Sentences with phrase «true scale of the problem»

It is estimated up to 40 per cent of tickets are now sold via the internet, although MPs said they needed more evidence of the true scale of the problem.

The film talks about how the issue of modern slavery was first uncovered by the Sunday Times reporter George Arbuthnott, whose investigative journalism showed the true scale of the problem in Britain today.

Dr Nimalan Arinaminpathy, lead author of the research, from the School of Public Health at Imperial College London said: «TB is the top infectious disease killer worldwide, yet we have had little idea of the true scale of the problem in India — the worst affected country.

Thanks in large part to a whistle - blowing libertarian with an off - colour sense of humour, the true scale of the problem will soon be nailed down.

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Most of the predictions made by the IPCC have either come true, or were grossly understating the scale of the problem.

Predictable as such publicity is, it belies the true scale of the medical problem.

The problem now are writedowns — and when you're dealing with a black box like a bank, who can tell the true / eventual scale of writedowns..?!

My firm belief is we need to be investing at a much larger scale — billions of dollars, not tens of millions per year, in photovoltaics research, to get true breakthroughs on the cost problem.

This is particularly true for planet - scale problems like human - driven climate change, in which national governments tend to put national interests ahead of planet - scale interests.

Because I recognize the true degree of our ignorance in addressing this supremely difficult problem, while at the same time as a mere citizen I weigh civilization and its benefits against draconian energy austerity on the basis of no actual evidence that global climate is in any way behaving unusually on a geological time scale.

Parts of the data may have some elements of the errors that are Gaussian — the example of measurement error in terms of scale may be Gaussian — after get through the problems of variances in the thermometers themselves, which is also a well - known problem for mercury thermometers vis a vis their manufacturing — but their measured variance from the true temperature is not demonstrably Gaussian, and gets worse the further back you go.

So while it may be theoretically possible to predict long - scale climate changes, it may still be impossible to discern the true drivers of these climate systems amidst the chaos, making the long - term prediction problem moot.

Expert journalist Dominic Carman here provides Lawyer Monthly with an overview of the «false picture» he claims is being portrayed in regard to the country's battle against serious fraud, shedding light on the true scale of the UK's fraud problem, and touches on the increasing and ongoing...

It was hard to know the true scale of the misinformation problem because, they said, although the dashboard had many stories, their URLs often looked similar and it was unclear which stories were circulating uniquely.

But the problem is that, while Segregated Witness does provide benefit to the code, it misses one of the fundamental problems bitcoin has been experiencing: there are no true, long - term solutions on how to scale Bitcoin for mass - adoption.

The SDQ consists of 25 items (five domains: hyperactivity / inattention, peer problems, conduct problems, emotional symptoms, and pro-social behaviors) that are rated by parents on a three - point scale (Not true, Somewhat true, Certainly true).

On a three - point Likert scale, parents rated how true (0 = not true, 2 = certainly true) statements such as: «Often lies or cheats» (Conduct problems), and «Restless, overactive» (Hyperactivity) were of their child.