Some meanders have been widened so that the river is navigable for lake freighters to about 5 miles (8 km) upstream; its total length is about 80 miles (130 km).
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Rescuers on Friday achieved an important milestone in the effort to rescue 33 trapped miners, reaching the caverns where the men are trapped with a bore hole that will now be widened so they can be pulled to safety.
But that number, as John Cassidy has written, may be widening so much that voter suppression wouldn't have been enough to do the trick anyway.
As the research is widening so is our teaching.
The new lab is triple the size of the old one, with six examination rooms instead of two.Its garage was even widened so that forensic scientists can wheel in larger vehicles that may bear evidence.
Instructions were drawn up for provincial governors, and the position of the defensores civitatis, the officials whose duty it was to protect the cities, was strengthened and their jurisdiction widened so that provincials did not need to have the expense of going to the governor's court.
But by the 1870s, when Middlemarch was published, its meaning had widened so that it could now suggest the special vocabulary of a particular group.
On April 3rd, it was announced that the trading band would be widened to two points.It seems that, so far, foreign investors in Vietnam, more used to the roller-coaster ride that is stockmarket investing, have held tight.
It's increasingly clear that for that circle to be widened nationally it will have to be widened locally first.
We all know it's inspired by Tolkien, but at the same time they're widened out so they're more universal than that.
