Sentence examples for proportion and one from inspiring English sources

Add in the burden of unfunded government liabilities, including social security and government pensions, and the debt burden becomes truly staggering--one of the biggest economic challenges facing the U.S. Our current crisis may soon be over, but we are in the process of creating a debt crisis of substantial proportion, and one that is not cyclical but rather is permanent.

Add in the burden of unfunded government liabilities, including social security and government pensions, and the debt burden becomes truly staggering one of the biggest economic challenges facing the U.S. Our current crisis may soon be over, but we are in the process of creating a debt crisis of substantial proportion, and one that is not cyclical but rather is permanent.

To pursue the analogy with urn models, one can imagine the balls to be in several urns in varying proportions, and one must decide how to allocate the n draws from the various urns so as to estimate efficiently the overall proportion of red balls).

If Papandreou does pull it off, however, it will be an achievement of huge proportions and one for the macroeconomics and politics textbooks of the years to come.

Mr. Cayne called the losses a "body blow of massive proportions" and one of the worst crises in the firm's 84-year history.

"It was," writes Norman Sherry in his very unsatisfactory three-volume biography, "a love affair of dangerous proportions", and one wracked, as the novel is, with Catholic guilt.

Dr Maya Götz of the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television gave a choice of three different versions of a female cartoon character: one thin, one with average healthy proportions and one chubby.

That would leave Washington the chance to pick Arrington and Brown, a coup of major proportions and one that could change the balance of power in the National Football Conference East for years.

There is a giant atrium, always a sign that some corporation's hand is sliding towards your wallet, but the galleries are conventionally proportioned, and one can't help feeling that they are irrelevant anyway.

It is this depiction of complicity and disgust that conscience can evoke that makes Salih a writer of truly universal proportions, and one whose work will continue to resonate through coming generations.

It was a calamity of quite epic proportions and one from which Fox may take some time to recover.