Sentence examples for put vast from inspiring English sources

Since P.T.S.D. was accepted as a legitimate condition five years after the end of the Vietnam War, the military has put vast resources into coping with it.

It has been bizarre the way most European countries have put vast sums into keeping zombie banks going, rather than winding them down in an orderly fashion.

Making ethanol from sugars encourages farmers to put vast amounts of land into single-crop production, risking environmental damage from pesticides and fertilizers.

The answer to that is not self-serving philanthropy, which makes a wealthy elite determined to put vast fortunes out of reach of the authorities look good.

Mr. Udall narrowly thwarted an effort in the late 1960s to build dams on the Colorado River that would have put vast stretches of the Grand Canyon under water.

In Illinois, John Schmidt, a losing contender for the Democratic nomination for governor, as well as Peter Fitzgerald, who won the Republican Senate primary, both put vast amounts of their own money into sustained television campaigns.

Now, Washington is back in the business of putting vast chunks of wireless spectrum on the market.

But if the English phrase in question is almost meaningless, then surely the business of putting vast resources behind it, counter­productively, is no contribution to English's credibility.

The takeover puts vast resources behind a newspaper that is marginally profitable at best, in part because it has defied the industry trends of cutting staff and circulation.

However, the timing and public nature of the proposals have also attracted criticism both for putting vast amounts of pressure on the would-be spouse and for detracting from his or her sporting achievements.

Opponents of the Clinton plan called it a top-down federal initiative that ignored local concerns by putting vast areas of public land off limits to logging, energy development, off-road vehicle use and other activity.