In a joint statement that Mr. Bush and Mr. Aznar released just before their news conference, the leaders agreed on the need for a "comprehensive security strategy that encompasses both offensive and defensive deterrent systems".
A joint communiqué split the difference: it spoke of deterring "new threats with a strategy that encompasses both offensive and defensive systems," and continued reductions in nuclear arms and greater control over the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
In the course of nearly seven hundred pages, he encompasses military offensives, the slave trade, arms-running operations, passionate romances, religious conversions, childhood memories, and rampant corruption, in a portrait of a place where "God and the Devil are one and the same".
And Mr. Blair went as far as he could to sound positive about Mr. Bush's missile defense plans without actually endorsing them, declaring that any new nuclear strategy "has got to encompass defensive systems and offensive systems".
This week, Chrysler had to drop its insistence that magazines carrying its advertisements must notify the car maker "of any editorial content that encompasses sexual, political, social issues or any editorial that might be construed as provocative or offensive".
When Collins hears the play call from the offensive coordinator Sean Payton, and realizes that within that play wideout Ike Hilliard's route encompasses a double move -- two changes of direction -- there is an excellent chance Hilliard will get open.
Luis Carlos Treviño Berchelmann, head of public security for the state of Nuevo León, which encompasses Monterrey, described the blockades as a response by the drug cartels to recent antidrug offensives by the government.
That encompasses about everything.
"She encompasses it all".
