This stereotype of messy socialising students, increasingly surrounded by technology and creature comforts, is very familiar - but needs updating.
And these islands of elephants are increasingly surrounded and cut off by human development and human population.
Yabrud, a Syrian town that is the only remaining rebel stronghold along the border, is increasingly surrounded by the Syrian army.
Israel, feeling increasingly surrounded by unfriendly forces, denounced the unity deal as dooming future peace talks since Hamas seeks its destruction.
It may be words — "Our love comes back in the middle of the night" — or a wordless fragment of melody to be increasingly surrounded and buffeted.
Among other things, the United States has opened military bases in Central Asia -- a potentially explosive issue in relations with Russia, which is feeling increasingly surrounded by American armed force.
The Booktrust list is a fantastic starting point, but kids are already increasingly surrounded by prescriptions and "must-dos", school-mandated reading and deadlines.
Like the angry youth of the West Bank and Gaza, Iraqi children are increasingly surrounded by music, images, leaflets and praise for fighters.
At the moment this place suits us well, but as we are increasingly surrounded by towering apartment blocks, there's a worry that we'll soon get no sunlight.
Here in the northern Colorado town of Severance, Mr. Bartmann, a man with a Wyatt Earp mustache and a master's degree in animal production, spends his days managing a lamb feedlot increasingly surrounded by high-end ranch subdivisions.
