Sentence examples for Vast masses from inspiring English sources

But others will return to looted or damaged homes, and may join the vast masses of unemployed in an economy crippled by war and uncertainty.

In this segment of the mountains, a number of large structural units of nappe character (vast masses of rock thrust and folded over each other) may be distinguished.

But the truth is that cricket is the only manmade phenomenon that connects the nation's upper classes with its vast masses.

Intelligence services have vast masses of information about people who might be dangerous because of their ethnic origins, religious beliefs, suspected views or past actions but other than locking them all up – as happened to many in Britain in during the Second World War – identifying those who pose a real danger is extremely difficult.

Belgium invaded and broken down - our own fine expeditionary force which King Leopold called to his rescue cut off and captured, escaping as it seemed only by a miracle and with the loss of all its equipment; our ally France out; Italy in against us; all France in the power of the enemy, all its arsenals and vast masses of military material converted to the enemy's use.

While that budget is likely to total in the tens of billions of dollars, economists say it could cost at least a quarter of a trillion dollars to fully rebuild from the March 11 disaster, which left the country with the nuclear crisis, more than 24,000 people dead or missing and hundreds of miles of the coastline rendered uninhabitable by vast masses of tangled debris.

The whole, vast mass of Russia seemed to teeter for a few days.

He promises to introduce a professional civil service and legalise the vast mass of informal businesses.

Americans have a proper contempt for the vast mass of lawyers, of course.

"The vast mass are happy with quite cheap hotels," says David Painter of Kuoni Group Travel Experts, a group-travel operator.

"The readiness with which this vast mass answers to the helm is a matter of wonder to me".