Sentence examples for scale of the killings from inspiring English sources

The scale of the killings is hard to absorb: well over 300 are thought to have been killed within the span of a few months, wiping out a significant portion of the country's elephant population.

The sheer scale of the killings has unnerved many here.

But the scale of the killings may change allied minds.

As he spoke, the full scale of the killings began to emerge.

Riek W, who decided to abandon his post in the president's compound at the weekend as he feared for his life and was horrified at the murder of civilians, said that the scale of the killings was being covered up.

Thursday's verdict will be a reminder of the scale of the killings – some 100,000 people died in Bosnia alone, with other victims in Croatia and Kosovo – and of the glacial pace at which justice has arrived.

One is about the scale of the killing, the other concerns who exactly was doing most of it – which was not Americans.

Alexander said he was shocked by the evidence of the massive scale of the killing at the camp and the small examples of the Nazis' inhumanity.

How far is it possible to put together a picture of the scale of the killing that has taken place there?

The estimates by United Nations and the opposition group offered the caveat that the true scale of the killing may be much greater.

Her argument is that the scale of the killing between 1861 and 1865 demanded a new cult of memory—a new set of social rituals, some rooted in the Bible, but many intensely secular, the rituals of Republican mourning.