21.   It is the fabled legacy of a Polynesian princess, a feudal empire so vast that it could never be assembled in the modern world.

22.   It was a vast empire that extended over three continents.

23.   New texts describe him as a visionary political leader who forged a vast empire out of feuding kingdoms ruled by petty emirs and khans.

24.   One would entail selling parts of the General Services Administration, the federal agency that maintains a vast empire of government-owned buildings, to its own employees.

25.   Pointing ominously toward the Russians, he suggested that mastery of this land mass could produce another vast Mongol empire capable of world domination.

26.   Russia used to find glory in ruling a vast empire and dominating its neighbors.

27.   The company seems to be coasting on its brand recognition and the vast empire built by founder Ray Kroc, they said.

28.   This is a typical approach for the once-tiny Miramax company, which in fact has become a branch office of the vast Disney empire.

29.   Vast empires with roads, aqueducts and carefully planned major cities rose and fell there for thousands of years.

30.   What is now the seat of Catholic Christendom was the center of a vast pagan empire at the time Jesus was born in Palestine.