"I can think of few budget directors in recent history who would have made such astounding statements."

This was an astounding statement, especially in the light of frequent exposes in the media about errant judges across the country.

His grin widened at her reaction to that astounding statement.

This prompted the judge to exclaim, "that's a pretty astounding statement" that could get Mr. Headley disbarred.

I thought that myself," was her next astounding statement, "but I wanted some one else's opinion to bolster mine up.

Jim Tucker recognizes that this may seem to be an "astounding statement," that "memories, emotions and physical injuries can sometimes carry over from one life to the next".

I was sitting in lotus, facing him, when he made this astounding statement.

Yesterday, he came to me with the astounding statement that he could not proceed unless allowed to consider an unknown person as a definite entity.

As the chapter develops, however, Thoreau repudiates the physical life with the astounding statement, in "Walden" of all books: "Nature is hard to be overcome but she must be overcome."