The hope of a new world surges up from time to time in many civilizations.
Sotheby's credits Mr. Redden with developing its Internet strategy, but the dot-com world surged ahead of his expectations.
Deficits and debt-to-GDP ratios around the world surged due to the financial crisis, and it was felt that they were fast becoming unsustainable.
The number of violent anti-Semitic attacks around the world surged nearly 40percentt last year, according to a report released Wednesday by researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
As a new world surged forward, however, we hung back, refusing to add to our repertoire the new skill of deliberate development that was on display in every fast-growing country.
It is not surprising that in a world of surging entrepreneurial energy, the prospects of technological change are being celebrated.
David Steven from Global Dashboard has written an interesting blog taking issue with the assertion that the world in surging ahead of the UK.
Last year the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said that food production would have to increase globally by 70% by 2050 to feed the world's surging population.
But if action is taken, up to and including the post-election exit of the leader, the party will sooner or later be back in a world of surging confidence and thumping election victories, with its people striding around Whitehall like kings and queens.
I suspect it might even be a more appropriate seasonal film than A Christmas Carol, in that its world of surging crowds, violent avarice and random kindness speaks more to the reality of Christmas than some pious tale of a miser who winds up buying a turkey.
The Black Party's theme this year is "SUBmerged," and according to the event's website, it will be centered around a fantastical "world of surging sea levels and drowning cities, [where] rogue submarines break the surface in the black of night to whisk willing survivors to an unregulated subterranean world of brothels, dungeons and decadence lorded over by maritime pirates".
