The House bill would offer a tax cut to small businesses, but it is drawn so broadly that it would benefit anyone with income through partnerships and other "pass-through" entities".
A state law requires "maintenance of effort" by local governments, meaning that they must keep up their school spending, but the law is so broadly worded that it is generally regarded as almost impossible to enforce.
But it is written so broadly that it has begun to ensnare some of the nation's best-known political pollsters at a time when there is a flurry of polling by presidential candidates, interest groups, "super PACs" and news organizations.
But it was written so broadly that many businesses and LGBT advocates warned that it opened the door to widespread discrimination.
But to apply the tactic so broadly is a disaster in a democratic society, he says.
So far, so broadly familiar, but it soon becomes clear that there is far more to James Rice's writing.
It still does, but shows like "NCIS" are so broadly appealing that they win in all categories.
But it has been operated so broadly that we are getting pregnant women arrested for simple driving offenses, and we're not getting rid of the robbers and gang members".
The new policy supposedly allows homosexual "status", while outlawing homosexual conduct; but critics say "conduct" is so broadly defined that witch-hunts are still possible.Charles Moskos, a professor who devised the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, rejects the view that the rise in discharges is necessarily evidence of victimisation.
Everything we mean by a free market depends on a functioning, sympathetic state — a state rooted not in selfish individualism but in a social sympathy so broadly articulated and institutionalized that every man is confident that he can make an honest deal with his fellow man.
It is so intimate but, at the same time, so broadly connects us to others.
