Sentence examples for terrible scale from inspiring English sources

1424 Suddenly, the terrible scale of today's attack becomes clear.

We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale.

But in war, the environment suffers from neglect, exploitation, human desperation and deliberate abuse on a terrible scale.

Never mind that stars are a fine way to rate ergonomic keyboards but a terrible scale for novels, does that not feel rotten?

Growing up in South Africa it was right there around you: I mean human suffering and injustice on a terrible, terrible scale, and also human nobility".

The deliberate destruction of Britain's coalmining industry following the miners' strike against pit closures of 1984-85 created suffering on a terrible scale.

For the English language work reported here, the 7-point delighted-terrible scale was used to measure satisfaction.

For all work undertaken to adapt the scale for use in American chronic illness populations, the 7-point delighted-terrible scale was used to measure satisfaction with an item.

Response options are from the widely used Delighted-Terrible Scale [ 39] and include 1 = terrible, 2 = unhappy, 3 = mostly dissatisfied, 4 = mixed (about equally satisfied and dissatisfied), 5 = mostly satisfied, 6 = pleased, and 7 = delighted.

As shown in Table 3, when the means and standard deviations of the QOLS items between the English language original and the three translated versions were compared, the 7-point satisfaction scale appears to have as much variance as the "delighted-terrible" scale.

In all the English language work, the 7-point "delighted-terrible" scaling format referenced above was used.