Sentences with phrase «vast extent»

In a recent interview with Gary Gutting for the New York Times, Tim Maudlin, professor of philosophy at NYU, rejects arguments based on cosmology that seek to show that human beings have any special place: «No one looking at the vast extent of the universe and the completely random location of homo sapiens within it (in both space and time) could seriously maintain that the whole thing was intentionally created for us.

But there is a vast extent of ocean beyond my experience that is nevertheless continuous with that bit of ocean I know.

But there is a vast extent of ocean way beyond my ken that is nevertheless continuous with that bit of the ocean I know.

I heard stories from women who said they were leaky when they were full, but I didn't realize the vast extent to which I would leak.

The vast extent of the Amazon Basin has historically restricted the study of its tree communities to the local and regional scales.

Recent decades have seen a major international effort to inventory tree communities in the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield (Amazonia), but the vast extent and record diversity of these forests have hampered an understanding of basinwide patterns.

Let any person contrast the awkward and uncouth cars of «35 with the superbly splendid long cars now running on several of the eastern roads, and he will find it difficult to convey to a third party, a correct idea of the vast extent of improvement.

Season two documents the vast extent to which our collected information and data is building an interconnected global net that has perhaps rendered us the last generation of privacy.

It was the vast extent of the requirements, the capriciousness of many, and the growing trend to impose them without at least pretending to comply with the legal requirement for public comment that changed the landscape of education policy.

Yes indeed, you can control the shedding habits of your cat to a vast extent, and change the amount of hair it sheds.

However, it has been done on the PC to a vast extent, one of the most prominent being the Sam and Max franchise from Telltale Games.

The exhibition has been widely publicized for the vast extent of its undertaking.

The vast extent of open water in the Pacific influences wind and pressure patterns over it, and climatic conditions in the southern and eastern Pacific — where the steadiness of the trade winds and the westerlies is remarkable — are the most uniform on the globe.