It measures 79 km from north to south, embracing an area of about 2,900 square km.

The amphitheatre at Vienna embraced an area of from eighty to a hundred feet in diameter.

The emancipators thought a commune could serve administrative and judicial purposes only if it embraced a coherent area of peasant settlement.

The report said the canvas should have begun sooner and embraced a wider area.

But the recent Central American Free Trade Agreement, embracing a far smaller and less populous area, was an even harder sale for President Bush.

Considered to be a big pueblo, Gapan embraced an area as far as North of Cabanatuan.

What I have tried to set out in the last few pages is an understanding of 'meaning theism' which embraces a rather larger area than Ayer allows for.

"Don't you imagine the coup embraces a wider area than the metropolitan district?"

Violation of data protection thus embraces a wide area, ranging from industrial espionage to tinkering with and hacking away at national security.

In 1936 it became "No 501 (County of Gloucester) Squadron", changing the name to embrace a larger area of recruitment.