That was at the height of the peace process.

We are now entering the peak of the lean season .

They show their peak activity just before the winter season.

Slumdog Millionaire is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers.

APEC at the Apex

Wilhelm II became the leader of a country on the cusp of European mastery.

1701 1800 A.D. (18th century) The 18th century is considered the zenith of the Enlightenment.

Obama has a first rate group of economists on his side, which ensures that he will not do anything silly.

ATLANTA We are, supposedly, in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Everyone is getting fatter.

At the peak of the crisis, governments had an opportunity to create a new global financial infrastructure.

In such dramatic situations, US power is at its greatest.

During the reign of Philip of Valois, the French monarchy reached the height of its medieval power.

The first of these was during the 17th century, when the Dutch empire was at the height of its power.

At the heart of globalization has been the emergence of fast growing economies, most notably Brazil, India, and, above all, China.

At the height of the Cold War, he moved the two nuclear superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, toward peace.

During this period, credit expanded rapidly as a share of GDP, reaching more than 300 at the peak.

The 24 unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

PRINCETON In the middle of September s financial meltdown, a remarkable event occurred in London.

The subsequent landing of the first humans on the Moon in 1969 is seen by many as the culmination of the Space Race.

Madi s earnings help him keep his children in school, even at the height of the cotton harvest.

In the end, the US authorities even made a small profit on the assets that they had acquired at the height of the crisis.

At the era s height, major financial players built vastly expensive collections of highly abstract modern art.

Certain Chinese scholars are now writing about the decline of the US, with one identifying the year 2000 as the peak of American power.

When Chairman Mao still reigned supreme, one of his most vaunted principles was zili gengsheng, or self reliance.

With the summer holiday season in full swing, it is instructive to look at Europe s leisure activities.

Indeed, at the peak of the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, gold prices fell sharply a few times.

When John Maynard Keynes went to see President Roosevelt in the depths of the Depression, he advised toning down the administration s anti business rhetoric.

But there do seem to be an uncomfortable number of similarities between the political economy of cyberspace regulation and of financial regulation.

Global stockpiles have dropped from 68,000 warheads at the height of the Cold War to 20,000 today.

The country s demographic structure is changing, with an increasing number of retirees relative to the workers who are in their prime saving years.

A historical wave beyond his control had lifted the former KGB lieutenant colonel from out of the shadows to the pinnacle of power.

Yet, while Erdoğan may appear to be at the pinnacle of power, it is his government s Gülenist allies who have grown increasingly powerful.

Teotihuacan, with a population of more than 150,000 people, had some of the largest pyramidal structures in the pre Columbian Americas.

Dirty Deeds was not released in the US until 1981, by which time the band were at the peak of their popularity.

The fact that the bat uses echoes in pitch darkness to input the current variables to its model, while the swallow uses light, is incidental.

We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930 s Great Depression.

At its greatest extent, it reached from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Kwango River in the east, and from the Congo River in the north to the Kwanza River in the south.

I would recall here that, at the height of Uganda's aggression, when it occupied more than half of our territory, it was incapable of arresting even one Ugandan rebel.

These people, these 20 million people, vaccinate over 500 million children every single year, multiple times at the peak of our operation.

He was sitting outside of the road, watching one of these polio campaigns unfold, and a few months later he wrote This is foreign aid at its most heroic.

But, in the autumn of 2008, at the height of the global financial crisis, eurozone heads of state did not consider the creation of a common bank rescue fund.

Finally, under the 1987 Brady plan, debts were written down by roughly 30 , four years after the crisis hit full throttle.

We are once again learning the hard way that this kind of austerity, when applied in the teeth of a major financial crisis, leads only to depression.

At the time of the invasion, Napoleon was at the height of his power with virtually all of continental Europe either under his direct control or held by countries defeated by his empire and under treaties favorable for France.

With the Syrian Revolution reaching its bloodiest peak, many netizens took to their keyboards wishing it would be his last birthday.