Sentence examples for a vast operation from inspiring English sources

ABC was the third-largest network, but still a vast operation that ran television and radio stations and produced programming.

The officials described a vast operation involving an intensive surveillance effort by more than 100 people and including assistance from American intelligence sources and the Moroccan authorities.

This is a vast operation and anyone who can become a link in the supply chain is on to a good thing.

He seemed less like a visiting emissary than like a proconsul inspecting a vast operation over which he commanded much of the authority.

Investigators said 21 people including veterinarians, butchers and other meat industry workers had been arrested in what they described as a vast operation across the south of France.

Now, hopes for salvaging the election have come down to the audit, a vast operation supervised by professional election observers spread out across several warehouses in Kabul.

It is an vast operation to which Turkish authorities turn a blind eye: in a telling illustration of their permissiveness, one of Izmir's main refugee-gathering points lies just across the road from the city's security directorate.

"It's a vast, vast operation," Bishop Sheridan said.

Emma John, of the British newspaper The Observer, made her metaphorically rich view clear: "The London organizing committee appears to be masterminding an unnervingly vast operation with the invisible, eerie efficiency of the Sith lords in 'Star Wars.' By next summer I will be surprised if we don't see Darth Coe patrolling the Olympic Park with a light saber".

Mr. Cox's committee staff found in its assessment that while the Department of Homeland Security was doing a much better job of speeding along local grants for the vast operation, a huge bottleneck had developed at the state and local level.

A vast security operation will be needed, and perhaps emergency funding.