Its mostly illiterate citizens were scattered over remote regions, often unable to find a common language, although they shared ample rigors as they wrested a meager subsistence from the soil or the sea.
Heffernan offers an alternative to this joyless race to the bottom by sharing ample examples of business leaders and companies who've found creative, cooperative paths to success--resulting in a healthier kind of winning.
Despite token criticism of the partition from the Austrian archduchess, Empress Maria Theresa, Austrian statesman Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz considered the Austrian share an ample compensation; despite Austria being the least interested in the partition, it received the largest share of formerly Polish population, and second largest land share (83,000 km2 and 2,650,000 people).
And with Van Hollen safely settled in the Senate for now, other candidates will be sharing the ample bounty.
It shares an ample number of characters with subgenera Osmundastrum and Osmunda sensu Miller, but is markedly distinct from subgenus Plenasium [ 29, 30].
Our dinner for two (with an ample shared appetizer, a shared dessert and a bottle of nice wine) cost just under £100 (about $155).
But for all its natural assets, the town has an ample share of asphalt and concrete.
If it were then a question of assigning blame rather than credit, Mr Clinton would no doubt want to increase Alan Greenspan's ample share.
In his last chapter, he commends South Africa for devoting an ample share of its budget to AIDS problems and for its efforts to prevent new infections.
For someone who started out in China's brief moment of counterculture in the 1980s as a writer of bleak, experimental and defiantly unsalable stories, Yu has gone on to receive an ample share of the fruits of capitalism.
