Sentence examples for staggering dimensions from inspiring English sources

Against that, however, are the staggering dimensions of the disaster.

It is not easy for the South Africans to understand this, given the staggering dimensions of American prosperity.

The 31,000 tonne protective steel arch is an engineering project of staggering dimensions – 100m high, 165m long, with a span of 260m.

The spiral ramp itself is one of many devices incorporated in the Rose Center to impart a sense of scale -- in particular, an appreciation of the staggering dimensions of the universe.

The tour was born of the frustration of a New York based nonprofit, Intersections International, over its inability to draw attention through all the normal channels to a diaspora of staggering dimensions.

IT was a military plan of staggering dimensions, designed by the Pentagon to be so over-the-top that it would never gain the approval of the President of the United States.

Slowly and fitfully, political and financial leaders around the world are beginning to recognize the frightening dimensions and staggering costs of the global AIDS epidemic.

"Atlanta Children, 1981" is conceived in small dimensions, but it is staggering in its intensity.

It's the heaviest load anyone's ever placed on an unsuspecting planet, and the more we learn, the more its dimensions appear ever more staggering.

"We have so far barely seen the tip of the offshoring iceberg, the eventual dimensions of which may be staggering," he wrote in the journal Foreign Affairs.

A hole of these dimensions can be created with a 3" (7.6 cm) hole saw by "staggering" two holes, as shown in the image.