Sentence examples for vast toll from inspiring English sources

Reflecting growing unease over Mr. Perry's proposed Trans-Texas Corridor, a vast toll road and rail link from Oklahoma to Mexico, legislators imposed a two-year moratorium on other toll-road contracts.

Re "Anguish for Vast Toll of Children Left Behind" (front page, Sept. 23): I want to say something to the children who lost a parent in the last two atrocious weeks.

The government is calling on ordinary citizens not to hoard fuel or food, as shelves and inventories around the country go bare.The sort of hour-by-hour fear and speculation that have surrounded the dynamic situation in Fukushima have obstructed the world's view of the vast human toll already exacted by the disaster that began last Friday afternoon, March 11th.

In the late 20th century, a vast death toll related to HFMD occurred in Southeast Asia.

There is, in short, nothing simple about malnutrition -- except perhaps the fact of how vast a toll it is taking.

Rotten government, a vast cost, resurgent Taliban and the mounting death toll all argue that this is a patch of dusty ground where the outside world has overstayed its welcome.

And New Jersey, the most densely populated state with its vast network of toll roads, Interstates and thousands of crowded state and local highways, is not exempt from the discussion.

The economic collapse has taken a toll on vast segments of society, but it has affected some groups disproportionately.

Known then as the "Great War," World War I was also described as the "war to end all wars," because many believed its high death toll and vast destruction would deter future fighting.

Their U-boats, one of which was sunk, and their motor launches took their toll of the vast traffic which now began.

The 2016 presidential election took a heavy toll on the vast army of journalists assigned to cover it, grinding down shoe leather, fingertips and nerve-endings in equal measure.