Sentence examples for scale of attrition from inspiring English sources

In Russell Maliphant's Second Breath, set to an Andy Cowton score intercut with voice recordings from the Imperial War Museum archive, the industrial scale of attrition is conveyed through lines of figures swaying like corn, cut down in illuminated ranks, and ingloriously upended by death.

With tensions also rising in Europe, politicians were attracted by the prospect that a Canadian fleet would not suffer casualties on the scale of a Western Front war of attrition and, at the same time, would be a focus for rearmament.

Ultimately the only way to defeat the Nazis was to match them for scale and power: a massive and ghastly war of attrition.

(The rate of attrition for men, on the same time scale, is seventeen per cent).

Carter's explanation for the high rate of attrition is that "memories were short and large-scale musical works often had limited currency beyond their immediate circumstances"; such music was rarely published and quickly discarded.

It's war of attrition.

A war of attrition began.

It's like a war of attrition".

"It's a game of attrition".

This is a war of attrition".

It was Mdala's war of attrition.