Today American leaders talk about a war of generations; perhaps, even, a "hundred year's war".16 The Islamist cause and its struggles certainly encompass an entire civilization.
On one side of the divide is Patti LuPone, as the gangsterish bigwig Leocadia Begbick, holding the audience mesmerized with her wise-ass attitude but struggling to encompass Weill's high-lying vocal lines.
A two-dimensional photomontage can show physical changes in the environment, but may struggle to encompass the social and ecosystem complexities of post-nuclear disaster recovery.
Their rocky road to commitment encompasses struggles between tradition and modernity, duty and dreams, and, most important, male (steadfast, dull, basically right) and female (headstrong, selfish, essentially wrong).
In the current competitive and regulated landscape, manufacturing enterprises struggle to improve their performances, encompassing environmental as well as economic objectives, towards sustainable manufacturing and the future Eco-factories.
This notion may seem arbitrary, even trivializing, but it sets the stage for a sweeping narrative encompassing everything from the struggles of Italian-American immigrants to the social dynamics of pie fights.
Meandering from the Catskills to the Adirondacks, the district encompasses struggling dairy farms, creaky industrial towns, weathered tourist spots and the civil servant-packed Albany suburbs.
Now, nearly 10 years later, the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, encompassing the Graham dance company, school and junior troupe, is struggling to survive the internecine warfare.
Abroad, he is struggling to stitch together support for a new round of worldwide trade-liberalization talks this fall, and to build some momentum for a trade pact encompassing North and South America.
"His gardens are all encompassing".
