That's a slightly slowdown compared with December, but still safely in expansion territory.
The Greek PMI moved back into expansion territory for the first time in six months, posting a 25-month peak of 50.4.
"It's not firmly in expansion territory where businesses are ready to hire and invest," said Tim Quinlan, an economist at Wells Fargo Securities in Charlotte, N.C.
They suggest boundaries, borders — even as they connote the expansion of territory and influence.
What he did not do was refer to their recent expansion of territory.
It has met every stress of vast expansion of territory, of foreign wars, of bitter internal strife, of world relations.
His capture of Almería (1147) from the Moors won him renown, as did other victories, but in the end these led to little expansion of territory.
And in this instance Mr. Hark shows some signs of growing up; this could have been his expansion into territory occupied by his fellow countryman Wong Kar Wei (whose blissful "In the Mood for Love" was also in the festival, playing to larger notice), that is until he became tired of adult concerns and allusive filmmaking and it finally turned back into a Tsui Hark movie.
So many games are so silly, so flippant, so bloody, after all, and so few of them are _about _anything beyond the old and tired story of victory over one's opponent, of the expansion of territory, of which we get quite enough on the news.
So many games are so silly, so flippant, so bloody, after all, and so few of them are about anything beyond the old and tired story of victory over one's opponent, of the expansion of territory, of which we get quite enough on the news.
On the Pokot side, payment of dowry and accumulation of wealth, and to a lesser extent, expansion of territory were found to be the strongest motives.
