Encompassing

In fact, ancient Egypt—a term encompassing a culture that lasted for more than 4,000 years—offers an incomparable opportunity to study how and why civilizations change over a long period of time. ❋ Joseph Manning (2011)

The bill refers to so-called non-state actors - a term encompassing terrorist groups, people-smugglers and transnational crime. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Nanotechnology—a term encompassing nanoscale science, engineering, and technology—is focused on understanding, controlling, and exploiting the unique properties of matter that can emerge at scales of one to 100 nanometers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Goleman 1995, 1998 popularized “emotional intelligence” as a term encompassing a limited number of socioemotional abilities and traits, including self-awareness; handling one’s own feelings and impulses; motivating others; showing empathy; and remaining connected with others through optimism, enthusiasm, and energy. ❋ Bernard M. Bass (2008)

Mr. Hunt was also an avid collector of movable books - a term encompassing pop-ups books and those otherwise set in motion - amassing more than a thousand antique and contemporary titles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As much as they may blend in with their peers, more than 550 students in the Ector County Independent School District are classified as "homeless," a term encompassing anything from living on the streets to staying temporarily in somebody else's place. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“dialectical materialism” by Plekhanov — became the philosophical foundation of what from the 1890's on - wards was very generally described as “Marxism”; the term encompassing at one and the same time the ❋ GEORGE LICHTHEIM (1968)

The minimal definition of macroevolution is “evolution above the species level”, but it has become a catchall term encompassing everything from speciation to lineage-diversification and extinction dynamics to “evolution of ‘higher taxa’” ack! go read “down with phyla!” to vaguely defined “large” amounts of change to evo-devo changes in development. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Loosely speaking, “Bizarro” is an umbrella term encompassing different kinds of weird, absurd, horrific, uncanny, and/or grotesque speculative fiction. ❋ Nihilistic_kid (2010)

Chuck surveyed the landing pad with a nod, his proprietary self-satisfied grin encompassing all he could see. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Halal is a comprehensive Islamic term encompassing not only the matters of food and drink, but all other matters of daily life. ❋ CC (2009)

Lolita is just a broad term encompassing many categories and subcategories for this style. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The simple fact is that ID is nothing more than a rubric encompassing warmed over YEC apologetics and new-fangled sounding terminology like “specification” and “irreducibility.” ❋ Unknown (2005)

Vision was a broad term encompassing all manner of perception. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1988)

"Date rape drug" is the generic term encompassing all pharmaceutical substances that can cause a person to "black-out" meaning they lose critical facilities, decision-making abilities, and even consciousness in a short period of time. ❋ How-To Wiki (2012)

After issuing two more albums for the left-field ESP-Disc label encompassing everything from a celebration of group sex to anti-war screeds and a musical adaptation of Allen ❋ Unknown (2010)

[The sorrow] of living in [this place] had encompassed the first [13] years of my life. ❋ Hanasakurou (2015)