Sentences with phrase «shocking scale of it»

Today — as Work and Pensions Secretary and Home Secretary — we publish a devastating analysis which lays bare the shocking scale of Labour's failure.

The news follows a report published by the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee in September exposing «the shocking scale of sexual harassment and sexual violence» in schools, and recommending that «PSHE and SRE are made statutory subjects» to address the problem.

Either Guy Verhofstadt's book De Verenigde Staten Van Europa which won the first Europe Book Prize four years ago (in English, The United States of Europe), or Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah which won this year's prize, because it describes from the inside the spreading of cross-border organised crime about which we are doing much too little because the shocking scale of it is kept hidden.

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He has since staged the US$ 110 - million production of Le Rêve at the Wynn Las Vegas Resort, which initially shocked audiences with faux - pregnant women falling into water tanks, but has been scaled back into what is considered a magnificent Vegas spectacle.

For many women, the sheer scale of sexual harassment this reveals isn't all that surprising — it's more shocking that's it's finally coming to light, frankly — but at least some people have expressed bafflement along with their disgust.

The effect of shock dynamics on compressibility of ignition - scale National Ignition Facility implosions

Given the above, it is reasonable to argue that even a small scale volatility shock would likely induce heightened market reaction, even if the event merely reverses some of the term premium compression in the sovereign bond markets.

In fact, it only works provided the returns on the capital which is creating value and added value, the bases of distribution and transfer of wealth towards the creditors of production, has been achieved on a grand enough scale and without shocks or interruptions in the flow of wealth.

Suffering, especially on a large scale, is always shocking, of course, but natural disasters have happened before and individual tragedies can affect families and just as deeply.

I know that I am right at the highly optimistic end of the scale of Arsenal fans and I know that the team's hopes of making it to a first Champions League quarter - final in four years are hanging by a thread by the shocking performance against Monaco at the Emirates in the first leg.

It's not clear whether Baltimore's results apply to the national population, but it's shocking that impacts of this scale exist anywhere.

Mr Salmond will now begin an historic second term as first minister and has himself expressed shock at the scale of the victory.

«I was quite shocked by the scale of sheer need on the ground,» says Victoria.

In government I was shocked by the scale of MI5's secret database.

«Either there has been a wide scale conspiracy to cover up the fact that Blair did in fact know and that all sorts of officers have been giving misinformation to this inquiry, or that there's just an absolutely shocking lack of command that so many people could conspire or failure to inform him.»

The scale and shocking manner of the defeat is what has prompted the national executive of the party to put in place the Kwesi Botchwey committee to investigate and find out from members and all interested parties the causes and reasons why we lost the election the way we did.»

Staff were shocked at the scale of the announcement, which will see offices in Peterborough, Portsmouth, Croydon, Stevenage, and Tunbridge Wells close.

He debuted his hard - bop style on the seminal 1959 record, Kind of Blue, shocking audiences around the world with songs like «So What» and «Blue and Green» that heavily incorporated Dorian scales to create a unique sound that would soon - after eclipse be-bop altogether.

«Miles debuted his hard - bop style on the seminal 1959 record, Kind of Blue, shocking audiences around the world with songs like «So What» and «Blue and Green» that heavily incorporated Dorian scales to create a unique sound that would quickly eclipse be-bop altogether.»

A computer screen, she explains, will warn me which shock I am to receive — a green screen for a mild zip and a red one for a blast I've ranked on a pain scale as six out of 10.

According to Manning, this research not only alters the perception of climatic changes on various scales, from short - term shocks to slower - moving, long - term changes, but it is also revolutionizing the understanding of human societies and how the forces of nature shaped them in the past.

Prior to the game Garry Kasparov told New Scientist that Go's clock was ticking, but the scale of the defeat nevertheless came as a shock, not least to Sedol.

«This new ability to explore matter at atomic scale pressures, where extrapolations of earlier shock and static data become unreliable, provides new constraints for dense matter theories and planet evolution models,» said Rip Collins, another Lawrence Livermore physicist on the team.

This feature and the association with an iron meteorite impactor and shock metamorphism provides a unique picture of small - scale hypervelocity impacts on Earth's crust.

The study, performed by researchers in Europe and involving detailed computer simulations, shows that large - scale metamaterials can attenuate the energy and amplitude of harmful low - frequency vibrations associated with seismic shocks.

In much previous work, scientists had simulated the effects of large - scale shocks resulting from colliding asteroids or from asteroids colliding with Earth.

A cosmic phenomenon on a colossal scale, resulting from the acceleration of a gas cloud by a black hole and its reacceleration by the shock waves from the merging of two galaxy clusters, has been observed, described and interpreted by an international collaboration of astronomers that included three Brazilians: Felipe Andrade - Santos, Vinicius Moris Placco, and Rafael Miloni Santucci.

«With the new MMS spacecraft we can, for the first time, resolve the structure of the bow shock at these small scales,» says Andreas Johlander, PhD student at IRF, who led the study.

The massive scale of the iceberg gives scientists a wide latitude to monitor how species and ocean currents respond to a strong shock to a system after eons of stability.

Examples of science projects enabled by the data in the High - Latitude Survey include: mapping the formation of cosmic structure in the first billion years after the Big Bang via the detection and characterization of over 10,000 galaxies at z > 8; finding over 2,000 QSOs at z > 7; quantifying the distribution of dark matter on intermediate and large scales through lensing in clusters and in the field; identifying the most extreme star - forming galaxies and shock - dominated systems at 1 < z < 2; carrying out a complete census of star - forming galaxies and the faint end of the QSO luminosity function at z ~ 2, including their contribution to the ionizing radiation; and determining the kinematics of stellar streams in the Local Group through proper motions.

From the line profiles alone, it is clear that the bulk of emission arises from shocks, both on small (< 1000 AU) and large scales along the outflow cavity walls (~ 10 000 AU).

I guess the point is that the scale can play tricks on you — when I started this at 435 lbs, couldnt move without pain, couldnt walk two minutes without being out of breath - it wasnt easy — my body was in such shock from eating clean that when I ate anything with medium - high sodium I would gain 8 lbs in three hours afterwards — mathmatically impossible... But the end result is I had full blown diabetes, poor good and bad cholesterol, and electrolytes — In 8 weeks all of those things turned around, including the diabetes being gone.

Oh no, wait, this show isn't about the band Queen, - as shocking as that is to hear, considering how black of a band Queen is - this is yet another epic - scale testament to Alex Haley's never getting around to shutting up about his heritage.

While we're no stranger to the idea of shock deaths in movies and TV series — our favorite characters being killed off gives fans something to talk about — the sheer scale of what happens at the end of Infinity War, and the Russo brothers decision to leave the ball in Thanos» court, is unprecedented when it comes to a film franchise of this scale.

It should not come as too much of a shock when the pod bursts and a giant monster crawls out, and the humans are suddenly faced with a danger on a scale that can not be ease to reconcile.

And not only is it not in the Razzie conversation but it actually achieved a reasonably large scale commercial release (shocking), where it made a surprising amount of money (more shocking), and scored well with both critics and audiences (most shocking).

Sideshow has revealed Pop Culture Shock's line of Mortal Kombat 1 / 4th scale figures which includes Sub-Zero, Mileena, Raiden, Kotal Kahn and Kintaro.

The good folks over at Pop Culture Shock just shared the first photo of their new upcoming Halloween Michael Myers 1/3 Scale Statue.

While it's possible to praise the sheer scale of the film and the audacity of its shocking (and, yes, genuinely chilling) finale, there are also long stretches of this movie that feel rudderless.

«The One I Love»: A small - scale short, sharp shock of an indie re-invents the rom - com by taking it to new places while staying true to its heart.

When sentencing Roach, Judge Andrew Menary said that «the scale of the fraud and deceit was truly shocking».

Long term predictions have typically forecast that by 2050 a half of British adults will be obese; now, David Haslam of the National Obesity Forum says: «It is entirely reasonable to conclude that the determinations of the 2007 Foresight Report, while shocking at the time, may now underestimate the scale of the problem.»

That there aren't enough spots in publicly funded advanced programs should come as a surprise to no one, but the scale of this shortfall is shocking.

Aston Martin GB4GT: The first of the few — Paul Chudecki describes the DB4GT, launched at the 1959 London Motor Show, and drives the very first customer car / Edmund Rumpler's Tropfen - auto — Few cars have shocked the automotive world on the scale of the radical Rumpler Tropfen - Auto of 1921.

Forget that the 996 interior in general is a little bit crummy — in the context of a car that listed a roll - cage amongst its options, that seems wholly irrelevant — it's the scale of the original GT3 that is almost shocking.

ASSOCIATE EDITOR GRAHAM KOZAK: Someone who managed to sleep through the recent bloating of the full - size pickup range would be shocked to learn that the Canyon is classified as midsized truck; it looks more like a 5 / 6th scale reproduction of the Sierra than a small truck designed from the ground up.

«These bursts of illumination, some less than a page long — evoking shock, wonder, laughter, all with a tantalizing sense of completion — establish flash fiction on a global scale.

«At the end of 2011 we interviewed enterprises and was shocked by the high percentage of enterprise IT buyers who said were eyeing large - scale rollouts of [iPads],» he told me.

This sentence from Mr. Sayres is particularly shocking: «I am especially interested in the challenge of breeding pure - bred dogs on a large scale with humane care standards that prioritize the care and conditions that matter most to the well being and lifetime care of the dog.»

I \'m shocked at the scale of this problem in the US.