The proliferation of armed conflict and the displacement of whole populations; widening disparities within countries and around the world; increased consumerism, widening of communication networks including roads, air transport and electronic and satellite media and connections between individuals and groups - all help create conditions that fuel rising demand.
This made Mr. Lincoln humble, tender, forbearing, sympathetic to suffering, kind, sensitive, tolerant; broadening, deepening and widening his whole nature; making him the noblest and loveliest character since Jesus Christ…I believe that Lincoln was God's chosen one".
To those of us who have lived with certain grim realities our whole adult lives — the widening moat between the rich and the rest of us, the sclerotic influence of money on politics, the N.R.A.'s unassailable coalition of greed and fear — they seem like facts of life as unalterable as death itself.
Interestingly, the income figures for California as a whole--as, to a lesser extent, for America as a whole--show a widening gap between rich and poor.All this makes Silicon Valley look like a grander version of one of California's less attractive creations, the gated community: rich, elitist and insular.
If that seems like a return to the old days, the pay picture is more disturbing: As the wage gap between men and women has narrowed in the work force as a whole, it has widened in the women-dominated professions.
But for the year as a whole, the deficit widened to 5.5% of GDP, marking the largest annual deficit since records began in 1948.
"Ten families own this whole country," she said, eyes widening with dismay.
Then you have others who are trapped in addictions, and the gap between them is widening, but as a whole, we as a tribe, we are progressing".
A number of the socioeconomic breakdown results are also encouraging, and on the whole they suggest no unduly concerning widening between groups.
The war redeemed a barbaric society in which the whole nation tolerated slavery into the salvation of widening rights and freedoms.
