Around the platform, five technicians bent over the vast machinery that would keep him alive.

Those early space explorers, though tough, were largely passive participants in the vast machinery of taming the heavens.

The TechnoCore had constructed vast machinery to accomplish what any individual could do with some training.

He and Paris had been trying, with limited success, to describe the vast machinery they had seen inside the moon.

With their own factory the new company would have vast and perfect machinery dedicated entirely to the production of type-setters.

Once the mobilization button was pushed, the whole vast machinery for calling up, equipping, and transporting two million men began turning automatically.

Why was she so anxious to violate what seemed to be a vast and tidy legal machinery?

At the same time, the attitude of acquiescence in the party's leadership was encouraged by a vast machinery of repression.

While it may generate creative proposals, it does not insure that initiatives will be successfully carried out by the vast machinery of government.

But many of Washington's transplants (at least those who work in its vast white-collar machinery) bring little of their regional quirks to the city.