Sentence examples for be widened as from inspiring English sources

The bridge and widening were approved with the provision that Warren Street only be widened as far as Schuylkill Avenue as not to build a bypass route through a residential area.

Demands were made in Parliament yesterday for the police investigation into illegal information-gathering at the News of the World to be widened as MPs heard claims that senior political and public figures were targeted by a notorious private investigator working for Rupert Murdoch's News International.

The seats in redesigned Yankee Stadium had to be widened as did airline accommodations.

In 1963, due to the growing amount of traffic travelling down Station Road, it was decided that the parts of the road that pass under the bridges should be widened, as they were becoming a bottleneck.

Federal inquiries surrounding Mr. Buchanan appear to be widening, as investigators examine allegations that his companies improperly reimbursed contributors to his campaigns and claimed improper tax deductions and that he failed to include all his varied financial interests in his Congressional disclosure reports.

When the franchise was widened, as it was in the United Kingdom in 1832, women continued to be denied all voting rights.

The pier was closed for the winter during 1895 6 as it unsafe; as a result, the pier was widened as electric lighting was added.

The highway's gravel surface was widened as a first layer and surface treated in autumn 1943 to help heavy traffic during the winter.

"The gap is widening as they continue to dramatically outperform competitors".

Although the tech celebrity isn't new, the divide over the successful ones is widening as millionaires are left behind by billionaires.

Four years into the effort, the distance between competing water constituencies has only been widening as self-imposed deadlines come and go.