Sentence examples for massive tract from inspiring English sources

The defence ministry, which owns the massive tract of land where Uptown Cairo will be built, is Egypt's largest landowner and manager.

Upstream from Puerto Maldonado, the Tambopata Nature Reserve (officially called the Tambopata-Candamo Reserve Zone, or TRZ) is a massive tract of humid subtropical rainforest in the department of Madre de Dios.

In 1943 the American government used eminent domain to acquire the massive tract of land that would become the Hanford Site, relocating 1,500 people from three small towns.

As part of his PlaNYC, a sustainability plan to prepare for New York's expected growth of 1m people by 2030, massive tracts of the city have been rezoned.

The resulting complex morphology comprises diversified landscapes varying from labyrinthic net of channels and lakes (fluvial delta) to massive tracts of monotonous reed marshes, large lagoons divided by barriers, or beach-ridge plains accommodating large transgressive dunefields (maritime delta).

Since 2008, when global food prices spiked, there has been a boom in what critics call "land-grabbing": international investors and sovereign wealth funds snapping up leases on massive tracts of African territory in order to intensify the production of crops for export, and bringing such territory under the control of European, Asian and Gulf nations in the process.

Beyond its aesthetic beauty, massive tracts of land in key places have the potential to provide capital appreciation and steady cashflows, beyond just aesthetic value.

The lobbyist-fueled SOPA and PIPA bills were designed to shut down massive tracts of internet content without due process or accountability.

Setting up the infrastructure to contain algae systems like the Canopy is incredibly expensive (given that these systems require constant temperature control) and take massive tracts of land.

As to the second question, the reappearance of massive W tracts in Drosophila can be quoted in favor of independent (convergent) evolution, while if conservation would be the answer, an early progenitor with only a binary code could be suspected.

A massive white matter tract at the back of the brain, overlooked for the past century, might be crucial for skills such as reading.