Over the years, it has expanded to encompass Roman Catholic and Jewish organizations.
Bank of America's expertise with size and scale has expanded to encompass the management of $45 billion in bailout funds.
In recent years, Medicare has slowly expanded to encompass a small but growing number of preventive health care services.
One version of the document says the boundaries of greater Jerusalem would be expanded to encompass Palestinian districts, including the towns of Abu Dis, Al Ayzariyan and Salwan.
In Mr. McCaw's hands, the vision expanded to encompass a variety of computer applications that could benefit from eliminating that signal lag, known as latency.
New arrivals stayed in the cabin "downtown," which had been fitfully expanded to encompass a library, living room, dining room, and kitchen, with four bedrooms upstairs.
The Greenwich Village base of her early fiction has, in succeeding books, expanded to encompass the American Southwest and the New England of her youth.
But the definition of self-defense has expanded to encompass broad maritime and economic interests, two Chinese admirals contended in March.
These quotas, which restrict their year-on-year growth to 7.5%, can be renewed annually until 2008 and could be expanded to encompass other goods.
For the first time, however - and before the EU expanded to encompass 25 states - it was agreed that Gibraltar would be attached to the UK's south-west constituency in elections to the European parliament.
As its usage expanded to encompass nearly all of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East, the noun morphed into an adjective that suggested darker peoples, malnourished children, dread diseases, broken infrastructure, failed states and corrupt leaders.
