Sentence examples for a broad margin of from inspiring English sources

But there might have been something uplifting about slowing down, about permitting "a broad margin of leisure," as Thoreau said.

The monetary value attached to the examinations that exceed the median use rates suggests that there is a broad margin of intervention and the need for policy makers and managers to find new and more effective ways to control appropriateness.

And through the first few pages of "I Love a Broad Margin to My Life," it seems Kingston has been doing exactly that.

The title of West Coast writer Maxine Hong Kingston's I Love a Broad Margin to My Life was borrowed from a line by Henry David Thoreau.

I LOVE A BROAD MARGIN TO MY LIFE, by Maxine Hong Kingston (Vintage International, $15).

Maxine Hong Kingston talks to David L. Ulin about her new memoir, "I Love a Broad Margin to My Life".

In July, the House of Representatives approved, by a broad margin, a bill that would make any type of cloning, including so-called therapeutic cloning for research, a crime.

However, he passes over a very practical motive: he wanted to be a writer and, like many another of like ambition, needed privacy, quiet, and a "broad margin" where his mind could roam.

While nearly half of voters said it went too far, they still voted for Mr. Romney by a broad margin.

Mr. Hynes spoke of his surprising decision to reverse himself and run again against Kenneth P. Thompson, who had beaten him by a broad margin in the Democratic primary.

[Transcript and roll call, Page A16.] The broad margin of the victory, 83 to 15, was all the more remarkable coming less than two months before the presidential election, and after nine months of passionate debate.