Sentence examples for appalling proportion from inspiring English sources
Yet we spent an appalling proportion of that final visit talking about mashed potatoes.
However the victims are chosen, or by which means they die, and whether they are innocent children or civilian women or men who have taken up arms, it is a human tragedy of the most appalling proportions — one that the Obama Administration has proven incapable or unwilling to do much to alter.
John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International's director for Europe and Central Asia, says: "What we are witnessing in the Mediterranean is a man-made tragedy of appalling proportions.
"BP has unleashed an unstoppable force of appalling proportions".
In the last 40 years, the World Bank estimates, the proportion of the population living on an appalling $1 or $2 a day has halved.
Across Africa, malaria is a problem of staggering proportions and appalling statistics.
Doing this would, however, constitute a misjudgment of historical proportions – one that could, in an appalling two-for-one, lose Labour the general election and wipe out the party in Scotland.
The proportion of its workforce on unemployment benefit peaked at 7% far below the appalling rates of over 20% in the 1980s.Yet the city's higher earners have been squeezed.
It's appalling — appalling.
