Sentence examples for would have astounded from inspiring English sources

Either proposition would have astounded James Madison, often described as the guiding spirit behind the Constitution, who rejected state-established religions and, like Alexander Hamilton, proposed a central government so strong that it could veto state laws.

The idea, for instance, that it was the Victorians who invented the notion that overseas initiatives should be for God not gain would have astounded those French, Portuguese and Spanish Catholic Fathers who had earlier devoted far more care to the indigenous peoples of the Americas than many of their Anglo, Protestant competitors.

The announcement that the site of Holloway prison is to be sold to become a chic London housing address would have astounded generations of women incarcerated there.

Such moves would once have astounded; these days, they are unremarkable.

She told about many things which have astounded her, and her recollections of Malaysia.

"The energy levels have astounded me.

New Yorker Jane Jacobs would have been astounded.

He would have been astounded to see 80,000 watching Saracens in a league fixture.

And the, frankly, mood of the world would have been astounded had the United States acted unilaterally in trying to deal with Al Qaeda in that part of the world.

Experienced Middle East observers would have been astounded if some Iraqis somewhere had not demonstrated how brutal they can be.But elsewhere it is by no means clear that tolerance is fading.

Jay Gatsby would have been astounded by today's beer market, especially the spectacular growth in craft brews.