Sentence examples for of a vast scale from inspiring English sources

Iran has been a major state sponsor of terrorism, including providing support for Hamas and Hezbollah -- two groups that have perpetrated murder of a vast scale and whose violent actions have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of American citizens.

Given its potential for the 'devastation of enemy lands and the destruction of industrial targets and centres of population on a vast scale'.

The enlargement of the European Union to include countries formerly of the Warsaw Pact was an advance of democracy and the rule of law on a vast scale.

Four decades ago, Watergate revealed the potential of the modern Presidency for abuse of power on a vast scale.

By George Packer Four decades ago, Watergate revealed the potential of the modern Presidency for abuse of power on a vast scale.

It is a crisis, first and foremost, about death and disability of children on a vast scale, about women who become maternal mortality statistics partly because of nutritional deficiencies and about social and economic costs that strangle development and snuff out hope.

Its homes, all newly peopled, are the legacy of tragedy on a vast scale: 2004's Boxing Day tsunami.

President Zuma stands accused of cronyism on a vast scale and has been personally held to account by the Public Prosecutor for spending governmental millions on his holiday home in the KwaZulu hills.

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.

Similar to the Fens of East Anglia but on a vast scale, this area of wetlands and dunes surrounding the Coorong lagoon has been home for millennia to the Ngarrindjeri.

In the case of privatised utilities, that is the extraction of shareholder value on a vast scale from a captive public.