Sentence examples for wide segments from inspiring English sources

Still, he has been a disastrous leader: divisive, incompetent, heavy-handed and deaf to wide segments of Egyptian society who do not share his Islamist vision.

Groups of short, wide segments are formed at intervals along the body; the segments between these groups are longer, narrower, and not in contact with the ground.

The idea is backed by wide segments of the food industry, which see it as an expedient way to avoid disruptions that are now occurring in the distribution and processing of corn.

With that in mind, Mr. Napolitano could also choose an apolitical outsider to lead Parliament for the time necessary to pass changes unpopular with wide segments of the electorate.

The wide segments can work as stiff "pores" and form an interconnected conduction path along with round pores.

But perhaps most significant of all is the discovery that owls have wide segments in their carotids just under the skull base.

"Opportunities exist to press the issue with the Vatican, and in turn to influence a wide segment of the population in Europe and the developing world," says another.

Although judged to be the legitimate patriarch, he was repudiated by a wide segment of Alexandria's population who sympathized with the more uncompromising Monophysites.

In short, the obstruction here impaired or impeded an investigation of serious criminal conduct in circumstances that plainly led a wide segment of the public to view Mr. Lewis's conduct very negatively.

A wide segment of British society, from celebrities to ordinary families wrestling with personal tragedies, has been shown to be potentially vulnerable to the newspapers' use of cellphone-hacking, identity theft, tracking technology and police bribery — perhaps even clandestine property break-ins, if some reports circulating in recent days are true.

In Washington on Saturday, Thomas E. Donilon, President Obama's national security adviser, telephoned Crown Prince Salman to express support for the prince's orders earlier in the day to show restraint and begin discussions with a wide segment of Bahraini society.