Standing there, looking across the expanse of ruins toward the Colosseum, I felt myself shiver in the 90-degree heat.
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Working with my clients over the expanse of their careers allows the good, the bad and the ugly to surface.
Mr Haddon considers the spectrum of his characters' experience, from the expanse of the Welsh landscape to a preferred brand of beer.
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Adding a bit of pattern is a way to break up the expanse and also suggest that this is a place to curl up.
Once, the wealth of a nation was defined by the expanse of its land, the size of its population or the strength of its army, the abundance of its natural resources.
So when building the business case for a sustainability project, I believe it is important to recognize its inter-connectedness with other areas within the organization and really take the time to look at the expanse of sustainability transformation opportunities that lie before us.
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The jihadists use the vast expanse of the Sahara to train recruits from across the region.
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Unlike Antarctica, which has a treaty that prohibits territorial claims, there is no agreement for the vast expanse of the Arctic.
On the vast expanse of the river itself, a huge freight barge from Germany glides slowly past the city's medieval cathedral, towards the more modern structures of the chemical industries.
These people are the technology camels, hauling the riches of the cutting-edge research centers across the vast expanse of the empire and making them available to the regular Dilberts, shoppers and keyboard jockeys.
The structural members of the building, cool and subdued against the warm pinks and dull gold of the walls, form a warped grid that at once suggests space and reasserts the flat expanse of the canvas.
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The steady rhythm of pale faces, paler linen and curving hands across the dark expanse adds to the solemn mood.
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Basically, the urban metropolises are Democratic blue and the vast expanse of most of the rest of the country is overwhelmingly red.
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Gone is the strange expanse of dash between the instrument console and the base of the windshield, caused by the (old) New Beetle's strictly circular roofline.
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However Rhodri Thomas urges caution as he looked out of the vast expanse of bracken on the slopes below Stanidge Edge straddling the border of Yorkshire and Derbyshire.
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Brunner and his colleagues used a technique called exome sequencing, which extracts only known genes from the vast expanse of DNA in the human genome as a way to reduce sequencing cost.
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The eastern mountains don't face the entire expanse of dunes, so the wind cuts the Sossusvlei valley into a "U" shape.
The ice they're built on is melting, and with the ice that holds this shoreline together crumbling too, this island is being swallowed up into the vast flat expanse of the sea.
From the castle ramparts, look out to sea and you will see the wide expanse of Vasco da Gama beach, spreading out for several kilometres against the backdrop of enormous cranes in the busy port beyond.
Both are public beaches, and with a small parking fee (often avoidable in the off-season) you can walk across the sandy expanse for miles in either direction, taking a near-private tour of areas crowded with people during the high season.
Three tiers of arched balconies overlook the generous expanse below, their railings worked in elaborate wrought iron tracery.
Most people step off that snow lift for the first time and stare down in awe at the sheer expanse of ice that awaits them.
But the vast expanse of West Kalimantan makes policing difficult.
But for much of the past 15 years, the full expanse of Jewish history and identity was narrowed to a discussion of isolated neighborhoods, as if they were what this is all about.
Each of these individuals are safety and mission assurance-related officials in other federal departments of the federal government, from the Air Force, from the Navy, from the Department of Transportation, and across the federal expanse.
Munich hosts one of the world's most famous municipal celebrations, known globally as Oktoberfest (although it is in fact held at the end of September) and known to locals as Wiesn (from the grassy expanse where it is held called Theresienwiese).
The sheer, vast expanse of what the Masai Mara has to offer is impossible to see in one day, or even repeated safaris across the landscape.
One reason the PATH has been so much slower to recover than the New York City subway is the relatively greater expanse of track area that was subjected to coastal flooding in the storm, said Stephen Kingsberry, the acting director of the PATH, on a recent visit to Exchange Place in Jersey City.
And he describes the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an enormous expanse of the Pacific Ocean where currents concentrate the trash over a continent-sized area.
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