We are blessed with conditions which are continuously encouraging and rewarding.
They are often institutionalised in places where they are not allowed to simply fade out or are not blessed with a condition in which that will happen without positive assistance.
"I'll just say that the farmers of Georgia have been blessed with weather conditions," said Armond Morris, who planted about 1,000 acres near Tifton, Ga., and serves as the chairman of the Georgia Peanut Commission.
Blessed with such conditions on a weekday in late February, Eric Carl Timaeus loaded an assortment of wood crates, canvas sacks and hooked poles into his pickup truck, where a black rosary swung from the rearview mirror, and set off past miles of caliche pits and Border Patrol checkpoints into the short-grass country.
Over the past 15 years, investment banks have been blessed with near-ideal operating conditions.
As the IFS spells out, the chancellor will find it hard to square his commitments to education and reducing child poverty with the demands of the insatiable health service.But Mr Brown's larger difficulty is that he has failed to make the most of a long stint as chancellor in which he has been blessed with generally favourable economic conditions.
If Sri Lanka had the worst of the batting conditions, England were blessed by evening sunshine as Cook and Robson made it through to the close.
The current condition behind this judicially blessed evolution is the success of the social movement that has brought same-sex marriage to a dozen states.
I'm still kind of blessed in a way because my condition is much less severe than typical cases.
Gratitude takes us outside of ourselves to recognize all the many ways other people and external conditions bless our lives, Emmons wrote in an article for the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center.
An acclaimed new film, Blessed by Fire, portrays the terrible conditions in which conscripts had to serve on the islands.
