This perverse line of thought is largely responsible for a society where the income gap continues to widen, where the middle-class, a term that has been AWOL from the Republican discourse, and seemingly removed from the Republican dictionary altogether at this juncture, continues to shrink under the weight of wrong-headed and senseless economic and fiscal priorities.
Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
This is the kind of society we can expect to live in after the trade union movement is weakened: a society where the salary gap between employer and worker widens exponentially; where managers are free to impose any conditions they like.
Some scholars have speculated that the attacks underscore the absence of pressure-release valves in a society that is going through rapid economic upheaval, where the gap between the wealthy and the destitute is widening, and where corrupt officials often exercise power arbitrarily.
-The Transportation Department has been widening sidewalks where possible and expanding pedestrian malls to make room for more pedestrians because streets that are too crowded can become unsafe and hamper business.
When Calgary planners announced their intention to widen Memorial Drive, where the Brownlees lived, several residents expressed concern that the plan would destroy the street's trees; they consulted Brownlee, who telephoned the mayor and saved the trees.
Both struggle with notions of success and the widening gap of where they are vs. where they should be.
It widens below the point where Litton Dale joins the main dale from the west, and there agriculture, especially dairy farming, has more scope.
It, in turn, would drain through a 24-mile-long tunnel over the edge of a plateau, through the turbines, and then back into the bed of the Fljotsdal where it widens into a lake.
In-line skaters, runners and bikers were skimming along the pathway above the East River while traffic sluiced up and down the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive, curving eastward at the point where Manhattan widens, flaring like the shoulder of a cello.
