This shrunken conception of the role of higher learning is unprecedented.

The purpose of the Large Hadron Collider is to create an unprecedented situation.

Foreign, mostly European, banks have entered these markets with unprecedented speed and force.

What many saw, instead, was the start of a wave of political engagement unprecedented under the rule of Vladimir Putin.

While some countries in the past undertook adjustments of similar magnitude, a generalized consolidation of this sort is without precedent.

After two wars and a half dozen undeclared conflicts in the past decade, America has entered a period of unprecedented cultural hibernation.

Its name is a warning, informing humanity that the great inventions produced by rational minds also expose us to unprecedented dangers.

An administration that has consistently boasted of its willingness to bend (and sometimes break) the law to meet an unprecedented threat has become notorious not for its flexibility, but for its rigidity.

It all started with the unprecedented failure of the previous parliament to cast enough votes to elect a new president as head of state, which is a mostly ceremonial role.

November 14, 2012 witnessed the first strike of its kind, including all of the southern European countries most affected by austerity and financial crisis.

Given the parties ideological, organizational, and policy disarray, Japan will enter a period of profound uncertainty, ultimately leading to an unprecedented political shakeup.

Without common economic and financial policies, coordinated at least between the members of the euro zone, the cohesion of the common currency and the EU indeed, their very existence are in unprecedented danger.

We face a challenge that is unprecedented in human history creation of a powerful political ethic of solidarity self consciously grounded on the presence and acceptance of very different views.

At Fukushima, some people appear to forget that the accident resulted from two natural disasters of unprecedented magnitude, which caused the death of tens of thousands of people.

The report on mass graves was an unprecedented work that Khurram spearheaded and which brought international attention to the human rights abuses in the Kashmir valley.

From his taste in decor and his adversarial relationship with the media, to what critics say is his fundamental assault on human rights, the similarities are hard to contest.

São Paulo's metropolitan region of 20 million people is now on the verge of water rationing, an unprecedented threat for one of the world's leading cities.

Last September, we wrote about an unprecedented 24 hour sit in for families of uncharged prisoners.

When Khamenei publicly supported Ahmadinejad s controversial reelection in 2009, no one could have predicted the unprecedented tensions that would subsequently emerge between the country s two main authorities.

Second, not only have new foreign equity investments declined during the financial crisis, but SWFs have also recently engaged in an unprecedented wave of divestments, especially of foreign holdings.

In an unprecedented operation at the end of last month, around 20 mid ranking and upper level staff at the powerful Agency on Combatting Corruption and Financial Control were detained in Tajikistan.

The amount of nitrogen and sulfur circulating through the Earth system has doubled. The ocean s pH is changing at an unprecedented rate, reaching levels of acidity that marine organisms have not experienced in the last 20 million years.

Bearing in mind that the founding principle of the Charter of the United Nations, to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war , is testimony to the indelible link between the United Nations and the unique tragedy of the Second World War,

Hong Kong s government, led by the HKMA, launched an unprecedented intervention, buying up local shares to defeat the speculators, but failed to stop the stampede by global investors, including conservative pension and mutual funds.

Tahun lalu OECD memberikan peringatan bahwa kita sedang mengalami penuaan dengan laju yang tidak pernah terjadi sebelumnya dan kondisi ini dapat menurunkan pertumbuhan ekonomi tahunan global dari rata rata 3,6 di dekade ini menjadi 2,4 di tahun 2050 hingga 2060.

Unprecedented as it may seem, this reputation is a stern reflection that needs immediate action not only for the ones in power but for everyone... unless of course everyone is contented to live with shame...

America s opposition to the AIIB is not unprecedented in fact, it is akin to the successful US opposition to Japan s generous New Miyazawa Initiative of the late 1990s, which offered 80 billion to help countries in the East Asian crisis.