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The good news is that, as we search for new ways to push plants to do more, the most promising technologies are natural,
resting
dormant in the ground beneath our feet, waiting only to be discovered.
For, while the simplified pre-crisis conventional wisdom appeared to provide a complete set of answers
resting
on a unified intellectual system and methodology, really good economic thinking must provide multiple partial insights, based on varied analytical approaches.
American power is, instead, seen as
resting
on the “pillar of inspiration” rather than the “pillar of action.”
The value of these accounts would fluctuate with the market rather than
resting
on a defined-benefit scheme that guarantees a fixed real sum of resources available upon retirement.
Complacency has never been an option; but in an environment in which startups can overturn an entire sector in the space of a few years, what once seemed like sound strategy can now amount to
resting
on one’s laurels.
So it seems we are friends again – or perhaps just
resting
before the dispute resumes.
There were mothers holding babies, young girls, and elderly women who could barely stand,
resting
on others for support.
After often-lackluster global efforts to meet many of the UN’s earlier Millennium Development Goals, particularly those concerning children, poverty, and education, a lot of hopes are
resting
on the SDGs.
She found him in the posture in which he had long sat,
resting
his head on his hands.
Yet the law and the circumstances of our position are such that thousands of complications appear which at present, while
resting
after all her sufferings and trials, she neither sees nor wishes to see.
But not to disturb the others and to while away the time, after
resting
she rejoined the players and pretended to like it.
This allowed him to forget himself in quiet whistling, his eyes vaguely
resting
in the shade.
Levaque,
resting
on his back, was swearing as he examined his left thumb which had been grazed by the fall of a piece of sandstone.
The trainmers must have been resting, for neither of them replied.
They were all
resting.
In the vague whiteness of the bed, beneath the half-light which came through a curtain that was drawn back, the young girl was sleeping with her cheek
resting
on her naked arm.
Now the school was closed; and all the children were running about, there was a swarm of little creatures shouting and tumbling and fighting; while those fathers who were not at the public-house were
resting
in groups of three or four, crouching on their heels as they did in the mine, smoking their pipes with an occasional word in the shelter of a wall.
For two months the coal had been remaining at the surface of their pits, and nearly all the workshops were
resting.
The Voreux, Crévecoeur, Mirou, and Madeleine were not the only pits resting; at the Victoire and at Feutry-Cantel only about a quarter of the men had gone down; even Saint-Thomas was affected.
Not a single man at Vandame ought to have gone down when Montsou is
resting.
He picked himself up with difficulty,
resting
for a moment curled up on his knees, doing something with his hand in the bottom of his pocket which could not be observed.
And at the top of the slope near the entrance to the settlement, old Bonnemort appeared,
resting
on his stick, motionless against the rust-coloured sky.
Swathed in blood-soaked linen, his head was
resting
on a folded pillow.
The double door opened, and accompanied by Captain Nemo with a dozen crewmen following, we set foot on the firm seafloor where the Nautilus was resting, ten meters down.
Captain Nemo and his men had come to bury their companion in this communal
resting
place on the inaccessible ocean floor!
Among the great wind riders--carried over long distances from every shore and
resting
on the waves from their exhausting flights-- I spotted some magnificent albatross, birds belonging to the Longipennes (long-winged) family, whose discordant calls sound like the braying of an ass.
Resting
on shore, they assumed extremely graceful positions.
Just then,
resting
his hand on my shoulder, Captain Nemo said to me:"In 1600, sir, the Dutchman Gheritk was swept by storms and currents, reaching latitude 64 degrees south and discovering the South Shetland Islands.
By this point the Nautilus was
resting
on a bed of ice only one meter thick and drilled by bores in a thousand places.
It needed to sink to fifty meters, searching for a
resting
place in the bowels of the sea.
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