Sentence examples for vast layer from inspiring English sources

This vast layer of university administrators has changed the composition and the culture of the American university.

What is rarely mentioned in all the proselytising about the smart grid is that it adds a vast layer of hackable points to the network some 440m by 2015, according to Lockheed Martin's Energy and Cyber Services.

Earth's mantle, the vast layer of viscous rock between its molten iron core and the outer shell of tectonic plates, may look much like one of those lava lamps that were all the rage in the '70s.

The US increasingly approaches the formerly "third world" pattern of a few centers surrounded by vast layers of more or less desperate hinterland dwellers.

In such a context, that the Paisleyites did not win more decisively last week was a comment on the profound distrust of vast layers of Northern Irish Protestant society for the intransigent and self-righteous politicians of the DUP.

Environmental groups contend harsh and shifting weather conditions make it impossible to drill in the Arctic, a region with a fragile environment that helps regulate the global climate because of its vast layers of sea ice.

"The labor of seaweed as it concentrates in its tissues the substances scattered... throughout the vast layers of the ocean; the industry of the bees as they make honey from the juices broadcast in so many flowers -- these are but pale images of the ceaseless working-over that all the forces of the universe undergo in us in order to reach the level of the spirit".

After descending from the polar plateau, the explorers had to cross the Ross Ice Shelf, the vast, floating layer of ice known then as the Barrier.

The findings also confirm that most of the genome is transcribed and emphasize the importance and pervasiveness of functional non-protein-coding RNA transcripts that has emerged during the last decade suggesting a "vast hidden layer of RNA regulatory transactions" (Mattick 2007).

They wrote that … … there may be a vast hidden layer of RNA regulatory information in complex organisms and that increasing amounts of genetic information in these organisms is expressed as and transacted by RNA.

The evidence, dating back in fact to 1977, is that there is a vast hidden layer of regulatory RNAs that are involved in directing the epigenetic trajectories of differentiation and development, and this is now just beginning to be peeled back.