Word: narrowed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...what the Bush administration had in mind, but options are narrow and Sistani has had his way, so far, precisely because of his ability to marshal mass support for positions on the street and to persuade even a majority of the IGC to back his positions. So much so, that it has become an article of faith for U.S. officials in Iraq that for a plan to work, it must have Sistani's blessing, even tacitly...
Forget those traffic-clogged motorways: if you really want to see into Britain's soul, hire a narrow boat and putter gently along some of the country's 3,200 km of languorous waterways. Britain's 200-year-old canal system, once the country's most important method of freight transport, fell into disrepair by the 1960s as roads and rail transport took traffic away. But over the past 15 years, more than $935 million has been invested in canal restoration, so today visitors can rediscover the joys of a bygone pace of life in city and countryside alike...
...question of funding the AACF was separated from discussion of the rest of yesterday’s spring grants package, and eventually passed by the narrow margin of five votes. The rest of the grants passed...
...ourselves into a few activities with the sort of self-immolating vigor that I bring to dancing to “Graceland.” Academia itself encourages a sort of tunnel vision; incapable of tackling entire movements or schools of thought, we write papers and theses on absurdly narrow topics. In his short story “The Christian Roommates,” set at Harvard in the fifties, John Updike writes of the beginning of second semester: “Conversations go on and on; and an almost rapacious desire for mutual discovery possesses acquaintances...
Forget those traffic-clogged motorways: if you really want to see into Britain's soul, hire a narrow boat and putter gently along some of the country's 3,200 km of languorous waterways. Britain's 200-year-old canal system, once the country's most important method of freight transport, fell into disrepair by the 1960s as roads and rail transport took traffic away. But over the past 15 years, more than $935 million has been invested in canal restoration, so today visitors can rediscover the joys of a bygone pace of life in city and countryside alike. Canal...