Sentence examples for historic dimensions from inspiring English sources

It was a crisis of historic dimensions and global ramifications.

"These are momentous steps," he said, "but they are being taken to address a problem of historic dimensions".

"These are momentous steps," Mr. Bernanke said, "but they are being taken to address a problem of historic dimensions".

The Dubai writer concludes that the end of the DP World deal "will be a blunder of historic dimensions.

"He is a controversial figure of historic dimensions," said John Coffee, a securities law professor at Columbia University.

It's time to slow this process down, open up community dialogue and explore the historic dimensions of the building.

That team effort has a larger, more historic dimension.

Merkel and her speechwriters will be aware of the historic dimension of her visit.

While comprehensive databases exist for contemporary data, they usually lack a historic dimension.

But Updike was unusually well qualified to write the kind of poem that gives a news event its historic dimension.

1 Presidential Power Tested Three Supreme Court cases generated by the Bush administration's detention of those it deems "enemy combatants" will be argued over the next 10 days, framing a debate of historic dimension not only about the rights of citizens and noncitizens alike, but also -- or perhaps principally -- about the boundaries of presidential power.