Sentence examples for the wide portion from inspiring English sources

But in one of Latin America's poorest nations, it is hard for Bolivian officials to talk about progress to the wide portion of the population that continues to live in grinding poverty and feels that entitlements the government once provided in the form of subsidized rates for water and electricity have been stripped away.

"So what's happened is, if you think of the face as being an upside-down triangle, with the wide portion running cheekbone to cheekbone across the nose, that's a youthful person, wider over the cheekbones, and narrow across the jaw line," Dr. Aston said.

Its sweeping advances into Iraq, gruesome tactics and, most pointedly, its declaration of an ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim state covering the wide portions of eastern Syria and northern Iraq that it now controls have led both to U.S.-led airstrikes and pledges of allegiance by 13 fellow Islamist militant groups.

The most notable physical feature is the Fossa Magna, a great rift lowland that traverses the widest portion of Honshu from the Sea of Japan to the Pacific.

Each is 60 180 cm (2 6 feet) long and 10 18 cm (4 7 inches) across at the widest portion, terminating in a sharp spine.

It runs due south from its entrance at Colón on the Atlantic side through the Gatún Locks to a point in the widest portion of Gatún Lake; it then turns sharply toward the east and follows a course generally to the southeast until it reaches the Bay of Panama, on the Pacific side.

It is the widest portion, making it more difficult to cover its entire wall.

The geometry of the maple seed is also configured in a way that the cross-section is thicker in the wider portion of the blade, which will further increase the strength to withstand higher wind speeds.

Hip circumference was measured around the widest portion of the buttocks, with the tape parallel to the floor [ 18].

Hip circumference will be considered as the widest portion of the buttocks, with the tape parallel to the floor [ 35].

The device is 6 ft tall and measures 2 ft at the widest portion of the base.