Because the universe is expanding, any wave of light emitted from a far-flung source is stretched out.

ECONOMIST: Fundamental physics

The U.S. will become stretched in defending its far-flung economic and political interests, just like the Roman and British empires before it.

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No-one who heard it will ever forget the tidal wave of sound welling from the depths of the crowd that greeted the news that Mr Obama had won - it rippled back through the crowd that stretched far into the darkness of the night and seemed to hang and echo between the downtown skyscrapers.

BBC: Obama campaign blazes to victory

As the match swung tit-for-tat, Leeds' Collins could have done better but was out-muscled by Burton as he stretched to reach a ball at the far post, only to smash his effort over the bar.

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By this point, Umbrella or Neo-Umbrella or whatever else they want to call themselves have stretched the laws of plausibility too far.

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The Franco-Dutch carrier has so far ordered 12 regular A380s, with a passenger capacity of 555, but a stretched version under consideration by Airbus would carry 656 people.

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Although Mr Messer sacrificed shares in an empire that stretched from Lima to Kuala Lumpur, he is now chief executive of a smaller, but still far-reaching domain, and one he can control himself.

ECONOMIST: Face value