Sentence examples for scale of the capital from inspiring English sources

Second, because of the sheer scale of the capital outflows.

What has changed, economists say, is the scale of the capital flows and their ability to capsize small nations -- or even large ones.

A spokesman for company justified the payments, saying they "reflect the exceptional scale of the capital return to shareholders from the Indian development and the very considerable task of securing approvals for the sale".

Those assets are being sold as part of the fundraising exercise which has been underway since June when the scale of the capital shortfall facing the bank first emerged, and it seems likely that the division will be disbanded.

The scale of the capital shortfall did not emerge until June, after the Bank of England revealed that Co-op needed to find £1.5bn of extra capital after it had conducted an industry-wide analysis.

The scale of the capital shortfalls of each of Britain's major banks is expected to be revealed by the banking regulator on Thursday amid mounting speculation that the big eight players could have been ordered to find up to £27bn to plug gaps identified by the watchdog.

The military is fighting a Muslim insurgency in the south but militants rarely launch attacks of this scale on the capital.

More than 6,500 people have been killed in the long-running insurgency in the south of the country since 2004, but militants have not launched an attack of this scale on the capital.

No figures, of course, on the scale of the fresh capital the banks would need to raise (more than €100bn), nor details on which banks are affected.

But even the scaling down of the capital's annual gay celebration to a walking procession, with no cars, buses or floats – due to financial and organisational problems – couldn't dampen the spirits of thousands who joined the parade.

Microsoft is rumoured to be about to unveil its own large-scale version of the capital as part of an international project to do a large number of cities.