It was astounding.

So, this is an astounding table.

I mean, astounding no one has this.

And it was astounding how positive they are.

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

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 Allah? Lo! that is an astounding thing.

Through this very simple process, we can create an astounding variety of forms.

I'll give you some astounding things that have happened as we started this.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

My hometown of Boston recently managed to spend an astounding 15 billion dollars to move a few highways underground. And that so called Big Dig looks like a model of efficiency next to many of Japan s infamous bridges to nowhere.

PASADENA Almost a century ago, the first galaxy beyond our own was discovered, and within a decade the theory that the universe is expanding was first proposed. Since then, astounding technological developments have contributed to revolutionary progress in physics, astronomy, cosmology, and the life sciences.

Yet it has become a reality of daily life for almost 320 million people in 15 European countries. 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.

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.

One hopes that China will derive a new measure of respect and self confidence from these astounding Games. But one also hopes that China s successes will enable its leaders to feel strong enough to begin looking honestly at China s recent past in a more critical way.

But that book s potency originally derived from its fierce independence from contemporary orthodoxies. 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.

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.

But that book s potency originally derived from its fierce independence from contemporary orthodoxies. 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.

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). In both cases, the biggest winners were vested interests (Korea s business establishment and the Chinese Communist Party).

Prohibition hikes the mark up on prices an astounding 15,000 in the case of cocaine traveling to Europe from Andean processing facilities. While the war on drugs focuses on bringing down cartels and their kingpins, it perversely aids the health of their markets, which nestle within legitimate trade flows and respond to price incentives.

For banks that have filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the sum stands at an astounding 2.2 trillion. Extrapolating over the coming decade, the numbers would approach 5 trillion, an amount vastly larger than what both President Barack Obama s administration and his Republican opponents seem willing to cut from further government deficits.

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.

For all the world s pious proclamations about never again, a mantra arising from the Holocaust, mass murder almost never motivates foreign intervention. 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.

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.