Scientists use the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale to measure the intensity of storms based on wind speed.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

"So today,my administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system, a transformation on a scale not seen since the reforms that followed the Great Depression."

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Scott Campbell,the chief of the African Section of the U.N.Human Rights Office, says these atrocities are committed on a massive scale.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

"On the directive of the government, the army is now in full scale operation to eliminate,militants,miscreants and anti-state elements from Swat,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

"There was an extraordinary embrace of the entire city of the Olympic Games, something I have never seen on this scale before.".

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

"If you see a number of scores on a hundred point scale on the 40,50,60 range that suggests that people are moving back and forth.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

The Obama administration says it is laying the groundwork to develop a vaccine against swine flu, although no decision has been made on large-scale production of such a vaccine.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

The Cape Verdean government has taken steps in recent years to promote foreign investment in tourism infrastructure, resulting in large scale development on a few of the ten principal islands.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

"We hope to shine the light brightly on the scope and scale of modern slavery so all governments can see where progress has been made and where more is needed,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

This has been the situation in the Congo for many years." One of the reports focuses on the actions of government forces, some of whom engaged in large-scale pillaging, arbitrary killings and sexual violence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

It said the global community needed to be as serious about committing resources "on the same scale" to combating global warming as countries were during the the rescue of global economies during the financial crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"If you contrast what is happening in this crisis to what we saw in the last major global crises of the last several decades, I think you are seeing more action now on a broader scale,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

He says that's not fair. "Whether it's gay marriage, whether it's making changes in the community or making changes on a broad scale - if I'm a citizen of the United States, it affects me as well."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

General Petraeus appeared to be pointedly rejecting suggestions by some analysts, and some officials and members of Congress, that the United States should scale back its ground operations in Afghanistan and focus on air strikes and special operations missions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23