There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.

The vast Central Valley of California is one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world.

Satires Of Circumstance and Moments Of Vision, coming during his most productive decade, are relatively self-contained ; ;

Thus, the most productive areas are not necessarily the most stressed.

In a climate hostile to agriculture, Mr. Clark has had to keep alert to the most productive farm techniques.

The most productive areas include Newfoundland's Grand Banks, the Nova Scotia shelf, Georges Bank off Cape Cod, the Bahama Banks, the waters around Iceland, the Irish Sea, the Dogger Bank of the North Sea, and the Falkland Banks.

The most productive portion of arable land is that from sediments left by rivers and the sea in geological times.

Before 1931, i. e. through most of Ruth's most productive years, the umpire called the play based on the ball's final resting place " when last seen ".

During their most productive years, the Orioles saw three of its players named MVP: ( Frank Robinson in 1966 ; Boog Powell in 1970 ; and Cal Ripken, Jr. in 1983 ).

The year 1796 was most productive for both Gauss and number theory.

Coral reefs, whose polyps are rich in endosymbiotic algae, support some of the world's most productive ecosystems, and protect vegetation in tidal zones and on shorelines from strong currents and tides.

According to Anthony Quinton, classical liberals believe that " an unfettered market " is the most efficient mechanism to satisfy human needs and channel resources to their most productive uses: they " are more suspicious than conservatives of all but the most minimal government.

The lack of credible governance was compounded by the fact that most colonies were economic loss-makers at independence, lacking both a productive economic base and a taxation system to effectively extract resources from economic activity.

At the time of its independence in 1960, DRC was the second most industrialized country in Africa after South Africa ; it boasted a thriving mining sector and its agriculture sector was relatively productive.

As a result he, along with outspoken young goaltender Glenn Hall, was promptly traded to Chicago ( which was owned by James D. Norris, Bruce's elder brother ) after his most productive year.

Distributism reflects this doctrine most evidently by promoting the family, rather than the individual, as the basic type of owner ; that is, distributism seeks to ensure that most families, rather than most individuals, will be owners of productive property.

Planting of crops was prevented in Eritrea's most productive western region, causing food production to drop by 62 %.

Currently, almost a quarter of the country ’ s most productive land remains unoccupied because of the lingering effects of the 1998 – 2000 war with Ethiopia.

Why did these yokels still wear boots, anyway, when most had scarcely sat a horse in years??

In most Western cultures today these twins have been sent away to the libraries and museums.

But the most notable thing about the incantation of these ex-liberals was that the one-time shibboleth of socialism was conspicuously absent.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

One of the most distressing of these scenes occurred at Spring Green toward the end of the open warfare, on a beautiful day in June.

I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary study in the development of conscience -- most of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life, or, for the theologians of course, to the influence of religion.

This understanding, of course, may in its turn take many forms and some of these -- especially those most interesting to the student of comparative literature -- are essentially historical.

A second truce had been arbitrated in April, 1298, by Jean D'Arlay, lord of Chalon-sur-Saone, the most staunch of Edward's Burgundian allies, and these last were represented in the discussions at the Curia by Gautier de Montfaucon, Othon's neighbor and a member of the Vaudois coalition.

Over these voluntary agencies, in 1917-18, the CTCA served as a co-ordinating body in carrying out what Survey called `` the most stupendous piece of social work in modern times ''.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

Among the most frequently quoted Biblical sentences are the Beatitudes and yet so few persons, other than scholars, really understand the true meaning of these eight blessings uttered by Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount.

He is most effective in the ordinary business of the House, and in the legislative accomplishments of this session, he easily rose to great occasion -- even at the height of unpleasantness and exciting legislative struggle -- and as the Nation witnessed these contests, he rose, even as admitted by those who differed with him, to the proportions of a hero and a noble partisan.

Our plan is to keep abreast of these advances, and select for development those fields which seem most promising for our special capabilities.

Every taxpayer is well aware of the vast size of our annual defense budget and most of our readers also realize that a large portion of these expenditures go for military electronics.

But now many of these same builders are finding they can cut their costs more by teaming up with a dealer who has volume enough to afford the most efficient specialized equipment to deliver everything just where it is needed -- drywall inside the house, siding along the sides, trusses on the walls, roofing on the roof, etc..

Since most European cars average more miles per gallon of gasoline than American cars, it naturally follows that the cost per kilometer for these models will be less, but the greater seating capacity of the large American cars will equalize this, provided your group is sufficiently large to fill a 7-passenger limousine.

In most cases, these soils are taken up as liquids through capillary action.

There are, of course, certain times during the 24-hour daily cycle when most of these conditions will be met.

The most active preparations obtained by these two groups of investigators appear to be similar in potency, composition and physical properties.

The most obvious of these is the quadratic complex of tangents to Q, each line of which is transformed into the entire pencil of lines tangent to Q at the image of the point of tangency of the given line.

While some suppression and some denial are not only necessary but healthy, the worker's clinical knowledge must determine how these defenses are being used, what healthy shifts in defensive adaptation are indicated, and when efforts at bringing about change can be most effectively timed.

If adjectival meanings show relatively low retentiveness of stems, as I am confident will prove to be the case in most languages of the world, why should our basic lists include 15 per cent of these unstable forms, but only 8 per cent of animals and plants which replace much more slowly??

But there was no pressing need to maintain these same standards with regard to most of the rest of the world.

There is a common problem behind most of these federal question and diversity cases.