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Striking in sentence

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I want you to see a few that are particularly striking.
Now the striking thing about this is that psychologists have known this for 30 years.
And what was so striking about that time was, instead of repulsing people, I was actually proving to be a magnet for people.
The other thing that was so striking was the sheer number of volunteers.
Gowers is also a blogger, and in January of 2009, he used his blog to pose a very striking question: Is massively collaborative mathematics possible?
And as we treated these cells with this molecule, we observed something really striking.
One of the most striking things I remember were the rosebushes, forgotten and running wild over tumbled-down fences, no longer cared for by anyone.
They go through this very striking motion that is focused on these little red spots.
And you know what the most striking result was?
This is our earth at night, and it is one of the most striking examples of how we have affected our planet on a global scale.
I'll conclude with a striking implication of all these ideas for the very far future.
Where the legal environment allows for harm reduction the results are striking.
This change over time is striking to me, because it reminds us that the interpretation of the Second Amendment and cultural attitudes about guns have changed over time.
And I can tell you all the details about the microbial study that we did there, but the reason I want to tell you this story is something really striking that they did at the beginning of this project.
But what was striking to me over the last several years was that less and less was I going out into the world, and more and more, I was sitting in front of my computer screen.
And what was even more striking to me, and what I really got hung up on, was that the world inside the screen seemed to have no physical reality of its own.
Or to take an even more striking example, when the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations did a survey of Americans, asking them to guess what percentage of the federal budget went to foreign aid, the guess was 30 percent, which is slightly in excess of the actual level — ("actually about ... 1%") (Laughter) — of U.S. governmental commitments to federal aid.
Here, what was really striking is that these undergraduates that actually report engaging in a lot of high multimedia-tasking are convinced they aced the test.
Henry David Thoreau: "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
We're able to drive down area 25, down to a more normal level, and we're able to turn back online the frontal lobes of the brain, and indeed we're seeing very striking results in these patients with severe depression.
Striking a moving ball is a necessary skill in many sports.
One striking recent case that we've investigated is how the government in the Democratic Republic of Congo sold off a series of valuable, state-owned mining assets to shell companies in the British Virgin Islands.
This shift is the most striking in the U.S. and in the U.K., but it's a global phenomenon.
But what's even more striking is what's happening at the very tippy top of the income distribution.
So let me give you a few striking examples of this.
Since the time of Homer, ancient stories told of fierce warriors dwelling beyond the Mediterranean world, striking fear into the mightiest empires of antiquity.
PM: I think that one of the most striking parts about the book, and in my opinion, one of the reasons it's hit such a nerve and is resonating around the world, is that you are personal in the book, and that you do make it clear that, while you've observed some things that are very important for other women to know, that you've had the same challenges that many others of us have, as you faced the hurdles and the barriers and possibly the people who don't believe the same.
It's so striking.
And when you look at those concordance ratios, one of the striking things that you will see is that in identical twins, that concordance rate is 77 percent.
What is striking about this is that there's actually often quite a lot of overlap between their list and the list that we are considering for words of the year, and this is because we're noticing the same thing.
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