Beyond its outermost blue are the world-encompassing belts of fierce radiation that bear his name.

Globalization as a world-encompassing process is largely beyond the determination of national politics, and societies and nations must adapt.

"The awesome, world-encompassing financial power wielded today by the major Swiss banks is founded on wartime profits," Ziegler writes.

Make the music a giant canon, a world-encompassing round, an earth-size "Row, row, row your boat."

Seal's hero is on an adventure on a scale far more grandiose, magnificent, world-encompassing and demanding than Goethe's Faust.

In Mr. Silverberg's conceit, the waters are a world-encompassing ocean on a planet named Hydros that was once used as a human penal colony.

Brian Deedrick hails from a small Central Alberta town, but has achieved an exotic, world-encompassing life as artistic director of the Edmonton Opera.

Learning of the potential danger to life, their superiors on Earth order the ship's crew to remain in orbit until a method can be found to eliminate the threat of world-encompassing genocide.

"Could it be that we really have an urgent need for such a worldencompassing language because the problems and phenomena are equally world-encompassing? In comparison, could regional languages even cope with this necessarily world-wide exchange?"

In some manner, Belisarius knew, the crystals were communicating with each other-except-a flash of understanding-they were not really individuals, but part of a vast, world-encompassing mentality which was partly one, partly divisible.

In 1587, his epic Tamburlaine the Great, about an obscure bandit from Samarkand who ended up dominating central Asia, was wowing London theatregoers with its mesmeric hero and world-encompassing plot.

During the course of his tenure as head man of America's covert antiterrorist operations, Bolan reached the realization that worldwide terrorism was only a tentacle of an evil even more widespread and world-encompassing than the Mafia ever hoped to be.