Sentences with phrase «even at the height»

«I would hazard to guess there are more foreign intelligence officers inside the U.S. working against U.S. interests now than even at the height of the Cold War,» said Crumpton.

Today, there 103 cell subscriptions for every 100 Americans — a rate far eclipsing the use of landlines, even at its height.

If B.C.'s personal income taxes were comparable to the average of Canadian provinces, the B.C. treasury would have an additional $ 2.4 billion, surpassing the size of the deficit even at the height of the recent recession.

Yet even at the height of their reforms, they could also argue in the Augsburg Confession that «the churches among us do not dissent from the catholic church in any article of faith.»

For the average Protestant, Christianity was less a political movement, an affair of the community and the state, and more a matter of individual experience and commitment than even at the height of the Reformation.

In that system of processing those things which elude our natural mind, we must at some point settle that the greatest thinkers in history failed to answer quite a bit more than they obtained in their understanding & they certainly, even at the height of their skill set were unable to elude an inevitable natural death that no man can evade.

Even at the height of the recent financial fiasco, Glacier Restaurant Group (GRG) was able to remain loyal to its most fundamental goal: to provide customers with the ultimate dinning experience.

Because (the dirty little secret is:) even at the height of tomato season, sometimes they taste, well, not the way we remember or think they should.

Even at the height of its popularity, less than.6 percent of baby girls had the name Gail.

David Blunkett... once told me that even at the height of his fame as Home Secretary, people would approach him and say, «Seen you on telly, what do you do?»

With 18,000 members Momentum is four times bigger than the Militant Tendency ever was, even at the height of its influence in the mid-1980s.

Even at the height of New Labour's popularity, when it won two landslide election victories, he kept telling Blair when he was drifting away from Labour voters.

Throughout his long career, Jeremy has always called on people to support Labour, even at the height of Blairism.

In postrevolutionary Egypt her ensemble, meant to express female modesty, is never out of place anywhere, even at the height of desert summer.

Even at the height of the Cold War, it was never easy to recruit scientists to Aldermaston.

«There must have been significant melt - back of sea ice each summer even at the height of the last ice age to have sea ice formation on the shelves each year.

I definitely recommend these heels because, even at their height, they are soooo comfy thanks to the padded footbeds.

Even though they've been drafted on a computer, those spineless blobs bear all the physical simplicity and facial expressiveness of Aardman's best - loved clay characters, and even at the height of their derring - do, Roddy and Rita move like they're in a movie from another, less slick era.

Even at the height of Manhattan's lunch hour, she doesn't seem to be recognized, unless New Yorkers are more aloof to star sightings than Californians seem to be.

But though Baker was seen as something of a musical square even at the height of his popularity, he could be a remarkable player, with a cautiously phrased sound that evoked the same mood of melancholy and intimacy as his wispy singing voice.

Even at the height of the Great Recession, the unemployment rate for young college graduates was still half of the unemployment rate for young high school graduates (7.5 % v. 16.8 %).

Even at a height of six feet, resting my arm in the open window is less comfortable than I wish it was, because given the ZL1's exhaust note, I'd drive it with windows down a lot.

Even at my height, my knees weren't touching the front seat's backrest, but that's only because my knees were pointed toward the sky.

Even at the height of the liquidity scare in November / December, a few issuers temporarily postponed deals, only to issue them a few weeks or a month later.

Even at the height of real estate bubble in 2007, tech prices were still below where they were in 2000.

It's funny, people point to the recent Great Recession and some bank stocks cutting dividends as a reason that DGI somehow doesn't work, yet you would have been hard pressed to see a 20 % pay cut as a dividend growth investor, even at the height of it all — unless you were primarily invested in bank stocks and didn't give a damn about diversification.

This is much worse than junk bonds, since the default rate on those even at the height of credit crisis never reached 20 %.

Even at the height of the crisis when fear of the disease was at its greatest we were getting calls from farmers who were prepared to take a disinfected dog onto their clean farm — but were reluctant to let in other visitors.

As a result, even at the height of summer NZ's beaches are relatively peaceful and uncrowded.

Whichever road you choose, find exactly what you seek at a resort like Cahal Pech where even at the height of high season, staff is so attentive and amenities so plentiful, you might not want to leave resort grounds.

It's never very interesting and doesn't exceed competence even at its heights.

Even at the height of his career painting is still the most challenging thing Tal R has ever done.

At the bottom, next to his own copyright claim, Basquiat signs the canvas «peso neto» («net weight»): a signature phrase for an artist who — even at the height of his success — delighted in questioning the value and nature of art.

AIRS has been useful, because it has shown that even at that height there is no homogenization of CO2, and it has shown how the planet breaths.

In other words, it would be freezing cold even at the height of summer.

Given the paucity and skill of surface measurements even at the height of GHCN, the reasoning for discarding those proxies seems ever fainter as time passes.

Rich, I'm inclined to agree with you re the anti-war protest in 2003 — the sheer scale of this event put the numbers attending climate change rallies (even at their height, towards the end of the last decade — I think «The Wave» in London in 2009 drew around 50,000 people) into the shade.

The other three stores rarely have Ontario produce, even at the height of the growing season, but they are starting to offer more organic items.

Not exact matches

Despite the higher stack height, the heel to toe drop is at a slight 4 mm and even with all the cushioning the Bondi 5 only weighs in at 10 ounces.

Even amid a restructuring, why would a streaming platform in 2016 take on the name of a music sharing startup that was at the height of its powers around 2000 and is still best remembered by many for its legal woes and the record industry consternation it caused?

She rocked at Y Combinator's Demo Day, grew The Muse to sky heights this year, and even appeared on Bloomberg to talk about her firm.

Vice President Mike Pence presided over the announcement at Johnson on Wednesday, saying the new recruits possess «personal excellence» and «personal courage» that «will carry our nation to even greater heights of discovery.»

At the height of the Bitcoin craze, the market size reached US$ 325 billion in mid-December 2017 — and even though it suffered huge losses, the market still stands at about US$ 140 billioAt the height of the Bitcoin craze, the market size reached US$ 325 billion in mid-December 2017 — and even though it suffered huge losses, the market still stands at about US$ 140 billioat about US$ 140 billion.

Even in 2010 at the height of the recession when national unemployment hovered near 9.8 %, Virginia stayed below the national average at 7.3 %.

It also assumes that anyone at any time who was religious is a «rube» when that belief might have been the height of sophistication at the time... might even be today in a well enough constructed religion.

In the summer of 1941, at the height of Germany's success in the war, Bishop von Galen decided to take a public stand against the Nazis, even if he had to do it on his own.

For example, the Bible says that time was created by God when He created the universe.19 Stephen Hawking, George Ellis, and Roger Penrose extended the equations for general relativity to include space and time, demonstrating that time began at the formation of the universe.20 Of course, the biggest coup of the Bible was to declare that the universe had a beginning21 through an expanding universe model.22 The New Testament even declares that the visible creation was made from what was not visible and that dimensions of length, width and height were created by God.23 In addition, the Bible refuted steady - state theory (saying that the creation of matter and energy has ended) 24 long before science made that determination.

The moral and spiritual contributions of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Canaanites, or even Egyptians — at their height so preponderant in power and influence as compared with little Israel — have been negligible in the long run.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

One is that the ecologically impoverished planet could not support the population of hunters, gatherers, and gardeners that it once did, and even that population at its height was a small fraction of ours.