Sentence examples for increasingly lay from inspiring English sources

The greatest, according to Ferguson, was an inexplicable failure to establish the bank where opportunity increasingly lay -- in America.

Hobsbawm Macaulay received an unusual amount of press attention for a PR start-up, and was portrayed as a rather quirky high-minded experiment, but in fact the agency was attuned to where power increasingly lay in Britain, with the media, the expanding cultural and charitable industries, and the then rising New Labour establishment.

This potential certainly is nestled in the post-genomics field, where so much of the funding comes from taxpayer-endowed public (state) entities, yet experience and expertise increasingly lay with decentered, non-state actors [ 51].

Truth increasingly lies in forensic evidence.

But China's real military strength increasingly lies elsewhere.

It has been evident for some time that nuclear energy's future increasingly lies in Asia.

This is an unhappy newlywed to whom life has not been kind and whose only respite increasingly lies in her visions of a "glorious" death.

"Threats to our personnel and classified information increasingly lie within our installations, and come from DoD employees and contractors who are trusted insiders," said the independent review.

China's strategic interests, like those of other major oil importers, will increasingly lie in maintaining political and military stability throughout the Middle East.

These days, the festival's future increasingly lies in the hands of Emily Eavis, who abandoned her studies at Goldsmiths College to return to the family farm.

Aesthetically, too, Young Adult is cleaner than what he's shot before, yet more deferential to the star and the screenplay (his programme of lo-fi live, classic script readings in LA suggests his priorities increasingly lie on the page).