The Turkish music startles me.

Your kindness overwhelms me.

His extensive knowledge surprises me.

His irresponsibility astounds me.

Tom amazes me at times.

Polio strikes the poorest communities in the world.

The contrast with the US is striking.

The professional stylists are amazing!

And it amazes me that it is so easy to disguise the obvious, the rawness of what we re going through.

The impact in the media was also quite impressive.

But what strikes me most about China s economy is how remarkable it is.

American foreign policy is brain dead.

In fact, the distribution of poverty in the world is amazing.

The diversity of flowers in this area is astounding.

Cancer affects many different organs and tissues in the body.

There's a just unbelievable diversity.

For those who know Russia, this is a staggering turn of events.

For example, HIV infects a limited range of human leucocytes.

Private oversight can often produce better and more efficient construction, and, in theory, toll roads help alleviate traffic congestion.

So, too, does private sector involvement.

Nigeria s role in providing a safe haven for Taylor is peculiar.

Alzheimer's disease affects mainly people older than 60 years.

So mesothelioma is now affecting younger people not in the typical professions.

What amazes me is the public s blasé acceptance of the salaries of sports stars, compared to its low regard for superstars in business and finance.

What excites Bar Zeev the most is the opportunity for water diplomacy.

The amount of cables addressed to the former Foreign Minister Saud Al Faisal is huge.

I am often struck by the way many Europeans use arms length euphemisms when talking about immigrants they want immigrants to feel welcome or comfortable.

'Your picture has progressed very much since I last saw it, and now, as then, I am specially struck by the figure of Pilate.

I teach writing workshops in Lagos every summer, and it is amazing to me how many people apply, how many people are eager to write, to tell stories.

What strikes me the most is that she sees, even then, the beginnings of the tribal conflicts and the coming contest among Islamists to outdo one another in fundamentalist purity.

I don't know what amazes me more, that scoundrel talking about human rights in a country like Lebanon or the incredible courage of those women Dictatorship

And a testament to this is the thing that most amazes me, most impresses me, and most uplifts me, which is that there is a moral dimension to history there is a moral arrow. We have seen moral progress over time.

Glancing through the program priorities of major international organizations, the low priority of pollution is startling, given its impact.

It is astonishing that sub prime mortgages and their like were repackaged and resold in securitized form.

Given that the combined equity capital stock of all US financial institutions is roughly 1.2 trillion dollars, this is a breathtaking sum.

The current technological revolution, by contrast, hits economies like a tsunami, with little warning and inexorable force.

What is most striking is the discovery of niggling little rules, outlined in CIA manuals and co opted by the government s legal executives.

According to the International Society of Nephrology, kidney disease affects more than 500 million people worldwide, or 10 of the adult population.

The interior dazzles in terms of scale and solemnity the arcades of domes and arches rest on square columns and are lit by sunlight streaming through miniature windows.

Throughout rural China, the spread of infectious diseases particularly hepatitis B, which affects millions reflects a lack of hygiene education.

The guiding principle of public health is to prevent disease before it strikes, and this requires long term investment in institutions that can protect us.

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.

The world revolves around me. Me, me, me, me, me. My favorite person me.

But it strikes me that the biggest problems we face, many of the biggest disasters that we've experienced, mostly haven't come from individuals, they've come from organizations, some of them bigger than countries, many of them capable of affecting hundreds, thousands, even millions of lives.

In developed countries, breast cancer affects about one in ten women, and in many of these countries the disease is on the increase.