Sentence examples similar to definition too wide from inspiring English sources
The definition seems too wide: it counts as a sacrifice a case when a participant assumes a substantial risk in order to improve others' health, but receives net benefits from participation.
Moreover, the sūtra construed as a definition of perception, results in too wide, and not too accurate, a definition, because it only says that perception arises from a connection between the sense faculty and an existing object and does not exclude perceptual error or inferential cognition.
US law gives terrorism too wide a definition, rendering legitimate resistance to occupation and oppression illegal.
The efforts to control extremism and limit protest by those caught by too wide a definition may undermine the very rights and British values you seek to protect".
They also deplored his use of a case definition that many said cast too wide a net and included people who had depression, not chronic fatigue syndrome.
Definitions may be hopelessly vague or miss the mark entirely; they may be too wide and include unwanted characteristics or subsets; they may be too narrow and exclude essential characteristics.
While his definition captures one of the striking characteristics of the economist's way of thinking, it is at once too wide (because it would include in economics the game of chess) and too narrow (because it would exclude the study of the national income or the price level).
Mr. Johnson called the definition too restrictive.
