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Ur was a very wealthy city, and was at the height of its prominence around the time Abraham lived there.

Even at the height of his private suffering, the international position of the United States took the precedence over his personal fortunes.

But it was just as true slightly less than a millennium ago at the height of the Middle Ages.

A year ago, at the height of the financial panic, the world yearned for a profitable and confident financial sector.

Almost a year ago at the height of the credit crisis, Bank of America bought troubled rival Merrill Lynch in a rushed deal.

When someone is in a wheelchair his head is at the height of an average person's waist.

Last year at the height of its Oscar prowess, I wrote about why Up in the Air would be passed up for an Oscar.

At the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union had between them tens of thousands of nuclear warheads.

At the height of the Cultural Revolution, the poor man was castigated for putting on airs, pretending to be a "local" Chairman Mao.

He brushes aside criticism in the British press for a commercial he did for Sky, at the height of the phone hacking scandal.

At the height of his career as a tenured scientist at a major university, Dr. Pausch was stricken with advanced cancer of the pancreas.

When he wrote this excellent novel , he was at the height of his powers as a writer .

This was like Pavarotti, at the height of his operatic powers, deciding to retire and try his luck at stand-up comedy or NASCAR.

A COMMON complaint at the height of the crisis was that too few Wall Street bosses were being forced to fall on their swords.

Mr Savisaar, who in 1990-92 piloted Estonia out of Soviet occupation, is no longer at the height of his powers.

At the height of his fame, a French journalist filmed him nibbling on a piece of fruit while supposedly midway through his mammoth fast.

His confession early on in the race could be seen as a preemptive move to avoid the scandal breaking at the height of his campaign.

The group did not launch sexy tech funds at the height of the tech boom, for example, "to take the last dollar out of the market" .

At the height of the airport blockade, one luxury hotel was rumored to have had just one room occupied.

Until its deluded purchase of Golden West at the height of the mortgage bubble, Wachovia was an excellent franchise.

At the height of philosophy, analysis of the concept of freedom in the law, aims to enhance its highly theoretical.

Remember, the lowest unemployment rate America has experienced over the last half-century came at the height of the Vietnam War.

Laurelynn Martin was at the height of a promising tennis career when she had a routine surgical procedure that went catastrophically wrong.

Soldier Alfred Arthur, 19, sent the card to his sister Ellen, known as Nell, in January 1916 at the height of the Great War.

AT THE height of the banking crisis, restoring financial stability was paramount for the British government.

Even at the height of U. S. geopolitical dominance and economic strength, American students were never anywhere near the head of the class.

Businesses feel better than they did at the height of the recession, but they are not completely comfortable to stop layoffs.

At the height of the event, you might spot one to two per minute, and sometimes even more meteors can grace the sky during brief bursts.

At the height of his career in the late 1980s, Chase earned around $7 million per film and was a highly visible celebrity.

Butjust as they were moving to Bank of America, her boss died of a heart attack --at the height of the financial crisis.

In 1966, at the height of a phenomenal international career, a medical condition called "focal dystonia" cost him the use of his right hand.

Scott started the journal on the winter of 1825 when he was at the height of his fame and fortune.

Back in 2008, at the height of the financial crisis, the courage of politicians prevented international markets from collapsing entirely.

Even at the height of the New Deal, government spending never exceeded 20% of total output, far less than during the Obama administration.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Because at the height of our housing bubble, U. S. residential housing accounting for . . . that's right, 6% of GDP.

Cruise was already at the height of his powers, with Pitt and Banderas just starting to rise up through the ranks.

Two explosions on Moscow Metro system set off by female suicide bombers at the height of rush hour have killed at least 35 people.

Some of the riskier borrowing practices that flourished at the height of the bubble have begun to find buyers.

At the height of this struggle I made one of the most important and fortunate appointments of my war administration.

At the height of the Battle of Bilbringi, Thrawn's faithful Noghri bodyguard Rukh killed the Grand Admiral with an assassin's blade.

At the height of the war, the new authorities sent out text messages to fighters in the field telling them to treat prisoners decently.

At the height of the drawing method is adopted for the center, take center screen the radius of the proper length, in a circle.

Though this was at the height of the cold war, the US navy showed little interest in Reid's machine.

At the height of the financial crisis, the ECB lowered interest rates aggressively in the face of downside risks to price stability.

The last time it exceeded the civilian rate was at the height of the Vietnam war.

At the height of the most recent Ice Age, about 35, 000 years ago, much of the world's water was locked up in vast continental ice sheets.

No private investor would have been happy with 5% on preferreds sold to a U. S. bank at the height of the crisis.

Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service group manager Doc Holliday said around 100 firefighters were at the scene at the height of the fire.

The explosive growth of structured investment vehicles at the height of the credit boom was also woefully under-reported.

King at the height of his military success in the Thirty Years' War, had dictated her measurements and armament.

At the height of the war, more than a million people were displaced and confined to squalid camps.

He is now at the height of his enthusiasm. Whatever you say will be in vain.

A matchless symbol of the American auto industry at the height of its power and influence.

Indeed, even at the height of the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, US Soldier deaths due to accident usually exceeded those due to enemy fire.

Additionally, those who were in utero at the height of the epidemic had 20 percent higher disability rates at the age of 61.

Yet the old embassy was also an effort to project a progressive cultural image abroad, at the height of the cold war.

At the height of the crisis he promised to relieve the shortage of currency through the Reichsbank's new high-speed printing presses.

At first glance valuations may not look especially demanding, but at the height of a decade-long boom this can be deceptive.

At the height of their party, the mood suddenly changed when Belshazzar saw the handwriting upon the wall.

Curiously, though, the financial crisis has made some firms more competitive than they were at the height of the boom.

The bank, Icesave, failed in 2008 at the height of the world financial crisis.

The brief parade boosted the confidence and fighting spirit of the Soviet people at the height of their battle with the Nazi forces.

The two countries - with all the talk of warmer relations - are spying on each other as avidly as at the height of the cold war.

Could we record signals at the height of our arousal, then play these back and relive the experience?

The rich world's big central banks are gradually unwinding the emergency liquidity facilities they introduced at the height of the crisis.

But the largest single group of fatalities occurred when a ferry carrying more than 800 people capsized Saturday at the height of the storm.

If my time had run out, it would have left me still at the height of my perplexities, I dare say.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who led JSOC at the height of the Iraq war, became the top commander in Afghanistan.

At the height of the debt-ceiling uncertainty on Friday, a handful of mortgage real-estate investment trusts suffered a mini flash crash.

The rebound of the dollar at the height of last year's financial crisis was one of the few silver linings for policymakers .

Both have already repaid the emergency Troubled Asset Relief Program loans they received at the height of the financial crisis.

They accused executives of misleading investors by over-hyping the division's prospects at the height of the technology bubble.

At the height of the Cultural Revolution, cross talk was exclusively used as a propaganda tool.

at the height of the sars epidemic , the majority of suspected elderly sars patients came from residential homes for frail elders.

After all, Japan tried and failed to build a yen-trading bloc in Asia at the height of its boom.

Failure can come at any time, even when leaders appear to be at the height of their powers.

J. P. Morgan estimates macro hedge funds and currency managers hold about a fifth of the exposure they had at the height of the trade.

"What's Going On" is an exquisite plea for peace on earth, sung by a man at the height of crisis.

"The animation" greatly will expand employment surface, making the animation industry at the height of the more development.

This could be a problem at the height of tourist seasons as hotels fill with loud, boisterous guests.

At the height of the boom, with the price repeatedly setting records, production outside OPEC even fell.

To put that in context, China's current account surplus in 2007, at the height of the credit boom, was around 11 per cent of GDP.

So at the height of my uncertainty about the walk, a flat above a theatre in a refugee camp became home.

Yet it is not necessarily the most indebted companies, or those bought at the height of the boom, that will go bust first.

More optimistic market watchers point out that these rates are still well below those at the height of the financial crisis.

The opposite of capitulation, of course, is investing at the height of a bubble.

At the height of the British Empire, one-fourth of the world's people and lands were living under the Union Jack .

Even at the height of all this, the importance of the Indian private sector far exceeded the level in Chinatoday.

The ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, United States) treaty was signed in San Francisco in September 1951, at the height of the Cold War.

At the height of the boom, she says, normal families couldn't afford a nice place this close to Washington, DC.

In 1482 he was transferred to Florence, where Lorenzo the Magnificent was then at the height of his power.

A former investment-bank economist in the City of London, he returned to Ireland at the height of the boom to write and broadcast.

At the height of the dispute, Chinese authorities pulled out all the stops to prevent patriotic Chinese from airing their views.

At the height of his power, he ruled over Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Hejaz, and Yemen.

At the height of his R& B popularity in 1962, he boldly released Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.

Brezhnev began brightly enough, with the Soviet Union at the height of its prestige.

In 2009, at the height of the recession, the company reported 8% earnings growth.

Even at the height of its street fighting, the rules of engagement have seldom been violated.

In any case, some of the financial snake oil peddled at the height of the housing bubble was bad for saving.

At the height of the fighting, British and American troops were called in to support Iraqi government forces.

But no one at the height of their career, and especially with Juanes's Latin star-power, has taken the risk.

AT THE HEIGHT of the Qing dynasty, back in the 1700s, China enjoyed a golden age.

In 2007, at the height of the boom, total auction sales of post-war and contemporary art exceeded those of Impressionist and modern.

He looked at his watch: It was almost 12: 30. At the height of lunch hour, he needed a flashlight.

I have heard him talk about complicated scientific books with faultless precision, even at the height of the war.

By April, Japan is at the height of its beauty.

then at the height of his military success in the 'Thirty Years' War.

"Even at the height of the crisis, [that] proved almost too hard to do, " he notes.

Even at the height of the dotcom boom, people had only the vaguest grasp of Cisco's business.

At the height of the Cold War, the superpowers spared no expense in funding the latest space spectacular.

At stake is whether Mr Bernanke overstepped his powers at the height of the financial crisis in December.

Rio needs the cash to pay off debt from acquisitions at the height of the commodities boom.

That process hesitated briefly at the height of the financial crisis before resuming.

At the height of the boom, for every dollar banks issued in bonds, they might issue twenty dollars in swaps.

At the height of the bubble days, the City was arguably more freewheeling than Wall Street.

At the height of his career, Tom was earning more than US$20 million per movie.

At the height of the crisis, the flooded region covered an area the size of England.

With sales and revenues plummeting , no employer wanted to hire workers at the same wage rate prevailing at the height of the boom in 1929 .

At the height of the crisis they and others acted to stimulate their economies and save their banks.

Berkshire made a $5 billion preferred stock investment in Goldman in September 2008, at the height of the financial crisis.

At the height of the boom, brokers typically worked from rate sheets provided by lenders.

At the height of the financial crisis, TCS bagged a large contract to automate the issuance of passports.

At the height of his career, he was indisputably the biggest star in the world; he has sold more than 750 million albums.

"I'm not a good singer, " Mr Wang reportedly told a friend at the height of his popularity. "But everybody liked the melody. "

I was present in person at the height of Meilanfang's art career. He really deserves to be called a master of Beijing Opera.

What should I do if Voldemort is defeated at the height of his powers by a one-year-old boy?

Since some were written at the height of the property boom they are well above the prevailing market rate.

The currency has never come under such sustained selling pressure, not even at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.

Mr Lubbers, a former Dutch prime minister, denied the accusation. He quit his UN post in 2005 at the height of the scandal.

Now Brunel worked at the height of the Industrial Revolution when all of life and our economy was being reinvented.

He recounted a phone call he received from Egyptian Information Minister Anis Feki at the height of the protests.

At the height of the Great Depression, 250, 000 teenagers alone were freight-hopping and became hobos .

Movies, television, and music present us with idealized sex scenes or lyrics of people moaning and panting at the height of passion.

The four Rio employees were arrested at the height of fraught negotiations over iron ore prices.

lending standards remain higher than at the height of the recession.

By comparison, US household consumption climbed to 67 per cent of GDP at the height of Americans' unsustainable spending binge.

The 52-year old took the helm from Mr Paulson this spring with Goldman at the height of its powers.

This kind of logic seemed pretty crazy, even at the height of the cold war.

The official index has not fallen below 50 since February 2009, at the height of the global financial crisis.

Witch bottles, often made from stoneware, were most common in the 1600's, at the height of the witchcraft scares.

The art of paper making reached westwards to Baghdad, Iraq in the 8th century at the height of the Islamic culture.

This tranquil scene, photographed in 1966, belies the ongoing regional chaos at the height of U. S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

Dealers explain the record price by its presentation at auction at the height of the boom, in February 2007.

The poet was AT the height of his fame when we saw him twenty years ago.

At the height of his shipping career, he owned about 60 vessels.

At the same time, you are entering a very important savings period since you likely are at the height of your earning power.

Sometimes the patient vomited once or twice at the height of the attack.

That happened to millions of people two years ago at the height of the world food crisis.

at the height of her career.

Happenning to coincide, Yangzhou School is at the height of the development of traditional Chinese linguistics.

As recently as September 2008, the stock market cratered at the height of the financial crisis.

At the height of the crisis, texts were arriving every few seconds.

At the height of the real estate bubble, CMBS deals came whizzing through with debt service levels approaching 120%.

Junk bond spreads are now exactly where they were at the height of optimism in April 2010.

At the height of the financial crisis 18 months ago, the political fallout looked ominous.

America and the Soviet Union negotiated and traded with each other even at the height of the cold war.

illustrateEnrollment in computer science programs peaked around 2000, at the height of the dotcom frenzy.

AT THE height of the cold war, in June 1982, an American early-warning satellite detected a large blast in Siberia.

Still, even at the height of hysteria, witches in England were rarely burned.

The answer they gave last year, at the height of the global financial crisis, was confidence, he said.

At the height of its power in the 19th century it ruled an empire that spanned the globe.

At the height of the credit boom, the hedge fund industry drove a big expansion for many large private banking institutions.

It was first put into service at the height of the Cold War in 1962, and remained in the US arsenal until 1997.

Joint Base Balad housed more than 35, 000 US military personnel and contractors at the height of the Iraq conflict.

By 1913, at the height of empire, the West controlled almost 60% of the territories, which together generated almost 80% of the wealth.

Unemployment was widespread, with 25 percent of the workforce unemployed at the height of the depression in 1933.

In 1930, the Nazis won 18 per cent of the German vote; in 1932, at the height of the Depression, their share had risen to 37 per cent.

Many are still struggling to pay for expensive ships ordered at the height of the industry's 2001-08 boom.

At the height of them, the bad dreams can even respond, affecting our health.

In 1950, at the height of the Stalinist terror in Poland, he joined the Communist party.

At the height of the conflict, he was called a baby-burner.

The girl blinked at the height of the basketball player.

At the height of the last market boom, in 2001, there were 60m accounts but perhaps fewer than 10m investors.

In 1928 he was elected governor of New York and in 1932, at the height of America's economic crisis, he was elected president.

The inner courtyard will be roofed over at the height of the second story so as to create an enclosed interior space.

At the height of the panic in mid-August the Nikkei 225 index fell by 9% in a single week, dipping 16% below its July peak.

The warnings remind many people of the nuclear attack drills that were run in US schools at the height of the Cold War.

BHP later abandoned the bid, at the height of the credit crunch, because of concerns about financing its target's vast debts.

At the height of the storm, I heard someone crying for help.

Even at the height of the recent M&A boom, the average takeover premium stood at 22 per cent.

The halving of the dollar value of the Icelandic krona at the height of the crisis pushed inflation as high as 18. 6%.

That's quadruple the spread in early March, although still much lower than the 3 percent-plus spread at the height of the crisis in 2008.

It's the height of madness to sail at the height of the storm.

At the height of the Apollo era, NASA received 4 percent of the federal budget.

At the height of its production, the island's inhabitants numbered around 20, 000.

That is what happened during the first round of quantitative easing, at the height of the financial crisis.

This is the Mexica ruler at the height of his power, a god among gods.

Barter trade ran wild in North Korea in the mid-1990s, at the height of the famine.

She has been at the height of her career.

Gadhafi last visited Zimbabwe 10 years ago at the height of Mugabe's often violent land-reform program.

At the height of the last bull market in 2000-2001, there were about 60m trading accounts.

That is a legacy of the stratospheric valuations attained by Wall Street at the height of the dotcom bubble.

Started at the height of the economic boom and built by some 12, 000 laborers, the world's tallest building opened in Dubai.

At the height of the financial crisis in September, it rose to 6. 9%, more than a percentage point above the central bank's 5. 75%.

At the height of the last stock bubble [in 2000-2001] we saw investors opening 2m accounts a month which is half the current rate.

At the height of the recent credit-fueled boom, U. S. auto sales reached 17 million units in 2005.

Shot in late afternoon in Wasaga Beach near Georgian Bay, Ontario at the height of Autumn colors in October 2008.

At the height of the last bull market in 2000-2001, there were around 60m trading accounts. Now there are more than 100m.

The film was created at the height of the Chinese animation industry in the 1960s, and received numerous awards.

Unemployment rose as high as 3. 8% this year compared with 2. 9% at the height of the boom two years ago.

They estimate that about sixty to ninety thousand honeybees live in each hive at the height of nectar flow.

No wonder that at the height of its expansion in 1997, PDVSA was investing $5. 4 billion, according to Wood Mackenzie, a consultancy.

Yesterday's turnover reached $27. 5bn, about half the level it hit at the height of China's stock frenzy in May.

Three-month yields had fallen as low as 2. 97 per cent at the height of the credit worries.

Joining the job market at the height of the crash, they reported the lowest salaries, earning $113, 000 on average.

The value of deals worldwide was 16 per cent higher than at the height of the dotcom boom in 2000, according to Dealogic, the data provider.

Even at the height of deregulatory fervour in this country in the 1980s, public expenditure never fell below 37% of GDP.

At the height of the fire emergency, the government had reported nearly 40, 000 fires.

At the height of the economic crisis the official employment rate in the formal economy was around 6%, according to some reports.

At the height of the Cold War, for example, scientific organisations provided a conduit for discussing nuclear weapons control.

At the height of the housing boom in 2006, non-traditional loans, such as subprime and jumbo mortgages, backed nearly 40% of home sales.

Many countries suffered food shortages as well as high prices at the height of the food crisis last year, and many remain vulnerable.

"Get pregnant as soon as possible" became a mantra at the height of the economic crisis.

And at the height of our busiest time.

That happened to millions of people 2 years ago at the height of the world food crisis.

At the height of the recession in March 2009, weekly claims peaked at 651, 000.

that doesn't melt even at the height of summer.

Reactor hall is situated at the height of 116, 5 feet.

The Fed only started paying such interest at the height of last year's crisis, so there is no US experience of how this works in practice.

An American study last year revealed how women at the height of their fertility seek out good-looking men.

At the height of the financial crisis last year, China gave Russia a $25bn loan in exchange for future oil deliveries.

In 2008, at the height of the gas boom in America, 1, 600 rigs were in operation.

My father, at the height of his success, had 50.

At the height of the technology boom in 2000, Richard Li's PCCW paid $28. 5bn for Hong Kong's then-monopoly telecommunications network.

At the height of the dotcom boom, every gym TV seemed to be tuned to CNBC, a financial channel;

Even at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union had numerous journalists reporting from each other's countries;

The redback was effectively re-pegged to the dollar at the height of the financial crisis;

There would surely have been more to enjoy had Izzo not died of lung cancer, aged 54 and at the height of his fame, in 2000

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