Sentences with phrase «time of plenty»

Sometimes this is because food is scarce, but even in times of plenty, it's probably because food is not so easily available.

Set up plenty of time frames and time of plenty of time frame during the discussion and change statistics.

However, in the modern time of plenty, their genes are a liability, leading to high rates of obesity and diabetes compared with other races.

There are always cycles of ups and downs, periods of joy and sadness, and times of plenty as well as scarcity.

My husband is an ambitious entrepreneur so we have had a few times of plenty and lots of lean times.

In their natural conditions, it appears the worms are able to increase their growth rate and fertility in times of plenty and then to turn these traits back down in hard times.

Los Angeles also could bank recycled water or water imported from northern California or the Colorado River during times of plenty by letting it seep into groundwater basins.

Food consumption alternated between times of plenty and times of scarcity.

Last year, Raymond James, a financial advisory firm, touted StorageVault Canada Inc., this country's only publicly traded self - storage concern, as a «first mover into a hot asset class» and a «strong buy» for 2017; the Financial Post, meanwhile, rated it «bulletproof» — an adjective that fits the industry as a whole for its ability to thrive at times of plenty and of privation.

The granddaughters most affected were those whose grandmothers experienced times of plenty while in utero or as infants, precisely the time when the grandmothers» eggs were forming.

In other words, the reason why we even become overweight is because of extended times of plenty.

As a key component of your parasympathetic nervous system, the vagus is a nerve associated with times of plenty rather than hardship or trauma.

Grandfathers who lived their preteen years during times of plenty were more likely to have grandsons with diabetes — an ailment that doubled the grandsons» risk of early death.

The diversification of museums in this country took place because the Metropolitan Museum didn't want to collect The New, so the patrons who wanted to foreground it established the Museum of Modern Art in 1929 (reinforcing the fact that some of the greatest achievements in The New have been created not in times of plenty but in times of adversity).

However your genetic code IS hardwired to go without food for short periods between times of plenty.

David lived by this same certainty, he fattened his soul in the times of plenty and it sustained him in the times of need.

Not a time of plenty, but a time of wanting.

If you were to believe the government, we are living in a time of plenty, with zero inflation, low unemployment and wage rises combining to boost living standards.

Mutuality is not an ownership technicality nor is it rose - tinted, but a tried and tested business approach which has seen societies grow and flourish in times of plenty and times of crisis based on the reality that if you look after your customers then business and profit will follow.»

Fiona Mathews of the University of Exeter, UK, who led the study, says the findings echo those in animals, which are also more likely to produce boys during times of plenty, whereas female mice with low blood sugar also seem more prone to producing girls.

But in times of plenty, when people can easily eat too much all too often, the system is stressed by insulin overproduction.

In times of plenty, however, the more egalitarian approach of choosing the hungriest or feeding at random is most successful.

But in times of plenty, say the researchers, it is best to favour daughters who will stay put and help their mothers take full advantage of the agreeable local conditions.

Though most of us are not Pimas, our own hunter - gatherer forebears would also have needed to survive food shortages and scarcity — conditions that favor the evolution of similar fat - storing mechanisms, which are a problem in times of plenty.

Although harmful in humans, the altered gene helps the fish eat all they can and hoard body fat in times of plenty.

The way to make renewables more reliable is to store the excess electricity generated during times of plenty (when there are high winds, for instance, or strong sun) and release it later to match the actual demand.

A recent study in Science adds a twist to that theory: variability already present in a population's genome may remain hidden in times of plenty but come unmasked in stressful situations, ready to help with adaptation.

That's great news during a famine, but not so hot during times of plenty.

Adaptations that made sense during a time of famine can then transfer to children and grandchildren who live in a time of plenty.

Hunter - gatherer societies, as well as wild animals virtually never got the problems of obesity, diabetes of cardiovascular disease, even during times of plenty.

Often, this wealth is treated as a boon, proof that we live in a time of plenty — but are endless options really that good for us?

In times of plenty, this mandate discourages efforts to make productivity gains; when revenues shrink, it means that special - education spending will consume an ever - growing slice of school budgets.

Over time you may just find that the key to living well on a variable income is to spend sparingly in times of plenty and save as much as possible for future dry spells.

Law enforcement, including park protection and monitoring, may suffer from lack of funding, while «green» initiatives by governments and private entities that are «nice to have» in times of plenty) become an afterthought as the economy sours.

This was a time of plenty for both the country and the life insurance industry.