"Men easily attain a certain equality of condition," he wrote, "but they can never attain as much as they desire...
"There wasn't a mosque like this in the whole of the country, where you could go and attain as much knowledge".
"Among democratic nations," Tocqueville wrote after his tour of the United States in the 1830's, men easily attain a certain equality of condition, but they can never attain as much as they desire.
It is precisely the reason Adadevoh needs to be honoured: as a reminder that heroism can be attained as much in everyday work clothes as it can in superhero capes.
The low number called into question recent optimistic estimates that the city's population had attained as much as two-thirds of its prestorm level, which was about 450,000.
The young men did everything in their power to attain as much of the clothing as they could, and treated the streets, clubs and subways of New York in the late 80s and early 90s as their catwalk.
This episode - which involved a hapless mover's attempt to cart a house across the midwinter ice of Lake Superior to Madeline Island, a plan that failed rather spectacularly - has attained as much importance in the annals of Chequamegon Bay as the Indian legends and fur-trading lore.
Lex is an inquisitive person, and it is that curiosity that drives him to attain as much power as possible as the series progresses it will ultimately lead him to being Clark's greatest enemy.
The objective of livestock development at the national level has been to attain as much self-sufficiency as possible to satisfy mainly the urban demand.
Attain as much media about the experiment as possible.
Comparing growth in monoculture, sweet potato attained twice as much biomass as mile-a-minute; 53.27 ± 0.73 g for sweet potato vs. 25.18 ± 1.35 g for mile-a-minute (Table 1).
