Sentence examples for close vast from inspiring English sources

Surely modern medicine has brought us beyond the days when the only solution to an infectious disease was to burn entire herds of livestock, to close vast swaths of the countryside, to soak rags and spread them on the roads.

Cities including Vienna to Munich and Copenhagen have closed vast swaths of streets to car traffic.

The airlines say the agency has tried harder lately to establish consensus in those calls, rather than closing vast areas where radar shows thunderstorms.

Although 70% of its chemical factories have now closed, vast clouds of smoke still fill the air and darkened river water betrays signs of the mercury and other pollutants which have seeped deep into the ground over the decades.

These artists were our heroes and our imitation was an attempt to momentarily close the vast distances between us.

[Read the rest.] The decision to seek an agreement echoes the wise move in 2009 by the United States North Pacific Fishery Management Council, which decided (industry included) to close a vast stretch of American waters to fishing that has never been fished actively.

Newcastle council's plans to close "the vast majority" of the city's libraries have been branded "wrong and immoral" by furious authors including Philip Pullman, children's laureate Julia Donaldson and Anne Fine.

But we got the general point: Astorino is no choir boy, either, and if by some miracle he manages to close the vast gap in the polls that currently separates him from the governor, he can't be trusted to do the right thing in Albany.

This would give them the economic clout to close the "vast" differences in prosperity and growth that exist across England, argued the Labour leader.

A UN team, including UNICEF, flew by chopper over the affected areas on Wednesday, surveying thousands of damaged homes and witnessing up close the vast need for international aid.

Her expression shifted only minutely, but each shift — her nostrils flaring, or her eyelids batting tightly closed — registered vast emotion.