She pauses, letting the scale of her commitment sink in.
Those who urged him to use this opportunity to be honest about the scale of the commitment required were disappointed.His remarks on Europe were also sparse.
When President Obama visits this week, he has an opportunity to address not just the misery before his eyes, but the magnitude of the future threat it represents and the scale of the commitment required.
May's BBC4 show, The Reassembler, in which he puts back together a lawn mower, an electric guitar and a telephone, is likely to be his last hurrah for the BBC given the scale of his commitment to Amazon.
The Qatari fund cited the cost associated with raising additional equity in the current market to cover liabilities for workers' pensions and was criticised for underestimating the scale of its commitment.
Noting that 654 homes in New Jersey were repossessed in February, Mr. Morrissy added, "We have to grow the scale of our commitment — rescue troubled properties, organize citizens as neighborhood guardians, get new homeowners into the picture — or this thing is going to devour us and our neighborhoods".
With the Congo I certainly knew what my instincts were telling me to do - jump! - but given the scale of this commitment, I wanted to give myself every opportunity to question that primal urge.
The rich-poor divide also holds over the issue of monitoring the scale of those commitments – with China, India and other countries opposed to outside review.
With the scale of its commitments climbing annually, the company has another two hundred and twenty million dollars invested in an undisclosed number of ongoing deals.
As before, we must have a realistic view of the true scale of commitment required to defeat ISIS: namely, an extensive international presence on the ground to enforce a political settlement acceptable to all major actors and to assist a massive nation-rebuilding project.
