When the reign of terror finally lifted, life regressed toward the traditional mean.
Postwar prosperity had lifted life expectancy, and birthrates had fallen from their record highs during the baby boom, but conservatives exaggerated these trends to call for welfare state retrenchment: reductions in Social Security and Medicare benefits.
New Heats, new Pulses quicken ev'ry Vein; From the clear'd, lifted, life-rekindled Eye, Dispers'd, the dark and dampy Vapours fly.
Foreign aid funded the campaign to eradicate smallpox, and in the sixties it brought the Green Revolution in agriculture to countries like India and Pakistan, lifting living standards and life expectancies for hundreds of millions of people.
Lifting from life, Davis is cautious.
When Ed Miliband gave his speech in Manchester last year, he offered a clear and renewed commitment to Labour's historic crusade of lifting the life chances of working people.
The World Anti-Doping Agency and the UCI, cycling's world governing body, has urged Armstrong to reveal all to the authorities if he is to have any hope of lifting his life ban.
I can't claim that the re‑enactment had a huge effect on the text; the only detail I remember lifting from life was the cock-and-balls graffiti that someone had scrawled in green Sharpie on the trig point on Arthur's Seat.
She will win the race to a Lifted life.
I think of the five year olds for whom schooling can give opportunities they would never otherwise have both in learning and in life – a chance that will transform their own lives immediately…and lift the life of their nations for the next half century and beyond.
Dorothy Lewis, an eminent US criminal psychiatrist who has studied many notorious serial killers, read and later saw the play and claimed that Lavery had "lifted my life", arguing that Frozen plagiarised passages from a long article about her life and work written by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker in 1997.
