IT is a New York truism that city residents are moved by daily encounters with people whose names they never know.

The commuters who pass through these stations have developed strategies for blocking out their daily encounters with extreme poverty.

He loved the daily encounter with people of power in Washington.

Caravaggio seems to suggest that perhaps a Jesus could enter our daily encounters.

Being found out as less than French in these small daily encounters is humiliating.

But despite their daily encounters, they appear to have trouble understanding human beings and their ways.

Dense urban spaces foster myriad daily encounters, intensifying competition.

Even without the raids, the daily encounter with the bird was becoming more and more of an ordeal for Schwarz.

She said she gets a constant flow of E-mail from people around the world who want to tell her about their own daily encounters.