Orbit — having the spacecraft encircle the Earth — is harder.
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The fences, which often encircle an entire property, are expensive.
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Long, linear dunes encircle the equator of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
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To people in Delhi, China's investments seem intended to encircle India.
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If they push further north, this would help encircle the Old City.
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Private jet trips can encircle the globe in a matter of weeks.
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OUTDOOR SPACE Raised garden beds with stone borders encircle much of the .
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Crossing lines are rare, and harmonies tend to encircle rather than intertwine.
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We aim to encircle the city and ensure the militias are evicted.
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The grates encircle the building, adding rhythm to an otherwise highly vertical structure.
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People in Aleppo 'scared and hungry' as Syrian troops encircle city Aleppo Gov.
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Plans to capture or even encircle Mosul by December are ambitious at best.
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As I began to sob, I felt a pair of arms encircle me.
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The musicians encircle their leader to ward off what could be an attack.
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Smoke from the bushfires ravaging Australia will encircle the globe, NASA said Tuesday.
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They actually wiggle and wobble, developing bends in places as they encircle planet.
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Soon it could encircle the entire planet, potentially lasting for a month or more.
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Since November it has been working with the U.S.-led coalition to encircle Raqqa.
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They pushed into the city in June after battling for months to encircle it.
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WHITE tents encircle Sanam Luang, a vast grassy parade ground in the heart of Bangkok.
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The historical scenes were created by Frank Happersberger to encircle a large figure of Athena.
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Like on Earth, Jupiter's atmosphere and cloud formations encircle the planet in great jet streams.
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At a typical fandango, musicians encircle the tarima, or dance platform, the ritual's spiritual heart.
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The intent of the sweeping oversight offensive designed to encircle the President, launched by Rep.
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Xelil said the new battalions were not taking part in the operation to encircle Raqqa.
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In the tattoo, the letters encircle a symbol that includes a heart and an EKG line.
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Events of the last week have shown how the left's messaging has evolved to encircle Zuckerberg.
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"From where India sits, it looks like China is trying to encircle them," the diplomat added.
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The storm began on May 30 and grew to encircle the entire planet a few weeks later.
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Their current focus is to encircle and ultimately capture Raqqa - Islamic State's base of operations in Syria.
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PMF involvement in the campaign has however been crucial, helping encircle the jihadists in areas around Mosul.
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Outside the museum is a sculpture of Neptune, and the museum has bronze rings, which encircle it.
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A pair of white drones, hovering a few feet off the ground, begin to encircle the soldiers.
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Russian strikes have also aided Assad's forces as they encircle Aleppo, the country's most populous urban area.
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The acolytes encircle the woman in white with great loping leaps, arms stretched painfully behind their backs.
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Russia accuses NATO of trying to encircle it and threatening stability in Eastern Europe, which NATO denies.
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Their partners encircle them with shapes of disturbing intensity, inserting arms from above or behind with interjectory force.
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But the countries that emerged from the implosion did not neatly encircle Serbs, Albanians, Croats and so on.
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In Israel, 50,000 mirrors, known as heliostats, encircle a solar tower in the Negev desert, near in Ashelim.
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I was in the house when the National Front came to smash our windows and encircle our flat.
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Other times, like in 2007 and now, they encircle the planet and can last up to two months.
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By the end of the year, we will produce enough bubble wrap to encircle the Equator 0.23 times.
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That friend might have been "really sorry," but he still stretched out his hands to encircle her neck.
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Kumar added that China's befriending of Pakistan enables it to encircle India, thereby affording it a military advantage.
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At one point, Dewan puts her arm on Tatum's shoulder which prompts him to encircle her in his arms.
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Nationalists in Beijing growl that the Americans are using exaggerated fears of North Korea to encircle and contain China.
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The Morales administration also misused military equipment – provided by the U.S. – to intimidate civilians and encircle the American embassy.
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The forces loyal to Mr. Assad will continue to encircle populations when they can't or won't drive out rebels.
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In some cases, these blanks are so arranged as to encircle the black moment in a perimeter of white.
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At one point, Dewan Tatum puts her arm on Tatum's shoulder which prompted him to encircle her in his arms.
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In Kinshasa, a city whose tin-roofed shanty towns encircle the skyscrapers of its business district, the fear is palpable.
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The Kremlin, which denies harboring any aggressive intentions toward Europe, has condemned the moves as an attempt to encircle Russia.
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Matthew Nowicki, a Polish émigré architect, hoped to encircle the vexing roundabout with an elevated linear accelerator-cum-shopping center.
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Eventually, the group using animal catch poles was able to encircle the deer, and Meyerrenke's son freed it from the bucket.
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Stand in the bottom of the bowl and those walls — and the monolithic spectator stands — encircle you like a natural fortress.
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His cough was rasping, his thighs as thin as his calves, and a thumb and forefinger could practically encircle his ankles.
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The government advance towards Khan Sheikhoun threatens to encircle the last remaining pocket of rebel-held territory in neighboring Hama province.
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A pro-Damascus source recently told Reuters government forces and their allies are trying to encircle rebels in the Aleppo area.
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It is in war, finally, that laurels are to be gathered, and it is the executive brow they are to encircle.
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For its part, Pakistan sees the expansive diplomacy in Afghanistan by its old rival, India, as a way to encircle it.
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The cliffs that encircle Rio tower dramatically above, beyond which rise the outstretched arms of the city's Christ the Redeemer statue.
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This refers to the north or south shift of strong westerly winds which encircle the globe to the south of Australia.
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Washington's support for the SDF, which launched a campaign to encircle Raqqa in November, has caused tension with NATO-ally Turkey.
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"The authorities will continue to encircle the compound completely," Van Zandt said, suggesting that the government might eventually starve out those remaining.
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Eventually, the group using animal catch poles was able to encircle the deer, and Meyerrenke&aposs son freed it from the bucket.
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For instance, Stillman introduces the characters via little spotlights that encircle their heads, with text to explain their relationships to each other.
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The SDF is fighting in a campaign to encircle and ultimately capture Raqqa city, Islamic State's main base of operations in Syria.
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Their initial goal is to encircle the city and largely cut off the resupply of arms, supplies and fighters, American commanders say.
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Behind them loomed pieces of a huge wall, more than 20 feet high, which is intended to eventually encircle the new city.
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To the east of Al Bab, a mix of Kurdish and Arab militias have been advancing in an attempt to encircle Raqqa.
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The Apple Watch bands weren't long enough to encircle the forearm, and even if they were, the screen was improperly oriented for viewing.
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Rings surround all this solar system&aposs gas giant planets; they most famously wrap around Saturn, but also encircle Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus.
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The first two phases focused on capturing areas to the north and west of Raqqa, part of a strategy to encircle the city.
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A Syrian military source said the aim is to stop rebel shelling of western Aleppo and to encircle the militants in the east.
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Surrounding the chiva dancers, street carts with corn on the cob and cocktails infused with corozo—a cranberry-like fruit—encircle the party.
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My costume included a wrinkled wool top in a bruised purple hue with faded drawstring pants large enough to encircle my entire family.
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White-sand beaches and crystalline waters teeming with tropical fish encircle the islands of Rangiroa, making it a scuba-diving destination for tourists.
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Xelil said the YPG was able to "crush this attack and encircle the attackers," and that all of the IS fighters were killed.
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Clouds encircle the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in a spectacular scene, partially reminiscent of the Bespin Cloud City.
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One key impediment on its power was wind shear, which threatened to topple its thunderstorms over as they attempted to encircle the storm center.
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Filmed in the village of Waijinggou, in the dusty, hardscrabble hills that encircle northern Beijing, the short film is rather honest about modern inequalities.
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These are called "annular" or "ring of fire" eclipses, because a white-hot band of sun will encircle the darkened face of the moon.
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No, he apparently thought, all of this was one nefarious plot hatched in Washington to encircle Russia deep in its historical sphere of influence.
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The atrium's windows encircle the installation 360 degrees, allowing for sunlight to reflect off the glass creating exquisite multicolored impressions on the surrounding walls.
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Iran is now trying to semi-encircle Israel with proxy militias like Hezbollah — in Lebanon, Syria and Western Iraq, armed with precision-guided missiles.
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That October, as part of a much larger march, some 35,000 protesters tried to encircle the Pentagon, but were quelled and arrested by security.
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At high sea levels, water would nearly encircle Britain but never surmounted the land bridge, which stood 100 to 300 feet above the waves.
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The government and allied forces, it wrote, "are likely to continue to encircle and eventually cut off eastern Aleppo city from cross-border assistance."
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The committee has been negotiating a deal to spare the city a military assault by the Syrian army and its allies who encircle it.
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Your barrel bombs and mortars and airstrikes have allowed the militia in Aleppo to encircle tens of thousands of civilians in your ever-tightening noose.
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In 2010, it picked up steam in Saturn's northern hemisphere and, over the course of the six churning months, grew to encircle the entire planet.
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The plasma, mixing with the liquid metal vortex, is then compressed once every second by acoustic waves from 200 pistons that will encircle the reactor.
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And the U.N. is warning that hundreds of thousands could be cut off from food if Syrian forces encircle the rebel-held parts of Aleppo.
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Different types of river levees can run parallel the main river channel, encircle a protected area, or provide backup or protection to an existing levee.
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The protesters held signs and chanted to protest the treatment of animals, prompting four agents to encircle Clinton, who never appeared to be in danger.
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"Politics encircle us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries," Gandhi once said.
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If they don't do so in a reasonable amount of time and the projectiles continue, police can encircle that group of protesters and arrest them.
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More than 100 drones were dropped from a fighter jet in a disorganized heap, before quickly coming together to race toward and encircle a target.
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Should they capture that area, they could encircle the city and impose a siege that would trap tens of thousands of civilians alongside the Houthis.
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The advance threatens to encircle insurgents in their only patch of territory in nearby Hama province and could put a Turkish observation post there at risk.
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ISIS remains the focus, and US-backed forces continue to encircle Raqqa, its base in Syria, ahead of an offensive designed to annihilate the terrorist group.
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As the rest of the 12-dog pack arrived, the animals' confidence grew, and they began to encircle the cat, chirping with excitement, the photographer said.
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Alongside a massive arsenal of missiles capable of striking Taiwan, Chinese naval and air forces conduct increasingly complex exercises that regularly encircle the self-governing island.
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The Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall was built in 211 for one specific purpose: to encircle West Berlin and keep anyone from going in, or out.
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The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are undertaking a multiphased operation to encircle Raqqa, and have advanced to within a few kilometers of the dam.
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" Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told a U.N. Security Council meeting Assad's bid to encircle eastern Aleppo would have "potentially devastating consequences.
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The same is true for his call for the deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants and his plan to encircle and bomb the Islamic State into oblivion.
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The U.S.-led coalition is currently backing a campaign by its Syrian militia allies to encircle and ultimately capture Raqqa, Islamic State's base of operations in Syria.
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They make much of the "corridor" in the plan, concluding that China's chief aim is to gain access to the Indian Ocean, the better to encircle India.
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If previous experience is anything to go by, they'll probably encircle the city, clearing ISIS from the towns and villages around it, before entering the city proper.
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If previous experience is anything to go by, they'll probably encircle the city, clearing ISIS from the towns and villages around it before entering the city proper.
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Government forces seized control of a section of the Castello Road in July, part of its effort to fully encircle the opposition-held eastern half of Aleppo.
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O'Brien's task was to teach them about the Van Allen belts, two regions of intense radiation that encircle the planet like a pair of inflatable pool tubes.
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"Be Kind" concludes with the child's hope that a small act of kindness toward Tanisha might "spill out of our school" and expand to encircle the world.
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The imposing black basalt city walls that date from the Byzantine era encircle the old city like a massive fortress on a hill above the Tigris River.
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Neo-Nazi, alt-right, and white supremacist protesters with torches encircle counterprotesters at a Thomas Jefferson statue on the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, Virginia, Aug.
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A few months ago, the Indian government erected metal gates to encircle 100 hectares of forest in Pidikia, a village in the east Indian state of Odisha.
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Cops can't encircle groups of protesters merely to prevent an uprising, and cops can't go after an entire group because a handful of demonstrators violate the law.
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As Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, in the form of sinister serpents, encircle Tlaltecuhtli, the deity casually plays with their own breasts as if unconcerned by the approaching menace.
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The Kurdish and Arab militias pushed into the city in June after fighting for months to encircle it with the help of U.S.-led jets and special forces.
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Major Yasser Abdul Rahim said the rebels did not seek to enter the mainly Kurdish city of Afrin but encircle it and expel the YPG, which controls it.
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In both conurbations, the stone ramparts which encircle the historic, contested centre are a permanent reminder of a turbulent past which has never quite been laid to rest.
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Assad's ground troops have used Russian air cover to encircle the rebels who control the eastern part of the city, where up to 320,000 people may be trapped.
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Saudi Arabia and some of its Gulf Arab allies accuse Iran of trying to encircle the kingdom by supporting militia groups in the region - a charge Tehran denies.
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No matter how high the tariffs Mr. Trump wants to raise to encircle the American economy, he will not be able to produce a manufacturing renaissance at home.
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Rubio's backers have characterized the Florida senator as a unifying force in the GOP race as lawmakers and donors scramble to encircle an alternative to Trump and Cruz.
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The Syrian Democratic Forces, which also includes the powerful Kurdish YPG militia, is fighting to encircle Raqqa city with support, including U.S. aircraft, from the U.S.-led coalition.
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The implicit message was that the United States was trying to encircle China in the same way that, according to Mr. Putin, it was trying to contain Russia.
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The primate overlooks a room painted flamingo pink, pinker even than the terra-cotta ramparts that encircle the old city a few miles from this quiet residential enclave.
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Just a year ago, Wang described his chain of theme parks as a "pack of wolves" that would encircle and overpower Walt Disney's US$103 billion Shanghai Disneyland.
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Fences encircle Yellowstone, bears must be kept at bay from camping grounds, and trees were tunneled through for winding roads in Yosemite, just part of their human management.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation, which headed a law enforcement operation to encircle and arrest several of the anti-government protesters, has not released its expenditures from the occupation.
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The delicate balance of power between the Iraqi government, the Kurdish and Shia militias, and the Americans will decide whether the ISF can encircle Mosul and, if so, when.
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"Everything indicates the regime is preparing for a large-scale military campaign in Deraa in which they plan to encircle the city and reach the Jordanian border," Rayes said.
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Other messages the Israeli ambassadors were asked to convey: The international community must pressure Iran and stop the Iranian attempt to encircle Israel via Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria.
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If the Epstein memes mean anything, it's that the American public is deeply suspicious of the closed rooms and dark fringes that seem to encircle and control their world.
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But that decision angered China — North Korea's sole major ally, whose cooperation is crucial for enforcing sanctions — which sees Thaad as part of an American effort to encircle it.
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Civilians in Taiz were suffering "desperate shortages" of food and water due to Popular Committees allied to the Houthis who encircle the city and prevent aid deliveries, it said.
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The advance toward Khan Sheikhoun threatens to encircle the last remaining pocket of rebel-held territory in neighboring Hama province, including the towns of Morek, Kafr Zeita and Latamneh.
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Munching on a pretzel, I took a closer look at the massive gold-plated chandelier overhead; two tiers of winged dragons encircle it, one dragon per each electric candle.
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The ecological collapse his policies may precipitate would be felt most acutely within his country's borders, which encircle 80% of the basin—but would go far beyond them, too.
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I look out of the window of my attic room, and in the early morning the men are already laboring on the road that is to encircle the estate.
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It's shaped like a big fat bean sized to fit in my hand like a baseball, with an extension on the top that is designed to encircle the clitoris.
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In The Art of War, Sun-Tzu advised generals not to completely encircle the enemy, basically because it'll make them go all "This is SPARTA!" and fight to the death.
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In different scenarios, a tangle of vines, jungle fronds, or a stubby ramble of cacti buds trap and encircle a woman in a puzzling union of pink flesh and greenery.
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The bole of the biggest living sequoia, the General Sherman tree, is over 30 metres (2150 feet) in circumference; it takes 21872 adults with their arms outstretched to encircle it.
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Welcome to one of Europe's biggest infrastructure projects: an ambitious scheme to encircle Paris with a new metro loop, and shift the way people think and move about the capital.
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The lights and cameras of a TV set encircle him, and the quick-cut editing and visual effects suggest we are seeing the funny outtakes of something perhaps more serious.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads SEATTLE — Scraps of bright turquoise, yellow, and salmon fabric encircle a swatch of denim imprinted with a building's image; this delineates a figure's thigh.
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It has subdued lighting and winding hallways that encircle the first floor like a running track and discourage "exit-seeking behaviors," where patients search for ways out of a building.
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I am interested in how lines can be used (both aesthetically and conceptually) to divide and connect ideas, while also having the potential to encircle and diagram even broader ones.
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The operation by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which includes the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and some Arab groups, began on Saturday and aims to encircle and ultimately capture Raqqa.
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Lam to apologize for the police's actions on Wednesday, when they fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who tried to encircle and then storm the Legislative Council offices.
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In a 41-minute video posted by the group this week, a large gathering of people, including several young children, are seen sitting in dirt as members of the militia encircle.
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Over the past week, the Syrian army has advanced toward the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib in a pincer movement that could encircle the southern part of the rebel enclave.
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Instead, they could heighten fears in the Chinese leadership that Washington is using Beijing's claims in the South China Sea as an excuse to encircle China and halt its global rise.
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Outside, bulbous forms engulf the entrance's austere geometric archway with what resembles two colossal lapping tongues, and they encircle the limestone tower of Glenview, the Victorian mansion on the museum grounds.
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Over the past week, the Syrian army has advanced towards the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib in a pincer movement that could encircle the southern part of the rebel enclave.
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We were several hours into a two-and-a-half-day, 30-mile walk through the foothills that encircle Shaxi, an ancient trading town in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan.
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How about sending 1.5 million joint force Red Army troops fresh from wiping the floor with the Wehrmacht to encircle them along with 28,000 artillery pieces, 5,000 tanks, and 3,700 aircraft?
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The conspiracy theorists point to the hazards of the Van Allen belts, two donut-shaped belts of radiation that encircle the Earth, as the first major impediments to a lunar mission.
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Perforated aluminum panels encircle the building about 20 feet from the facade, so workers can look out on the surrounding green countryside but no one can look in, for security reasons.
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Another option, pushed by those looking for a more direct confrontation with Mr. Maduro, would have activists encircle an aid truck in Colombia as it slowly makes its approach to Venezuela.
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The cages encircle docks—sea lions love sunbathing—throughout the Columbia River Basin, at a strategic point just before the Willamette Falls, a natural feature in a tributary of the same name.
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In the city of Aleppo, divided for four years between government and insurgent forces, the rebel-held Eastern section has been bombed by Russian aircraft as government troops attempt to encircle it.
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Moscow says the US-led alliance is trying to encircle it close to the strategically important Black Sea, home to a Russian naval fleet and where NATO is also considering increasing patrols.
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Moscow says the U.S.-led alliance is trying to encircle it close to the strategically important Black Sea, home to a Russian naval fleet and where NATO is also considering increasing patrols.
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Before starting a lengthy slog of street fighting and urban warfare, the ISF had to encircle Tikrit; a brutal but effective three-month siege resulting in widespread starvation preceded operations in Fallujah.
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The SDF, which includes the powerful Kurdish YPG militia, is fighting to encircle Raqqa city with support from the coalition, including air support and backing on the ground from U.S. special forces.
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Passing the cafes and shops that encircle the lovely square, we saw a plaque that read, "Vermeer was born here" at the site of a long-gone inn and tavern Huis Mechelen.
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Modern tourniquets work much the same way: you snugly encircle a bleeding limb with a band of cloth, then turn the windlass, tightening the band until it stops the flow of blood.
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The SDF started a new phase of its campaign earlier this month, aiming to encircle Raqqa and sever the road to militant strongholds in Deir al-Zor province along the Euphrates River.
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I cycled into neighboring Kayenta, a residential area where million-dollar homes encircle a central artists' village, with Rhonda, an ex-cop who joined the resort as a guide a decade ago.
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He said patients with appointments would go directly to treatment rooms that encircle a shared work space for doctors and nurses — no sitting around a waiting room leafing through year-old magazines.
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The battle to preserve and restore this Victorian Gothic masterpiece took decades, and many Londoners would agree that it's now the jewel in the crown of railway terminals that encircle the capital.
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The idea is that trails of light and gravity particles might encircle the event horizon, and could store, at the very least, entropic information about matter that fell into the black hole.
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Additionally, there's a new Pride band with a donation made to LGBTQ organizations including "Encircle, Gender Spectrum, GLSEN, ILGA, PFLAG, the National Center for Transgender Equality and The Trevor Project" according to Apple.
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Locked in by the two huge A roads that encircle it – sending an endless stream of lorries and buses through its centre – it feels like a microcosm of the city's hope and misery.
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Neo-Nazi, alt-right, and white supremacist protesters encircle counterprotesters at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville on Aug.
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SEATTLE — F.B.I. agents moved in on Wednesday night to encircle the last four holdouts at a federal wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon that has been occupied since early January by armed antigovernment militants.
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Evidence of a massacre As the mayor walks us to the other side of the heaped earth defenses that encircle the town, he tells us this was the site of an ISIS massacre.
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The other signature performances at Gray Area Festival took place in the ISM Hexadome, a multimedia environment with a state of the art sound system and six towering screens that encircle its audience.
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For months, air strikes and special forces from the U.S.-led coalition have helped them encircle Raqqa, which Islamic State seized in 2014 and has used as a base to plan attacks abroad.
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The SDF, backed by coalition airpower, have been closing in on the ISIS-controlled Tabqa Dam in recent days as they work to encircle Raqqa in their first phase of retaking the city.
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Built over the course of a month, the Florence editions were painstakingly installed without drilling any holes into the historical building, with steel girders that encircle but don't impinge upon its antique frame.
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Inside, you'll find sculpture, mosaics and architectural fragments — including a winding stretch of the defensive stone wall that used to encircle the city — spanning from the pre-Roman period to the Middle Ages.
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The whole site is monitory and stark, and the watchtower hilltops, made for spotting invaders, go with the tholos tombs and Bronze Age relics that encircle the red-tiled villas of the Peloponnese.
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The garden is open year-round, although its most transporting features emerge in late spring and summer as vines envelop the pergola overlooking the Hudson River and tropical plants encircle the aquatic garden.
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But U.S. officials are keen to isolate Raqqa and use Syrian forces to encircle it, mainly because of worries about Islamic State operatives fleeing from Mosul and plotting new attacks against the West.
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Allied airstrikes have increased in and around Raqqa in recent weeks as thousands of Syrian Kurdish and Syrian Arab fighters encircle the city, isolating it from the resupply of arms, fighters and fuel.
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Pro-Palestinian students erected two cardboard walls, modeled after the 25-foot-high concrete slabs that intertwine with fences and barbed wire to encircle Palestinian communities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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Yet A Bronx Tale is a perfectly enjoyable, charm-infused pop musical that strives to encircle its hefty political subplot in good humor and a steady stream of happy people singing and dancing.
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In Glen Lee, a residential neighborhood tucked between the trees that encircle Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, resident Gerald Cross spent most of Sunday morning helping to rescue two women from a nearby home.
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In a cheeky nod to this process of critical reevaluation, the galleries are largely arranged such that Rodin's works and Old Master paintings from the museum's collection encircle and literally gaze upon Lucas's art.
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Grant enjoined Admiral David Dixon Porter, of the often forgotten Union Navy, to run all his gunboats down-river, in the middle of the night, past formidable Confederate batteries, to encircle the Vicksburg fort.
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The intensive raids followed an offensive begun by the Syrian army and its allies since late February to encircle the rebel-held Barza neighborhood of the capital and cut it off from nearby Qaboun.
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The dashes encircle as much as 90 percent of the South China Sea, an area the size of Mexico that is vital to global trade and rich in natural resources, including potential oil deposits.
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Like a conquering (or is it comeback?) hero, he marched forcefully through a delirious throng that pushed past security guards to follow and encircle him in a wave not seen before in modern golf.
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Not that the Sega games — in which the fleet-footed hero zips around doing flips and collecting gold coins (which here encircle the Paramount mountain) — gave the director, Jeff Fowler, much to work with.
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Instead of talks on lifting sieges and providing access for relief supplies to reach millions of Syrians in need of humanitarian aid, the government's Aleppo operation appeared designed to encircle the city, Ms. Kabawat said.
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But the lack of binding legal oversight majorly contributed to why petrol chemical facilities encircle Houston's poor, and why these companies weren't required to disclose the real dangers to residents, even as they keep exploding.
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The S.S.W. in February caused a major disruption to the atmospheric jet stream of the Northern Hemisphere — the strong westerly winds that encircle the Arctic — by driving the jet stream to teeter and temporarily slow.
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Columns of Yemeni militias fighting under the coalition flag have burst across a major front line and swept through the desert on the eastern edge of the city, threatening to encircle it completely, they say.
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Chinese officials and scholars seek to justify Beijing's claim to sovereignty over South China Sea waters that encircle the disputed Paracel and Spratly archipelagos by citing maps and other evidence from the 1940s and '50s.
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Stephen Townsend, said last week that American intelligence has detected signs that Islamic State attacks against Western target are being plotted from Raqqa, adding urgency to coalition plans to encircle and eventually assault the city.
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Seeking to encircle the capital his forces approached from south and west, seizing one town south of the city before stopping for the night some 60 km (37 miles) south of Tripoli, eastern officials said.
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Russia had intensified air strikes in agreement with the government and its other allies to encircle rebels in the Aleppo area, including in the city itself, said the source who is familiar with the strategy.
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Police fired pepper spray in running battles with thousands of demonstrators on the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday as they tried to encircle China's representative office in protest against Beijing's attempts to stop independence activism.
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Neo Nazis, Alt-Right, and White Supremacists encircle and chant at protesters at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville on Aug. 11.
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Related: Syria Peace Talks in Geneva Get Suspended Before Even Really Beginning Aleppo residents who spoke to VICE News said they now expected the regime to turn south and attempt to encircle and besiege the city.
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The permanent closure of the main Castello highway by Kurdish sniper fire would cut supplies of food to hundreds of thousands of civilians and allow the Syrian army to fully encircle rebel-held parts of Aleppo.
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In the fifth day of their onslaught, Iraqi forces continued to encircle jihadists holding out in the city in far northwestern Iraq close to the Syrian border, according to statements from the Iraqi joint operations command.
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Popular Mobilisation units, a coalition of mostly Iranian-backed militias, are trying to encircle Tal Afar, a largely ethnic Turkmen town, as part of the offensive to capture Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq.
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But ultimately the items spiraling up the Guggenheim ramp encircle us with entwining histories of love, loss, power, violence — and the post-colonial anger of belonging to a culture long on the receiving end of history.
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It covers an area nearly the size of North America and South America combined and could encircle the planet within a matter of days, as the storm in 2007 and another in 2001 did, officials said.
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Retreating to the building's stairwell, it occurred to us that we might be in danger of being overrun by ISIS -- one of their tactics is to encircle during an attack rather than come from the front.
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Cover image: Two rings of chairs encircle the words "NEVER AGAIN" in a silent protest on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting outside Trinity High School in Manchester, N.H., Friday, April 20, 2018.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will gradually get used to Chinese air force drills that encircle the island, China said on Wednesday, while Taiwan's premier reiterated the self-ruled island's desire for peaceful relations with its giant neighbor.
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The last two days saw government troops and their Lebanese and Iranian allies fully encircle the countryside north of Aleppo and cut off the main supply route linking the city - Syria's largest before the war - to Turkey.
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The Mars Opportunity rover, which has been exploring the red planet for the past 15 years, is in danger of succumbing to a fierce dust storm that will soon encircle the entire planet, NASA scientists said Wednesday.
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In the first phase, the troops who have been massing at bases around Mosul in recent weeks will encircle the city, seeking to cut it off and prevent Islamic State fighters from fleeing, particularly west into Syria.
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In the work's most inspired touch, Marnie is trailed during key moments by four blonde women wearing single-color office dresses, called Shadow Marnies, who encircle her, providing harmonic backdrops and sometimes melodic counterpoints to her lines.
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Because of its unique position, scientists often observe the Whale Galaxy to better understand what is going on in the halos of galaxies, which are round sheaths of stars, small clusters, and gas that encircle galactic disks.
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Both countries say the system's purpose is to defend the South against North Korea's growing missile and nuclear threat, but China has objected strongly to the system, which it sees as an American attempt to encircle it.
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It runs all the way to the Arab East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Shuafat and Beit Hanina before ending in bustling Pisgat Ze'ev, one of several Jewish settlements built to encircle East Jerusalem on territory seized in 1967.
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Sarah Cameron Sunde's durational performances in which she stands in the water for a full 12 to 13-hour tidal cycle, letting the water rise and fall over her body, encircle viewers in a multi-channel installation.
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Now the regime's forces have mostly turned south, attempting to encircle rebel-held Aleppo city, but Afrin's Kurds have taken advantage of the chaos to move on the rebel areas that separate them from the Islamic State.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army and its allies advanced in the central Syrian desert on Monday and could soon encircle an Islamic State pocket, part of a multi-pronged thrust into eastern areas held by the jihadist group.
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New houses also mean building new infrastructure, such as schools and parks; the "green belts" of protected land that encircle most cities make it hard to squeeze all this in, says Adam Challis of JLL, a property company.
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Chinese officials and scholars seek to justify Beijing's claim to sovereignty over waters that encircle both archipelagos — represented by what they now call the nine-dash line — by citing maps and other evidence from the 1940s and '50s.
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To adhere to that, he exempted Jericho and nearby Palestinian villages (the orange blob in the map below) from the annexation proposal, opting instead to encircle them with the newly annexed Israeli land (the much bigger blue chunk).
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Horizon's best vistas are also almost uniformly related to scale—the player, and even entire areas—are dwarfed by the vastness of its deserts and plains, the suffocating thickness of its forests, and the titanic mountains that encircle you.
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Using flat fields of high-pitched colors, Scully paints close-up views of Oisín playing at the beach, where intense swaths of blue, pink, orange, and red protectively encircle the boy, the lucky subject of his father's loving attention.
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Oddly, it doesn't encircle the camera lens, as might be expected, but sits below it, framing the laser focusing assist (which has also been upgraded to now cover a distance of up to two meters away from the phone).
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The 15-member Security Council met behind closed doors to discuss the situation after the U.N. warned that hundreds of thousands of civilians could be cut off from food if Syrian government forces encircle rebel-held parts of Aleppo.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Police fired pepper spray in running battles with thousands of demonstrators on the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday as they tried to encircle China's representative office in protest against Beijing's attempts to stop independence activism.
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A large, cream-colored construction fence and a white plastic cover encircle the properties, revealing from the outside big Victorian houses with scaffolding protruding from the top, a patch of brickwork at the rear and an unfinished staircase inside.
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If the army, supported by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, closes this gap they will encircle Islamic State fighters to their west in an area of land around 8,000 km square, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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While they're somewhat similar to the Touch controllers from Oculus in the way they encircle each hand, a built-in strap wraps around your palm and keeps the controllers attached to you even if you let go of the grip.
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Neo-Nazis, members of the alt-right, and white supremacists encircle and chant at counter protesters at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 27.
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Now it seems there is less fear, and the opponents are able to do what was once unthinkable -- to show us life in Raqqa as US-backed and other Syrian forces encircle the city in the long attempt to extinguish ISIS.
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He is also working with van Herpen on large-scale architectural projects, including an installation intended for the engineering department at Indiana University, where the same "foaming" pattern of steel would be used to encircle a staircase in an atrium.
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One is against the Islamic State, in which the United States is supporting 30,000 Syrian-Kurdish and Syrian-Arab fighters, who last weekend announced they were opening a new phase of the battle, beginning to encircle the ISIS capital in Raqqa.
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The Marshalls provide a crucible for navigation: 70 square miles of land, total, comprising five islands and 29 atolls, rings of coral islets that grew up around the rims of underwater volcanoes millions of years ago and now encircle gentle lagoons.
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Experts initially calculated "Day Zero," the date upon which there is insufficient water in the Western Cape Water Supply System to push through the pipes to the suburbs and sprawling informal settlements that encircle the city, to be around April 16.
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More than 300 members of the United States Special Operations Forces are also in Syria to help recruit, train and advise the Kurdish and Arab fighters who are trying to encircle the Islamic State in Raqqa and ultimately retake the city.
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She suggests her actions are a testament to Carl's memory, but when Rick has to physically drag her away before a herd of zombies can fully encircle them, it becomes clear that she's making the gesture for her own sake.
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On Saturday, Syrian State TV trumpeted that Assad's forces had successfully retaken a village which overlooks insurgent-held towns surrounding Aleppo, the civil war's front line, as part of their ongoing strategy to encircle and reclaim the key northern city.
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The joint American-Norwegian radar project, which will cost hundreds of millions of dollars and consume substantial amounts of electricity, has infuriated Moscow, which sees it as part of a Pentagon drive to encircle and contain Mr. Putin's resurgent Russia.
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The attack seems to be a bid to cut supply lines from Turkey to areas held by the opposition forces or even an effort to encircle and besiege the city of Idlib itself, where some 700,000 people live, aid organizations said.
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I recognize that same feeling as we encircle Crystal on the mound: a spontaneous magnetic force pulling us together, we creatures of the Capitol — the lawmakers, the news-gatherers and the people willing to take a bullet to protect us.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It's a scene both thrilling and terrifying: in the quiet darkness of the ocean, two massive, black fish grin as they encircle a submarine-like, spherical chamber that has no doubt descended great depths.
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At the beginning of the campaign, each faction is just a powerful family, and there are so many of them running around that there is tons of flexibility to find new allies, form new coalitions, and diplomatically encircle your enemies.
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Some part of the art of life is the art of believing – that the grace in the pocket is sufficient for today, that the celebration and the feast is wide enough to encircle all of you too, that the candles light you too.
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Chief Slabinski's team was ordered to establish an observation post on top of the mountain, Takur Ghar, during Operation Anaconda, an effort to encircle and destroy Qaeda forces in the Shah-i-Kot Valley in eastern Afghanistan, about 213 miles from Pakistan.
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The previous summer, a singer named Androo O'Hearn, from the band Shaolin Death Squad, had taught the group's members to tighten their throats so that their aryepiglottic folds—triangular membranes that encircle the larynx and protect it when swallowing—began to vibrate furiously.
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Those who marched on Washington because they believed that they, without an army, without great wealth, could somehow change the very fabric of the greatest power on earth and kept on until they stretched the lofty ideals of our founding to encircle everyone.
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Related: The UN Says a Syrian Regime Siege of Aleppo Would Be a Total Catastrophe A massive offensive this month by Assad's military, supported by allied militias and hundreds of Russian sorties, has seen the government nearly encircle the city of Aleppo.
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As the cascade of images from the storm reveals, Hurricane Harvey has been a horror story for millions of Houstonians, both those who live inside the loop — defined by the highways that encircle the city — and the ones scattered across the suburbs outside.
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After the elimination of Soleimani, Iran is expected to double down in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen on what it regards as its forward lines of defense against a U.S.-led attempt to encircle it with the help of Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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More than 300 members of the United States Special Operations Forces are in Syria to help recruit, train and advise the Kurdish and Arab fighters who are trying to encircle the Islamic State in Raqqa, cut off its supplies and ultimately retake the city.
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The recent battle to control the city began last month when pro-Assad forces, including fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, took advantage of air cover from Russian fighter jets to encircle the rebel-held east, cutting the main supply road to the north.
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China's decision last July to stop importing 24 kinds of foreign waste, including plastic, was part of an effort to upgrade its economy and tackle the growing volumes of domestic trash clogging its rivers or sitting untreated in sprawling landfills that encircle major cities.
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Cover image: Neo Nazis, Alt-Right, and White Supremacists encircle counter protestors at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va., USA on August 11, 2017 (Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The next phase of a U.S.-backed campaign against Islamic State in Syria aims to completely encircle its stronghold of Raqqa, severing the city from areas held by the jihadist group in Deir al-Zor to the south, a Kurdish military source said on Tuesday.
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Abu Teen al-Halabi, a photographer and activist in Aleppo who opposes Assad, told Mashable via Facebook Messenger that it has become increasingly difficult to leave the city since Syrian forces cut off access to roads to the Turkish border in an attempt to encircle it.
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Richard Pyle, a zoologist at the Bishop Museum, has spent the last twenty years surveying one of these landscapes—the so-called "twilight zone" coral beds that encircle the Hawaiian archipelago at depths of 30 to 150 meters (100 to 500 feet), where light is perpetually dim.
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A joint Kurdish-Arab militia has begun a new phase in the operation to dislodge the Islamic State from its stronghold in Raqqa, Syria, moving to encircle the city and largely cut off the resupply of arms, supplies and fighters, American military officials confirmed on Sunday.
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Major Yasser Abdul Rahim, who is also the commander of Failaq al Sham, a main FSA rebel group in the operations room of the campaign, said the rebels did not seek to enter the mainly Kurdish city of Afrin but encircle it and expel the YPG.
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Cover image: Neo Nazis, Alt-Right, and White Supremacists encircle counter protestors at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va., USA on August 11, 2017 (Photo by Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Even here, among peers, Wells was unmistakable—his stocky build, his colorful forearm tattoos, and his unkempt, fluorescent-white beard and hair which seem to encircle his face with perfect radial symmetry—like Santa Claus on summer vacation, his red suit doffed in favor of the REI catalog.
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The battle of Aleppo has followed a pattern established by the government: Encircle a rebel-held area; bombard it with airstrikes, barrel bombs and artillery; hit not only rebels but medical clinics, schools and other civilian structures; and wait for exhausted residents to run away or make a deal.
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The death toll among its 1,300 residents probably would have been higher had the earthquake not struck during the day, when children were at school and most of the adults were working in the fields of corn, beans, amaranth and chia that encircle the town like a wreath.
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The move to encircle then kill as many jihadists in place as possible -- rather than letting them exit a city and targeting them as they flee -- reflects an increased urgency to stop battle-hardened jihadists bringing their military expertise and ideology back to European capitals and other areas.
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Beyond literal fake news spread via Facebook's click-hungry platform, the wider issue is the filter bubble its preference-fed Newsfeed algorithms use to encircle individuals as they work to spoonfeed them more clicks — and thus keep users spinning inside concentric circles of opinion, unexposed to alternative points of view.
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The sobering assessments come despite a concerted effort to encircle and "annihilate" — as Defense Secretary Jim Mattis put it — Islamic State fighters in Raqqa, the group's self-proclaimed capital, which fell in the fall, and pursue other insurgents who fled south into the Euphrates River Valley toward the border with Iraq.
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The first is Mr. Saint Laurent's design dialogue with art: kaleidoscopic ensembles inspired by van Gogh, Matisse, Mondrian and Picasso will encircle Picasso's 1914 Cubist tableau, "Instruments de Musique Sur un Guéridon," which used to hang in the living room of Mr. Saint Laurent's Rue de Babylone home in Paris.
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Police will be facing off against tens of thousands of protesters who plan to encircle the convention center in the heart of the city where leaders will meet - a far cry from Schloss Elmau, the idyllic, isolated retreat in the Bavarian Alps where Germany held a G73 summit two years ago.
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In addition to worrying about how Mr Kavanaugh might rule on social and economic issues, senators of both parties have reason to wonder how his apparently expansive view of presidential power would inform his judgment if the Supreme Court is called upon to keep an eye on investigations that encircle the White House.
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As the U.S.–backed Iraqi and Kurdish peshmerga coalition encircle the IS stronghold city of Mosul — where the group's leader first announced the caliphate — and as it loses symbolic territory like Dabiq, the town where IS prophecy holds an apocalyptic battle will take place, IS' key message of governance increasingly rings hollow.
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KOLKATA, India — When Mother Teresa's canonization took place on Sunday, a battered-looking audience gathered in front of a screen some 4,500 miles east of St. Peter's Square: men with caved-in chests, weeping sores wrapped in gauze, extremities missing entirely, legs so thin you could encircle them with a finger and thumb.
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Trump is not terribly popular in the state -- especially in the highly populated northern Virginia suburbs that encircle DC. A look at the aggregate of the polling -- and there's been lots of it -- done in the last week or so of this race shows Northam ahead, but by less than some people expected.
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A: I've coined the concept in order to encircle what seems to be an increasingly more prevalent, and increasingly more worrying, phenomenon in contemporary urban development, namely the cliché-like way that many developers and designers talk about and deal with urban environments in general and public areas and places more specifically.
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The opponents of Ortega are now defined as terrorists, and police forces often encircle and manhandle the brave Nicaraguans who dare to challenge the human rights violations of their country, including a siege on mothers of political prisoners who were on hunger strike in a church, demonstrating there is no sanctuary in Nicaragua.
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But as you can imagine, at that point in time, the law enforcement officers were trying to encircle us and put us in a safer position as opposed to being scattered around a baseball field, where they could - they felt they could better protect us if we collected in one spot and then they circled around us.
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But lately the Loop, as the downtown district is called for the elevated train tracks that encircle it, is fighting for your attention with a new architecture center, writers' museum, river walk, design-centric hotels, destination restaurants and Art on the Mart, a digital art installation broadcast across a 2.5-acre building facade on the river.
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On Saturday, it cited "multiple" media reports and information submitted by the Iranians through its Rewards for Justice tipline that units under Brigadier General Hassan Shahvarpour's command killed as many as 148 people when they used armored vehicles to encircle fleeing protesters, firing machine guns into the crowd and setting fire to the marsh in which protesters took cover.
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Gary Herbert, a Republican Mormon, declared Saturday LoveLoud Day, and Barb Young, a co-chair on the board of the Utah LGBT resource center Encircle, and her husband Steve, the Mormon NFL star who played for Brigham Young University in the early '80s and later the San Francisco 49ers, introduced Apple CEO Tim Cook (the Youngs are friends with Cook and made the ask).
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And Mr. Trump's stand on trade — threatening to encircle the United States with a wall of punitive tariffs and other protections (ironically justifying protectionism on grounds of national security) — is likely to be more damaging to global development than his stand on aid, further weakening an already wobbly commitment by the world's largest nations to refrain from protectionist measures that would stymie global growth.
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The walls of the domus had been leveled at a height of five feet and the rooms filled in with dirt, suggesting that it had been intentionally buried during the third century, just before the Roman Emperor Aurelian began building the protective walls that would encircle the city, in 271 A.D. The excavation also unearthed rare wooden artifacts, such as wood forms used to build foundations, as well as beams.
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Facebook Looks to Build Underwater Ring Around Africa Tried to come up with a more meaningful accompaniment to this Drew FitzGerald story than "UMMMM" but couldn't quite get there: The company is in talks to develop an underwater data cable that would encircle the continent, according to people familiar with the plans, an effort aimed at driving down its bandwidth costs and making it easier for the social media giant to sign up more users.
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