Our frame of medical consideration could widen to encompass our entire life spans.
He was put on high-dose radiation therapy, with a beam widened to encompass his chest and neck.
Last week, Mr. Cuomo's office said the investigation had widened to encompass at least one transaction directly involving Mr. DiNapoli.
A net is cast, widening to encompass a bewilderingly diverse pool of suspects: the butler, the spurned lover, the embittered nephew, the shadowy European.
Now in their sixth year, the Aacta awards grew out of the Australian Film Industry AFII) awards, which widened to encompass TV categories in 1986.
Since the '70s, the indictment has widened to encompass the technologies of information and of life, including the cutting-edge fields of computer science and molecular genetics.
A long-simmering corruption scandal has widened to encompass a broad swath of the Los Angeles Police Department, with the district attorney saying today that his office has now found more than 40 people who were wrongly prosecuted, and in several cases shot, through police misconduct.
Details as to why the journalists have been arrested remain sketchy for the moment but what is clear is that the Operation Elveden investigation into allegations of corrupt payments made by journalists to police officers has been widened to encompass other public officials at the armed forces and presumably elsewhere.
Fittingly for a club in the process of turning over a hierarchical new leaf, Blanc is currently reporting to another Blanc, Jean-Claude, whose brief as director general has been widened to encompass some of the dossiers previously presided over by Leonardo while the search for a long-term sporting director continues.
Until then, the most severe gaps may be in the most leveraged parts of the financial system.Paul Tucker of the Bank of England worries about the threats to financial stability that are created from outside the regulated sector and wonders whether the "regulatory perimeter" should be widened to encompass such institutions.
