Water came from the sprawling system of rain catchers, for no one could drink much of the river water and hope to live.

Instead, he threw his support behind a narrower plan intended to rid the sprawling system of corruption and inefficiency.

It is the nation's largest urban university, a sprawling system of 17 undergraduate colleges, several graduate schools and 200,000 students.

The 52-year-old judge is in charge of a sprawling and troubled system that has 12,000 employees in 230 courthouses throughout the state.

Core literacy and math curriculums were chosen to bring pedagogical cohesion to the sprawling system.

A sprawling system, the depression brought light to moderate rainfall to much of Texas leading to minor flooding.

Dr. Johnstone headed the sprawling system during the state's financial crisis.

A sprawling system of factories staffed by robots would be workable but cumbersome.

You'll still have a huge sprawling system that is slow to change.

In the sprawling American educational system, you can always remake yourself.