Swathe

And foreign aid, ironically, is one of the elements of spending that actually has a constituency among a certain swathe of conservative elites (Michael Gerson, etc.). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Once again, there's that 80-mile swathe, which is so critical. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Can you give us any sense of the geography, from Midwest City, we're told, a suburban area, to Moore City, what kind of swathe was cut by this tornado? ❋ Unknown (2003)

Can you just give us an idea of the geography here, what kind of swathe we're talking about from Midwest City to Moore? ❋ Unknown (2003)

Or because we are so horrendously thin on the ground that our patch is a great swathe of real estate, far too big to effectively cover. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Mr. FISHMAN: And that tells you that there's a large swathe of America that is still very carefully calculating how much money is available and how they're spending it, even on the most basic thing, like diapers and milk and bread. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is 10 metres long with a mass of almost 6,000 kg, and it is about to fall the Earth somewhere between 57° N and 57° S of the equator, a huge swathe of the planet which includes the UK except N Scotland. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Martin, after a few instructions, sorted the great heaps of soiled clothes, while Joe started the masher and made up fresh supplies of soft-soap, compounded of biting chemicals that compelled him to swathe his mouth and nostrils and eyes in bath - towels till he resembled a mummy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The two sports complexes are located next to each other and abut Delhi's Ridge, a swathe of forest in the middle of the city, but are also near Connaught Place. ❋ WSJ Staff (2010)

No, much better to leave them as dependent on State largesse, as that maintains a huge swathe of State-client, and therefore Labour voters throughout the country. on April 9, 2010 at 9: 15 pm Serpico ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

The gray clouds became a long, low swathe of ruby red, or garnet red -- such as one sees in a glass of heavy burgundy when held to the light. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The article goes on to explore how, with a very small number of fighters who subvert villages in a decentralized fashion, the Taliban can go on to control a large swathe of territory. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And it's not just the biotech companies that are in the race; a swathe of companies including oil majors are also investing in R&D. ❋ William Lyons (2011)

Within five years they produced a red wine that famously beat Château Latour and a swathe of top Bordeaux in a blind tasting known as the Paris Olympiad. ❋ Will Lyons (2011)

"One of the myths we hold in this country is that there's a single fault, but in reality there's a swathe about 200 kilometers wide where there are lots of faults that are potentially active," he said. ❋ David Fickling (2011)

Capturing a broad swathe of the McFirmament was crucial to this legitimising project - and if they could have gotten more, they would have. ❋ Unknown (2011)