Word: encompassing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zoba described PRDRE's broadened activities oncampus, which have involved speaking to first-yearproctor groups to increase awareness, and havegrown to encompass the athletic teams,fraternities and sororities on campus...
...deduction, he wrote, the decision to terminate pregnancy was not with in the legitimate sphere of governmental action, concluding, "A right of personal privacy...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy...
...cruelty of this measure by asserting that personal sacrifices would serve the common weal. "We go beyond neighborly love," said one. "We extend it to future generations. Therein lies the high ethical value and justification of the law." As Kevles notes, the Nazis' draconian eugenics program did not originally encompass the anti-Semitism that later so rabidly characterized the Third Reich. But as Hitler and his regime turned ever more fiercely against the Jews, the sterilization of "undesirables" escalated into genocide, a horrifying realization of Francis Galton's vision of the world biologically cleansed according to one group's idea...
...figured that together, we could encompass amuch larger perspective," Dominguez says. "[Wu's]more of a student group person. Between our twoperspectives, we thought we could really have afoundation for change, diversity andrepresentation. We know each other well and haveexperience working together...
Between each group of pieces, Lawrence-King inserted relevant historical and technical information in his soothing, English-accented voice. He briefly demonstrated the three rows of strings on the double harp (a seeming irony), which encompass all the notes of a piano. He also explained the necessity of reaching through the strings on the outer rows to reach the sharps and flats which lie in the middle row, which made all the more obvious the tremendous skill and agility required to play the harp as beautifully as Lawrence-King does...