Sentences with phrase «global proportions»

Global warming and obesity are problems of global proportions.

First recognized in 1978, two years later, it spread in global proportion.

We really sort of stumbled onto a problem of global proportions.

The need for safe and efficient technologies for detecting buried landmines and unexploded ordnance is a humanitarian issue of immense global proportions.

Though arsenic contamination is deemed a health risk of global proportions by the World Health Organization, the magnitude of that risk is poorly known in many parts of the world.

Expand your network to truly global proportions.

Manchester United long - serving winger Antonio Valencia was clocked at impressive 35.20 km / h, which at 31 years of age still makes him the fastest player in his club and a speed to be reckoned with in global proportions.

Economism is now leading to both social and ecological catastrophes of global proportions.

We are moving toward a crisis of global proportions, and our mechanistic vision deters us from taking the drastic steps needed to change direction.

It's a gathering of global proportions!

Atmospheric contamination due to heavy metals is currently a severe problem of global proportions, with important repercussions in public health.

«It was an event of global proportions,» says Liz Truswell, a paleontologist at the Australian National University in Canberra who specializes in pollen studies.

The scale of bleaching has been rising steadily in the last four decades, a study author tells Carbon Brief, with the global proportion of coral being hit by bleaching per year rising from 8 % in the 1980s to 31 % in 2016.

«Sin City,» the home of the famous Las Vegas Strip, flashy hotels, high - rolling casinos and world - famous celebrities, becomes the setting for a terrorist threat of global proportions.

XTrade is one of the Cypriot brokers who managed to rise to global proportions in their year - long career, and they made a name in the industry which stands for safe trading, professionalism, and technological advancement.

The effects, on a global proportion, are leading to a decline in certain species of very colorful fish.

As a newly graduated Strategist, you find yourself involved in a plot of global proportions.

Zajac was ahead of his time, combining formal approaches of contemporary art - making with challenging and conceptual abstract concepts of global proportion.

Extreme events are, indeed, teachable moments: «wake - up calls» that an environmental crisis of global proportions is imminent — much more so than the subtle and sometimes ambiguous early warning signs of global warming might lead us to believe.

«Delaying real action until 2020 is a crime of global proportions,» said Nnimmo Bassey, Chair of Friends of the Earth International.

Plastic objects that we use once and discard, or single - use plastics, are a growing critical problem of global proportion.

There is tentative evidence that the saturation level will differ across the tropical cyclone basins and that the global proportion of Cat 4 — 5 hurricanes may already be near it's saturation level of ~ 40 — 50 %.»

The facts that a) we use in one year an amount of fossil fuel that took a million years to accumulate, b) we may be on the verge of a climate change catastrophe of global proportions and c) powerful technologies may soon fall into the hands of disturbed individuals with minds riven with those twin cancers of nationalism and religious fanaticism, seem to concern the scientific community a lot more than they do politicians or the media.