Remember that the narrower something is, the stronger the sand will have to be.
At the same time, by turning the act of asking into something narrow and impersonal, "What is the ask?" repositions a question as a command.
"As clinicians, we often end up focusing on something narrow and small that we think we can fix," Dr. Jha said.
And yet there is something narrow, and basically anachronistic, about this view of "the comments" as a phenomenon restricted to the unconsecrated ground below the line.
Ms. Bair is arguing for a broad definition; the Treasury wants something narrow, which of course will mean fewer people will get help.
'Excellence' in the context of career progression needs to be reconsidered at a senior level, moving away from narrow definitions to something more all-encompassing.
But the suggestion was still valid: there was something narrow about South Korea's brand of cinephilia – at least the commercial end of it.
And yet for all that, there is something narrow, almost naïve, about her insistence that the most "literary" questions are "questions about the way something means, rather than what it means, or even why".
The White House will need to reckon with that or it will waste a moment in which there is an opening, however narrow, to get something done about gun control.
But C.I.O. was more than a name; it was a recognition that information technology was not just electronic plumbing or a narrow specialty, but something that could affect the mainstream business, strategy and competitiveness.
