The marsh is home to a vast array of plants,fish, reptiles like the North American Alligator, and mammals.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

At previous summits, the United States set forth an ambitious and still unattained goal: forging a vast, hemisphere-wide free-trade zone.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

The country's vast offshore oil and gas resources have provided the government That is a source of both hope and fear.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

He feels the distance between a Bollywood and a Hollywood movie is too vast to be easily traversed.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

French police packed the Jews into a vast stadium near the Eiffel Tower where they languished for days with almost no food or water.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

The incredible thing,he notes, is that we have no media (at our disposal), so we use other tools to create a vast movement with international outreach."

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Sometimes, sciencecan seem overwhelming. There are complicated concepts, unimaginably large - or small - objects, and vast distances that most people have a hard time understanding.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

The rebels began their guerilla campaign for a separate Tamil homeland in 1983, and at the height of their power they controlled vast swathes of territory.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

But only one third of China's vast population is enjoying a modern lifestyle;

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

The vast reddish desert that covers much of Somalia's central Mudug region has always been a source of wealth, as well as calamity, for thousands of pastoral families.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

So a huge,vast population change."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Since a vast majority of the refugees are Sunni Muslims, Christian leaders fear such a large influx of citizens could tilt the sectarian balance, as well as increase competition in the job market and strain Lebanon's economic resources.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

A long-standing drought, along with recent devastating bushfires and widespread floods have given some scientists more reason to think that the vast continent is likely to be one of the countries hardest hit by a shifting climate.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

We're talking about a vast number of trees that are taken out of forests every year, which are contributing to that one-fifth of global emissions that comes from deforestation and contributing to the loss of wildlife, contributing to the loss of people's livelihoods and contributing to the loss of revenue from governments."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28