Sentence examples for encompass vast from inspiring English sources

The wide angles encompass vast spaces, including rocky mountain ranges, alluvial planes and forests.

Tranquil introspection was the method, as when in the fifth century St Augustine asked how it was that the mind could encompass vast regions of space and time, imaginary as well as real objects, or the idea of God.

Steven Rose The explanatory gap A lifetime studying the neurobiology of learning and memory, and I still wonder about St Augustine's questions 1,600 years ago: "How does my brain/mind encompass vast regions of space and time, abstract thoughts and numbers, false propositions?" (Or for that matter the memory of my fourth birthday party or what I had for breakfast yesterday).

However, a single 16S OTU or phylotype can potentially encompass vast amounts of species- and strain-level variation, which remains largely unexplored in studies that are confined to even the most highly variable regions of 16S rRNA.

Because freedom of speech is a right that other rights depend on, this book encompasses vast areas of 21st-century dispute.

Per capita Rome is the greenest capital in Europe but only because the city limits were drawn far out in the countryside, encompassing vast agricultural tracts.

Mexico is one of the world's more biologically diverse countries, encompassing vast deserts, tropical rainforests, mangrove swamps, and alpine ecosystems and supporting a wide range of reptiles and mammals, as well as myriad other types of animals.

In Zimbabwe, for instance, by insisting that this month's elections be free and fair and by offering increased financial aid for land redistribution, Britain is signaling its broader interest in the stability of a region that encompasses vast British investment, particularly in South Africa.

700) names Scythia, a geographic region encompassing vast areas of eastern Europe, as the place "where the generations of the Sclaveni had their beginnings".

The usefulness of the Great Wall as a defence line against northern nomads became questionable under the Qing dynasty, since their territory encompassed vast areas inside and outside the wall: China proper, Manchuria, and Mongolia were all under Qing control.

Despite its specialised life history and conservational status, this lycaenid shows considerable variation in morphology and ecology across its range, which encompasses vast areas of the Palearctic from Central Spain to Japan [ 22].