Diodorus, who had never seen it, straightforwardly called it "Ozymandias", recorded the proclamation on the pedestal and said that this funerary temple "seems to exceed all others not only in the vast scale of its expense, but also in the genius of its builders".
In their vast scale and technological efficiency, they reflected a triumphant America and sent a warning signal to Europe that it was fast becoming less relevant.
It is humbling in its vast scale, with mostly 19th Century architecture.
You can see its offspring, in steel and on a vast scale, in "Band".
As numerous studies pointed out when £9,000 fees were first proposed, the new system saves the government almost no money, especially in the short term: the state still has to loan students their fees up front and, in reality, the vast scale of student debt will mean that a significant proportion of graduates never pay it back.
Moreover, though Klein doesn't explore the fact, it's worth bearing in mind that the extractive model was applied on a vast scale in the centrally planned economies of the former Soviet Union and Mao's China, where some of the largest and worst 20th-century environmental catastrophes occurred.
Although he was still using gunpowder, he now employed it on a vast scale, in manifestations that others might call fireworks or pyrotechnics but that — to distinguish them from simple entertainments and spectacles — he prefers to call "explosion events".
The anthrax case offers a glimpse into what may be the future of criminal investigation on a vast scale in an age of biological and other sophisticated forms of terrorism.
Corruption is said to be present on such a vast scale in India that it threatens the continued economic success of the country, depressing the stock market and worrying investors.
After being tested on a vast scale in several Latin American countries, a refined version was recently implemented in New York City in an attempt to improve opportunities for children from poor families.
