From the early Renaissance, Mannerism and the Baroque through 18th, 19th and 20th century painting Figurative art has steadily broadened its parameters.

The FXdirekt Bank was founded in 2004 and has steadily broadened its areas of competence in the forex market.

Since assuming the job in 1983, Mr. Pearlstine has steadily broadened the paper's definition of business news, adding columns on subjects like personal finance.

But because the epidemic affects not only people with AIDS but the entire health care system, the coalition of supporters has broadened steadily and now includes city, state and public health officials as well as doctors and hospital administrators.

County government, Mr. Simpson said, was originally conceived as an administrative arm for state programs, but the executive's role has steadily broadened and become more high-profile over time.

While The Gleaners garnered little but notoriety during his life, after his death in 1875, public appreciation of his work steadily broadened.

The proposal is part of a trend in which supporters of affirmative action seeking to widen the policy's political base, pushed by a 1995 Supreme Court ruling that made it difficult to operate programs based solely on race, have steadily broadened the definition of oppressed groups whose members qualify for special help.

For fully half an hour everything was still and the light steadily broadened.

Those events have steadily broadened their scope, and the National Black Arts Festival is beginning to do the same.