Sentences with phrase «staggering scale»

Carnage ensued on a staggering scale.

The mayor insisted again on the staggering scale and significance of his plan to build 80,000 new units of below - market housing and preserve 120,000 such apartments already in existence.

At those spots, the LHC physicists will observe the resulting mayhem with detectors of staggering scale and complexity.

A shrub from the most ancient group of flowering plants alive today steals and hoards genes from other species on a staggering scale.

It may surprise some of our supporters that Kenyan armed forces have been working with the Green Belt Movement (GBM) since 2006 to fight environmental degradation, which is happening on a staggering scale.

Fly over rugged cliffs, lakes, and forests, and witness the staggering scale of the terrain, which the Maori believe was shaped by a powerful god.

In our latest E3 gameplay video, we take a leisurely drive and explore The Crew's massive map across a variety of terrain, and even encounter a spot of wildlife on our travels: Considering the staggering scale of the map, not to mention the game's relatively early stage of development, the detail on display is awe - inspiring.

It's still not without its flaws - the storyline is instantly forgettable and the AI has some of the most blatant rubber - banding you'll ever experience, and while the staggering scale of Ivory Tower's open world recreation of the United States never fails to impressive, it doesn't provide enough activities to occupy players and encourage the online cooperative «crew» gameplay the title alludes to.

Packed with wit, warmth, and a staggering scale of options, it's really rather fitting that the game that goes back to the beginning of the story is also the one that gives Assassin's Creed a fresh start.

The exhibition features his recent Album and Postcards from Nowhere series for which the artist obsessively collected vintage photographs and postcards and then shredded and collaged these highly intimate relics to create bold new imagery magnified to a staggering scale.

There is no shortage of sublime landscapes in Burtynsky's subjects; nickel tailings, post-consumer waste, marble quarries, oil fields, Chinese factories, and the Three Gorges Dam all reveal human activity on a staggering scale.

Debuting at various cinemas across London, Weiwei's documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact

It is remarkable how only very recently has the staggering scale of Dr Pachauri's links to so many of these concerns come to light, inevitably raising questions as to how the world's leading «climate official» can also be personally involved in so many organisations which stand to benefit from the IPCC's recommendations.

The Staggering Scale of Elephant Poaching The level of elephant poaching in Africa set a record high in 2011, with just the ivory seized by law enforcement equaling that of 4000 elephants.

Using edible oils for power is, says Monbiot, «eco-vandalism on a staggering scale.»