Julius Wellhausen

One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.

German Educator

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.

Trinidadian Politician

Paul Farmer

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

American Educator

Frances Beinecke

Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.

American Activist

Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

We experimented with stuff that some might find crazy, but we wanted to widen and make the spectrums of influence much larger, because house and electronic music is about freedom.

James Broughton

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

American Director

Albert Einstein

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

German Physicist

Shakuntala Devi

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Indian Writer

Seamus Heaney

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

Irish Poet

Stefan Zweig

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

Austrian Writer

Used when referring to actual changes in size or measurements.

Physical Change

Describes something that happens slowly over time.

Gradual Process

Often used metaphorically for things like options or opportunities expanding.

Figurative Use

Can evoke a strong image when describing visual reactions.

Visual Imagery

Isn't always about physical space; can refer to abstract concepts like understanding.

Not Just Physical

Sometimes it's used to describe a change in emotional or mental state.

Emotional Response

In some contexts, 'widen' can imply an unintended or unwanted expansion.

Subtle Differences

 you should immediately what happens if we widen the differences, or compress them, make the income differences bigger or smaller? And that's what I'm going to show you. I'm not using any hypothetical data. I'm taking data from the U.N. -- it's the same as the World Bank has --

How economic inequality...

 widen the aperture of the modern veteran experience and try to bridge the divide between our civilian and our military populations too often our media has paid disproportionate attention to veterans who have committed crimes those struggling in their transitions those

Lessons we can learn...

 We didn't evolve to multitask. Rather, we evolved to do one thing with incredible focus, like hunt -- not necessarily with great speed but with endurance for great distance. But now there's a widening gap between our biology and our lifestyles,

The unforeseen...

 and height to increase. In women, estrogen secreted from the ovaries signals the start of adulthood. It helps the body develop, makes the hips widen, and thickens the womb’s lining, preparing the body for menstruation or pregnancy.

How do your hormones...

 is likely to widen. What might that world look like? Well, the world could look like more state involvement and state capitalism; greater protectionisms of nation-states; but also, as I just pointed out a moment ago,

Dambisa Moyo: Is China...

 But if empathy wasn't enough to make us more humane, what else was there? Well, you didn't mention what might be one of our most effective better reason. Reason has muscle. It's reason that provides the push to widen

Steven Pinker and...

 went to a college over here and flunked out. The evidence is in this room, is in our communities, that this is the truth. And if we could widen our blinders and be willing to look at a few more colleges,

How to Raise Successful...

 call for desperate measures as the search widens a small group of Corral workers head towards the trough this is unfamiliar ground for them they are heading toward disaster

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 Under this economic logic, greed is good, widening inequality is efficient, and the only purpose of the corporation can be to enrich shareholders,

The dirty secret of...

 widen to release from our bodies but sometimes that's not enough a good workout can raise the body's temperature several degrees above normal

Widen