Sentence examples for huge expedition from inspiring English sources

The verboten list would include Ford Motor, which had to widen the doors of its automotive stable to accommodate the huge Expedition and the gargantuan Excursion; the latter vehicle gets as little as 10 miles a gallon but, with the proper wiring, could serve as home base for an Internet start-up.

By analyzing the repair and maintenance railway costs worldwide, we found that a huge expedition is done in the field of purchase, change and installation of the rail and wheel in the railway industry every year [5, 6].

The Abbasids had launched a huge expedition with two separate armies in retaliation for the Byzantine emperor Theophilos's successes the previous year, and aimed to sack Amorion, one of the Byzantium's largest cities. Theophilos with his army confronted the smaller Muslim army, under the Iranian vassal prince Afshin, at Dazimon.

A year later, however, a huge expedition of 112 dromons and 75 pamphyloi with 43,000 men, that had sailed under Himerios against the Emirate of Crete, not only failed to recover the island, but on its return voyage, it was ambushed and comprehensively defeated by Leo of Tripoli off Chios (October 912).

In the nineteenth century, artists visited the Far West as members of huge expeditions: Albert Bierstadt, a painter-pioneer who was one of the first to turn to the Rockies and Yosemite instead of the Alps to depict the sublime, travelled with a railway survey expedition in 1859.

For example, scientists and explorers mounted huge expeditions to view the 18th century's two transits, which occurred in 1761 and 1769.

The minister said the Spotlight programme, which was broadcast on Wednesday evening, was a "huge fishing expedition and not much of a catch at the end of it".

Having settled matters in Khurasan, Harun returned to the west in November 805 and prepared a huge retaliatory expedition for 806, drawing men from Syria, Palestine, Persia, and Egypt.

457 461) off the coast of Spain in 460 was scattered or captured by the Vandals before it could set sail, and finally, in 468, Geiseric defeated a huge joint expedition by both western and eastern empires under Basiliscus.

Filmmaking plays a huge role in every expedition I embark on these days.

In his autobiography, Barnum wrote that his posse "killed large numbers of the huge beasts" on the expedition.