There is no doubt that the United States can afford this vast military might.
On the other hand, there are reasons to fear that such a vast enterprise might lose some of the virtues that make aficionados so loyal.
A nation of immigrants, "America's vast success might be explained in part by our genetic predisposition to embrace risks with potentially explosive rewards".
But selling some mortgages from its vast portfolio might disrupt the mortgage market not to mention denting Fannie Mae's returns.At least Fannie Mae can say it is not alone.
Should they choose a man whose vast resources might well empower him to centralize authority in the empire when this would limit their hard-won autonomy?
Very few people in the Vatican – indeed, in Europe at large – had any real knowledge in those days of the vast industrial might of the United States.
It was always about this moment, when vast crimes might be uncovered by citizens – it was always, that is to say, meant to be about you.
Strangest of all these strangenesses, though, was the revelation in the week I finished the book, that its originating dream of a glossary of landscape-language so vast it might encompass the world had, almost, come true.
Readers who are well travelled in the vast Yucatán Peninsula might have read David Owen's article on Florida's rash of sinkhole collapses with special interest ("Notes from Underground," March 18th).
The mass abduction underlines how even the vast military might of a country that has long been a regional peacekeeping giant is failing to contain the insurgency raging in the north-east of Africa's most populous country.
