单词 | wide-ranging |
释义 | wide-ranging adjective If you describe something as wide-ranging, you mean it deals with or affects a great variety of different things. ...a wide-ranging debate about the party's goals. ...a package of wide-ranging economic reforms. The aims of the redesign are wide-ranging but simple. Synonyms: far-reaching, sweeping, broad, widespread Collocations: wide-ranging discussion Now, each lesson begins with a selection of the previous week's clues, often leading to a wide-ranging discussion. Times, Sunday Times In a wide-ranging discussion, he was asked about the level of the pound, which dropped below $1.20 last week for the first time in three years. Times, Sunday Times His enthusiasm remained unabated and many a colleague was surprised to find a brief inquiry had developed into a stimulating and wide-ranging discussion. Times, Sunday Times The book includes a wide-ranging discussion of the strategies publishers, binders and booksellers - and subsequently owners - employed to protect books. The Times Literary Supplement The festival often attracts well-known film directors, screenwriters, and actors who attend the festival to engage in wide-ranging discussions about film and the entertainment industry. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The news has wide-ranging implications for those who spend most of their week in a flat near their workplace and weekends in their main home. Times, Sunday Times This has wide-ranging implications for society, from discrimination, to personal career choices, and understanding others in everyday social interactions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Key scientists working on the project anticipated that their development would have wide-ranging implications. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Realizing that being an illegitimate daughter of such an idealized person could have wide-ranging implications for the protagonist prompts her to uncover more details about her past. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Earlier in the year it confirmed that there was a wide-ranging investigation into its financial statements taking place. Times, Sunday Times Any other international organisation, confronted with such evidence, might have launched a wide-ranging investigation and held the perpetrators to account. Times, Sunday Times Carry out a wide-ranging investigation into the 'churning' of personal pensions. Times, Sunday Times These accusations led to a wide-ranging investigation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Interview and biomedical data were also collected from the cohort members to allow wide-ranging investigation of the causes and consequences of differences in cognition across the lifespan. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A more wide-ranging reform, now being discussed in parliament, would allow peers to expel or suspend other members for misconduct at the house's discretion. Times, Sunday Times The surrender did not bode well for any future effort at implementing more wide-ranging reform and highlighted the powerlessness of a discredited governing team. Times, Sunday Times Over the 20th century, legislation and changes in court attitudes effected a wide-ranging reform of 19th century contract law. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Recent wide-ranging reforms - in organisation and in governance- have been made precisely to safeguard our future and finances, and not without cost. Times, Sunday Times A group of disaffected members, alarmed by the club's financial losses, are putting forward two candidates for the club committee seeking a mandate for wide-ranging reforms. Times, Sunday Times Eating wholemeal bread, grains and pulses cuts the risk of suffering from three deadly diseases by up to a third, a wide-ranging study has concluded. Times, Sunday Times Her fascinating and wide-ranging study examines numerous elements of urban development, from the building of railways to the expansion of suburbs and the activities of regional writers and local historians. The Times Literary Supplement Politics and empire formed only a part of this wide-ranging study. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Caveats and qualifying statements were favoured over sweeping generalisations, even where the most wide-ranging studies were concerned. Times, Sunday Times Such wide-ranging studies, allied with a friendly, considerate and generous nature, brought him many scientific friends worldwide. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 广泛的 Japanese: 広範な |
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