Sentence examples for encompassing nearly from inspiring English sources

Los Angeles was second, with more than 1.7 million Hispanics, encompassing nearly half the total population.

As president, Wolfowitz oversees a cone of authority encompassing nearly all the bank's employees, including those in MENA.

MARIJUANA is now legal under state law for medical purposes in 16 states and the District of Columbia, encompassing nearly one-third of the American population.

Encompassing nearly 100 works, "Durer's Passions," through Dec. 3, is assembled from Harvard's collections and those of the British Museum the Museum of Fine Artss, Boston, and institutions in Frankfurt, Berlin and Bremen, Germany.

Their seven-decade-long trolley and subway series was historic, intense and dripping with animosity, encompassing nearly everyone from the players to the fans to the local postmen and probably the dogs that chased them, too.

The Lowland is a sweeping, ambitious story that examines in intimate detail the intersection of the political and the personal, encompassing nearly 50 years of Indian and American history through the lives of one family.

They encompass nearly three million square feet, at a cost of about $1.66 billion.

The federal prosecutor's office encompasses nearly all of Mr. Kelley's life.

The parade of items encompasses nearly every aspect of social, cultural and religious life.

The city's five counties encompass nearly thirty-four thousand square miles — which is about the size of Indiana.

What was unusual was his large egg-shaped head and a forehead that encompassed nearly half his oddly appealing face.