Sentence examples for an historic scale from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

On an historic scale, going back to the 1918 pandemic, these HA1 changes are large and dramatic, as shown in Figure 1.

It was to be a triumph on a historic scale, an American breakthrough as consequential as Barack Obama's Election Night speech in 2008, at Grant Park.

When Picasso cuts up faces and pastes them on canvases, there's no real violence done; were Le Corbusier to have demolished the old Paris and replaced it with "stark towers," it would have been a criminal act on a historic scale, comparable to a wanton war.

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

Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, was also thinking of the general election, saying his party faced a challenge 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.