• Likewise, Ms Beasley thinks the government has alienated too many Lib Dems for tactical voting on the scale of 1997 to recur.

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  • The percentages seem to me fine to compare on the same scale if we think of them simply as meaning the chance that it will happen to any individual on average.

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  • Keeping ramifications of the Chernobyl disaster in the spotlight on a European scale is important to the future of our community.

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  • Foreign monitors judged the poll transparent enough to exclude the possibility of rigging on a scale wide enough to put Mr Bouteflika's majority in doubt.

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  • Trained assessors then graded the patterns of lines and skin coarseness on the hand impressions on a scale of one to six.

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  • The justice secretary said people should move on from looking to "prove" the scale of the issue to accepting that it exists and concentrating efforts to pursue the traffickers and supporting victims.

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  • They counted the number of moles and measured the amount of freckles they had on a scale of 0 to 100.

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  • Most of this is doing little good for the environment, and stopping subsidies for such fuels would boost the supply of grain for feeding people on a scale similar to the hit that the past three decades of warming have provided.

    ECONOMIST: Climate change and crops

  • Many believe that Spain's banks have still not owned up to the full scale of the losses they face on reckless lending to property developers and businesses.

    BBC: Why Cyprus's rescue matters to us

  • It is only every 2, 000 years or so that an object the size of a football field descends to earth and causes significant damage, according to NASA. Giant asteroids that crash to earth such as the one that most likely extinguished the dinosaurs tend to occur on the scale of millions of years.

    WSJ: Meteorite Hits Russia, Causing Panic

  • "If enough of us from the outside work hard to develop initiatives on the kind of scale that can bring this about then - as we've seen in the past - government follows fast, " he said.

    BBC: Big Society guru urges newly retired people to volunteer

  • After leaving the liver, the prohormone can be converted in the kidneys to the hormone form of vitamin D on a (relatively) large scale to be distributed throughout the body, or it can be converted on a small scale in local tissues.

    FORBES: Vitamin D: Still More Questions Than Answers

  • The night after the blackout, there was indeed an earthquake, of 6.8 on the Richter scale strong enough to cut the power supply and once again to plunge large areas of the northern Philippines into darkness.

    ECONOMIST: The Philippines

  • Few marketing viruses are known to have succeeded on anything like the scale of Hotmail, commonly considered to be the father of viral marketing.

    ECONOMIST: Idea

  • Based on the names alone, on a scale of 1 to 7, participants gauged the likelihood of significant changes and improvements for each successive model.

    FORBES: 'iPhone 6' vs. 'New iPhone' -- How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

  • Mr. HOWARD RUDOLPH (Mental Health Counselor): Almost everybody I spoke with had some form of something that would be on the charts or on the scale for some form of diagnosis, if you wanted to give it one.

    NPR: Biloxi Police Struggle with Hurricane Aftermath

  • Khan announced to expansion of the program to include another 1250 girls to understand the impact of replicating the project on a larger scale.

    UNESCO: Mobile-based Literacy Programme

  • The six-part series, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, used state of the art computer animation to show the behaviour of dinosaurs, on a scale which had not been attempted before.

    BBC: Dinosaurs make it big in America

  • Obama asserted that al-Qaida is "on the path to defeat, " reducing the scale of terrorism to pre-Sept. 11 levels.

    NPR: Obama Refocuses Terror Threat To Pre-9/11 Level

  • "The reason that this hasn't happened to date on a wide scale is that the tools of game creation weren't really available to the average person, they required large teams that do coding and all the costly items that go into creating a popular game, " he said.

    CNN: 'Angry Birds' adapted for political satire

  • But it is profoundly embarrassing for him that it was not till the end of 2010 that - on his own account - he began to learn of the scale of malpractice at newspapers that were his responsibility.

    BBC: Why James Murdoch is giving up BSkyB chair

  • The education scores are based on a scale of 0 to 100, where 100 is the best.

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  • In the town of Reyhanli on Sunday, locals were struggling to come to terms with the scale of the attack.

    WSJ: Turkey Blames Syria for Bombing

  • And let me ask you what the Senate Intelligence Committee asked last week of the deputy CIA director, which is, on a scale of one to 10, where would you rank Pakistani cooperation on matters of counterterrorism?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • "Needless to say, we are over the moon to have Terry Gou and Foxconn join us on our mission to scale GoPro into one of the great enabling companies of our time, " said GoPro Founder and CEO, Nicholas Woodman.

    ENGADGET: Foxconn buys 9 percent stake in GoPro for $200 million

  • For all of its international influence, ISU is close to weightless on the scale of financial heft.

    FORBES: The Space Mafia

  • The Austrian research, published in the latest issue of an ornithological journal, Ibis, sought some up-to-date data on the scale of the parasite problem facing native Galapagos birds.

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