Although some species may be now increasing, more or less rapidly, in numbers, all cannot do so, for the world would not hold them.
In this case we can clearly see that if we wished in imagination to give the plant the power of increasing in number, we should have to give it some advantage over its competitors, or over the animals which preyed on it.
"The desire of gain develops a spirit of ambition, which has ever since impelled our workers to extend their field from the township to the canton, and from the canton to the department, so as to increase their profits by
increasing their sales.
The French army pushed on to Moscow, its goal, its impetus ever
increasing as it neared its aim, just as the velocity of a falling body increases as it approaches the earth.
We in Boston are constantly indebted to you for doing our work." My experience in securing money convinces me that the first type of man is growing more rare all the time, and that the latter type is increasing; that is, that, more and more, rich people are coming to regard men and women who apply to them for help for worthy objects, not as beggars, but as agents for doing their work.
Our work seemed to please the trustees of this fund, as they soon began increasing their annual grant.
If her population was a billion, and was
increasing twenty millions a year, in twenty-five years it would be a billion and a half--equal to the total population of the world in
It is also absurd to render property equal, and not to provide for the
increasing number of the citizens; but to leave that circumstance uncertain, as if it would regulate itself according to the number of women who [1265b] should happen to be childless, let that be what it would because this seems to take place in other cities; but the case would not be the same in such a state which he proposes and those which now actually unite; for in these no one actually wants, as the property is divided amongst the whole community, be their numbers what they will; but as it could not then be divided, the supernumeraries, whether they were many or few, would have nothing at all.
All this, and much more, at a cost of interminable time and patience, Nalasu taught him, and much more he taught him,
increasing his vocabulary so that, at a distance, they could hold quick and sharply definite conversations.
In spite of the immense sums cost him by the hospital, by machinery, by cows ordered from Switzerland, and many other things, he was convinced that he was not wasting, but
increasing his substance.
Besides, this mystery must necessarily be solved, and before long; for, upon an order from Captain Nemo, the engine,
increasing its propelling power, made the screw turn more rapidly.
The national SERI Report indicates rental rates are steadily
increasing in markets throughout the United States, and midtown Manhattan follows suit, but its effective rental rates are markedly higher than in most other major tier-one markets.