It is this clash between the lived experience of the human race and the values of modern radicals that made the Baby M case of 1987 such a national sensation. (religion-online.org)
The marchers, numbering twenty thousand by the time they reached D.C., became a national sensation, and Cox's Army had received a hero's welcome in town after town on their way to the nation's capital. (firstthings.com)
h. Beernerdness: It is a national sensation, Allagash White (Allagash Brewing, Portland, Maine). (si.com)