Sentence examples for scale of the tragedy from inspiring English sources

The dictatorship of General Franco covered up the scale of the tragedy.

But this case is only unusual in terms of the scale of the tragedy.

The anger and grief displayed at the protests is reflective of the scale of the tragedy.

For Kenyans, the scale of the tragedy is beginning to sink in.

Only later would the full scale of the tragedy at Okawa elementary school become clear.

Only weeks later, the full scale of the tragedy was apparent.

While he was talking to adults, he married optimism with realism about the horrific scale of the tragedy.

The scale of the tragedy in Syria and Iraq was so vast, and this was just a piece of it.

"While flooding is a natural disaster, the scale of the human tragedy in Freetown is, sadly, very much man-made," Makmid Kamara, Amnesty International's deputy director of global issues, said in a recent statement.

Nevertheless, it is time for Europe both to admit the scale of the migration tragedy and to accept greater responsibility towards some of its victims.

"The scale of the human tragedy in Syria is among the most brutal of any conflict since the end of the Second World War," Raul Rosende, who is the deputy U.N. humanitarian-aid coördinator for Syria, told me.