Brooklyn — which, if it were still a separate city, would be the country's fourth-largest, with 2.5 million residents — is a landscape both of vibrant neighborhoods that attract young families and members of the creative class and of vast struggling areas with high poverty rates.
"Knowing how the vast majority struggle and the cost of living should apply to every politician, not just Conservatives," she said.
His fringe players had been granted an opportunity but, in truth, the vast majority struggled to take their chance.
The year 1661, in which Louis XIV assumed the reins of government in France, ushered in an era of vast power struggles in Europe.
Then maybe, just maybe, we can discard the worst, applaud the best and encourage the vast majority struggling along in the middle.
Water remained scarce, however, as the vast system struggled to fill its pipes, and officials warned residents to continue boiling it before drinking or cooking, perhaps until Wednesday.
The next showdown will be on Jan . 15in Michigan, a vast state struggling with a recession and the loss of manufacturing jobs.
Call of Duty, with its static sets, its follow-the-soldier narrative devices, its stubborn twitchcore multiplayer, is something of a relic; it's a vast corporation struggling to keep pace with smaller, more agile start-ups.
Mr Vollmann has penetrated the soul of a place that is like few others on earth, but whose hardships and triumphs tell you something universal about the durability and ambition of the human spirit".Imperial" (and its companion volume of 200 pages of photographs that Mr Vollmann took as part of his research) is about two vast battles: the struggle for water, and the struggle for work.
