Sentence examples for vast possessions from inspiring English sources

Their vast possessions in the hinterland eventually became Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia and Mozambique.

Schama tells this story using only two examples among Britain's vast possessions, but they are the central ones -- Ireland and India.

The boundaries of Texas were determined within the larger geostrategic struggle to demarcate the limits of the United States' extensive western lands and of Spain's vast possessions in North America.

Those are huge possessions".

Russians sometimes worry that they have only a tenuous hold on their vast eastern possessions.

By his marriage in 1477 to Mary, daughter of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, Maximilian acquired the vast Burgundian possessions in the Netherlands and along the eastern frontier of France.

(They had been found in the artist's vast trove of possessions, which the museum was cataloging).

"We were probing, had a vast amount of possession but didn't have that cutting edge.

"We had control of the game for long periods, and we certainly had the vast majority of possession and a vast majority of the pressure.

For much of the first half the hosts clearly lacked confidence in the final third despite enjoying the vast majority of possession, with Eljero Elia finally testing Speroni five minutes before the break.

Despite the setback, the League Two side had the vast majority of possession and chances before the break, with Morsy and Evatt both guilty of wasting very presentable opportunities.