• First there were plans to expand the old ch??teau by enveloping it in stone.

    FORBES: Palace Coup

  • Nike produces an all-enveloping athletic uniform to protect the modesty of Muslim women athletes.

    ECONOMIST: The charms of frugal innovation

  • Mexico is not immune from the paedophilia scandals that are enveloping the Catholic church.

    ECONOMIST: Mexico's culture wars

  • On the Big Board, there are waves of disbelief enveloping iconic properties like Apple, Google and Amazon.

    FORBES: Art World Froth Meets Stock Market Value

  • Not until the 53rd-minute dismissal of Faye did another ray of hope break through the red-and-white storm enveloping the Blues.

    BBC: Gareth Barry

  • The experience was like listening to the harmonious confluence of the many members of a choir into one enveloping sound.

    WSJ: Enlightenment on an Intimate Scale | The Adinatha Temple at Ranakpur | Masterpiece by James S. Ackerman

  • Long strings of firecrackers were set off in the narrow streets of the French Quarter, enveloping the entire block in smoke.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Asia Buzz: Firecracker Freedom

  • Since the early 1980s scores of established commuter and regional carriers have disappeared into the enveloping arms of a few developing monoliths.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • Just yesterday the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel stated that the crisis enveloping the Euro Zone (EZ) will not be solved in one go.

    FORBES: European Fiddling While The Currency Burns

  • In the tradition of classic Japanese cinema, none of the characters is prepared to voice his feelings, sorrow and grief enveloping each one individually.

    CNN: OT ONLY DID HONG

  • His appointment has been questioned by some staff at the newspaper, who want to know more about his part in the crisis enveloping the BBC.

    BBC: Ex-BBC Mark Thompson starts as New York Times boss

  • With the economic turmoil enveloping the presidential campaign, the Republican nominee took his strongest stand yet against Wall Street and the Washington regulators who oversee financial institutions.

    WSJ: McCain Says Cox Should Be Fired As SEC Chief Amid 'Casino' Markets

  • What it was really doing on the transaction costs was that it was taking a bunch of different specialists and enveloping them and coordinating with the generalists.

    FORBES: How Social Business Leaders Lead: Working Beyond Employment

  • The enveloping burqa has once again become obligatory in some places, and a woman seen alone with a man, even the driver of her taxi, faces detention.

    ECONOMIST: Even the burqa remains

  • But there was something about it, something intimate and enveloping.

    FORBES: Obama, the speech, and the static

  • The sad irony is that the unmarried 20-something parent is often both responding to and helping to produce the economic and social troubles now enveloping much of the country.

    WSJ: The New Unmarried Moms

  • The PX3s easily stretched and swiveled to fit the inordinately large heads of Engadget editors, comfortably enveloping our earlobes without making us feel like as if we were being juiced.

    ENGADGET: Turtle Beach XP500 and PX3 gaming headsets hands-on

  • The movie is serious, precise, frightening, and emotionally enveloping.

    NEWYORKER: Contagion

  • Heavy-lidded eyes cast down, he concentrates intently on a book, with the deep, swirling folds of his enveloping red cloak serving as a visible metaphor for the cocoon of his ecstatic absorption.

    WSJ: Separated at the Altar | Piero della Francesca in America | Frick Collection | By Karen Wilkin

  • As long as it's engaged in light-hurling bouts of force, or motorcycle chases through a landscape so ominously enveloping it looks like "Blade Runner" after gentrification, "TRON: Legacy" is a catchy popcorn pleasure.

    CNN: 'TRON: Legacy' makes novelty look cool

  • Former longtime U.S. Rep. Bill Delahunt, a Democrat from Massachusetts who attended Chavez's funeral in representation of the United States and met with Maduro, said he thinks that given the pressures "enveloping" Maduro, the pragmatist in him will show.

    NPR: Chavez Heir Begins 6-Year Term With Weak Mandate

  • Now the 700 residents are fighting a new menace: the crisis enveloping the 236-year-old postal service, which is bleeding cash as technology erodes volumes of first-class mail and raising questions about whether traditional mail is going the way of the buggy whip.

    WSJ: In Florida, These Retirees Deliver a First-Class Protest

  • Two penalties by the Welsh number 10 either side of half time dragged Gloucester to within four points and with 16 minutes left Sharples produced a moment of brilliance as he defied the enveloping defence with a 30m dash down the touchline.

    BBC: Gloucester 19-13 Saracens

  • Only Martha Stewart "voluntarily" vacated her NYSE board seat amidst the ImClone Systems (nasdaq: IMCL - news - people ) insider trading flap, saying she didn't want the media maelstrom enveloping her to distract from the important work of the NYSE.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Several times in the first half of 2008, it looked like the Federal Reserve and the Treasury just might be able to pull the U.S. economy and financial markets out of the enveloping funk that began to gather in earnest about one year ago as stocks topped out.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • As I write this on Day Six of the L.A. area manhunt, the terror enveloping the region is combined with anxious uncertainty over when the threat will finally be over and, more critically, whether the victim count will rise before the alleged assailant is found dead or alive.

    CNN: In rampages, it's about revenge

  • When former President Ronald Reagan visited his birthplace in Tampico, Illinois on May 10, 1992, this tender-hearted, consummate gentleman, fast-fading with enveloping Alzheimers, wept, said curator Joan Johnson, as he laid eyes on the bed, where his mother Nelle had labored for many difficult hours, before giving birth to him on February 6, 1911.

    FORBES: Ronald Reagan's Heart: Two Emotional Landmarks

  • Polanski used the dour north coast of Germany as a substitute for the Vineyard in winter, and the cinematographer Pawel Edelman turns the constant downpour and gloom into a beautiful, slate-colored curtain a subdued but enveloping field of lies and secrecy, impenetrable to the Ghost, who is lost among power players far too clever for him.

    NEWYORKER: The Ghost Writer

  • The battle for Baghdad has overwhelmed the city's hospitals over the weekend, the International Committee of the Red Cross estimated that they were getting up to 100 casualties an hour, and the Red Cross was forced to halt its operations in the city on Wednesday after one of its workers was shot in the chaos enveloping the city.

    ECONOMIST: Saddam's regime topples | The

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