(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.
Field
Definition:
(n.) Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
(n.) A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.
(n.) A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.
(n.) An open space; an extent; an expanse.
(n.) Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.
(n.) The space covered by an optical instrument at one view.
(n.) The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).
(n.) An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.
(n.) A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.
(n.) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.
(v. i.) To take the field.
(v. i.) To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.
(v. t.) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
(2) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(3) 8.43am BST A little more from that Field interview on Today.
(4) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
(5) Cellular radial expansion was apparently unaffected by exposure to electric fields.
(6) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(7) Data is available to support the early influences of enamel organ epithelium upon a responding mesenchyme in the determination of dental morphogenetic fields (Dryburg, 1967; Miller, 1969).
(8) In a series of compounds with H2-antihistaminic activity, a conformational analysis was performed based on force field calculations.
(9) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(10) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.
(11) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
(12) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(13) No biologic investigation of the hemostatic impairment could be performed under the emergency conditions of this field study.
(14) Hyperosmolar buffer slightly increased the sensitivity and maximal response to methacholine as well as the cholinergic twitch to electric field stimulation.
(15) At sufficiently high field intensities, the reaction may approach a value equal to that of the free enzyme system.
(16) Most of the infection was attributed to T. parva parva by application of field ticks to susceptible cattle.
(17) Components of locomotor activity were measured in an open field.
(18) The field of labeling formed a continuous band from rostro-laterally to caudo-medially.
(19) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
(20) These are particularly common in the field of sport.