They dreamed of a greater Serbia encompassing all the Serbs on the Balkan Peninsula.
For much of its three years in office, Mr Netanyahu's coalition, which has curried favour with Jewish settlers on the West Bank, has treated Mr Abbas's Palestinian Authority less as a partner than as an impediment to the dream of a Greater Israel encompassing virtually all of the West Bank, including the Jordan valley.
Reporting on Reuven Rivlin, who was sworn in as the country's new president Thursday, suggests that he, too, believes in an eventual "Greater Israel" encompassing all land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean.
Big heavy doors, large windows and high ceilings are typical, as is a great room encompassing the kitchen, dining and living rooms.
It's a novel with great scope, encompassing the lives of suppressed teenager Katie and her sparky grandmother, Mary.
It's a great view encompassing both sides of the Hajar: east into the tortuous folds of Wadi Bani Awf, and west to elevated desert plains stretching into Saudi Arabia.
Many colourful pub names (e.g., Bag o'Nails, Goat and Compass, and Elephant and Castle) are actually corrupted forms of historical, ecclesiastical, or other proper phrases and titles (e.g., "Bacchanals," "Great God Encompassing," and "Infanta de Castile," respectively).
The fact that Beringia is now inundated may explain why no archaeological evidence of human occupation has been found, although greater Beringia encompasses such a vast territory that more terrestrial archaeological sites may yet be discovered.
This considerable effort, however, likely reflects the nature of character data, which contain detailed anatomical descriptions for large taxonomic groups encompassing great morphological diversity.
Some of the greatest songs encompass both opposing emotions.
