Sentence examples for grasped the scope from inspiring English sources

Holocaust scholars, who consider Pius, with his worldwide network of diplomats and clergy, to be among the first world leaders to have grasped the scope of the Jewish persecution, have asked why he did not condemn it publicly.

It wouldn't be until later that I fully grasped the scope of his illness.

WASHINGTON — The day after Lehman Bros. filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, Federal Reserve policymakers hadn't yet grasped the scope of the financial storm blowing overhead.

It helped us grasp the scope of the tragedy".

MANY lawmakers didn't grasp the scope of the punitive measures they passed, said Ms. Meissner.

Most of us moderns have too narrow a range to grasp the scope of Wren's endeavours.

But these artists don't seem to know that, or to grasp the scope of the change, which is happening without them.

Some industry analysts said that Johnson & Johnson — long considered a leader in consumer product safety — had stumbled by not immediately grasping the scope of the problem, identifying its source and beginning a wider recall.

We have trouble grasping the scope of it: the vast server farms, the job cuts, the barriers to entry, the public-private partnerships, the manufacturing of data, the knowing cities, the branded self, the slavish service to their metrics, the monoculture.

By his inability to grasp the scope of his self-deception and by his reluctance to express sympathy for victims except on a few occasions when it is dragged out of him, he raises his tragedy to an almost Shakespearean level.

HOUSING To grasp the scope of Mr. Koch's accomplishment, consider the visit that President Jimmy Carter made in 1977 to the South Bronx, where he stood with Mayor Abraham D. Beame in a rubble-strewed patch of Charlotte Street against a backdrop of ghostly, gutted buildings.