Sentence examples for won a startling from inspiring English sources

In 2002, Mr. Tschumi won a startling five major architectural competitions.

In parliamentary elections in February, the upstart Five Star Movement, led by the former comedian Beppe Grillo, won a startling 25 percent of the ballots in what was widely perceived as a protest vote.

In 63 he won a startling success: defeating two distinguished principes, he, who had not yet been praetor, was elected pontifex maximus a post of supreme dignity, power, and patronage.

It was one of those crazy periods when the Liberal/SDP Alliance had just won a startling byelection and everyone thought it was going to form the next government.

The Islanders were struggling, a shadow of the franchise that won a startling 19 consecutive playoff series en route to bringing four Stanley Cup championships to the eastern suburbs of New York City.

Beginning in 1984, when he won a startling $7.5 million, five-year contract for a former minor league teammate, Bill Caudill, Boras has again and again shown a talent for pushing the price of elite players to unprecedented heights.

In the 1982 Lebanon war, the clever use of small Israeli-built UAVs (incorporating technology developed in America's disappointing programmes) helped win a startling air campaign in which Syria's anti-aircraft batteries in the Bekaa valley were destroyed and up to 100 Syrian jets shot down against no losses for Israel.

At 23, while still a college student, he had won a seat on the Tallahassee City Commission, defying expectations and startling the city's political elite.

A startling and, at times, hard-to-read account by a British rider who never won a race but pushed himself to destruction.

A startling starter consisting of little more than a single, gigantic carrot boldly bisecting my plate won a special place in my heart, for instance.

But Brat's win is a startling achievement for the conservative wing of the GOP, and it will provide new momentum for a Tea Party movement that, just a few weeks ago, was being written off after its candidates failed to win in a handful of challenges to lesser politicians.