Sentences with phrase «unprecedented proportions»

One was for an earthquake followed by a great tsunami, the other for an industrial accident of unprecedented proportions triggered by a forest fire.

It would create a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented proportions.

Union touts plan proposed by Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi and homeless advocates as best way forward at a time when homelessness reaches unprecedented proportions in city and state

But it's very much worth keeping in mind that even if that turns out to be the case, and the leak stops today, this is still a disaster of unprecedented proportions for the United States.

I am not an expert in energy economics or pipelines but there is one thing I want to quibble with here and that is that the federal government may be about to embark on a mistake of unprecedented proportions.

Throughout history, each subsequent stock market correction has been characterised by an innovation which has been unique to that period; either it was new, or its adoption was at a level of unprecedented proportion.

Gunton concludes: «By evaluating each project separately without assessing the overall supply and demand for oil transportation, the NEB and the Canadian government may have created the conditions for a costly mistake of unprecedented proportions.

A cosmic interpretation of revelation is important today not only because of our need to address the question of purpose in the universe, but also because our globe is now threatened by an environmental crisis of unprecedented proportions.

And the race between population and food supply is only one among many warnings that the human race may be courting ecological disaster of unprecedented proportions.

If the Divine Mercy focusses an aspect of the Sacred Heart devotion for an age in which sin has spread to unprecedented proportions, there may be another aspect that is yet more salutary.

Simple enough in theory; in practice, an organisational nightmare of unprecedented proportions.

The disparity between widespread adolescent sexual activity and the blinders worn by most parents and adults has created a generation gap of unprecedented proportions.

«With over 5,000 post offices in danger of closing according to Postcomm's figures, we now have a crisis of unprecedented proportions.

A profound failure of unprecedented proportions.

The Turbine Hall has become a tourist attraction of unprecedented proportions, filled year after year with a humongous site - specific work by Ai Weiwei, Olafur Eliasson, Rachel Whiteread, or some other international art star.

What we potentially face is a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented proportion.»

The British constitution is on the verge of a transformation of historic and unprecedented proportions, but if we focus on the world of pension schemes, what can we foresee?

Anyone who engages with the bitcoin community online has probably witnessed several months of Twitter feuds and Reddit arguments ballooning to unprecedented proportions.