He and his third consort, Bona Sforza, daughter of Gian Galeazzo Sforza of Milan, were both patrons of Renaissance culture, which under them began to flourish in Poland and in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Grand Chapter Conference Delegates have been donating their chapter's mileage reimbursement to have the scholarship to flourish.

Bowles has been a fixture on the western Michigan music scene since 1970, helping the Grand Rapids music scene to flourish while encouraging national artists to make Grand Rapids a tour stop on their schedules.

So, with a flourish, he marched for the door in search of a way out.

The plant prefers partial shade, but can flourish in full sun to mostly shade.

Bougainvilleas grow best in dry soil in very bright full sun and with frequent fertilization ; but they require little water once established, and in fact will not flourish if over-watered.

On July 13, 1983, the loan was paid back in full and Chrysler began to flourish under the management of Iacocca.

The work begins with a brilliant flourish given by the full orchestra ( which in Part One number approximately one hundred players ).

Most are personal and estate papers, but they include grants of full powers to Wickham in 1799 and 1801 ; also poll books for the election of members of parliament representing Oxford University in 1801 and 1809, a plan showing the arrangement of wine in the cellars, and papers about Wickham's success in growing fig trees, which continue to flourish at his home in Binsted.

The work has continued to flourish, and the Church still supports its own full time Minister, even in the years where the local Established Church now has a Minister who is shared by three Parishes.

Melancholy, full of wit, and socially conscious, Anne Finch wrote verse and dramatic literature with a talent that has caused her works to not only survive, but to flourish in an impressive poetic legacy throughout the centuries since her death.

The lady might also use her right hand to hold on to a full skirt with petticoats, sway the skirt in time to the music as a flourish (“ skirtwork ”), or simply place her hand on her waist.

His first season was spent settling in, with a notable length of time spent on the bench and on the physio's table, but his second season saw him flourish as he took a leading role in helping Charlton up towards the top of the Premier League.

His career continued to flourish with appearances at all the great concert venues of the world: the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and also with all the world's great orchestras and conductors.

As chain restaurants and establishments have begun to flourish, now taking up about a third of commercial space, talk has begun at City Hall about limiting their existence on the River Walk and keeping a distinctively local flair.

In England the Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulchre established a school at New Hall ; although no longer ministering in the school, what they founded continues to flourish.

Where only one club existed before, he says, two will flourish henceforth.

He wondered how they could go on in poverty, superstition, ignorance, with a complete lack of desire to make either their land or their lives flourish.

Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.

To better Ruth's mark, neither needs a spectacular September flourish.

The use of minted coins continued to flourish during the Greek and Roman eras.

Cottard, on the other hand, seems to flourish during the plague, because it gives him a sense of being connected to others, since everybody faces the same danger.

" Alcott began to believe Boston was the best place for his ideas to flourish.

Later, in the fourth century AD Amasus became the see of a Christian bishop and continued to flourish until the Byzantine period.

These principles may flourish and triumph in the schools ; where it is, indeed, difficult, if not impossible, to refute them.

In the swamp regions of north-east Africa papyrus and associated plants, including the soft-wooded ambach, flourish in immense quantities, and little else is found in the way of vegetation.

This fast population growth and slow response from the established church allowed non-conformism to flourish in the town.

The European brass industry continued to flourish into the post medieval period buoyed by innovations such as the 16th century introduction of water powered hammers for the production of battery wares.

It was essential, if popular dance was to flourish, for dancers to have some basic movements they could confidently perform with any partner they might meet.

Much of the province is wild or semi-wild, so that populations of many mammalian species that have become rare in much of the United States still flourish in British Columbia.

Today a wide range of beading styles flourish.

3: 17 For though the fig tree doesn ’ t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines ; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food ; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls: 3: 18 yet I will rejoice in Yahweh.

A business can flourish when all objectives of the organization are achieved effectively.

It is a period where some composers still working in the Baroque style flourish, though sometimes thought of as being more of the past than the present — Bach, Handel, and Telemann all composed well beyond the point at which the homophonic style is clearly in the ascendant.

Both reef-building and solitary corals diversify and flourish ; these include both rugose ( for example, Canina, Corwenia, Neozaphrentis ), heterocorals, and tabulate ( for example, Chladochonus, Michelinia ) forms.

The dynasty continued to flourish under Empress Wu Zetian, the only empress regnant in Chinese history, and reached its zenith during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, who oversaw an empire that stretched from the Pacific to the Aral Sea with at least 50 million people.

When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish.

When proprieties and music do not flourish, punishments will not be properly awarded.

Even some women of the literate elite, for whom Confucianism was quite explicitly the norm, were able to flourish by living their lives according to that model.

It provides a rich growing medium, or a porous, absorbent material that holds moisture and soluble minerals, providing the support and nutrients in which plants can flourish, although it is rarely used alone, being primarily mixed with soil, sand, grit, bark chips, vermiculite, perlite, or clay granules to produce loam.

: Multicultural societies, be they nations, federations, or other conglomerations of closely interrelated states, discern those aspects of culture that do not threaten union, stability, or prosperity ( such as food, holidays, rituals, and music ) and allow them to flourish.