(1) They were going further afield to other places where they could get the best business in terms of cheaper labour.
(2) There have been news stories as far afield as India, Romania, the United Arab Emirates and Taiwan.
(3) "We are now looking further afield: India, China, the Middle East, South America," said managing director Mark Webber.
(4) How this angry, increasingly radical young man became connected to what appears to be a sophisticated terrorist cell is the subject of urgent inquiry for security services in Britain and further afield.
(5) This year I plan to head much further afield, to Arctic Canada – hopefully to spot polar bears in far-north Quebec.
(6) But still, it doesn't seem that far afield for him to have gotten the memo about how the crisis in news is no longer moral (what a luxury!
(7) At a 2.20am press conference, Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri state highway patrol said 31 people had been arrested, some who had come from as far afield as New York and California.
(8) Within days, US networks were demanding interviews as were media organisations from as far afield as Japan, Denmark, Canada and Australia.
(9) China hopes to build 110 nuclear power plants at home and wants to use its own designs at Bradwell as a showcase to help it sell its technology further afield.
(10) In turn, a growing number of London councils are forced to house their homeless people further and further afield.
(11) So you would have a system that the staff at the house would call ahead to the boat, and the owners would appear 10 minutes later and you’d just happen to have fresh towels and scented water waiting for them.” In recent years, a growing number of superyacht owners and charterers, particularly those under 40, have cruised further afield than the “milk run” of Mediterranean resorts to remote routes, including the Arctic Northwest Passage, fuelling demand for designer icebreakers, such as the SeaExplorer range.
(12) Case study 'We're having to look further afield' Tinsley Bridge steelworks is pursuing what the government might see as a model business plan and defying the continuing downturn in manufacturing.
(13) The scheme has attracted attention as far afield as Amsterdam, Milwaukee and Cape Town.
(14) With no more than 1.5 billion people online worldwide, the company is already close to saturation point in many countries and is now looking further afield.
(15) This year's show features acts from as far afield as France, Greece, Germany, the United States and Ukraine.
(16) If too few badgers were killed, then those escaping would spread TB further afield and actually increase herd infections.
(17) As far as the police in Nairobi are concerned, Jermaine Grant, 29, is involved with al-Shabaab, which has been responsible for numerous bombings in Mogadishu and northern Somalia , and is seemingly determined to export its violence further afield.
(18) The city is compact and easy to navigate by foot, and you can travel further afield by bike or on the reliable, cheap bus network.
(19) Last month Boko Haram threatened to strike farther afield, with potentially catastrophic consequences for the economy.
(20) Newham, one of the most economically deprived local authorities in the UK, which legally must house claimants, said it had had to look "further afield for an alternative supply" of affordable housing.
Astray
Definition:
(adv. & a.) Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray.
Example Sentences:
(1) The single-celled organism has four "watermarks" written into its DNA to identify it as synthetic and help trace its descendants back to their creator, should they go astray.
(2) The willingness to ignore their misconduct has led us all astray and increased the public's lack of trust in all journalism.
(3) In an article for the New York Times in 2009, Krugman wrote : "As I see it, the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth."
(4) It didn't lure me astray – I'm done with my youthful experimenting – but it did occur to me that it was not all that helpful to parents trying to warn their kids not to try skunk when they could sample it just by breathing the air.
(5) The Gijon goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar was on fine form, particularly against Ronaldo, while Real’s approach play looked lethargic and too many passes went astray.
(6) "Market share" and other phrases can lead you astray.
(7) He helped us by looking into some money for the area that had gone astray.
(8) "Isn't it true he has been led astray by the Tories?
(9) This is stuff [Isis] already has.” The Pentagon cleared up some confusion about a cache going astray on Sunday that had subsequently been destroyed in a US strike, once it had been realised it was in danger of falling into Isis hands.
(10) Based on a review of the literature it can be said that a main obstacle to a rational approach to prevention and health promotion in the elderly, seems to be on the one side our lack of knowledge of what constitutes effective intervention, and on the other a feeling of great urgency--which may easily lead us astray.
(11) But if it was not a giant mental disorder, was there a huge conspiracy that led Tamerlan and Jahar astray?
(12) They’re not brainwashed by American R&B or led astray by song lyrics.
(13) Clegg came under attack from Harriet Harman yesterday when he stood in for David Cameron at prime minister's questions while students marched on Whitehall to be told that he had been "led astray" by the Tories during the negotiations to form the coalition government.
(14) Memory can lead us astray, but then it is a machine with many moving parts, and consequently many things that can go awry.
(15) It may have been built on debt and a financial sector going quietly astray, but they enjoyed 40 successive quarters of economic growth.
(16) In this paper, will be described how some of the most important advances were made, and where the explorers sometimes went astray.
(17) Sally did not see a bank statement from Nationwide for the entire period the money was going astray.
(18) Amid all the uncertainty, experts argue that if a warhead had gone astray in that critical period in the early 90s, it would probably have been detonated by now.
(19) That she has been led astray and manipulated by the abuser.
(20) 'They're scared to write much, in case the letter goes astray.