Sentence examples for historical proportion from inspiring English sources

The end of the road at least was a place where Isiah Thomas would never be singularly cast as a failure, much less one of historical proportion.

With the tar sands' expansion has come an accompanying petcoke export boom of historical proportion.

In this cycle, with no  other potential leaders in his party (remember the disastrous primary?), Romney's opportunity to play that role is magnified out of all historical proportion.

Brazil, China, and India were considered among the overseas locations where land use change would occur as a result of diverting U.S. corn cropland, and it was assumed that new cropland in each of these regions correspond to different types of forest, savanna or grassland based on the historical proportion of each converted to cultivation in these countries during the 1990s.

The two studies used medical school characteristics (e.g., the "historical proportion" of graduates pursuing careers in primary care) to identify program effect.

For instance, students with strong preferences to work in underserved areas may be more likely than their peers with weaker preferences for such care to select medical schools with a high "historical proportion" of graduates pursuing careers in primary care, because such schools are likely to focus on medical education relevant for underserved practice.

There is great turbulence all around us — in historical proportions".

But nevertheless, no amount of spin can conceal the historical proportions of this failure.

"Women in the Obama economy are facing hardships of historical proportions".

The Liberal Democrats have made a grotesque error of epic historical proportions.

Mr. McCain received loud applause when he suggested that a troop pullout would be "a mistake of colossal historical proportions".