"degree" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His ears were growing sensitive to a preternatural and intolerable degree, and he had long ago stopped the cheap mantel clock whose ticking had come to seem like a thunder of artillery.
- This intensified his discomfort to an almost intolerable degree.
- Academy officials object to the law on the ground that it would give the Government what they call an intolerable degree of control over the Academy's committees.
- The upshot is that living in an Earth culture provides the Solomons with an almost intolerable degree of emotional stimulation and conflict, which they are very ill-equipped to handle.
- After race riots in six American cities between 1965 and 1967, a Presidential commission found that the redlining of businesses and homes in poor neighborhoods by private insurers grew by an "intolerable degree."
- If problems did develop to an intolerable degree for some reason, the option to pull the plug would always be there as a last resort.
- They were keyed up to an almost intolerable degree, waiting in their ranks for the order to move.
- In a widely noticed article earlier this year, Mr. Kissinger wrote: "In the existing strategic environment the ABM Treaty constrains the nation's defense to an intolerable degree."
- Besides breaking the law they were, by flaunting themselves and pestering passers-by, causing an intolerable degree of embarrassment and giving visitors a deplorable impression of London's immorality.
- A large proportion of Europe's 10-12 million Roma have suffered systematic discrimination and are therefore struggling against an intolerable degree of social, cultural and economic exclusion as well as human rights violations.
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