Back in America, "Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may by intrigue, by corruption or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests of the people," Madison feared.8 There would be "little avail to the people... if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood".
The material is so voluminous that most attempts at general survey are admittedly samplings.
"My rings are so voluminous that the first thought that pops into your head is, 'They're incredible!'" de Castellane muses.
A day's worth of observations were so voluminous that she needed to resort to the epic form, traditionally a container for heroic male struggle, to express them.
JPMorgan's trading activity was so voluminous that the bank was recklessly "employing a manipulative device" in the market for swaps, which are financial contracts that allowed the bank to bet on the health of companies like American Airlines.
"The only way that will ever work is if you... deluge the Internet with a tsunami of mediocre content that is so voluminous that it cannot be ignored, at least by search engines," she wrote.
The cache of Iraqi documents cover subjects extending far beyond illicit weapons, according to senior military officials, and are so voluminous that, if stacked, they would rise 10 miles high, according to estimates by senior government officials.
However, the collected materials are so voluminous that one can hardly see the wood for the trees.
Despite the massive dropoff in users after the first month, the tweeting activity from the users who are left is so voluminous that it makes the "tweets per month" of each cohort average over 100% (and, as before, the more recent cohorts are the more loyal)!
- Litterfall associated with tropical cyclones is so voluminous that it often explains the majority of variation in annual litterfall among years., Tropical cyclones also influence litter quality.
The walrus, for instance, could not be so voluminous as to dwarf the others.
