Word: encompassed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...crowd was then told to leave the steps of Mass. Hall and proceeded to decorate the stakes that encompass the lawn...
...millennium are just not hearing it. They toy with the very idea of food--how it is prepared, packaged, filigreed, tricked up, dramatized. They know we must not only have our daily bread but also be able to make it novel--or nouvelle. And innovation can encompass cuisines haute and bas. The motto of chef Ferran Adria is a simple but lofty "creation means not copying others." And that means bone marrow crowned with caviar as well as tagliatelle made of strips of jellied consomme. Then there are the workaday renovations: the store-bought zest that transforms the meat loaf...
...first] 16 words [of the First Amendment] encompass the foundation of religious liberty in the United States," said Roberts, who has been executive director of the Mass. Chapter of the ACLU for the past 30 years...
...religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion." The legal standard is essentially the same for refugees like De Santiago seeking permission to stay, or what is officially known as the "withholding of removal." In recent years, the definition of a social group has stretched to encompass gender (women facing genital mutilation in Togo) and sexual orientation (gay men in Mexico). For the first time, the disabled are demanding the same consideration. Says Bill Strassberger, an INS spokesman: "Cases that involve persons seeking asylum directly based upon a handicap seem to be a recent development...
Questions of duty, law and destiny encompass the heart of Antigone. In the Jean Anouilh version of this classic Greek tragedy, French angst envelops the tale of Antigone's challenge to Creon, her uncle and the king's conception of law. Two visions of how life should be lived are presented but only one can survive, with Creon unable to bend his laws and Antigone unwilling to compromise her sense of virtue. Any performance of classical Greek tragedy is a difficult endeavor and the Anouilh version of the play adds yet another layer of complication. Yet the production staff...