Sentence examples for vast exercise from inspiring English sources

The book is really "one vast exercise," the class's instructor, Melvin Jules Bukiet, said.

One investigator who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the vast exercise "puts a tremendous strain on agencies" and raises "all sorts of civil liberties issues".

It is a vast exercise in patriotic remembrance, in this case the incendiary massacre of 1905, when Cossack police killed peaceful demonstrators in St . Petersburg

All the harassment and the tub-thumping, the misleading of Rachel Nickell's family and the denigration by the judge was in vain; a vast exercise in distraction left the real killer free to commit other crimes.

Yorkshire is going through a period of extreme Yorkshireness at the moment, with a contest over the geographical centre of the county and a vast exercise in reworking the county anthem, On Ilkla Moor Baht 'At.

As the community of Muslims set itself to record not only the Qurʾān itself but the deeds and sayings of Muhammad, reports of this kind were collected, categorized, and sifted, thus initiating a vast exercise in history, genealogy, critical analysis, and anthologizing.

As Galbraith points out, Kurosawa's later films, like "Kagemusha" and "Ran," became increasingly formal, vast exercises in color and composition, and could well have used the life, energy and explosiveness that Mifune always brought to his performances.

Here we meet a paradox: the person to carry forward the instruction delivered by a vast democratic exercise will be chosen by around 150,000 Conservative party members from a shortlist drafted by 330 Tory MPs.

When Hitler turned the Berlin Olympics of 1936 into a vast propaganda exercise for his racial theories, he wasn't going against the spirit of the movement; he was simply taking it to the next level.

Machado and Silvetti are about as far as you can get from Norman Neuerburg, who designed the original villa, and it seemed an odd match: there is nothing overtly charming about Machado and Silvetti's work, while Neuerburg's design was a vast, sprawling exercise in cuteness.

Although its historical enigmas are apparently insoluble, there is abundant testimony to the vast influence exercised by the book since the earliest times and in surprisingly varied social contexts.