Sentence examples for vertiginous development from inspiring English sources

The luxurious Royal Makkah Clock Tower, an unfeasibly silly and vertiginous development overlooking the massively expanded holy sanctuary, symbolises this "eruption of architectural bling", though in truth "even the relatively poor are incited to shop at every available moment".

The sequencing of the grapevine genome, together with the vertiginous development of next generation sequencing technologies constitute a powerful tool for gene search and studies concerning their evolution, expression and function.

Not everyone approves of the consequences of such vertiginous growth.

Now, even the most conservative estimates (see chart) forecast a vertiginous growth in data traffic.

However, the vertiginous evolution of this kind of technologies may have clouded the originality of this initiative, since nowadays global social networks (such as Facebook, Twitter, Ozone, etc).

Roberts's new book, "The End of Food," which takes into account a vertiginous pile of recent developments — including the so-called tortilla riots of 2007, during which thousands took to the Mexico City streets to protest the rapidly rising cost of maize — may prove no less prescient.

8 P.M. (Fox) ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT -- Liza Minnelli (left) guest-stars as the vertiginous Lucille Austero (one of her finest roles) in a 2003 episode, "In God We Trust," which also involves Michael Bluth Jason Batemann) trying to fire the family lawyer.

If this were a novel, and we had those 250 pages to go, the only plot development that would make narrative sense would be for our hero to suffer a tragic, vertiginous downfall.

By contrast, the mainland market restricts gains and falls to a daily maximum of 10%, which means a downward correction will be a long spiral rather than a vertiginous drop.Crash or big bangMore worrying is the lengthy shadow that a crash could cast over the development of China's equity markets.

The effect is vertiginous.

It is a vertiginous moment.