It was used across a very broad territory reaching from California to Alaska.
That broad territory reveals no simple unity of geologic structure, landform, relief, or climate.
It is pretty enough, and it covers a broad territory: cooking, entertaining, wine, travel and chefs.
But the real argument, as Obama recognizes, takes place in that broad territory that lies behind the extremes of withdrawal and gung-ho crusading.
While Ms. Spark's books cover a broad territory of plot and character, some central similarities can be found in many of the novels and short stories.
LONDON — They call themselves residents of the "51st State," which is a broad territory that covers all continents, counts around six million Americans and displays a passionate interest in the Democratic match-up between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
British reality television is a broad territory about which few generalizations should probably be made, but sometimes it seems an awful lot as if Henry Higgins ought to receive a producing credit.
In the broad territory that stretches between the Caribbean Sea and the Magdalena River-Colombia's Mississippi-a traveller must often negotiate at least three different kinds of checkpoints, some belonging to the guerrillas, some to the Army, and some to the A.U.C.
Another big piece, and a highlight, was Britten's Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 65, which ranged through a broad territory of moods, from a kind of gallantry in the interplay between the two instruments in the first movement to the cello's searing, knifelike lines in the fourth movement, which mellowed and deepened when the piano took them up.
