The ideal gas law is the equation of state of a hypothetical ideal gas.

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Layla was an ideal child.

The ideal of the Confucian state is harmony.

The other ideal was eternal peace.

It is an ideal networking tool.

The new method was anything but ideal.

But Italy s circumstances are far from ideal.

Beyond Sarkozy is Qaddafi, the ideal villain.

The European ideal has parallels in other parts of the world.

He is the celebration and ideal of exactly this kind of creativity.

But equal access is probably an unlikely ideal.

What would our sleeping patterns be in the sort of ideal sense?

Mexico s crisis is the ideal time to consider new variants of presidentialism.

Of course, cooperatives have sometimes struggled to live up to the ideal.

Now is an ideal time to begin that effort.

Nor does the ideal of national unity account for internal diversity and conflict.

One ideal was that of a unified Christendom, with Europe at its center.

The city's ideal combination of fertile ground and shallow waters attracted numerous traders.

Teachers working in this area should also share the same ideal of peace.

Of course, the ideal of a united Europe is much older than Monnet s scheme.

The benchmark for this study is admittedly far from ideal.

There is little doubt that the culture of peace is an ideal worthy of pursuit.

The post 1945 ideal of a united Europe was very much a planner s archetype, a technocratic Utopia. And, certainly for Monnet and the other founders of postwar Europe, it was an entirely benign, even noble, ideal.

This respite offers an ideal opportunity to push forward with reforms.

But the solution offered by Egypt s military is far from ideal.

However, not every location in space is ideal for a telescope.

What we'll have in the end is this ideal that you see on the slide here the ideal that people should vote in an existing democracy, not for a democracy.

The ideal of a unified Europe, though not designed to explode, could well disintegrate nonetheless.

In France, it is considered to be the watershed moment when a conservative moral ideal (religion, patriotism, respect for authority) shifted towards a more liberal moral ideal (secularism, individualism, sexual revolution).

Working longer is thus the ideal way to achieve growth and competitiveness.

I do not claim that policy in recent years has been ideal.

I read about these behaviors and I adopted nonviolence as an ideal.

The ideal would be for both to have a part to play.

In ring theory, a branch of abstract algebra, an ideal is a special subset of a ring.

In all these examples, there's one ideal form, because these are thought in terms of structure.

This made the notion of celibacy, a perhaps noble, but for most people impossible ideal, bearable.

In subsequent Chinese history, the meritocratic ideal was institutionalized by means of the Imperial examination system.

She rejects the role of the ideal wife and admits she was just trying to survive.

When in 1933 Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, he enforced his aesthetic ideal on the nation.

So, instead of trying to find the ideal type or the ideal average, he'd always look for the exception. So, in this example, which is an example of what's called Bateson's Rule, he has two kinds of mutations of a human thumb.

But this is not the ideal moment for a timeout to do that.

In their ideal world without either, there would, they claim, be no unemployment.

(a) Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal

This style of governance provides ideal conditions for abuse of public office, which has led to endemic corruption.