Sentence examples for immense land from inspiring English sources

The Central Pacific was blessed with immense land grants, taxpayer subsidies, and an apparent monopoly on rail traffic into California.

Like many visitors, she was equally entranced and perplexed by this immense land of sensuous beauty, social and political contradictions, and staggering cultural variety.

Along with immense land holdings, the family owns a media conglomerate and has maintained its power while fighting back charges of nepotism, corruption and restriction of news media freedoms.

In another scene, sappers tunnelling under the immense land walls that had not been breached in 1,000 years, blow themselves up with a cry of "Allahu Akbar" rather than be captured by the Byzantines.

Monument Valley plays a crucial role in America's founding myth as a pioneer nation, topographical shorthand for the peculiar bravado, bloodlust and wide-brimmed hats that conquered this immense land.

The use of Egypt's immense land rents to finance the Empire's operations resulted from Augustus' conquest of Egypt and the shift to a Roman form of government.

From there the view was immense — the land stretched for miles without a single solitary microbrewery.

Immense resources – land, material, time, labour, money, energy – have been invested in their realization.

With uncanny foresight, its founder, McClendon, locked up exclusive access to immense tracts of land across the country by promising property owners that their lives would be transformed by the wealth the gas under it would bring.

Efforts to protect Asian elephants focus immense pressure on land and habitat.

We passed a seaside taverna, an abandoned swim club and the entrance to the nearly 1,000 steps that lead up to the fortress, from which there are spectacular Santorini-like views of an immense sea, distant land and dwellings far below.