Sentence examples for lay broad from inspiring English sources

Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise Twenty times better; but once in special, In thin array after a pleasant guise, When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall, And she me caught in her arms long and small; Therewithall sweetly did me kiss And softly said, "Dear heart, how like you this?" It was no dream: I lay broad waking.

"They lay broad things on me, like 'make sure we hit the mass market,' " Wright said after his brief stage appearance.

She notes that U.S. patent officials currently frown on similar "reach through" patents, which lay broad claims to biochemical pathways or mechanisms but not specific products.

Between the river and the hills lie broad alluvial plains; the elevation of the territory ranges from about 700 to 1,000 feet (200 to 300 metres).

Beyond the Islamist-liberal divide lie broader issues as the government's struggles to cope with mounting economic and social pressures over the problems it inherited when Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled to a gilded exile in Saudi Arabia.

To the west, beneath a hazy sky, lay the broad Hudson River and beyond, New Jersey.

Far better to lay down broad goals and prescribe only what is strictly necessary to achieve them.

The agreement was intended to lay down broad principles, leaving the details to be worked out later.

The UN's approach has been to recognise the complexity of these respective claims, lay down broad principles, and urge a negotiated peace.

In many countries civil service commissions were set up to ensure impartiality in selection procedures and to lay down broad principles for personnel management in the civil service.

The Clinton rule was an effort to lay out broad rules for some forest lands that could not be changed at the local level.