Its economic growth has been and is truly astounding.

Maketh he the gods One God ? Verily that is a thing astounding !

Has he made the gods one single God ? This is truly astounding .

Maketh he the gods One Allah ? Lo ! that is an astounding thing .

Maketh he the gods One God ? Verily that is a thing astounding !

Has he made the gods one single God ? This is truly astounding .

Maketh he the gods One Allah ? Lo ! that is an astounding thing .

An astounding 60 said that they do not. Hopeless people do not vote.

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

Singles are more likely to be men but female celibacy is still high, reaching an astounding 33.3 .

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

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

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

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.

Prohibition hikes the mark up on prices an astounding 15,000 in the case of cocaine traveling to Europe from Andean processing facilities.

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

But universally, these people that had been through this had astounding attitudes, and just the fact that people care makes a huge difference to them.

The Federal government has thrown fiscal prudence out the window. The country as a whole is absorbing an astounding three quarters of global excess savings.

The astounding difficulty of everyday survival following the USSR s collapse trapped most Russians into focusing on their families most urgent needs. Civic apathy set in.

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.

The cynicism is astounding, to the point of proclaiming transparent lies, such as that they do not torture, but only use innovative information gathering methods.

So, to find strong evidence of liquid, pools of liquid, beneath the surface of a moon 750 million miles away from the Earth is really quite astounding.

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.

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 .

Our Lingua project, where people from around the world volunteer to translate Global Voices content into different languages, has experienced astounding growth since it began 3 years ago.

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.

The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell, Jr.'s Islands of Space in Astounding Science Fiction .

Back then, China bought US Treasury bonds to keep the currency from rising and eroding the competitiveness of Chinese exporters. As a result, it accumulated an astounding 4 trillion of foreign reserves.

About 30 of the Kremlin elite used to work with the secret services or still do, and an astounding 80 are associated with either the Russian or Soviet era military industrial complex.

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.

Indeed, this is what explains some of the most astounding turnarounds in economic performance in recent decades, such as South Korea s and China s breakout growth (in the 1960 s and the late 1970 s, respectively).

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.

In economic terms, the cost of poor health at the outset of the twentieth century was an astounding 32 of global GDP. Today, it is down to about 11 , and by 2050 it will be half that.

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.

It is astounding to think that people still speak of the barbarism and savagery of cultures who possessed the refinement and skill needed to turn gold into art, as evidenced by the collection in the Museo del Oro.

NEW DELHI India has stood out around the world for being one of the few countries indifferent to America s presidential election. Indeed, an astounding 87 of Indians polled said that they did not think the election mattered to them.

Because if somebody could find a way to restore that natural ability that we all enjoyed for most of our existence, up until the 1970s or so, the benefits, social and physical and political and mental, could be astounding.

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 . The IMF s resources are neither adequate nor available to respond to a crisis elsewhere.

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.

Senator Barack Obama's astounding success in Iowa the first of the caucuses that will ultimately result in the victorious nominee from each of the two main political parties going on to contest the 2008 US presidential election has struck a chord with many Caribbean bloggers.

Basically, the model showed that if we could get free trade, and especially cut subsidies in the U.S. and Europe, we could basically enliven the global economy to an astounding number of about 2,400 billion dollars a year, half of which would accrue to the Third World.

Over the last three years, China s P2P lending sector has been growing annually at an astounding average rate of 245 , with its total value reaching CN 253 billion last year. China now has more than 2,000 registered active P2P loan platforms, up from just 50 four years ago.

And she's still talking while she puts the car in park, hits the emergency brake, opens the door, and with a spryness astounding in a woman her age, she jumps out of the car, knocks out the phone books, and then she walks around she's carrying her cheap Kmart purse with her around the front of the car.