What Pember had to say on the subject can be understood on a wide historical canvas.

The wide canvas of words and tales of this artist brought out the plight of women in the male-dominated set-up of society.

"He will have a very wide canvas to draw on," said Lawrence Di Rita, the Pentagon spokesman.

Place the dough, sealed side up, at one of the flour-rubbed canvas and leave a free end of canvas 3 to 4 inches wide.

The series consists of eleven tall canvases in muted colors, each 96 inches high and 42 inches wide.

Nonetheless, Mr. Blair's era has been drawn on a wide and dramatic canvas.

Giving himself a wider canvas here, he has allowed his strengths to slacken into weaknesses.

Prison reformers have been slow to adapt to prison realities, and to accept that they must address the wider canvas of the criminal justice process.

He had given more space to the background than is usual in modern portraits, using rather a wide canvas and placing the head to one side.

Being so embattled, he couldn't afford to look at a wider canvas.