They've been making amazing spirits for 300 years... there's a certain attention to detail that the French have with all of their products, whether it's wine or spirits.
And sentiment--or animal spirits if you prefer Keynes' term--correlates to the current-quarter GDP growth rate.
Wine was meant to replace beer or grain spirits in the diet.
That is still fragmented by the standards of spirits or beer, but the trend is clear.
If you have an interest in spirits or American history, check it out, but be forewarned, it will make you want to drink rum.
One has been a sustained effort by the Chinese government to limit the use of staple grains for things as frivolous as spirits or beer.
Similarly, the upcoming generation of American politicians will not have spent their formative years goggling at Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin, or feeling their spirits soar at the courage and triumph of dissidents such as Andrei Sakharov.
The monks wear ritual clothing and use hand gestures and various musical instruments while praying for the spiritual and moral well-being of the people, for purification and peace of mind, to appease the wrath of evil spirits or to invoke the blessing of various Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, deities and rinpoches.
Music and dance was also used for important worshipping ceremonies or to seek protection from the ancestors and spirits before a hunt or battle.
Scandinavian folklore is rife with tale of nisse or tomten, elfin spirits who haunt houses and play tricks on their occupants.
Whether that means Syracuse, Kansas or even Texas, the spirits couldn't be reached for comment.
One unit is about half a pint of beer or a single measure of spirits.
With the exceptions of South Africa and Indonesia there are no enticing charts radiating animal spirits, fortitude or even stolidity.
Even Luca Scarzella's clever video projections can't make the dreary costumes and monolithic sets interesting, and, despite the heroic efforts of conductor Nicola Luisotti, the acting isn't of a quality to elevate either the production or the audience's spirits.
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"There was very little in the way of intervention in Victorian times - sometimes spirits such as brandy or whiskey were used as tonics, and occasionally sedatives were prescribed, " he said.
For prevention of breast cancer, limiting alcohol to one drink a day (5 ounces of wine, 12 ounces of beer, or 1.5 ounces of spirits) is one of the most important things that you can do.
Louis's staff is ornamented with miniature putti, or spiritelli, the Renaissance "spirits" based on ancient Roman cupids among the many on view are marble versions, a whole flock at play on a 2nd-century child's sarcophagus and one gleefully ready for mid-15th-century fountain duty.
Those spirits risk a rude surprise or two if they come out of hibernation too soon.
"She was in good spirits and had no worries or reason to run away from her life, " Fred Murray said.
Aside from a ridiculous, tear-jerking plot twist that I won't type for fear of debasing my fingertips, the other characters are just there to have their floundering spirits lifted by Patch, or to angrily stand in his way while he tries to soak the vicinity with his unbridled wonderfulness.
Not long after embarking upon the subject of God and melancholy, for example, Mr. Burton veers into "A Digression of the Nature of Spirits, Bad Angels, or Devils, " which leads into an elaborate taxonomy of evil creatures, including the question of whether some devils "have excrements" or "feel pain if they are hurt, " and whether there can be both good and bad devils.
The failure to get American, Russian or Chinese signatures was not allowed to dampen spirits.
Suitors could include the big international spirits companies, such as Diageo or Allied Domecq, which are presently preoccupied by the bidding to buy Seagram's liquor business.
After receiving the subjects' responses to their questionnaires, Dr Barefoot and his colleagues divided the group into five sets, depending on whether they were drinkers of beer, wine, spirits, none in particular, or no alcohol at all.
We chatted with Fell to find out what makes her tick, and what her advice is for other entrepreneurial spirits out there, whether moms yet or not.
Nigeria's 200 or so spectators at the stadium began had their spirits lifted after Nigeria's Obafemi Martins equalised on 62 minutes and Yakubu Aiyegbeni netted again just three minutes later.
Julian understood that he would have to hire cheap help, a broken-down old carpenter desperate for work, or some rehabilitating wino or mental case, and the thought elevated his spirits, as if such servitude would echo the history of the place.
It's currently producing 28 million cases of spirits, most of that heading for export from Grangemouth or to Diageo's UK distribution centre via a narrow road bottleneck.
Seven of the beer and spirits makers that we cover currently have grab our Fairly Valued or neutral rating.
One drink is defined as 12 ounces (355 milliliters) of beer, 5 ounces (148 milliliters) of wine or 1.5 ounce (44 milliliters) of 80-proof distilled spirits.
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