However, the scale and intensity of the Chinese cyber offensive has become too great for Washington to ignore, and Beijing shows no inclination to scale it back.

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Both, like Mr Qaddafi, referred to themselves in the third person and belittled the scale and intensity of the opposition.

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The death of Princess Diana in 1997 was even an occasion where the scale and intensity of public grief not only caught UK officials by surprise - but threatened to turn Britons against the Royal Family for their perceived remoteness.

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The time required to meet the goal will depend on the level of intensity, categorized on the scale as Low impact, medium impact, or high impact.

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The growing criticism of the drone program in Pakistan has also surely had some role in the Obama administration's decision to scale back the intensity of the drone campaign there.

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Hurricanes are ranked 1 to 5 in intensity on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

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Maintaining a force structure sufficient to engage in large-scale, high-intensity combined arms campaigns and the advanced or specialized assets required to assure access to critical domains is essential to deterrence of conflict, much less war waging.

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It would reduce the scale, scope and intensity of the killing, raping and uprooting of the Congolese, it would crush Kinshasa's ability to use external support to warlords and militia gangs as an alibi for a lack of progress and, above all, decrease the growing unease of the Congolese towards Rwanda over the crimes of FDLR and the role played by their government in Congo.

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