In November 2013, ahead of the European elections and the lifting of restrictions on Bulgarians and Romanian migration, Cameron tried to pull together his crackdown on EU immigration, vowing to deport vagrants, restrict the right to benefits of foreign nationals and calling for new rules to stop "vast migrations".
Today, food regulating agencies (the FDA and USDA) negotiate with food business owners who ultimately conduct recalls voluntarily, but are often too late to stop people and animals from getting sick, or too slow and ineffective to stop vast amounts of food waste.
Because it is fearful that government monitoring would be seen as a cover for illegal snooping and a violation of citizens' privacy, the Obama administration has not even attempted to develop a proposal for spotting and stopping vast industrial espionage.
But we could also stop spending vast sums on preventive drugs, and put that money into population interventions - better quality meals allied to more sport in school, for instance, or banning smoking in public places.
One of the unsettling matters I suspect was not touched on was the way the police abuse these powers and stop a vast number of people simply to keep the race quotas balanced.
We can connect the heart of Alberta's tar sands destruction to markets, companies and investors world wide, pressuring companies like Norway's Statoil to stop destroying vast areas of Boreal forest in the desperate bid to wring the last poisonous drops of oil from the earth.
But even the most imposing wall would do nothing to stop the vast majority of drugs from entering the U.S. According to the DEA's 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment, Mexican cartels send "the bulk" of their drug shipments over the border through legitimate points of entry, hidden in vehicles or disguised as commercial freight.
The restrictions on foreign players have been regarded as one of the reasons why Russian clubs have stopped spending vast sums on signings from overseas.
But that doesn't mean that Hirst himself has stopped making vast amounts of money from his work, nor does it mean that the collectors who bought his work in that auction were foolish.
Davies's reporting stopped a vast, ruthless media monopoly from effectively doubling in size – with all the consequences for power, democracy, regulation and even policing that went with that.
He wanted the conglomerate (whose name means "Three Stars", implying that it would be huge and eternal) to stop churning out vast quantities of cheap products and focus on quality, to become one of the world's leading firms.Mr Lee (pictured, left) accomplished his mission, probably beyond his wildest dreams.
