I had barely encountered any of my country's writers at all, let alone one this engaged with the present tense, this bravely alive.
I, who'd grown up in Bombay, leaving it for Britain in the early 1980s, had barely encountered the city Mehta described during my 21 years there – although the rise within it of new buildings, a new rich and underclass, the rightwing Shiv Sena and BJP, had become disconcertingly visible by the time of my departure.
Cook in oven 1 1/2 to 2 hours or longer, until wooden skewer stuck in thickest part encounters barely any resistance.
Wolfe's narrator, a man with one of the "dese, dem and dose" accents that barely survive today, encounters a stranger with a map on a subway train headed for New Utrecht Avenue, Borough Park and Bensonhurst.
Through interviews with witnesses, schoolchildren and security officials, the Guardian has pieced together the security lapses that allowed the militants to launch a five-hour assault while encountering barely any resistance.
The thought of what he might accidentally encounter online has barely crossed my mind.
Asian and European automakers are also starting to encounter trouble, with their sales barely rising this autumn, including last month; earlier in the year, their monthly sales were leaping by 20 and 25percentt compared with the corresponding months a year earlier.
Barely knew her as I said, but did encounter her enough to pick up on what's being reported here.
The men's Victorian posturing looks very pallid indeed when contrasted with the barely concealed ferocity of Goddard's Dracula, whom we encounter first in introspective mood, whirling fleet-footed and melancholy to Ligeti's Atmosphères.
Ticket sellers and takers at many theaters are barely old enough to see R-rated movies themselves and occasionally encounter peer pressure not to bar their friends.
