Sentence examples for comprising the whole from inspiring English sources
In 1888 Beirut was made the capital of a separate province (vilâyet) comprising the whole of coastal Syria, including Palestine.
And in spite of political reunification by Kublai Khan, founder of the Yuan, or Mongol, dynasty (beginning in 1206 in the North and comprising the whole of China by 1280), the cultural split persisted.
When Brazil was divided into captaincies, or hereditary fiefs, the captaincy of São Vicente, comprising the whole of Brazil south of Rio de Janeiro, was granted to Souza (1534).
Although cosmic order is necessarily a general idea comprising the whole of the world and all that exists in it, the concept of providence may be more particular: the benevolent aspect of providence may be confined to a special group of people or at least be specially related to that group, or a number of patron gods or saints may watch over some specific activity or smaller group.
The relative influence of such processes on the current distribution of species can be comprehensibly inferred from a detailed population sampling comprising the whole species range.
But since Dainichi is equated with the cosmos, all things comprising the whole world are generated and perish through the interplay — "non-obstruction" and "interfusion" — of these elemental constituents.
It can be irritating, this demand that we live so fully with a narrator whose prejudices, opinions and foibles comprise the whole story.
The geographic county comprises the whole of the administrative county plus the cities of Portsmouth and Southampton, each of which is a unitary authority.
The United Kingdom comprises the whole of the island of Great Britain which contains England, Wales, and Scotland as well as the northern portion of the island of Ireland.
