Sentence examples for a historic scale from inspiring English sources

And so the drowning began, on a historic scale.

(There has also been internal migration on a historic scale).

We know this is no small task – it is a challenge on a historic scale.

This comes despite human rights abuses, refinery explosions, the destruction of entire ecosystems, and political interference on a historic scale.

BUT, and that's a big but, the way the Republican field is shaping up, it may be poised to squander an electoral opportunity of a historic scale.

The book "Den of Thieves" (1991) and the movie "Other People's Money" (1991) marked yuppies as scoundrels and villains on a historic scale.

The obituaries all seem to agree that Jobs was a cultural revolutionary on an historic scale.

A dawning awareness rippled out from Sandy Hook elementary that a catastrophe of unimaginable brutality and on an historic scale had taken place there.

The polls in 1999 and 2003 were seriously flawed, violent and ushered in governments that have neglected Nigerians' basic rights to education and primary healthcare while engaging in looting of public funds on an historic scale.

The web takes away the cost of sharing information about what we consume; it brings out the gossip mongers in us - on an historic scale; we embrace sharing like we've never done before.

Western countries have quietly backed the Arab coalition, but the threat of humanitarian catastrophe on an historic scale could unravel that support.