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In October, Karat upped the ante, saying the real problem with the deal was not the technical issues but the U.S. design to "encircle" China. From Wordnik.com. [A Red Scare In Delhi] Reference
Chinese commentators have expressed concerned that the growing relations between India and the United States are an attempt to "encircle" China. From Wordnik.com. [Obama supports adding India as a permanent member of U.N. Security Council] Reference
Plans to "encircle" Russia with its global missile defense system are all elements of an insidious Western plot to bring Russia to its knees. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Petersburg Times] Reference
Above all be consistent and encircle your integrity. From Wordnik.com. [Some Advice] Reference
It is customary to encircle these two points with a line. From Wordnik.com. ["Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students] Reference
I feel his arms encircle me and I reach my hand to his face. From Wordnik.com. [Cancer] Reference
India believes China is trying to strategically encircle it. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Margolis: China and India: A War of Giants] Reference
The grasping portion of it could only encircle the tiniest twigs. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Fringing coral reefs, broken here and there, encircle the island. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The gunmen encircle us and invoke their gods and prophets raucously. From Wordnik.com. [‘It Is Never Over, Never Escaped’] Reference
The danger was from those who were attempting to encircle the wagon. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen] Reference
May 29 -- Germans and Austrians continue to fight fiercely to encircle. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
That is why it took them until almost dinner-time to encircle the island. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
"Okay, let's get together," he said, allowing the cameras to encircle him. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie Rangel, falling with grace] Reference
It takes from two to four years for a patch of that blight to encircle a limb. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916.] Reference
We began at this point to encircle Eichwald, as the road to Metzeral now lay open. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
'Bound Hedge,' as it was called, should be extended so as to encircle the whole city. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Madras] Reference
In the bed lieth the woman whose enemy, though she knoweth it not, doth encircle her. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
In the late 1990s, the FARC numbered around 18,000 fighters and threatened to encircle Bogota. From Wordnik.com. [Colombia Kills Guerrilla Chief] Reference
That objective was to encircle and destroy the entire Iraqi invasion force in the Kuwait theater. From Wordnik.com. [The Day We Stopped The War] Reference
The police are tightening the roadblocks that now encircle Honiara, but the rebels lurk just beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels Of The Pacific] Reference
He asked to be allowed to possess as much land as he could encircle with the skin of the dead bison. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
On this side and that the horsemen bar the familiar crossways, and encircle every outlet with sentinels. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
He gave an order and ten of his men separated from the rest and began to encircle the patch of chaparral. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
Now he and Bill Gates are partners in a venture to encircle the globe with hundreds of communications satellites. From Wordnik.com. [Movers, Shakers And Coffee Makers] Reference
Italy, the mother of art, wished the laurel to encircle the brow of the living, not to be simply the ornament of a tomb. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
When he came near his own lodge, he could discover nothing but a long line of waving fire, which seemed completely to encircle it. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
Celtica, and other navigable rivers together with some marshes, encircle it on all sides and so cause the city to be surrounded by water. From Wordnik.com. [Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.] Reference
We also attempted to form a ring with hands and arms extended around one of these trees, but our party was not numerous enough to encircle it. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
The American planes maneuvered in such a way as to encircle the Taube, and yet at close enough range to examine her without particular menace to themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service] Reference
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