Sentence examples for widespread expansion from inspiring English sources

It is now almost impossible for the big grocers to get planning permission for new superstores, so Safeway was regarded as the last chance for widespread expansion.

Paradoxically, the end of "established Christianity" in the old sense resulted in the most rapid and most widespread expansion in the history of Christianity.

The widespread expansion of writing programmes there has resulted in a generation of younger academics, trained in institutions where creative writing was a normal part of the curriculum, for whom the old antagonisms no longer pertain.

"It's time for the regulators to take a hard look at the impacts of flaring and make sure that available solutions to the flaring problem are required before there is any further widespread expansion of the practice," said Amy Mall, senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

In 2009 the International Union of Geological Sciences IUGSS) officially ratified the decision to set the beginning of the Quaternary at 2,588,000 years ago, a time when rock strata show extensive evidence of widespread expansion of ice sheets over the northern continents and the beginning of an era of dramatic climatic and oceanographic change.

Since the 1990s, with the goal of more fully integrating China into the global political economy, the nationwide economic reform has shifted its concentration to the promotion of information technology, particularly, the widespread expansion of the Internet.

The plan, described in a report submitted to the president by Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman, did not say how widespread the expansion would be.

Given that many are also reliant on commodity earnings this can't help either, for this adds to their overreliance on bankrupt Western consumers and on widespread capital expansion in a booming world for their higher order goods sectors…Hungary has now increased its benchmark interest rate by three percentage points to forestall a plunge in the forint.

Cullerton put a legislative hold on the measure in May reportedly with the hope that the governor, who has previously opposed such widespread gaming expansion, might be talked into it.

6 The demonstration of similar p16 loss of heterozygosity (LOH), methylation and point mutation patterns in biopsy material taken from different levels of long Barrett's oesophagus segments supports widespread clonal expansion and fixed mutations.

Tandem-repeat expansions in protein coding regions are remarkably widespread, even though expansion is frequently associated with disease-related health effects (Buschiazzo and Gemmell 2006).