Sentence examples for lay in excess from inspiring English sources

In elite mythology, the origins of the crisis of the 70s, like the supposed origins of our current crisis, lay in excess: too much debt, too much coddling of those slovenly proles via a strong welfare state.

The hens were from an unrelated line of White Leghorn chickens and had a documented rate of lay in excess of 80%.

Nevertheless, despite promoter enrichment, the majority of HIF-1-and HIF-2-binding sites (50% and 70% respectively) were still found to lie in excess of 2.5-kb from the promoter of an expressed transcript of any class (Fig  2B and C).

Mr. Ferguson was particularly struck by the new borrowing because the roots of the current crisis lay in an excess of American debt at all levels, from homeowners to Wall Street banks.

None of this is to justify Amtrak per se, or the excesses of its system which lay in the notion that our national ego would be damaged by a slimming of habitually underpopulated service routes.

Although Wall Street's excesses were the proximate cause of the Great Recession, its fundamental cause lay in the nation's widening inequality.

Its excess lies in the notion of artistic excess itself, interweaving the imagined sleaze of "chasing cocaine in the back rooms of the world" with characteristic non-sequiturs and rich, period-specific backing.

The significance of the word excess lies in the fact that GE is the Gibbs energy of a solution in excess of what it would be if it were ideal.

Aristotle defines ethical virtue as lying in a mean between excess and defect, and the mean is determined by the person of practical wisdom (actually the male, since Aristotle is sexist on this point).

But too much of excess capacity lies in North America and Europe, where too many producers are producing too many cars and selling them at too little profit.

One solution for storing the excess CO2 may lie in the country's desert north.