Sentence examples for substantial swath from inspiring English sources

We have got to face it, we have had another very substantial swath of our crucial activist base wiped away.

As first announced by federal and local officials in New York on June 2, the plot seemed cataclysmic: An Islamic terror cell planned to ignite the fuel storage tanks and a capillary network of pipes under the airport, threatening a major transportation hub, not to mention a substantial swath of Queens.

That is a substantial swath of the population.

Henceforth, until the late nineteenth century, the popes exercised full civil jurisdiction over a substantial swath of territory, extending north and east from Rome, across the heart of the Italian peninsula, all the way to the Adriatic.

Substantial swaths of my personal history were going dead from within, from my talking about them too often.

An unfiltered release could conceivably contaminate substantial swaths of land around a hobbled reactor, forcing residents and business owners to abandon an area for decades.

India also confronts the strengthening nexus between its two nuclear-armed regional adversaries, China and Pakistan, both of which have staked claims to substantial swaths of Indian territory and continue to collaborate on weapons of mass destruction.

In fact they can occur on any sandy coast where there is substantial wave action, including long swaths of Great Lakes shoreline.

So that cuts out rather a large swath of material.

The PYD controls of a large swath of northeastern Syria (including a substantial portion of Syria's oil fields), heads a fully functioning civil society, and boasts a collection of battlefield victories against jihadi groups.

The elections may not have gone the way that a large swath of Silicon Valley had hoped, but the region may yet have a substantial impact on the way government is conducted.