The gap between US rhetoric and policies has widened.

This policy has lately been widened for cases involving domestic violence.

The income gap between developed and developing countries has widened, and poverty has increased in many developing countries.

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

We are faced with an extraordinary paradox the gap between real threats and the active pursuit of solutions has widened.

At the same time, it has widened the pool of its communications partners, including from private, public and corporate sectors.

Since the 1960s, when UNICEF supported mainly water supply in emergencies, the focus has widened to include sanitation and hygiene education.

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

Indeed, while China s living standards have risen dramatically over the past 30 years, the gap between rich and poor has widened sharply.

Third, successive governments widened the ethnic divide through catastrophically predatory governance.

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.

Interest rate spreads on Italian sovereign debt have widened, but not sharply.

Secondly and related to that the gap between rich and poor widened.

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

The crisis, and reactions to it, widened old cracks and opened new ones.

And, with the espionage apparently directed mostly at representatives of emerging economies, the gulf between the advanced countries and those on the rise has widened further.

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.

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 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?

Society also demands effective mechanisms for combating corruption, which is turning into a serious political problem, precisely because it has widened the gap between the people and the authorities.

The concept of control would then have to be widened so as to encompass normative control.

The rise began when the trading band for the renminbi s dollar exchange rate was widened to 1 , and has now reached an all time high since 1994 s currency reform.

SADC was also pleased that UNODC had widened its network by establishing field offices on the continent.

Other sectors have not had similar opportunities, and the gaps between them and the globalized sectors have widened.

The Group s mandate should be widened, and resources should be provided to allow it to tackle terrorism explicitly.

Unfortunately, the gulf between the expectations raised by the reforms and the benefits felt by ordinary citizens widened steadily.

She therefore supported the revitalization and expansion of the Advisory Commission and widened participation in host and donor meetings.

The expansion of the European Union with the accession of 10 new countries in May 2004 has widened internal Union borders and shifted external borders, and proper control structures are not always in place.

That contributed to a resumption of security coordination between the parties, an experience that should be built upon and widened.

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

The assassination quickly widened the gap between the Lebanese political factions and further polarized the political scene to a threatening level.

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

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

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

Several representatives suggested that the study should be widened to include a range of Parties operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5, in different regions.

PARIS Since the arrival of President Barack Obama in the White House, there has been an undeniable rapprochement between Europe and the United States. 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?

In higher education, the gender gap has widened of the total number of students in higher learning institutions, girls accounted for 34 in the 1991 1992 school year, 24 in the 2001 2001 school year, and 24.6 in the 2003 2004 school year.

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.

CDS rates for these countries rose, their credit ratings were lowered and the yield spreads on their government bonds versus Germany widened to an alarming extent.

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.

Historical context The Nine Years' War, begun in 1688 in Europe, widened to include the Kingdom of England in 1689 as part of the alliance against France.

Although modalities for ad hoc participation and consultation in these latter bodies have widened, no formal steps have been taken to achieve effective participation of developing countries.

The deficit widened from 1.8 billion in 2001 to an estimated 2.6 billion in 2004, with exports each year either declining faster or increasing more slowly than imports.

Income inequalities in most countries had widened in recent decades, particularly since the 1990s, and the richest 10 per cent of the world's population received half of total world income.

Moreover, the gap between growth in services and growth in manufacturing and construction widened over the first two quarters of 2013, following annual gains of 8.1 in both sectors in 2012.