Sentence examples for was startling for from inspiring English sources

Their enthusiasm was startling, for Mr. Cuomo's predecessors have found few adversaries as imposing as hospitals during Albany's budget season.

Even so, it was startling for the Yankees to pile up nine runs off a pitcher with such a sterling résumé.

The attack in the small city of Zaranj was startling for the planning on the part of the insurgents, who carried out considerable damage despite being largely thwarted by the police.

In its sweeping disregard of history, precedent and constitutional text, the chief justice's 5-to-4 opinion in the voting rights case was startling for its naked activism, but no one watching the court over the past few years could have been surprised by the outcome.

Then he quietly unveiled a plan to tackle petty criminality and anti-social behaviour that was startling for its moderation, at least by comparison with what has come before.Britons may not suffer more from incivilities such as graffiti, spitting and verbal abuse than other nations, but they certainly make more of a fuss about them.

So a look around the room last Monday was startling for the number of people with the same thing in common: the ties of James J. Culleton, a defense lawyer, and several detectives in the gallery, the blazer of the court reporter, the shirt and tie of a lawyer for Mr. Bell's fiancée.

First, the price tags are startling: for-profit educators normally expect to pay between 10 and 13 times earnings for a school.

It's startling, for anyone who has seen Submarine, how quickly Roberts has grown up.

The turnaround in Lodz has been startling for a municipality whose population was still declining as recently as three years ago.

The tales are startling for their grotesque humor, for the light they shed on the draggled hinterland between the civilized and the monstrous.

He seemed, to me at least—and it is startling for me even to utter the thought to be almost normal.