This is astounding.

Astounding, isn't it?

The results were astounding.

Its economic growth has been and is truly astounding.

The diversity of flowers in this area is astounding.

An astounding 60 said that they do not.

But stabilization has been nothing short of astounding.

An astounding stupidity on behalf of the government.

The brain drain to the Anglo Saxon countries, the US in particular, is astounding.

The country as a whole is absorbing an astounding three quarters of global excess savings.

Hidden within those astounding numbers, however, are some more hopeful figures.

Mesic's astounding victory speaks volumes about the current mood of the Croat electorate.

Nowadays, thousands of people rush to the same venue to hear astounding opera performances.

Fifteen to 20 percent of all pregnancies result in miscarriage, and I find this astounding.

Since 2012, the state has cut off the internet for citizens for an astounding 28 times.

The result was an astounding surge in business fixed investment in computers and other information technology hardware.

Indeed, an astounding 87 of Indians polled said that they did not think the election mattered to them.

One hopes that China will derive a new measure of respect and self confidence from these astounding Games.

Since then, astounding technological developments have contributed to revolutionary progress in physics, astronomy, cosmology, and the life sciences.

Just eight years later, NASA did just that with astounding benefits for science, technology, and the world economy.

My hometown of Boston recently managed to spend an astounding 15 billion dollars to move a few highways underground.

China s economy was growing at an astounding average annual rate of 10 or higher for more than three decades.

In the wake of the euro s performance during this year s global financial crisis, even its strongest critics cannot deny that the euro is an astounding success.

America is paying an astounding 51 billion per year to station 140,000 troops in the country, a staggering cost of around 360,000 per soldier per year.

More seriously, an astounding 89.2 of the IMF s General Resources Account is outstanding to European countries, with just three countries (Greece, Portugal, and Ireland) accounting for 68 .

For banks that have filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the sum stands at an astounding 2.2 trillion.

But in 2007, two remarkable individuals, Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and Jamie Thomson of the United States, made an astounding discovery.

He gave astounding orders to soldiers departing to suppress the Boxer Rebellion in China they should awaken fear as had the Huns of yore.

That was also true of credit default swaps, which became an instrument of speculation instead of insurance and reached an astounding 62 trillion in volume.

And it's something so astounding and so astonishing that I think maybe as I remove this cloth a suitable gasp of amazement might be appropriate.

In an election that affects 12 million people, though, it s nothing short of astounding that so few bloggers have engaged the document in a substantive way.

And the US financial sector, in greasing the wheels of the real economy, has been soaking up an astounding 30 of corporate profits and 10 of wages.

The other path traced an alternative course, with China remaining under the grip of its ruling party, but delivering prosperity to its impoverished masses through astounding and sustained growth.

And the worldwide Gini coefficient of inter country inequality fell from 0.653 to 0.556 from 1980 to 2007, owing largely to the astounding performance of the emerging countries, particularly China and India.

At the end of 2002 the official capitalization of China's stock market was 458 billion, making it the eighth largest in the world an apparently astounding achievement given where China was a decade ago.

It is astounding to think that the world mobilized immediately to push Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991, but has dithered for more than two years as tens of thousands of Syrians have been killed, and their country, a cradle of civilization, laid waste.

Friedman s voice was a skeptical breath of fresh air at a time when the reigning viewpoint was a kind of smug pseudo socialism that did not recognize the astounding power of markets to accomplish desirable aims.

Herein lies the technological problem to meet this goal, non carbon based sources of energy would have to be an astounding 2.5 times greater in 2100 than the level of total global energy consumption was in 2000.

And the US financial sector, in greasing the wheels of the real economy, has been soaking up an astounding 30 of corporate profits and 10 of wages. Thus, unlike in the 1930 s, the US faces a hypertrophied financial system.

Indeed, India is doing much more with its remarkable National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), which is the single largest mobilization of public health measures in the world. An astounding half million young woman have recently been hired as health workers to link impoverished households and public clinics and hospitals, which are being improved, and to increase women s access to emergency obstetrical care in order to avoid tragic and unnecessary deaths in childbirth.

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Whatever is, is.

Is it prey? Is it predator? Is it mate?

What it is is intelligence is defined by prediction.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.