Sentence examples for Period of plenty from inspiring English sources

Policies from the EU's predecessor to maximise production by subsidising farmers after the second world war brought rationing to an end and ushered in a period of plenty.

They also raised doubts about how government officials have used the current period of plenty to prepare for an inevitable decline.

IN 2010, as food prices were spiking for the second time in three years, governments, international agencies and non-government organisations blared out a new and powerful fact: there were a billion hungry people in the world and this, they said, in a period of plenty, was a disgrace.

Some argue the period of plenty was a missed opportunity to deal with some fundamental problems facing the NHS.

Since borrowing will be impossible, the austerity of the past five years will be remembered with nostalgia as a period of plenty.

When we are in a period of plenty, we not only need to save, invest, and plan, but also create a buffer to help protect that plan during hardship.

Rodents are opportunistic species that experience periods of plenty punctuated by periods of scarcity.

In dull periods of plenty, in unchanging oceans and unalterable plains, stasis ruled.

The seven years of Peter Stamm's title are part of its chronology but also carry biblical resonances that surface in the text – the seven years Jacob worked to earn the right to marry Rachel and the two periods, of plenty and famine, in Pharaoh's dream.

Our genetic constitution, having evolved in scarcity, was designed to store up as much fatty tissue as possible in rare periods of plenty, and, since we now live in permanent glut, nature has programmed us for obesity, some of us more than others.

Thomas, 36, said variations in availability were par for the course, he said, when indoor-grown marijuana was hard to access even during periods of plenty as any operation of scale stood out "like a literal red flag to law enforcement".