Wide
in sentence
1544 examples of Wide in a sentence
While the gap varies considerably among regions, it is particularly
wide
in Africa and Asia.
The opposition parties have gained
wide
support for their position, with Nepal's largest media organizations, key civil-society leaders, minority activists, and women's groups all opposing the ruling coalition's effort to railroad a constitution through the Constituent Assembly.
The EU is deliberately complex, in order to allow for the coordination of a
wide
variety of national interests.
In May 2013, when I was Chief Economist at the World Bank, my colleague Aristomene Varoudakis and I published a study examining different exchange-rate policies across a
wide
range of countries.
One reason that IT gained such
wide
acceptance as the monetary-policy anchor of choice was the demise of its predecessor, exchange-rate targeting, in the currency crises of the 1990’s.
She sat on a traditional stool and spread her legs
wide
apart.
One, between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebel groups like the Free Syrian Army, can be resolved only through a diplomatic solution – precisely the kind of solution that the peace talks in Vienna, involving a
wide
range of world powers and regional actors, are aiming to reach.
That would require some agreement about appropriate “equilibrium” exchange rates, with a fairly
wide
band that would allow for uncertainty and permit the market to exert its own discipline.
But in Tasmania, groups of hunter-gatherers began to lose – or failed to develop – a
wide
range of useful technologies: bone tools, fitted cold-weather clothing, boomerangs, spear-throwers, and durable boats.
Workers belonging to each caste pursued a
wide
variety of occupations, although agriculture provided the bulk of employment.
One reason these phrases gain
wide
acceptance is their lack of clear definition.
For example, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have banned the import or manufacture of conventional plastics for a
wide
range of products, and both now require that plastic products be upgraded with OBP technology.
The policy change aimed at rectifying this grim reality in Serbia came when the Ministry agreed to apply country
wide
a pilot project that has, since 2003, established a range of community-based support services to enable persons with intellectual disabilities to leave the institutions where they were confined and begin living lives in the wider world.
Allowing for a
wide
range of uncertainty, the CBO estimates that the stimulus added 1.5-3.5% to GDP by the fourth quarter, relative to where it otherwise would have been.
A
wide
range of policies and practices that support positive relationships and quality learning experiences – at home, in early care and education programs, and through targeted interventions – can have a positive impact if based on solid evidence and matched to the specific needs they are expected to address.
The indicators used were ahistorical and failed to account for country-specific challenges and conditions, with cross-country statistical analyses suffering from selection bias and ignoring the interlinkages among a
wide
array of variables.
The late Elinor Ostrom, a Nobel laureate in economics, showed that human societies have built myriad creative and lasting solutions to resolve a
wide
range of dilemmas involving the use of common resources.
Indeed, a book praising the brothers for their work, Tianzhu (“Heavenly Beads”), was published in China late last year, to
wide
acclaim.
What accounts for this
wide
divergence?
Although their distribution is not very wide, they are shining in the darkness like daggers, letting their comrades know who is attacking the old, strong castles.”
Successful examples of progressive federalism can be seen in a
wide
variety of areas, including health care, prison reform, higher education and job training, entrepreneurship, worker protection and benefits in the “gig economy”, and pay-for-success government contracts.
Blaming the Spanish conquerors or the economic empires of the twentieth century cannot hide the fact that huge amounts of money financed corrupt governments, inefficient bureaucracies, big and useless “development” projects such as industrial plants or mineral mills, or a
wide
variety of subsidies to buy off powerful interest groups.
Clearly, the key features of Silicon Valley that foster innovation and entrepreneurship – a dense concentration of human talent, a competitive spirit, easy access to capital, and a supportive regulatory environment – can be replicated in and adapted to a
wide
variety of contexts.
Despite some expected protests, the new anti-terrorism legislation enjoys
wide
support among the French, who seem willing to accept certain limitations to personal freedoms in the name of collective security.
India must understand this troubled partnership, into which America entered with its eyes
wide
open, though it would help if the US accepted that India has paid – and continues to pay – a very high price on this account.
As a junior officer accompanying him to commercial events, I was often privy to his comments about some of his Washington interlocutors: “a mile
wide
and an inch deep,” was how he described a very senior member of the Carter administration at the time.
But while passivity may have ensured social peace in the short term, it enabled values other than those of the republic to take root in
wide
swaths of French cities.
Human rights groups have long urged the necessity of extending the writ of Pakistan's Constitution to the tribal belt, where religion-based parties have
wide
support.
If the negotiations should fail, the transatlantic cleavage could once again become glaringly
wide.
(The reason for such a
wide
estimate is that Indonesia’s censors made reporting on human rights all but impossible at the time.)
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