CONNECTICUT is still blessed with substantial pockets of rural landscape, areas that have neither succumbed to the homogeneity of suburban sprawl nor been tidied and civilized, like an English country garden.
Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, gave his blessing to a substantial tax cut but warned that it should not be so big that it would plunge the government back into deficit if the federal budget surplus fails to materialize as projected.
However, Mr. Blessing still collected a substantial raise for last year because his salary was no longer restrained by the terms of a government bailout in 2008.
This increased trade, even if it shows a substantial net deficit, is both a blessing and a curse.
Blessed with a varied climate, substantial natural resources and an ancient Incan heritage that should make it a natural tourist attraction, Peru simply cannot make the grade as a modern nation-state.
On the other hand, if an artist is blessed with a gift of a substantial success, one of patronage, a supportive network or demand, I hope that artist will use that benefit wisely and thoughtfully.
In substantial part it was because the for-profit ratings agencies, Moody's and Standard & Poors, blessed them as sound products, largely on the basis of representations made to them by the banks that marketed the securities.
But now that a substantial business institution with the solid address of 1 Wall St. has given the monstrosity its blessing, who will dare to say nay.
This could be considered a blessing in disguise, as a storage-centric social network would have probably had a difficult time building a substantial userbase, and may have simply resulted in more lost time and money.
