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The center for disease control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions, is the number one health concern for women in this country and abroad.
Bissel Gardens is cranking out food in epic proportions, moving kids into an economy they never imagined.
Six skilled leatherworkers crafted 12 Signature handbags with perfect proportions and a timeless flair.
Fortunately, with space technology now, we can look at it from space, and when we do, you can see the proportions fairly well.
Not six months later, in July 2002, Ethiopia announced a major food crisis, to the same proportions as 1984: 14 million people at risk of starvation.
This truly is a scandal of epic proportions hidden in plain sight.
It kind of determined the proportions of the design.
This is Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man," the ideal proportions, with arm span equal to height.
Public opinion polls consistently show that significant proportions of the American people don't believe the climate is warming due to human activities, don't think that there is evolution by natural selection, and aren't persuaded by the safety of vaccines.
A few years ago, Michelle Alexander wrote "The New Jim Crow," which got Americans to see incarceration as a civil rights issue of historic proportions in a way they had not seen it before.
These giants have grown to immense proportions by swallowing matter and merging with other black holes.
To calculate the proportions for each genotype and phenotype, we can use a Punnett square too.
There is an environmental mystery afoot, and it begins with a seemingly trivial detail that reveals a disaster of global proportions.
You've prevented an epidemic of apocalyptic proportions, but after such a stressful episode, you need a break.
Enough of the daily terror of gun violence in homes and streets that's claimed the lives of women and young black men in staggering proportions.
Right now, our species is propagating an environmental disaster of geological proportions that is so broad and so severe, it can rightly be called the sixth extinction.
The cortical homunculus is a model of the human body with proportions based on the size of each body part’s representation in the cortex, The amount of cortex devoted to a specific body part can grow or shrink based on how much sensory input the brain receives from that body part.
They have enjoyed the true meaning of belonging to a place, and that was reflected in their built environment, in the mosques and churches built back-to-back, in the interwoven souks and public venues, and the proportions and sizes based on principles of humanity and harmony.
You have a slightly different enzyme than the A people, so you build a slightly different structure, and those of you that are AB have the enzyme from your mother, the other enzyme from your father, and now you make both of these structures in roughly equal proportions.
You know, I started off with little tiny amounts of potassium nitrate and sugar, which was readily available, and I mixed it in different proportions, and I tried to light it on fire.
These are some other ones in Germany that in some ways look very similar to Futura, maybe with higher waist or lower waist or different proportions.
In a masterpiece of epic proportions, Rushdie reveals that there are no singular truths— rather, it’s wiser to believe in several versions of reality at once, hold many lives in the palms of our hands, and experience multiple moments in a single stroke of the clock.
So the important thing actually, is to introduce the actual architectural dimensions, which might be totally inexplicable in words, because they operate in proportions, in materials, in light.
We scaled the building up three times to Chinese proportions, and went to China.
While a balanced bilingual has near equal abilities across the board in two languages, most bilinguals around the world know and use their languages in varying proportions.
By looking at the proportions and combinations of different kinds of pollen in a sample, you can tell very precisely where it came from.
After the general, a film that romanticized the life of Dublin gangster the general to such heroic proportions that it made the average Dublin person sick, along come Kevin and his attempted portrayal of Mr. Lynch or martin Cahill, aka the general, the acting is so bad that this crime drama becomes a comedy for the native Dub, and a tragedy for the Kevin Spacey fan. in short, is the movie worth a look.... No, unless u like bad acting with hilarious 'proper Irish accents, ah sure to be sure to be sure'.
It's a stinker of epic proportions.
That description actually makes the movie sound better than it is, because it's really a stinker of almost Biblical proportions.
Paramount must have collectively fainted when they saw this: and with another $20 million festering in CATCH 22, and $12 million in ON A CLEAR DAY and $25 million in PAINT YOUR WAGON....they had a financial abyss of CLEOPATRA proportions with $77 million tied into 4 films with very uncertain futures.
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