Sentence examples for scale of effort from inspiring English sources

With the best will in the world, extending this scale of effort to Syria would make little difference.

I can't deny the panic attacks that overcome me at the thought of the sheer scale of effort needed to transform this garden.

As an example of the scale of effort that can be required to check encroaching waters, some point to Holland, which has claimed large areas from the sea by building dikes and draining land that is below sea level.

We follow Duckworth et al. (2007) and combine answers to these question and derive a scale of "effort and diligence", where the maximum score is 4 (very high effort and diligence) and the lowest score is 1 (very low effort and diligence).

But that scale of effort and broad vacuuming up of intelligence would suddenly conspire against the desperate effort.

The Google Lunar X Prize is trying to stimulate the private sector to get involved but these efforts pale in comparison to the scale of effort needed to get there.

The sabotage numbers, the first gauge of the scale of efforts by guerrilla fighters to bring the country to a standstill by striking at infrastructure, emerged on the day that Iraq's new prime minister, Iyad Allawi, gave an assessment of the impact of the attacks.

A ratio between two scales of effort and reward (weighted by the item number) is calculated to assess the degree of imbalance between high effort expended and low reward received.

They need not, and should not, wait to start a foreclosure-prevention effort, but it's not clear whether Mr. Obama's team understands the scale of the effort required.

Even Weedn acknowledges the incomprehensible scale of the effort: "Testing every fragment in the debris is an impossible feat," he said.

Two hundred rusting tanks show the scale of their effort.