In the decades that followed the residents slowly widened it, in part at his urging.
But Simone's eclecticism has slowly widened the very definition of jazz singing.
During Friday night's concert, part of the JVC Jazz Festival, he lingered over this slowly widening battery of songs.
Successive reforms have pushed the organisation farther away from direct American control, granting more power to other countries.What is more, ICANN has slowly widened the internet's name space (see chart).
"Ortega is slowly widening the political space for the church," said Robert Pastor, a professor at American University who met the cardinal while helping to arrange a trip to Havana by former President Jimmy Carter in 2002.
And Mr. Chong's production does achieve an arresting effect in depicting the unseen murder of Washizu's lord: pinpricks of blood suddenly emerge on a white screen, then slowly widen and drip until the screen is almost saturated.
The monarchy was restored but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.
As it lolled and lumbered through the ice floes, the ship slowly widened cracks and crumbled off bits of the unending white ice field ahead, creating around it a debris path of huge white boulders floating in the water.
Mr. Chen has slowly widened the political gap between Taiwan and the mainland through steps like the national referendum held in March on increasing defense spending if Chinese missiles continue to be pointed at the island.
