" Sports Illustrated considered the activity a sport in 1987, describing the Drum Corps International World Championships “ one of the biggest sporting events of the summer .” In the same article, Sports Illustrated quoted basketball coach Bobby Knight, " If a basketball team trained as hard as these kids do, it would be unbelievable.

In contrast to the fancifully poetic language devoted to fantastic and supernatural events about unbelievable creatures and chivalric knights, the realistic prose of Lazarillo described suppliants purchasing indulgences from the Church, servants forced to die with their masters on the battlefield ( as Lazarillo's father did ), thousands of refugees wandering from town to town, poor beggars flogged away by whips because of the lack of food.

Edward Armstrong, the team manager of the intake duty team, said that he completed a duty manager's action sheet not for the 18 June referral, which he said never arrived in his office, but for the 21 June referral, which was a less serious case than the first ; Laming called this version of events " wholly unbelievable ".

As the final event steeplechase approached Jacks had a small lead, but was out of events ; though he was a talented all-round athlete and unbelievable competitor, Jacks did not enjoy the running events, and rarely participated in them.

Although reconciled with C J Mahaney in 2011, he earlier described the parting of ways with Sovereign Grace Ministries as " an unbelievable nightmare " during which his family " were threatened in various ways if did not cooperate with ... A letter was circulated in an attempt to discredit me and to distort the events surrounding my departure.

For its part, Patricia Iezzi, who made his PhD thesis on " Poetics and Poetry of Julio Carreras ( h ) for the Facoltà ' di Lingue e Letterature Straniera-University of Pescara, Italy, says :" One of the stories arouses more wonder is the " Black Hand Chusa " irony, exhibitionism, boastfulness eccentricity and decorate to this character with the withered hand, Uta, who had been in the Salamanca and must address a series of surreal events and unbelievable situations.

English word for a long story, often with incredible or unbelievable events.

Just unbelievable, those 5 years I've spent there alongside Sasha were just great, great time of my life, and the crowd that made those nights so special.

The unbelievable play resulted in a last-minute Titans win that kept them alive in the 1999-2000 NFL Playoffs and eventually led the team to Super Bowl XXXIV.

In footage captured by an idle studio camera and later released to the public, Bottalico can be seen saying " that's winning the game, that's winning the damn game " and Barkann throwing his hands in the air and yelling " this team is incredible, this team is unbelievable!

“ Even though I was always one of the smallest kids on my hockey team growing up, I never stopped dreaming about playing in the NHL, so having the ability to live out that dream was unbelievable.

Lucas claims, however, that " The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable.

The London Pavilion now houses Ripley's Believe It or Not !, a visitor attraction dedicated to the weird, the unusual and the unbelievable, which opened in August 2008.

Wooden dialogue, unbelievable situations or boring sections of the film which have not been addressed during the script development process are often writ large in the read-through, and may now come under intense scrutiny.

One notable account of marathon dancing comes from the early chapters of Anita O ' Day's memoir, High Times Hard Times: " It seems unbelievable now but there were once fifteen thousand people -- promoters, emcees, floor judges, trainers, nurses, cooks, janitors, cashiers, ticket-takers, publicity agents, promotion men, musicians, contestants and even a lawyer -- whose main source of income over a number of years came from endurance shows.

Beechcroft pretends to dismiss the book as " totally unbelievable ", yet he knows he's learned his lesson.

Later they moved to Le Vésinet where they sat out the two months of the Commune, within hearing distance of the gunfire that resounded as government troops gradually crushed the uprising: " The cannons are rumbling with unbelievable violence ", Bizet wrote to his mother-in-law on 12 May.

In some countries you ’ ll always have the press saying it ’ s going down and writing it off, but somewhere else the interest level is soaring and people are discovering this music for the first time, like in South America, where it ’ s completely kicking off – it ’ s unbelievable down there.

On June 13, 2009, New York Yankees reliever Brian Bruney criticized Rodríguez, calling his antics on the mound " unbelievable " and saying that Rodriguez has " got a tired act ," after seeing his reaction to earning a blown save in 2009 against the Yankees where teammate Luis Castillo dropped a pop-up with two outs in the ninth inning allowing the Yankees to score the winning run.

Said Smith of his new job: " Knowing that I'll be working in the same office where one of my mentors, Bill Torrey, created a dynasty is an unbelievable feeling.

Or it may be used to refer to a ruse where a person is led to believe something is true that is not ( usually a fairly unbelievable story ) for the purpose of ridicule of the subject.

If the early 1990s popularity of NG La Banda and Charanga Habanera was unprecedented, the response to the arrival of the next superstar group bordered on the unbelievable: the Cuban equivalent of Beatlemania.

The next part picks up with an unnamed " Author " character discovering the dazed Reverend Cook returned from unbelievable exploits after having been missing for three weeks.

Now, to add to the already unbelievable extremes found in one nation, we have the two new states of Hawaii and Alaska.

It's still unbelievable that it was murder.

Little by little, during the week, Chris and I discovered the crazy unbelievable way Nadine and Wally had lived.

The most unbelievable thing about the chance meeting was that he seemed interested in me, too.

Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it.

A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual.

Its unbelievable that Cambodia did not hit recession in 2009 GFC, with a weak growth rate of 0. 1 % and strongly recovered in 2010 with a 6 % growth rate.

Most critics felt that the screenplay was poorly written, not funny, and the dramatic material was unconvincing and unbelievable.

Roger Ebert, who gave the film a mere one star in the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote :" The filmmakers must have known that the original Godzilla ( 1956 ) had many loyal fans all over the world who treasured the absurd dialogue, the bad lip-synching, the unbelievable special effects, the phony profundity.

Although the step pyramid for King Zoser of the 3rd Dynasty was important for the reason that it had exemplified unbelievable skill and the introduction of building with stone, it was also very symbolic.

Ehrlich was wrong about higher natural resource prices, about " famines of unbelievable proportions " occurring by 1975, about " hundreds of millions of people starving to death " in the 1970s and ' 80s, about the world " entering a genuine age of scarcity.

According to Willy Ley, " von Stein worded his report with utmost caution ," knowing it might be seen as unbelievable.

: Millions of words have been written about these horror camps, many of them by inmates of those unbelievable places.

The Guardian reported that " some of his trial times were almost unbelievable ," and Nurmi went on to train at the Olympic Village in Los Angeles despite his injury.

Secularism is a code of duty pertaining to this life, founded on considerations purely human, and intended mainly for those who find theology indefinite or inadequate, unreliable or unbelievable.

We practiced the play so much it was unbelievable we could fumble it.

Clinton apparently considered General Petraeus ' reports on Iraq to be unbelievable or not factual, and used the phrase " suspension of disbelief " loosely, in this case, implying such to be a requirement to accept his statements.

One of his best performances was the 1963 FA Centenary match, when he appeared in the ‘ Rest of the World XI ’ against England at Wembley Stadium and made a number of breathtaking and almost unbelievable saves.

Author Allen Barra pointed out that this sequence is unbelievable.

With an unbelievable number of political entities and institutions piled up on a small territory of 30, 500 square kilometers, Belgium holds the European record of the most costly political system: no less than 57 ministers and state secretaries spread across six different governments, which are surrounded by seven parliaments and a dozen provincial governments.

In Gotti's defense Cutler called bank robber Matthew Traynor, a would-be prosecution witness dropped for unreliability, who testified that Giacalone offered him drugs and her panties as a masturbation aid in exchange for his testimony ; Traynor's allegations would be dismissed by Judge Nickerson as " wholly unbelievable " after the trial, and he was subsequently convicted of perjury.