• "The truth of the situation is, on the grand scale of things, Dennis' wages aren't material, " he said.

    BBC: Foxes contest Wise ruling

  • At the municipal level, the pioneer operating on a grand scale is the city of Philadelphia.

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  • To test the idea on a grand scale, researchers at Wageningen University and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute acquired the signal strengths from 2, 400 links operated by T-Mobile NL, over two 12-day periods in 2011.

    BBC: Rain tracked with mobile network

  • Although sales and profits rocketed in the early 1990s, he was seen to have misjudged on a grand scale the possibilities and growth of the internet - a technology platform that Microsoft has been unable to replicate its market dominance on.

    BBC: Bill Gates

  • "In the grand scheme -- and on a grand scale -- there are hundreds of tons of weapons, munitions, artillery, explosives that are unaccounted for in Iraq, " the official said.

    CNN: Tons of Iraq explosives missing

  • To maximize the potential pulling power of having the world's biggest tee in Casey, Bohannon is also thinking on a grand scale to market the town's gargantuan landmark.

    CNN: February 5, 2013 -- Updated 1840 GMT (0240 HKT)

  • If adopted on a grand scale, the assessment argues, such techniques could double crop yields.

    ECONOMIST: Financing water projects

  • Many scientists are understandably nervous about tinkering on a grand scale with the atmosphere and the oceans.

    ECONOMIST: Global warming

  • We have seen this on a grand scale with the Guinness QR pint glass earlier this year, but other companies have done some really interesting things with the technology.

    FORBES: Why QR Codes Don't Work

  • Nokia needs to pull out all the heavy artillery -- major device launches, carrier support, impressive software, and a seamless user experience -- if it wants the Ovi Store to succeed on a grand scale, and by all accounts, they're serious about making that happen with the recent integrations of MOSH and WidSets.

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  • The home is built on a grand scale, with 40-foot-high ceilings and a foyer that includes busts of famous composers inserted in the ceiling.

    FORBES: Mary Kay's Pink Mansion Listed for Sale

  • The result was malinvestment on a grand scale.

    FORBES: The Mystery Of Income Inequality Broken Down To One Simple Chart

  • The return of share repurchases on a grand scale (doubtless at a time when they are far more expensive than today) will be a sign that defrosting is giving way to overheating.

    ECONOMIST: Corporate finance

  • Standing by the busy highway, it was easy to doubt that an idyllic art project, even one executed at the grand scale of the village at Jinze, could have an impact on the juggernaut of China's development.

    WSJ: Ancient Village Rises in Shanghai; The Shock of the Old

  • In last year's fight for the Democratic nomination to be governor of California, the candidate who went negative lost on a grand scale.

    ECONOMIST: The Democratic race: Nasty isn’t nice | The

  • So it was entirely fitting that Penn Station and Grand Central were conceived and constructed on the most lavish scale, as triumphal departure points for those travelling great distances across a land of teeming possibilities, and as monumental entrances for those many people who were visiting New York to get a glimpse of the future.

    BBC: Grand Central Station in 1930

  • Framing everyday intimacies on a terrifyingly grand scale, Glodell blasts open a new dimension in the cinematic imagination.

    NEWYORKER: Bellflower

  • "It reminds me of a quote from ' The Night Of The Generals' that went something like 'What is admirable on a grand scale is abhorrent on a small scale', " commented another CNN reader known as Davidji, referring to the 1967 movie about a Nazi murder investigation during World War II.

    CNN: '4-hour' work guru on China outsourcer: Bad karma

  • The two sides plan a grand summit next year, their first on such a scale.

    ECONOMIST: Bombing build-up

  • On a scale to which no photo or video can do justice, the Grand Canyon impresses with its size, span and color.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The farm minister said that if the accusations are proved to be true, it would be "fraud on a grand scale".

    BBC: Germany investigates organic egg 'fraud'

  • Market-fixing, fraud, and conspiracy on a grand scale, and frankly a more likely story, given that key evidence in the MW report has already been refuted.

    FORBES: Is Sino-Forest a Sino-Fraud?

  • These grand-scale premonitions are largely based on Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns, which states that the development of technology has been increasing exponentially since the beginning of time.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

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