His was no narrow historicism: he scorned the idea that the past was a guide to the future.
"In spite of the achievements of the fast growers, there has been little or no narrowing of income inequality between countries," he wrote.
There's no narrow saddle, but a wide chairlike seat that hovers between a few inches to about two feet from the ground.
There would be no narrow focus on western art, nor judgmental ranking, except by the sheer fact of an artefact's inclusion.
At one point, he writes, "There has been little or no narrowing of income inequality between countries; for every country with a catch-up story there has been a country with a left-behind story".
They work just about everywhere so long as you have a clear line of sight to the sky," and no narrow canyon wall or dense foliage that blocks the satellite links required for a connection.
"The universe is no narrow thing," he says, "and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part.
I shone a torch into his eyes and watched the light drop into their vacant stare – there was no narrowing of the pupils, or reflection of the light from their surface.
The Oxford Companion to Military History (2001), which he edited, shows that he was no narrow specialist; he understood ancient commanders as well as modern ones, and appreciated the ways in which changes in weaponry have constantly transformed tactics.
Officials involved in the negotiations said there had been no narrowing of differences over pay in six meetings with a mediator, adding that the two sides were near agreement on having faster procedures to get rid of incompetent teachers.
