The phrase
"pandemic proportions" means that something has become very widespread, affecting a large number of people or areas on a global scale, similar to the way a pandemic spreads and impacts various regions.
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Sadly, this is not the norm for our community, and as a result, financial illiteracy has reached
pandemic proportions in this country.
Although the last Ebola outbreak was far
from pandemic proportions (a global disease outbreak), the panic - level reactions in the western media to this currently West - African based epidemic gave many the impression that we were facing a crisis on the level of Spanish flu.
At times taking stabs at the ineffectiveness and greed of the pharmaceutical industry and making light of very real think tanks who believe in the superiority of some individuals over others, the book is a fast - paced thrill ride
of pandemic proportions.
The misleading thing about citing — make that nitpicking — precedent these last few years is that, even a decade ago, precursor season hadn't quite
reached pandemic proportions.
Pushing yourself to
pandemic proportions is much harder than you might think, which is precisely the point.
This worrisome strain of influenza has the potential to reach
pandemic proportions, but luckily it's not there yet.
New research shows that the number of people with Parkinson's disease will soon grow to
pandemic proportions.
Either Modern Warfare-itis has now reached
pandemic proportions or studios are really falling down when it comes to sticking to their development plans.
Despite its widespread and devastating consequences to art and framing merchants and to consumers, the problem has gone mostly unnoticed and almost completely ignored, and it has grown to
pandemic proportions.
He states that, «to draw, to paint, to etch, employing centuries - old materials and techniques in a computerized, scanned and digitally printed twenty - first century, where ADD and instant gratification have reached
pandemic proportions, exerts an irresistible attraction.»
Australia has been warned by the Australian Crime Commission its methamphetamine problem is reaching
pandemic proportions — with overdose deaths from ice now second only to heroin — and in an interview with 3AW, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that the «war on drugs» was looking unwinnable.