The guerrillas began a frantic search for pails in which to bring water from the spring.

She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.

Hemingway's fiction is supported by a `` moral '' backbone and in its search for ultimate meaning hints at a religious dimension.

This is the rhetoric of righteousness the beatniks use in defending their way of life, their search for wholeness, though their actual existence fails to reach these `` religious '' heights.

Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.

Solving astronomical problems requires, for Copernicus, not a random search of unrelated tables, but a regular employment of the rules defining the entire discipline.

`` If you become a Baptist, I will not '', Ann informed her husband, but sweeping her threat aside Adoniram continued to search for an answer to the personal dilemma in which he found himself.

The second timely part of this sketch of literature and the search for identity has to do with the difference between good and enduring literary works and the ephemeral mass culture products of today.

I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.

Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

Woodruff said nothing, and Pike, frustrated, stormed throughout Little Rock in an unsuccessful search for `` Vale '', asking his friends to keep their ears open.

Impartiality to him meant an unwillingness to generalize and to search for a synthesis.

In the final analysis his contribution to American historiography was founded on almost intuitive insights into religion, economics, and Darwinism, the three factors which conditioned his search for a law of history.

Speaking in terms of sociological stereotype, the `` private eye '' might appeal to the poet in search of a myth for many reasons.

In their search for what turned out to be the right breakfast china but the wrong table silver, they opened every cupboard door in the kitchen and pantry.

National defense, like the continuing search for peace with freedom and justice for all, is `` everybody's business ''.

The Miss Rhode Island Pageant is sponsored by the Rhode Island Junior Chamber of Commerce as a part of the nation-wide search for the typical American girl -- a Miss America from Rhode Island.

therefore, only with precise foreknowledge of the line frequencies is an astronomical search for the radio spectra of these molecules feasible.

The piano performance on this Trout is one that really demands a search for superlatives.

At the moment, Barco's back was to the road so he didn't see the detectives close in on his convertible which, in their quest for the stolen lap rug, they proceeded to search.

The action centers about a group of outspoken and offbeat students sitting around a table in a cafeteria and their collective and ultimately fruitless search for a cup of hot coffee.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

Quasimodo defines his own art as `` the search for what is not there ''.

They found an oil patch near the place where Rust disappeared from radar and performed an underwater search with no results.

In July 2007, the China state-owned oil company CNOOC signed an agreement with the Somali government to search for oil in the Mudug region of the semi-autonomous state of Puntland ; a competing oil company estimated the total reserves in Puntland could amount to five to ten billion barrels of oil.

However, there are tracks that were created during seismic surveys in the search for gas and oil during the 1960s and 1970s.

* Trainspotters have frequently been subjected to stop and search ; in August 2009 a rail enthusiast was pursued by Dyfed-Powys Police for photographing a locomotive at a Murco oil refinery in Milford Haven.

It refers to the specific set of geological disciplines that are applied to the search for hydrocarbons ( oil exploration ).

In 1900 he agreed to fund a search for oil and minerals in Persia headed by Wolff, Kitabgi and Cotte.

The exploitation of Kirkuk ’ s oil, which began around 1930, attracted both Arabs and Kurds to the city in search of work.

His son Benjamin Silliman Jr., also a professor of chemistry at Yale, wrote a report that convinced investors to back George Bissell's seminal search for oil.

The Independence Bowl's three-year search for a title sponsor ended on August 21, 2006 when PetroSun Inc., a Phoenix, Arizona-based company that provides services and products to suppliers of oil and gas, agreed to become the bowl's sponsor.

In 1965 Hydro joined Elf Aquitaine and six other French companies to form Petronord to perform search for oil and gas in the North Sea.

Experts and technicians from throughout the Kingdom and the world gathered to help search for new oil fields and bring them on-stream.

Prior to that time the company had treated the search for oil as largely a hit or miss operation without scientific exploration.

* Miscellaneous civil contingency duties requested by the Government such as search and rescue, air ambulance provision, providing secure air transport for ministers, assistance in the event of natural and other disasters, ensuring the maintenance of essential services, and assisting in dealing with oil pollution at sea.

Hydrocarbon exploration ( or oil and gas exploration ) is the search by petroleum geologists and geophysicists for hydrocarbon deposits beneath the Earth's surface, such as oil and natural gas.

It is used for mine exploration, and also in the search for minerals, such as oil, coal and ores.

Today, the Junipers conduct almost as much law enforcement as aid to navigation work ; they are also outfitted to handle oil spill recovery, search and rescue, homeland security and some ice breaking operations.

Only Shell and Partex opted to remain in Oman to continue the search for oil.

Since the early 1990s, communities of the Papuan Gulf have experienced intensive localized development by multinational companies in search of oil and revenue found in the region's tropical hard wood forest.

* In 1973, Arab oil embargo creates a worldwide energy crisis, leading to intensified search for alternative energy sources.

These were years in which power in the world oil industry began to shift away from the majors, which then controlled more than 90 % of the oil trade, toward the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ), as well as a proliferation of new private and state companies joining in the search for reserves.