The 19th century emerges as a ferment of competing schemes and fantasies of European federalism, global brotherhood and world government.
Rather as in the economic sphere competing private companies tend to produce wealth and activity, whereas monopoly firms have the opposite effect, so in the religious sphere competing sects generate a ferment of activity and increased levels of belief, whereas state churches produce indifference.
Yet this is a period of ferment, of a generational shift in China.
Perhaps the only way to achieve real innovation is to have a lot of novelty that fails as innovation, a rich enough ferment of newness to produce a relatively small, but invaluable, quantity of genuine innovation.
Cobalt engineers also figured out a way to ferment the wood starch into biobutanol in a more concentrated fashion.
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Against a backdrop of spiritual ferment in the 17th century, many followed Sabbatai Zevi, a Jewish scholar, who proclaimed himself Messiah and eventually embraced a form of Islam.
As a university student in the 1940s, Balasuriya came of age during a period of leftist ferment.
Just look at what's happened in Britain, never known for being a hotbed of antitax ferment (at least not since the days of Margaret Thatcher, nearly 20 years ago).
This fall Southeast plans to break ground on a plant that will extract the sugar and ferment it into 20 million gallons of ethanol a year.
As he was reminded when conservative talk-radio hosts led a last-minute insurrection against his candidacy in the run-up to Super Tuesday, it is a party brimming with ideological ferment.
Gore's "mistake" was a whopper: Corn is a poor substrate for ethanol production because it takes a lot of conventional fossil energy to grow and ferment it, and its diversion to ethanol production creates a conflict between two of our most fundamental needs--food and energy.
Early 20th-century Russia does not offer an exact analogy to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan today, but like those countries it had a regime which failed to move with the times and failed to deal conclusively with a long tradition of terrorism and revolutionary ferment.
It was a time of political, social and artistic ferment.
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For a midcareer leader, this may be a time to move back to the creative ferment phase, accepting that the ground is shifting within her industry, that there are no guarantees that her job will still exist in the same form within just a few more years, but that untold new possibilities may exist.
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It is at the centre of an intense ferment of musical experiences and has spawned a veritable cultural economy.
Mess up--or just run out of time--and your e-mail will ferment in your mailbox, awaiting you in a more lucid moment.
Minister Yeo takes a "light-handed" approach to encourage creative ferment.
The radicalized young Saudi, a mediocre engineering student with plenty of money, reached adulthood when the Islamic world was in political ferment.
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