The back seat is immense, bordering on the obscene.
So far, the Chinese have prevailed: trade between the two countries has soared over the last 10 years, mostly to China's benefit, while much of their immense border remains contested.
The tourism benefits were immense: border controls had yet to be introduced, which meant that with a single visa for a trip to Moscow you could hop happily through the Baltics.
Thus far, implementing the blockade and securing the Southern coastline had proven difficult: for much of the summer, the Navy had struggled to provide adequate coverage of the immense maritime border stretching from Virginia to Texas.
I would have reacted as I did to The Sopranos, and The Man Who Wasn't There, and even In the Loop: with immense pleasure, bordering on awe, at the subtlety and range of so dominating a screen presence.
Its $5.5 billion R&D machine yields world-beating technological innovations, its $34 billion brand value opens doors everywhere, its famous management-training programs both attract and cultivate talent, and its scope across products, services, and geographies all contribute to GE's immense cross-border aggregation potential.
The cafe looks out over an immense lotus pond bordered by tall flowering trees, and beyond that is the Pura Saraswati temple, which at night comes to life with performances of Balinese dancing accompanied by a gamelan orchestra.
Since Vietnam and China share a border, immense trade and an ideology, there will always be an element of business-as-usual to Hanoi-Beijing ties behind the scenes, even as anger rages over the sovereignty claims in the South China Sea.
After a drive bordering the immense and beautiful Huillinco Lake, we arrived at the isolated beach of Cucao on the Pacific.
His discoveries filled in large holes in the continent's map, including the immense Victoria Falls on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The bestselling novelist also spoke of how "the sharing of art and literature across borders constitutes an immense power for good in this world", citing the "heart-splitting poetry of Mahmoud Darwish", the late and widely acclaimed Palestinian poet who "seared … the true human cost of the Palestinian conflict … upon my consciousness".
