Sentence examples for of significant proportion from inspiring English sources

"This earthquake has claimed many lives and is a human tragedy of significant proportion.

In the summer 2012, US farmers suffered from a drought of significant proportion.

What resulted was a Twitter-a-thon of significant proportion.

We were unable to identify any particular GO category responsible for the suppression of significant proportion of insertion.

The preponderance of CD8+ T cells was suggested in resistance to L. donovani infection possibly via the perforin-granzyme B pathway and by the activation of significant proportion of CD8+ T cell populations.

To conclude, our study has shown, for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, that obesity, mainly the abdominal variety, has a country-wide presence of significant proportion in the Indian population of individuals aged 50 years and older; and although the richer are more affected, the problem is also substantial in the lower socioeconomic stratum.

There would be trouble, of significant proportions.

In fact, it appears to be a truly global phenomenon of significant proportions.

One by one, the commercial-free zones in this city disappear, a collective loss of significant proportions.

Paul Rogers of the Mercury-News wrote that the dispute reflected a societal shift of significant proportions.

She arrived two months ago from the Securities Industry Association, where as associate general counsel she oversaw a program to promote diversity on Wall Street -- itself a challenge of significant proportions.