Sentence examples for vigorous as a from inspiring English sources

But Giselle's mime is retained, and Ms. Ananiashvili was especially vibrant, playful and childlike in Act I, while vigorous as a Wili, or ghost, in Act II.

I had been drawn into the greenhouse by hanging pots of pink petunias that looked as fresh and vigorous as a May basket.

And the baritone Jason Plourde played the usually elderly and doddering Sir Joseph as comparatively youthful and vigorous (or at least as vigorous as a landlubber admiral can be).

The grapefruit tree grows to be as large and vigorous as an orange tree; a mature tree may be from 4.5 to 6 metres (15 to 20 feet) high.

Among other things it is a chronicle of the last years of the Arab-Swahili slave trade, which was fairly vigorous as little as a hundred years ago, and which Stanley opposed.

Firstly, previous studies did not examine physical activity intensities (light, moderate-to-vigorous) as an outcome but overall physical activity or physical activity types (walking, outdoor play).

Even with a Republican governor as vigorous as Arnold Schwarzenegger and a Democratic majority able to work with him on other issues, the state's budget was held up for months by a die-hard Republican minority in the legislature.

Considered too small to become a good player, he began vigorous practice as a youth in the Australian outback.

He has also overseen a number of important criminal cases against executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom and Adelphia, and has been a central player in the administration's efforts to use vigorous prosecution as a tool to blunt calls for tougher regulations.

Mike Gostigian, a former Olympic pentathlete who knew him from childhood, said in 1996 that Mr. du Pont's personality seemed to grow more erratic after three incidents in the 1980s: an automobile accident that curbed his vigorous life as a sportsman, a brief marriage that failed and the death of his mother, Jean Austin du Pont.

Yang sees the vigorous response as a sign that Chinese society has awakened to the importance of tobacco control.