"To widen the margin" means to increase the difference or gap between two things, such as profit, scores, or opinions.
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Lee Zeldin, 34, of Shirley topped incumbent Democrat Tim Bishop in the 1st District race, starting with a lead when the first results were announced Tuesday night and then
widening his margin of victory throughout the night.
The Women's Equality Party will enable Cuomo to further highlight the difference between himself and Westchester County Executive Astorino, possibly helping the
governor widen his margin of victory in November, without the non-movement of the women's legislation getting in the way.
Bank executives will be feeling pressure to
widen that margin now that central banks have signaled they want borrowing costs to rise.
The words «to it,» the imprecise meaning of the words «directly,» «related» and «relevant,» the privative clause in section 23 of the Act, and the highly factual and policy nature of relevancy determinations, taken together,
widen the margin of appreciation that this Court should afford the Board in its relevancy determination...
Price increases on bakery and meat products have helped, but management remains confident that the way to
widen margins is by cutting costs, and the way to cut costs is by heavy streamlining in modern factories, or what the company calls «centres of excellence.»
Six years on, Vanguard is still No. 1 in the mutual fund world — and by
a widening margin.
There is not really much of a story to tell: banks have not taken advantage of deregulation to
widen their margins, but, on the other hand, competition did not bring forth a noticeable reduction as a number of people probably expected it would.
Martins won election by only 451 votes in 2010, but
widened the margin to 4,452 when he was re-elected in 2012.
This is a rigid practice to test your resolve, investigate your chemistry, break some troublesome habits and narrow ever -
widening margins.
Burning coal, which produces four - fifths of China's electricity, has already turned China into the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases by an ever -
widening margin each year since 2006.
What these numbers indicate, Schneider points out, is that plant closings will soon exceed plant openings — and by
a widening margin in the years ahead.
Nevertheless, with increasing pressure to cut costs and
widen margins, defective products have become more and more common.
THE QUICK FIX:
Widen margins to no more than.5 inches all around, choose a small sans serif font and set the point size to 10 - 11.
THE QUICK FIX:
Widen your margins to no more than.5 inches all around, choose a small sans serif font (love Calibri!)
If a business letter is short, it is acceptable to
widen the margins and increase the space between the date and the inside address.