Sentence examples for intrusive scale from inspiring English sources

"If these surveillance authorities are so interested, so invasive, the courts are actually saying they violate fundamental rights, do we really want to authorise them on a new, increased and more intrusive scale without any public debate?" He said there had been government silence for the last year since he had exposed the scale of surveillance by the NSA and its British partner GCHQ.

The total summary score could range from 0 to 75 (intrusive scale 0 35, avoidance scale 0 40), with a higher score indicating more lung-cancer-specific distress.

At least one federal judge would ultimately conclude that the NSA program was not just statutorily but constitutionally suspect – too vast and potentially intrusive in scale to fall within the scope of a 1979 Supreme Court opinion that had blessed far more limited collection of phone records without a Fourth Amendment search warrant.

An additional measure, the adapted Illness Intrusive Ratings Scale (IIRS) [ 30], was utilized to measure the level of interference a cancer diagnosis brought to Veterans' lives.

Fear of recurrence was also assessed with the Intrusive Thoughts sub-scale of the Impact of Events Scale (IES), which measures the frequency with which thoughts intrude into consciousness [ 27].

On a broader scale, the intrusive and eruptive rocks are part of the Coast Plutonic Complex, which is the single largest contiguous granite outcropping in North America.

Chronbach's alpha coefficients (Appendix Table  4) were somewhat low, but acceptable (with doubts as to the intrusive dimension, however), and scales representing the four dimensions were constructed.

The IES has two sub-scales: (1) intrusive thoughts and feelings associated with the stressful life event, and (2) items associated with patterns of avoidance of certain thoughts, feelings or situations.