The Hôtel de Ville had already opened its plentiful stores to the rioters, but they remained unsatisfied: they wanted not just one meal but the assurance that bread would once again be plentiful and cheap.
One hypothesis proposed by the researchers is that it may have been protective at some point in our evolutionary history; our ancestors would have had to overeat when food was plentiful to store enough energy for times of famine.
Fish from coastal waters in the Northeast are not as plentiful in stores as they once were, partly because of the scarcity of some varieties but also because of quotas and other regulations that did not exist 20 years ago.
His house and the others had been built on farmland 25 years ago, with shallow wells drawing on plentiful water stored in gravel beds just 40 or 50 feet down.
Winter squash, sweet potatoes, white beans, halibut, broccoli, cantaloupe, pork tenderloin, lentils, milk, salmon, pistachios, raisins, chicken breast, and tuna boast especially plentiful potassium stores.
They exemplify many of the shifts now under way that are making energy cleaner, more plentiful, cheaper to store, easier to distribute and capable of being used more intelligently.
When food is plentiful, camels "overeat," storing fat in one area on the back and forming a hump.
The fact that such an amount of wood was immediately available for the trunks is related to the Saline, which had stored plentiful wood at the Inn riverbank in Hall for firing the saltpans for salt extraction.
Since they're plentiful and inexpensive, thrift store finds can also make great raw material for other projects, ranging from quilts to jeans you've torn yourself.
Our ancestors survived unpredictable cycles of food catastrophes by laying down fat stores when food was plentiful, and using up the stores slowly when food was scarce.
