Sentence examples for wide portion from inspiring English sources

His arguments of electability — the spine of his candidacy — fell flat to a wide portion of the party's base here.

Heat a greased griddle or frying pan on a medium heat and pour about a 2.5-inch wide portion of batter.

Moat (East) 8-19-06," Mr. whoson, who led things off, walked and sometimes danced with two others in a particularly wide portion of the moat, a vista that reduced rather than augmented the impact.

— Patrick Farrell The Journal News: Do new development projects pose a threat to the delicate ecology of Haverstraw Bay, a wide portion of the Hudson River that acts as a nursery for many species of fish?

A few miles north, a 50-yard wide portion of Route 36 was submerged as a stream bed overflowed and coursed by at 1,000 cubic feet per second, said Anne Reid, a firefighter with the Lefthand Fire Protection District.

The American Petroleum Institute, a sponsor of the study, said the engines were chosen to represent a wide portion of the cars on the road from the 2001 model year forward, for which the new blend has been approved.

River flooding has become a major issue in the last decades, placing at risk wide portions of the planet.

Wide portions of the city were characterised by poorly drained conditions until the 1st century AD, when the alluvial plain became well drained under increasing anthropogenic pressure (Roman Centuriatio).

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.

These proteins occupy wide portions of genomic DNA [9], [10] and are involved in a series of genome functions, such as transcription (Hu, IHF, H-NS, StpA, and Fis) [11] [15], translation (Hu, HNS, StpA, and Hfq) [16] [19], replication (HU, IHF, Fis, and Dps) [20] [23], DNA protection (Dps) [24], [25], and DNA packing (Hu, H-NS, Fis, and Dps) [26] [30].

Four mm wide portions of LAZ-containing leaf tissue were dissected from 24 h ethylene-treated leaf explants and immediately snap-frozen in OCT embedding medium (Labonord Cryoblock, France) in Peel-A-Way disposable plastic tissue embedding moulds (Polysciences Inc., Warrington, PA, USA).