Sentence examples for thus widened from inspiring English sources

But by shutting down grammar schools this plan closed off the fast track for clever children and thus widened the gap between a state system in which equality took precedence over quality and an expensive and often excellent private sector.Mr Blair knows all that, and wants to move away from it.

Results from TGA, XRD, N2 porosimetry, electron microprobe, SEM, TEM and UV-DR analyses, confirm that both synthetic strategies can produce nanoporous materials with advanced and tunable textural and morphological characteristics and thus widened application prospects.

Management is thus widening its responsibility to include judging its own value.

In stark contrast, it also shows much faster income growth for the better-off when Republicans were in the White House — thus widening the gap in income.

Second, these much higher rates of increase for directors are built on a much higher existing base, thus widening the actual pay gap dramatically.

A digital divide thus widens yearly in developed countries, between those who can reap the benefit of online services and those who cannot.

Wealthier districts more often vote for property-tax increases to pay for better schools or other services, thus widening the gap between schools in poorer or richer areas.

During those years he was at last able to make his first long-awaited visit to Paris and London, thus widening his knowledge of Europe.

Instead, Piketty argues, the default setting of capitalism is to accumulate capital for the already wealthy, thus widening the gap between the richest in society and the rest of us – even in countries that have a strong welfare state.

The increase in the entry rate for white students was just 0.6 per cent - "smaller than for any other ethnic group and thus widening the gap between them", the Ucas report said.

Yes, superficially this share issue appeared cheap, because light-tough regulation should give the company the freedom to raise prices to their 29 million customers, assuming it remains competitive – thus widening their profit margins from 3.5% to between 5% and 10%.