Sentence examples for national proportion from inspiring English sources

Perhaps because the strikes began locally and grew to national proportion, they never captured the public's attention the way the United Parcel strike did.

The impact of immigration was not confined to these two centres; whereas the overseas-born population accounted for about one-third of the total for Sydney and Melbourne at the start of the 21st century, the national proportion was more than one-fifth and rising.

In seven of the 10 least safe states to drive, the seat belt usage rate is below the national proportion.

Articles in Sports Illustrated and practically every major newspaper from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle created a seemingly endless tribute of national proportion.

Likely as a result, there are roughly 32 firearm dealers in the state for every 1,000 establishments, more than double the national proportion of 18 dealers for every 1,000 businesses and one of the highest proportions in the country.

If my assumption is correct, the result is a tragedy of national proportion in which a large segment of our student population that already faces daunting challenges falls victim to an education system that is, at best, dysfunctional and, at worst, corrupt.

Its conduct should be a scandal of national proportions, but by now everyone expects DOJ to embarrass our nation when it deals with elite bankers.

It's a scandal of national proportions".

On May 23, 2017, the small southern Brazilian city of Farroupilha found itself implicated in an online controversy of national proportions.

"I said that if this was true," he recalled, "this was going to be a P.R. disaster of national proportions".

The party victorious in national elections is likely to be the one able to expand its provincial electoral bases temporarily to national proportions.