Sentence examples for proportions war from inspiring English sources

I think people have a couple of different impulses when confronted with a tragedy of epic proportions (war, genocide, natural disaster, etc)., the kind of enormous, devastating event that seems to stop history in its tracks.

has released a statement revealing that the proportion of war veterans among its Congressional candidates is approximately twice what it is among Democratic candidates.

While he still predicts victory, he appears to be preparing the country for a struggle of cold war proportions.

According to YouGov, the proportion backing the war has slipped from 53% to 27% since 2003.

The Queensland premier, Anna Bligh, said this morning that the state was facing a reconstruction effort of "post-war proportions".

Since, the summer of 2008, policy makers on both sides of the Atlantic have exhumed long-buried policy tools – from pump-priming to nationalisation – in the hope of preventing an economic train wreck of inter-war proportions.

It was a ceremony of pre-war proportions, made to feel like a talent competition.

The authors themselves suggested that a reporting bias might be present in the study as a greater proportion of Gulf War veterans also reported a change of colour of their fingernails which was included as a control symptom.

Besides the shore home rental, he played a recital of generous proportions at the Trenton War Memorial in 1940: German heavies, Chopin lightweights, some of his own works -- one to be heard Thursday in a recital by Mr. Ohlsson -- and two big Liszt pieces.

The number of nomads and camels had been declining in Western Sahara since at least the 1950s, but this decline assumed almost epic proportions with occupation and war and might have led to the collapse, if not of this entire population, certainly of their way of life.

Former George W. Bush administration official John Bolton called the agreement "a surrender of classic proportions," and for Bolton, war is the only answer.