Sentences with phrase «mega-convention of staggering proportions»

Cosmic rays are sometimes so energetic, they must be born in cosmic accelerators fueled by cataclysms of staggering proportions.

The study's lead author John Carpenter, Professor of Social Work and Applied Social Science at the University of Bristol, said: «Child sexual abuse is an international problem of staggering proportions.

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV - 1), the cause of human acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is a zoonotic infection of staggering proportions and social impact.

What makes it our favorite movie in an exceptional year for them is the way that Lonergan, the playwright - turned - filmmaker behind Margaret and You Can Count On Me, manages to ground a family tragedy of staggering proportions in the quotidian crap of everyday life.

Drawing extensively on many new sources, including the massive, classified French police file on Dr. Petiot, Death in the City of Light is a brilliant evocation of Nazi - Occupied Paris and a harrowing exploration of murder, betrayal, and evil of staggering proportions.

Mr. Prechter is convinced we have entered a market decline of staggering proportions - perhaps the biggest of the last 300 years.

To say that Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford is extremely proud of Aliens: Colonial Marines would be an understatement of staggering proportions.

2K Marin's proposed FPS reboot lead to a backlash of staggering proportions (which might not have been entirely justified, frankly), but the demand for a strategic reboot spurred Firaxis into action, who were dead set on creating a return to form that lived up to the series» momentous legacy without compromise.

The work employs a mix of theatrical genres ranging from the slide lecture, the fashion show, the sculptural display, and the live musical act as a means to illustrate the fictional parallel world of the San San International, a «hallucinatory mega-convention of staggering proportions».

For his third exhibition with Marlborough, London, Jason Brooks (b1968) has put together a three - part show of staggering proportions.

It was a surprising decision of staggering proportions, with repercussions that go far beyond the U.S. electrical grid, threatening the credibility of the Paris Agreement on climate change reached by the world's nations in December.

Electronic waste is a global problem, and if you look at the statistics, it's a problem of staggering proportions.

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Only 13 percent of those using illegal drugs are African - American (exactly their proportion in the national population), but they constitute 35 percent of those arrested for simple possession and a staggering 74 percent of those sentenced for drug possession..

We've had staggering scandals of historic proportions.

I find the proportion of meat suggested in some versions of the Paleo diet staggering.

What started as a small anecdote in the online dating arena grew to staggering proportions in just a few years and matured to be one of the biggest, most active communities on the net.

A staggering proportion of kittens succumb to fading kitten syndrome before they reach nine weeks of age.

«The product and distribution capabilities of anixe will grow iWTX's hotel inventory to exponential proportions, with our combined offering amounting to a staggering half a million unique hotels.»

The basic shape may be a marvelous imagining or perhaps a grain of rice blown - up to staggering proportions.

The Methodological Level: disputes over the rules to settle factual disputes a) are in effect «rules of evidence» b) serve as a kind of «science court» in which a «verdict» on factual disputes is resolved by appeal to «evidence» c) this reflects the empiricist's commitment to the «Leibnizean ideal» d) explains how a «staggering proportion» of disputes are in fact resolved e) however, occasional disputes over the methodological rules arise 3.