Sentence examples for reflection of the scale from inspiring English sources

The nominal sale price of the retail chain announced last week was universally viewed as a reflection of the scale of the challenges facing the new owner, a group of investors with little-to-no previous retailing experience.

In a telling reflection of the scale of the uphill task as perceived by many Germans, May has been nicknamed Die Trümmerfrau (Rubble Lady) in the media, the name given to the women who helped clear the bombed-out ruins of cities after the second world war.

The story of Dhuvaafaru is a reflection of the scale of a recovery operation that continues to this day, although in its last stages – the response to a disaster that claimed 228,000 lives in 13 countries from the coast of Africa to Indonesia in the space of a few hours, among them tens of thousands of children.

Gareth Thomas, Labour's universities spokesman, commended Grayling for his initiative, but added: "It is a sad reflection of the scale of government cuts in higher education that it is taking a private initiative to drive new investment in arts, humanities and social sciences courses.

But even they are not enough to handle the tons of strontium-laced water at the plant — a reflection of the scale of the 2011 disaster and, in critics' view, ad hoc decision making by the company that runs the plant and the regulators who oversee it.

"It's really a reflection of the scale of the emergency – we have so many priorities," Hudspeth explains.

David Moyes celebrates his 10th anniversary at Everton on Wednesday - an achievement of real distinction and a reflection on the scale of his work in an era when some managers get months rather than years.

THE end of the Iraq war occasioned few reflections on the scale of destruction we have wrought there.

The ridges are slender and they therefore diffract incident light in a plane perpendicular to the ridges (see also [ 29]), but the angular spread of the blue reflection of the scales of P. anchises is much wider than that of P. lysander.

In a report, the Centre for Social Justice said that in 2012 about 800 adults were known to have been enslaved in the UK, but it said this figure was a "pale reflection" of the true scale of the problem.

The size of the demonstration yesterday was enormous and it was a reflection of the comparison of scale".