The search for extraterrestrial life encompasses many fundamental scientific questions.
His emotional journey through life encompasses several metamorphoses as a wide variety of owners adopt him.
The law lords were clear that the right to a private and family life encompasses the right to autonomy – extending to the manner of one's death.
Russell begins by posing the question of "the effects of modern knowledge upon our mental life", and by emphasising that "mental life" encompasses willing and feeling as well as intellectual thought.
Fuentes's The Years With Laura Diaz (Bloomsbury) tells the story of an artist whose life encompasses most of twentieth-century Mexican history, while Barker takes a new angle on her familiar themes of history, memory and psychology in Border Crossing (Viking).
(e) Purpose in life, which is related to goals in life and a sense of directedness, represents the feeling there is meaning to one's present and past life; encompasses the holding of beliefs that give life purpose, i.e. having aims and objectives for living.
