"Thousands of troops are being deployed in operations that are widening across the region".
But then a fish jumped into the air and I looked over to see rings widening across a stretch of water that had started to shimmer as a cloud slipped past the sun.
Meanwhile, the investigation was widening across Europe, with Belgian police making a number of arrests and German authorities looking into a possible link to a 51-year-old Montenegrin man recently stopped with a car full of arms and explosives.
As well as calling for the eradication of handouts to the fossil-fuels industry in this year of the make-or-break Paris climate summit, I urge you also to pay attention to the coal hole that is widening across the portfolios of the big banks.
"Despite the fact that Indigenous smoking rates are improving, they are not improving at the same rate as non-indigenous Australians, so the gap is widening across a number of indicators," said Tim Beard, a spokesman for the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
However, progress is not uniform and socio-economic gaps are widening across the population.
Figure 2 indicates adverse birth outcome disparities have been widening across urban rural categories since 1991, despite overall decreasing rates since 2006.
