaction to coverage of the violence of the Middle East conflict has prompted unusually harsh attacks on several news media outlets and has led to boycotts of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

The case of Mr. Shaikh, a former manager of a London minicab company who was born in Pakistan and moved to Britain at age 11, has prompted unusually broad protests.