Word: encompasses
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...current Shakespeare requirement will remain, professors said, although it may be expanded to encompass the Bard’s contemporaries. Faculty members would not comment on the content of the fourth requirement...
...particular sources of inspiration for his paintings. “[Greene] creates an emotional and psychological terrain that is recognizable no matter where his books are set,” Hannah says. “I set out to do something similar, to create a world that can encompass many variables, but is still one hermetically sealed world.” Many of Hannah’s pieces carry an air of nostalgia and a sense of times long past. “Kickball,” for example, portrays the longing for childhood as three boys in old-fashioned...
...quite as automatic this time around. Is it all right to be straightforward in your imploring - to beseech God on behalf of you and your family's personal fortune - or is that somehow selfish? And is that all there is? Or is this prayer, too, expected somehow to encompass a bigger and more compassionate principle...
Sarkozy's plan is, in any event, hardly racing along. The French proposal was originally meant to encompass only the 19 countries along the Mediterranean rim. But Merkel led a push to include all E.U. nations, a move that many fear could dilute what was already something grandly ambitious. And for all Sarkozy's fine words, most of the hard work of sorting out North Africa's problems will have to be done by those who live there...
...Meanwhile, the state of Chhattisgarh has imposed one of the most stringent anti-terrorism laws in India. Passed in 2005, this law defines terrorist activity to encompass even tendencies toward interference with public order or administration of law, though how this tendency is defined or proven is unclear. It also prohibits encouragement of civil disobedience, which makes free speech and political dissent tricky. In addition, national anti-terrorism legislation expands police powers to investigate suspected acts of terrorism and allows for extended preventative detention without charge...