Sentence examples for off the widening from inspiring English sources

Investors have largely shrugged off the widening investigation, viewing it as unlikely to affect current sales and profits.

They were active in the neighborhood, she said, helping ward off the widening of Atlantic Avenue, encouraging the designation of the 19th-century town houses on the block as landmarks, and making friends with the other families and creative types — including a drama professor and a stage manager for "Hair," she said.

this will let off pressure gradually and the widening key will eventually force the cork into the bottle.

The ATP decline in the untreated control cells leveled off statistically, widening the difference in the ATP levels between the two treatment groups.

NBC retaliated by booking guests like Sarah Palin and Meredith Vieira, and it managed to stave off ABC, widening the gap to 187,000 viewers for the week.

Stop the widening income gap.

Just as, at the international level, the more advanced nations are in a better position to use science and technology for further advancement, so at our national level we find that intensive farming methods and the extension services of the agricultural universities have benefited the comparatively well-off farmer, widening the gap between him and others in the rural community.

Any trade-off between the "widening" and the "deepening" of Europe is proving less simple than advocates of either course have usually claimed.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose as much as 83 points, shrugging off a widening trade deficit in the United States, higher unemployment in Greece and a ratings cut for Spain.

Toulon were geared up for it, but, from the opening moments, after the hosts made a hash of the kick-off, Saracens widened the point of their attacks, often passing to the second man out rather than the first.

During an early charrette, after the experiment began, a tech ran in yelling about an update to the display, some U.V. dilation they'd pulled off to widen the protein band, muscling it into something called gray light.