Sentence examples for engulfing problem from inspiring English sources

That argument evokes a problem that has bedeviled American policy ever since the Vietnam War: How can any administration approach a difficult and potentially engulfing problem overseas in a way that gets Americans behind long-term, full-hearted support?

Two immiscible droplets wetting on a filament may assume engulfing, partial-engulfing, or non-engulfing morphology that depends on the wetting behavior and geometries of the resulting droplet-on-filament system.

Ahead of the investigation into the midfielder's postive sample, and amid the doping scandal currently engulfing athletics, Wenger has reaffirmed his belief that a widespread problem exists within football.

None of these problems, however, are anything like the firestorm now engulfing Riggs.

"They're responsible for all the problems in this country!" A powerful confluence of crises is engulfing Egypt as summer temperatures reach punishing heights, fraying tempers and fueling anger among many toward the country's leaders.

Interestingly, engulfing cells can survive under starvation conditions, whereas cells that engulf plastic beads cannot.

Paul suffered engulfing depressions.

Was it the engulfing heat?

But the novel is sensual and engulfing.

They are terrified citizens, trying, against hope, to avoid Bosnia — that is, a terrible, engulfing violence in which memories of the fighting of 1948 will be eclipsed by much greater atrocities, which will leave us with exactly the same problem we had at the start: namely, Canada's problem.

Our most engulfing & ruinous obsession was the war in Vietnam.