Tom's eyes widened.

Tom eyes widened.

Tom's eyes widened in surprise.

Tom's eyes widened in surprise.

Tom's eyes widened in terror.

This road was widened last year.

This road was widened last year.

During Europe's Cold War division, that gap widened considerably.

The gap between US rhetoric and policies has widened.

In 2005, it widened further, and the dollar only strengthened.

Shareholder value has gained force access to an organised stock exchange has widened.

Risk premiums widened, and the eurozone was divided into creditor and debtor countries.

As he looked through the store window, Dima's eyes widened as they fell upon a gorgeous black suit, and then widened even more when he noticed the 3,000,000.99 BYR price tag.

Thus, the gap widened between the rich and the poor in most of the world.

For free societies to flourish, the boundaries of free speech should always be widened rather than narrowed.

Despite rhetoric about inclusive growth, India s wealth gap has widened during the years of exceptionally rapid economic expansion.

The gaps between the cosmopolitan oil sheiks and the disaffected, disenfranchised, and nearly hopeless remainder of the population widened.

Subsequent reforms expanded and widened the land owning class, fostering an agricultural revival and making Japanese democracy more stable.

Indeed, the US effort merely widened the divide on security issues within Pakistani a situation that serves no one s interests.

For the average developing country the results were stagnation, widened economic inequalities, climbing unemployment, and increased numbers of poor people.

The election, the fraud, and the violent crackdown on the subsequent protests revealed, and clearly widened, deep rifts inside the regime.

Like a hole in a dam, once pent up pressure began to escape, it widened the opening and tore apart the system.

Popular democratic protests that started on a small scale in mid February outside Sanaa University have widened to encompass the whole country.

Since then, the deficit has widened dramatically, to 2.7 of GDP in 1999, 3.5 in 2001, and an estimated 4.7 this year.

Spreads between the interest rate at which America's government could borrow and the interest rates at which America's corporations could borrow widened.

Chávez exploited and widened that division indeed, as the current campaign to elect his successor shows, the country remains more polarized than ever.

The fiscal deficit widened to 10 of GDP, causing government debt (including external debt), which had been falling steadily, to rise to 76 of GDP.

But the gap between the rich and poor widened, and at least in the US, the incomes of the poor and the middle class stagnated.ampnbsp

Within the Mittalmar Siril was a swift stream, but in its lower course it widened and slowed down, forming at last a wide marshy delta.

FRANKFURT With the deepening of the global financial crisis, spreads between the government bonds of different European Monetary Union (EMU) countries for a while widened dramatically.

China s assertiveness over its sovereignty claim reflects more than a desire to exploit seabed resources, or to gain a widened strategic gateway into the western Pacific.

For the average developing country the results were stagnation, widened economic inequalities, climbing unemployment, and increased numbers of poor people. Economic modernization and poverty reduction suffered.

In Tunisia, too, the budget deficit has widened sharply in the wake of the revolution, rising from 2.6 of GDP in 2010 to 6 in 2011.

In light of widened regional and political cleavages, confrontations such as occurred in the holy mosque of the Prophet could increase in frequency, size, and violence.

From Pakistani held Kashmir to Burma s troubled Kachin and Shan states, China has widened its dam building to disputed or insurgency torn areas, despite local backlashes.

But, in assessing the benefits achieved by economic growth, it is a mistake to focus on whether the income gap between rich and poor widened or narrowed.

But on the deeper and more fundamental level of emotions and values, is it possible that the gap between the two sides of the Atlantic has widened?

An old quarry was being widened and leveled, and the boys followed the bulldozers as they scraped away a stratum of earth to reveal fragile, fossil bearing shale underneath.

Short term interest rates are up, the yield curve is flatter, credit spreads have widened and volatility has increased all characteristics of the market when the Fed tightens policy.

The movement has widened its focus to include the fight against contempt and violence towards women, influence of the Catholic Church in politics, and political influence in the education system.

The exercise of national sovereignty was widened through the institution of the referendum the Constitution was to be ratified by the people, as were laws in certain precisely defined circumstances.

In 2010, ARF ministers widened the Outlook s scope with the Simplified Standardized Format, which includes publication of national defense doctrines, defense expenditure, and the total number of personnel in a country s armed forces.

In recent years, however, patent law widened enormously with the acceptance, in the United States, Australia, Japan, and Korea, of business method patents that is, patents not on a technological process but on a way of doing business.

While ensuring that their Alawite allies filled key positions in the military and intelligence services helped the Assads to retain their grip on the country, it was a strategy that widened and reinforced the Sunni Shia rift among the population.

These include the haunting celebration of a young man s imminent martyrdom by suicide bombing, while other websites, although less violent, have widened the scope of sin to include learning English, studying science, and giving women access to the Internet without a male guardian present.