Flourishing

Much is said about the economical flourishing in the Kurdish region of Iraq, the Kurdish authorities and the pro-Kurdish western politicians waging campaigns about the ´flourishing democracy and economy´ in the Kurdish regions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The great art to make a nation happy, and what we call flourishing, consists in giving everybody an opportunity of being employed; which to compass, let a Government's first care be to promote as great a variety of Manufacures, Arts and Handicrafts as human wit can invent; and the second to encourage Agriculture and ❋ Unknown (2003)

The trouble is that "SOME corals are again flourishing on Bikini Atoll, the Pacific site of the largest American atom bomb ever exploded". ❋ Not A Sheep (2008)

They are, in short, flourishing in a market that is now far more complex than the old caricature of Western firms '"exporting" well-paid jobs to poor nations, where salaries are far lower. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Although the mention of Chiapas frequently brings to mind images of masked revolutionaries and steamy jungles, Mexico's southernmost state is a beautiful combination of mountains, plains and seacoast where tourism is once again flourishing as people rediscover the wonders of a region with deep pre-Hispanic routes. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Meanwhile, the depleted provinces continue to depend on equalisation handouts from increasingly more resentful taxpayers in flourishing parts of the country. ❋ Unknown (2002)

By 1985, it was apparent that the U.S. was staggering under its twin burdens, while its allies 'economies were flourishing from the U.S. trade deficit. ❋ Unknown (1988)

Greek mainland, the concentration of our population, once dispersed in flourishing centres the world over. ❋ Unknown (1963)

One in five people in Britain could be described as "flourishing", compared to 14 per cent in France. ❋ Matthew Holehouse (2011)

Field's politics have been shaped by his thoughtful Anglicanism, his conviction that, as he told the magazine of the Anglican Diocese of London in 2000: "the behaviour of individuals is affected strongly by the manner in which state benefits are made available, so it is important that the single biggest government budget should be used to encourage core values that are essential for the long term flourishing of society as a whole ... the government will have to come back and propose welfare reforms which work with the grain of human nature rather than against it". ❋ Burke's Corner (2007)

If I take Dawkins’ theory seriously, that I am merely a container for my genes and that my genes’ flourishing is the point of my existence, then my imperative is to spread my seed as widely as possible. ❋ Unknown (2009)

President Bush, on the other hand, has always pointed to Afghanistan, pointed to Karzai as a success story, really a case of democracy that is flourishing, that is working five years after the United States and international forces essentially routed out the Taliban and took over, essentially looking for Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, this kind of thing. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Critics see the specter of Big Brother, but Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton said he is so impressed with results from MacArthur Park -- once known as a flourishing crime zone in the city's center -- that he believes the cameras are an essential part of fighting crime in an era of dwindling budgets and strained police personnel. ❋ Unknown (2004)

This displaying of the glory of Christ, called the flourishing of himself, is by the promises of the ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)

Be this as it may, we find a family of that name flourishing some centuries later in that county. ❋ Various (N/A)

Of course I ain't always been in wot yer might call flourishing circumstances, but I've always set her a good example, as she could tell yer so 'erself if she wasn't speechless.' ❋ Unknown (1919)