As the economic decline has broadened, so has the range of people seeking help.
"My horizons have broadened so wide, since the ceremony, that the world feels like the most exciting place.
The floor of the hall has been shortened, the aisles broadened so they are now as wide as roads.
The distinction between different types of planet has already been broadened so that the solar system is now thought to contain three, rather than two, types.
The housing industry argued that sales would fall off a cliff if the credit were not extended and broadened, so Congress went along.
However, the definition of depression has been broadened so much with DSM-IV that nearly every person will meet the criteria at some point in their lives.
On the other hand, the amendment's original language limited its scope to these goals, but the final version was broadened so that it only includes them.
"But we are trying to get the immigration debate broadened, so that we look at the implications for developing countries as well as for our own".
Now, 16 years later, that mission has broadened so dramatically that some at the center see a need for a new motto.
The European Commission, the executive agency of the European Union, also argued that the current E.U. focus on budget deficits should be broadened so that, for example, emerging asset bubbles and imbalances in the euro zone could be spotted and dealt with.
