Sentence examples for appalling scale of from inspiring English sources

By the next morning, the appalling scale of the damage was clear.

The appalling scale of leaks about possible strikes means that military surprise has largely been lost, and the diplomatic advantages of waiting for the UN are overwhelming.

Instead his tenure was marked by a bizarre bout of denialism over the appalling scale of the HIV/Aids crisis and the swift descent into a power struggle with his deputy president, Mr Zuma.

Admittedly, these cases of theft are much more recent, not on the appalling scale of the Spanish crown's conquest and plunder of Latin American treasure hundreds of years ago.

You, you white people: if this violence was happening in your country, would you end it?" Well, we haven't ended rape in the west by any means, but Jeanne is right that the appalling scale of past and present atrocities against Congo's women would not be tolerated elsewhere.

Mr. President, because of the Stockholm Declaration and Agenda for Action, there is now greater public awareness of the appalling scale of the commercial sexual exploitation of children, which afflicts every corner of the world, from the richest countries to the most impoverished.

Yet the identification of Catholic church with the state didn't mitigate a campaign of repression whose appalling scale we still don't really understand, and we may never succeed in doing so.

The escalation of violence engulfing Gaza has led, and is leading, to suffering and destruction on an appalling scale, and is losing Israel friends in the international community day by day.

"The scale of the violence is appalling," Mahoney said.

The scale of destruction surrounding us was appalling.

"The scale of these killings is absolutely appalling," said Mike Jendrzejczyk, the Washington director for Asia for Human Rights Watch.