Exploration preceded colonization, and colonization preceded trade, and that was the natural order of things.
The forces of global integration are a great tide inexorably wearing away the established order of things.
However, taking a long view, extinction has been part of the natural order of things throughout Earth's history.
The ratio has been so stable over time that it appears to be the natural order of things.
Many Indians may view the prominence of Ambanis, Birlas and Tatas as part of the natural order of things.
They create jobs that did not previously exist and solve problems that people assumed were part of the natural order of things.
I'm a metric guy, and it's just the natural order of things.
Should preserving the natural order of things be a goal in itself?
Such inversions of the existing order of things were a Sevi speciality.
That second category covers those few ingenious spots every year that go completely against the settled order of things to really achieve something different.
The firefighting of those days upset the natural order of things.
He told the inquiry that to lose a child was "totally against the natural order of things", and added that he had also lost a daughter.
The lawsuit flips the usual order of things, with landlords complaining that the city has violated the Fair Housing Act, instead of the other way around.
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Over the years, the crowd around my Thanksgiving table has thinned due to the natural order of things kids growing up and adults moving on.
The order of things feels not so much old-fashioned as off kilter, and our apprehensions quicken when Martha steals away, at first light, and heads for a nearby forest.
But for many people this has involved an upending of the natural order of things, with young men with flip-charts wandering into proud firms and telling veteran managers what to do.
However he sees Japan's return to the top in 2012 as simply "going back to the natural order of things" after Asia's second largest economy was devastated by the 2011 quake and tsunami.
They had the same positive and negative human attributes, but the results of human profligacy were contained by the natural order of things, which transcended technological and political sophistication and even religious disposition.
Consequently, it has been taken for granted that the natural order of things is for QE2 to be ended, replaced, or modified well before the end of near-zero Federal Funds sometime late this year, next year, or the year after.
Their campaigns often pinpoint issues that involve a conflict between preserving the natural order of things and changing it either through new technology (such as genetic engineering) or through economic growth (leading, for example, to the increased use of cars).
We have to maintain a sense of order, otherwise things would become chaotic.
Beijing has taken a number of steps in order to cool things down.
In order to speed things up, there has been talk of drawing up a list of what Unscom needs in order to wrap up its inspections.
But they cannot do these things because they have yielded control of things they need in order to do them.
So I understand how -- I do this every day -- I understand how someone can do a static analysis, order of battle, numbers of weapons and things like that.
When a monk takes a vow of silence, he does so in order to shut out the world and devote himself exclusively to things of the spirit.
In order for that to happen, a lot of things have to go right.
All I had to do was stand outside my home in the chill of the early morning in order to see things in their totality: Diana felt that she had married the wrong man.
As they report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they videotaped the animals' behaviour for several hundred hours over the course of 16 months in order to record three things: facial and vocal expressions, hand and foot gestures, and the behavioural context in which these expressions and gestures took place (eg, grooming, play, sex and aggression).
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