In this way, we have created a welfare state, a nanny state, a police state, a surveillance state, an electronic concentration camp--call it what you will, the meaning is the same: in our quest for less personal responsibility, a greater sense of security, and no burdensome obligations to each other or to future generations, we have created a society in which we have no true freedom.
They, too, had been successful in their quest for something less than No. 1 in the salary standing.
What ensues is a search for a 16th-century treasure using 21st-century techniques: analogue and digital intersect as Clay and his friends deploy data visualisation, crowd-sourcing and book-scanning – and call on Google HQ for help – in their quest for nothing less than the secret of immortality.
Occasional unwashed dishes and smelly towels are fine; it's when you're tying open the kitchen door to let the stench of unwashed dishes waft out that you've got a major hygiene and self-care problem instead of a quest for doing less with your time... Don't beat yourself up for chilling; it's permitted!
The Gaudiya Vaishnava teachings of Prabhupada, based on Hindu texts such as the Bhagavad Gita, resonated with Harrison, whose quest for an ego-less, God-conscious existence amid the false reality of Beatlemania had first taken him to India in September 1966.
Goodwill, Salvation Army, and 2nd hand stores can often be a fun adventure in the quest to create a wardrobe for less then the price of checking a bag.
Driven by his quest for more power and less consumption he had inadvertently stumbled across a solution for America's SUV-loving masses.
The quest for more plentiful and less expensive oil for fast-growing Asian economies has also brought a wave of offshore drilling from India and the Gulf of Thailand, to Vietnam and Bohai Bay, on the northeast coast of China.
Mr Obama could usefully look to the Netherlands and Denmark for ideas on how to overhaul an antiquated unemployment system and improve its training schemes.Do all these things correctly and the quest for jobs will take less time.
Of course, Groch also knows how much Jeter values winning, and behind the glare of Jeter's quest for 3,000 lay another less-than-impressive effort from the Yankees as a team.
In Thurber's world, sex is less a quest for pleasure or an expression of love than it is the retardation of emotion.
