Sentence examples for a vast platform from inspiring English sources

Facebook has provided a vast platform that allowed games studios Zynga and Playfish to flourish; Zynga's revenues alone are estimated at $600m for 2010.

He has never modified his aesthetic, creating shoes with a slender sole even when the prevailing fashion is for a vast platform.

John Paul II arrived in Malta today to find himself facing a vast platform crammed with jostling journalists, all craning for an intimate shot.

The set — essentially a vast platform made up of 24 rotating planks mounted on a crossbar that can rise and fall — is the biggest and most complicated piece of machinery ever used at the house.

Over the last few months, we have learned that the internet is, among other things, a vast platform for state surveillance – and that this has happened with the connivance of those perky, idealistic tech firms.

Julian Spalding, an art critic and former director of some of the UK's leading museums, argues that the stones were foundations for a vast platform, long since lost – "a great altar" raised up high towards the heavens and able to support the weight of hundreds of worshippers.

Among the elements that these companies share is a reliance on Facebook and its vast platform to help fuel their explosive growth.

"The NSA has turned the fabric of the internet into a vast surveillance platform, but they are not magical.

These include a second refinery at Come By Chance (a misnomer, it is to be hoped) and the building of a vast production platform for the new offshore field.

Florida is the sinkhole capital of the world: Most of its landmass is a vast limestone platform, flushed by groundwater below and rained on from above.

Virtually the whole of the Sunshine state, from the Keys in the south to the border with Georgia in the north, is a vast limestone platform that is flushed with groundwater below and has a humid climate that rains down plenty from above.