It has overruled or narrowed many precedents.
Accumulation of silt has narrowed many sewer channels.
Fairways were narrowed, many of them changing direction slightly in midstream.
Councilman William Perkins, who represents Harlem, said the verdict threatened to widen a chasm that had been narrowing between many black New Yorkers and the police force.
The rallies were getting narrower and narrower, many big stocks were well off their peaks, and, with earnings falling in a number of sectors, such as energy and finance, the bull market was fast running out of steam.
Of course, they weren't all dying because their birth canals were too narrow; many women died from very simple infections in the pre-antibiotics world.
As they did then, the restrictions start out being broad, but are narrowed by many exemptions.
Publishers are increasingly narrowing their focus; many only seek "big books".
The growth of internships has almost certainly contributed to the narrowing class composition of many professions, not least newspaper journalism.
