You... shall cross a narrow plank, so narrow you can't find your footing.

. broad or narrow areas of competence (communications, obligations, issues )

Take the straight and narrow path

Species with small geographical ranges are often concentrated in the same areas, but they tend to be in areas different from where the largest numbers of species live.

But we are not so narrowly focused as to ignore what is happening elsewhere within our region.

Take the straight and narrow path

The man is hiking on a narrow path.

It was so close in there. Let's go out into the sunshine.

Moreover, we believe that security concerns of States extend beyond narrowly defined regions and subregions, and consequently that the idea of preserving a balance in defence capabilities in a regional or subregional context is unrealistic and unacceptable.

The antennas formed a large number of narrow antenna beams.

Be careful, it's the original staircase and it's narrow. How about that!

The donor base for these contributions has remained relatively narrow.

To tread your straight and narrow path with pride

In a narrow fivefoot hole, he lives, sleeps, eats, and rests.

How beautiful it is to lose ourselves in these little streets on the island.

The scope of application of the draft articles was too narrow in that it was restricted to treaties between States.

Up to 25,000 workers are forced to walk every day through the narrow concrete tunnel, which has been described as a cattle run .

I love you so much because you are not like other men, you are not jealous.

Most species have very small geographical ranges and are uncommon locally.

The court would be the more credible and widely accepted the more restrictively defined its jurisdiction was.

And in each one of these research areas, of which there are even more, there are PhD students, like me, and we study incredibly narrow topics, things as narrow as a few processes or a few molecules.

The fact that endangered plant species tend to be concentrated geographically raises the stakes for conservation efforts in those areas. But it could also facilitate success by enabling policymakers to focus on narrow areas instead of vast habitats.

For the sake of sometimes rather narrow national interests, we have somehow wasted our time, energy and even perhaps our resources.

Further downstream, sir, across those narrows.

Africa s exports remain narrowly based on primary commodities, and little progress has been made in diversifying into non traditional exports, especially manufactures.

So here are some designers who are trying to understand what it might feel like to sleep in a confined space on an airplane.

The limited classroom space available in rented buildings kept the classroom occupancy rate low (38.7 pupils) although conditions remained cramped.

Most people long to overcome pettiness and become part of something larger.

Orbital debris trailing will entirely negate a photometric observation when debris cross the narrow photometric field.

The Eurozone s Narrowing Window

The main advantages of a narrower, better defined area of activity are that it would allow the Peacebuilding Commission to concentrate its resources, both personal and financial, in an optimal way.

However, such an unprecedented and unique opportunity should not necessarily be confined to the narrow fields, but could cover the whole range of the issues of small arms which the Group of Experts is currently dealing with, including the problems of disarmament, demobilization and economic development of post conflict areas.

The expression technical cooperation activities alone was too narrow and could cover items such as staff costs.

And so, for tasks like this, a narrow focus, where you just see the goal right there, zoom straight ahead to it, they work really well.

Now, as it happened, that two mile long strip right in the middle, this vertical, was available because it was private land.

Prohibitive transport and transit costs, narrow resource bases and small domestic markets were not attractive to foreign investors.

In addition to retaining Jerusalem within its enlarged municipal boundaries and the Etzion bloc of settlements, the Prime Minister also advocated a narrow security zone east of the Green Line, pointing out that most of the security zones contained few Arab inhabitants.

However, the inclusion of new areas of assistance such as those related to the SPC mandates has implications from the point of view of human and financial resources, particularly for projects that are shaped around narrow terms of reference, limited budgets and short term timetables.

And when we were walking through the narrow alleys, it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes.

His delegation would continue to be flexible, bearing in mind the paramount need to define terrorism neither too narrowly nor too broadly.

Also, economies tend to trade and interact more narrowly between regions, rather than globally.

Similarly, it is increasingly recognized that focusing narrowly on country level peacebuilding efforts is unlikely to yield significant changes in peacebuilding outcomes, especially in the regions where conflict has interlocking political, security and economic dynamics.

(c) Supply side weaknesses lack of diversification, structural weaknesses (narrow production and export base, inability to compete in world trade)

Most of the court buildings are severely dilapidated, with leaking roofs and little or no electricity, running water, typewriters or office supplies, and inadequate courtroom space.

We've created systems, which systematically privilege, encourage, one narrow quadrant of the human soul and left the others unregarded.