Sentence examples for scale of rape from inspiring English sources

"The scale of rape over Congo's years of war has made this crime seem more acceptable".

Mumsnet website has launched a rape awareness campaign following research that it said revealed the "hidden scale of rape and sexual assault".

The kind of person who can knowingly tune in to a group interview and immediately begin assessing the bodies of the people in the room on some sort of scale of "rape-ability" is truly an indicator of the world we live in.

But on Monday the Sydney Morning Herald did step up and apologise to those groups in the paper and online (but omitted Sheehan's name): "In a column published on February 21 headlined The story of Louise: the hidden scale of the rape epidemic in Sydney, Fairfax Media reported the details of an alleged sexual assault.

The Hague court's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has said that one of the hallmarks of the F.D.L.R. has been a large-scale campaign of rape to terrorize the population in Congo's Kivu region.

Violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the past decade has been associated with a large-scale epidemic of rape [1], [2].

What was the scale of the rapes?

We will probably never know the true scale of the rapes.

The scale of India's rape problem indicates a deeper crisis of our civilization, one of the oldest in the world.

Despite the global scale of the problem of rape in war – and questions over the initiative's successes to date – Hague told the committee that "a great deal of progress" had been made in recent years.

Studies show that college students and, even more disturbingly, police officers, believe that up to 50% of women lie when they accuse someone of rape, despite wide-scale evidence and multi-country studies that show the incidence of false rape reports to be in the 2%-8% range.