Sentences with phrase «of enormous proportion»

By his own standards Lionel Messi is going through a crisis of enormous proportion (so says the Press).

The case made by Finkelstein appears unanswerable, and he deserves great credit for having the nerve to expose what appears to be a scandal of enormous proportions.

Anyone who employs the fruits of science to rail against it is a hypocrite of enormous proportions, or succinctly, a fucking hypocrite.

Before humans swept over the land down under, animals of enormous proportions were not uncommon.

In further work, they determined that the flood that broke the dam was of enormous proportions.

Darkest Hour is a film about the gritty bipartisan work it took from Churchill and those surrounding him, to make a decision of enormous proportions.

When over 80 % of our children can not read proficiently by the third grade, it is a travesty of enormous proportions, particularly when compared with the TAKS reading test results (even after a significant standard deviation adjustment), their comparison with national norm - referenced test scores, and the wide gap between scores of white and minority children.

In a release from the publisher, Hosseini says, «We are living in the midst of a displacement crisis of enormous proportions.

This would have been a trial for anyone, but as she was the owner of the Do - Or - Diner, it blossomed into a catas - trophe of enormous proportions.

Stretching through its heart is a hugely impressive Roman aqueduct of enormous proportions.

About the rest of the studio, on the floor and walls, are paintings in various stages of completion, many of enormous proportions.

'' For many people, scientific facts do not really speak loud and clear» is an understatement of enormous proportions.

I think it will take a mind revolution / evolution of enormous proportions for humankind to overcome this present impasse.

It would be a mistake of enormous proportions to think that patent trolls are and will remain exclusively a U.S. problem.

People living with HIV / AIDS are confronted with unique legal problems of enormous proportions and complexity;

Meanwhile, despite the rosy report on bitcoin, JPMorgan analysts also issued a wake - up call in the form of technical analysis, warning investors that the BTC price is headed for a drop of enormous proportions, to the $ 4,605 level from its current price of more than $ 8,700, reflecting a drop of almost 50 %.

There's a normal kitchen, too, of course, though it is still of enormous proportions, with room for a dining space and living space as well.

Not exact matches

Not sure of all the magnitudes but in the US and Europe off - balance sheet shadow banks reached enormous proportions.

Scott estimates that the proportion of Mexican citizens without even a concept of the nation has declined from 90 percent in 1910 to 25 percent in 1963.44 Inasmuch as the population nearly tripled during that period, the expansion of nationalistic sentiment has been enormous.

The range of individual differences in this respect is enormous; but whatever the mixture of yeses and noes may be, the person is infallibly aware when he has struck it in the right proportion for him.

This is an enormous and way - out - of - proportion reaction to something that quite honestly isn't that big of a deal.

It would have spared her from having to make up all the BS that caused her nose to enlarge to enormous proportions and to ultimately resemble the snout of a swine.

If you look globally things are different because for demographic reasons there will be an enormous increase in the proportion of Africans which will change the world's genetic balance for skin color and other genes; but within the developed world so far this has had little effect.»

I just have a nagging sense that form work has acquired enormous importance that is out of proportion to its value, when the real barrier for most beginning runners is still aerobic fitness.

In another yarn, set in the neighboring realm of Highhills, a foolish king (Toby Jones) ignores his bright and beautiful daughter, Violet (Bebe Cave), and nurtures an unhealthy attachment to his pet flea, which soon swells to enormous proportions.

In an article for Open Access Government, Wyn Griffiths, Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University, explains that 3D printing «holds enormous potential not just in the STEM industries, but in schools as well... In short, it's a game - changer of massive proportions that can give excellent benefits to both teaching and learning».

The «My Goodness» is our response to the enormous increase in the proportion of babies who are born out of wedlock or are illegitimate, terms one uses with embarrassment now but which may still have had some currency in 1965.

Looking ahead to 2015, the U.S. proportion of the global talent pool will shrink even further as China and India, with their enormous populations, rapidly expand their secondary and higher education systems (see fig. 2).

Each of its locations realizes enormous areas of wilderness packed with monsters of awe - inspiring proportions.

While falling to this state may have been a mistake and mismanagement of epic proportions, here and today exists an enormous opportunity to both catch up and take our industry well into the future while providing a platform for existing and future generations of real estate professionals to thrive.