Sentence examples for vast remit from inspiring English sources

Outlining the vast remit of the inquiry, Jay described a "root and branch" investigation of the press that would not be cowed by the powerful range of institutions in the media.

Lady Ashton, the high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, has spent the last year effectively creating the EU's first foreign office, with a full diplomatic and policy staff and a potentially vast remit.

For while it was right that one overarching inquiry should indeed look at all aspects of the planning and conduct of the war and its aftermath – it was after all the worst British foreign policy blunder in a century or more – that vast remit left the Chilcot team with an almost unmanageable volume of material to examine.

The London mayor writes: "It is the European court of justice, with its vast new remit over the charter of fundamental rights, that is making it harder month by month for the security services to get on with their job – whether it be expelling murderers or monitoring terrorist suspects.

Ofsted has become a vast bureaucracy whose remit, aside from inspecting a labyrinth of different kinds of schools, takes in children's services, parts of the prison service, and even immigration removal centres.

Its mission encompassed a broad remit over a vast geographical area.

Classics: A Very Short Introduction, by Mary Beard and John Henderson, read by Tim Bentinck (3hrs 42miNaxosaxos, £13.99) Along with media and sports studies, classical civilisation - a dumbed-down mixture of classics, ancient history and archaeology - has become one of those subjects whose remit is so vast and imprecise it's seen as a bit of a doddle.

The impact, it turns out, is huge and benign.Obviously, migrants help their homelands by remitting cash on a vast scale.

There are many academic contextualized screening centres across the world, each with different specializations and remits and, collectively, they represent a vast transfer of knowledge and technology bases from industry into academia.

However it argues the "vast" scope of NSA dragnets is such that captured communications fall far outside this remit — with the intelligence agencies tapping into Internet infrastructure (such as high capacity cables, routers and switches directly) and sucking up data not connected to a specific intelligence target, and even gathering "entirely domestic" comms.

The vast majority of studies on the microeconomic determinants of migrant remittances conclude that different motivations to remit can coexist.