But Chilean sea bass today have become the signature species in a battle of global proportions.

It was a small sight but held a glimpse of global proportions.

In nature the global average proportion of total rainfall that is blue water is about 40%.

"Back then there was the sense that Gorbachev was a star of global proportions," he said.

Like looking at the world through a fish-eye lens, the global proportions of earth begin to take on their distinctly rounded shape.

Yet when a pop movement reaches such global proportions, it tends to split apart.

It appears to have been a miscalculation of global proportions, Western diplomats now say.

Between 1990 and 2009, the global proportion of female primary school teachers grew from 56% to 62%.

Perhaps, then, it could be used to desalinize water, an issue of global proportions.

Since his death Marley's popularity has spread to global proportions.