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1. As such, it would always outstrip the production of food, which Malthus thought was arithmetic
2. This mimics the biblical story of Cain killing Abel: the younger brother who threatened to grow too fast and too well and outstrip Cain: so he lured able out into the fields and killed him
3. The Delawares are children of the tortoise, and they outstrip the deer
4. You must know I felt so interested in the splendid roan horse, with his elegant little rider, so tastefully dressed in a pink satin jacket and cap, that I could not help praying for their success with as much earnestness as though the half of my fortune were at stake; and when I saw them outstrip all the others, and come to the winning-post in such gallant style, I actually clapped my hands with joy
5. Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens
6. country ought to increase proportionally, and especially in such a way that other sources of wealth should not outstrip agriculture; that in harmony with a certain stage of agriculture there should be means of communication corresponding to it, and that in our unsettled condition of the land, railways, called into being by political and not by economic needs, were premature, and instead of promoting agriculture, as was expected of them, they were competing with agriculture and promoting the development of manufactures and credit, and so arresting its progress; and that just as the one-sided and premature development of one organ in an animal would hinder its general development, so in the general development of wealth in Russia, credit, facilities of communication,
7. It is therefore critical for a business to grow at a rate where it does not outstrip its ability to hire qualified employees
8. Although it is our opinion that a properly managed portfolio will well outstrip the risks, you have to make your own call
9. If you wait until the bottom has passed, when the dust has settled and uncertainty has been resolved, demand starts to outstrip supply and you end up competing with too many other buyers
10. But it bade fair to outstrip them; it flew on and on, as a mass of interblending bubbles borne down a rapid stream from the hills
11. All things being equal, the black will outstrip the white in acquiring knowledge and applying it
1. But she quickly outstripped them, as did Pedro, who finally realized it was time to leave
2. After the huge audience settled down, when the silence had lasted about two minutes, the youngest of the Sisters began to sing first and then the rest of the choir joined in, blending a magic that turned their voices into a rendition that could only be described as absolutely divine, the expectation was far outstripped by the heavenly melodies that where carried on the breeze, enveloping and activating all of your senses as though under a magic spell, reaching a pinnacle of delight and then fading to be replaced by another attack of sheer pleasure with every note that emanated from this incredible choir
3. To many, the conclusion is that the cost of the bomber offensive in life and resources tragically outstripped the results that it achieved
4. outstripped the supply of schooling and the nearest reliable schools lay in the distant
5. Once more and for this day she outstripped the fertilizers in interest, and the laboratory was a place forgotten
6. Experiential adaptation outstripped and replaced genetic adaptation as its basic survival technique
7. He seemed to stand taller, but his look, somewhere between unbearable pride and a sudden and appalled sense of being outstripped showed on his face
8. atherosclerosis of the heart and brain far outstripped that of any other condition, except one
9. The apparition had outstripped me: it stood looking through the gate
10. This news filled me with fresh fears: I outstripped Kenneth, and ran most of the way back
11. But there were so many hillocks and banks to climb and pass, that, at length, I began to be weary, and told her we must halt, and retrace our steps, I shouted to her as she had outstripped me a long way; she either did not hear or did not regard for she still sprang on, and I was compelled to follow
12. that the white men were much favored by their position, or the Delaware would soon have outstripped all his companions, and fallen a victim to his own temerity
13. She waved her scarf and cried: Huzzah! Sceptre wins! But in the straight on the run home when all were in close order the dark horse Throwaway drew level, reached, outstripped her
14. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good
15. Sulaco outstripped Nostromo's prudence, growing rich swiftly on the hidden treasures of the earth, hovered over by the anxious spirits of good and evil, torn out by the labouring hands of the people
16. But the demand for cleft repair often outstripped the supply that Operation Smile could offer
17. Similarly, the growth of Pepsi-Cola has far outstripped in percentage that of Coca-Cola; the same is true of General Shoe vs
18. The advance far outstripped the actual growth in profits, and almost from the start the quotation appeared much too high in terms of the partners’ own investment standards
19. Both his mind and his methodology outstripped Soneji’s more primitive approach
20. The others outstripped him
21. This news filled me with fresh fears; I outstripped Kenneth, and ran most of the way back
22. I shouted to her, as she had outstripped me a long way; she either did not hear or did not regard, for she still sprang on, and I was compelled to follow
23. In 2006, sales of platinum group metals (PGMs)—platinum, palladium, and rhodium—mined in South Africa outstripped gold by 2:1 and accounted for 15 percent of merchandise exports
24. Marianne was astonished to find how much the imagination of her mother and herself had outstripped the truth
25. That is clear and it's a sin to hide it,” the fanatic, carried away by a zeal that outstripped his reason, would not be quieted
1. He seemed pleased with the amounts Wedon said were stockpiled, then Wedon told Coatl that the only problem now was getting enough jars to contain the hellfire, the chemical productions were now outstripping the potters efforts, seeing me he came over and we walked far enough away that no one could eavesdrop
2. all the languages of Europe, and, what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own fancy or duty; lettered, but not very sensitive to letters; a gentleman, but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in countenances, in masks; making France fear Europe and Europe France! Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise with conviction, inaccessible to despondency, to lassitude, to the taste for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to chimeras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear; possessing all the forms of personal intrepidity; a general at Valmy; a soldier at Jemappes; attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling
3. What if the market moves your option into the money, then back out, and then back in again? Are you going to keep buying it and selling the futures contract(s) again? Or are you going to risk an adverse futures move that will cause losses far outstripping any gain you may receive by having your option expiring worthless? And this doesn’t even include the additional transaction costs you are going to incur by buying and selling the futures contract(s)
1. “We’ve had some successes over the years, but this outstrips everything,” she giggled, feigning drunkenness
2. that what you would gain so far outstrips anything
3. According to the doomsters at Zerohedge this performance outstrips the best US Hedgefunds (bar 4 by the lowest estimation of our performance
4. The supply and-demand curve states that if supply outstrips demand, the price will fall, and that is what caused the crash in copper prices
5. In their paper “Do Investors Overvalue Firms with Bloated Balance Sheets?” David Hirshleifer, Kewei Hou, Siew Hong Teoh, and Yinglei Zhang state, “When cumulative net operating income (accounting value-added) outstrips cumulative free cash flow (cash value-added), subsequent earnings growth is weak
6. Painting not only does not lag behind poetry in this matter, but rather outstrips it