One is an enormous country in Asia.
"Russia is an enormous country, and there are plenty of opportunities," David J. O'Reilly, Chevron Texaco's chief executive, said in an interview.
"Pakistan is an enormous country; it is a strategically important country," Mr. Obama began, meandering around to a defense of his administration.
Despite being "a nation so unhappily distracted," the business of governing our enormous country went on uninterrupted, a fact Lincoln surely wanted to emphasize.
Yet it still leaves the question of why Russia, an enormous country with an established league and a long football tradition, are performing so poorly.
It seems strange that Americans should need to be reminded what an enormous country this is and how resolute, how stalwart, the American landscape can be.
The fact is that, in an enormous country like India, there are bound to be very divergent views on the role of women.
From 1998 to 2003, this enormous country was the scene of Africa's first world war, with the armies of at least half a dozen countries blasting away at each other while their commanders filled their pockets.
As head of state, president Dilma Rousseff would outrank Angela Merkel, Germany's Chancellor, and Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State: her enormous country of 200 million people is revelling in its new oil wealth.
Yet in 10 years, he said, "China, an enormous country and extremely interested in fashion and luxury goods, can become a really big opportunity for this kind of company".
