Over the past two decades, our friendship has flourished into a strategic partnership, and we now cooperate on a range of important issues, from defence and counterterrorism to freedom of navigation and cutting-edge science, including in space," he addded.

Peter told the Sunday Mercury: "Gabriel has flourished. His speech and communication - at one time thought to be so poor that nursery considered him probably mute - has flourished.

For many decades the brickworks flourished in Bartley Green and California but by the outbreak of World War I they were virtually all closed down |

McCann, who has flourished at rightback after spending most of his earlier career on the right wing, has also impressed Buchanan.

These have clearly been there despite human "interference" ever since the reservoir was built, and this may indeed be the reason why they have flourished. The one thing I do know about wax caps is that they flourish in grassland areas.

Illegal gambling flourished too, and some of these "underground" operations were as organized and as open as legal ones.

Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes, Qumran, Fourth Philosophy, and the followers of John the Baptist or of Bannus are among the Jewish sects that flourished in Palestine during the period before the destruction of the Temple by Romans in 70 AD.

Both flora and fauna flourished under those conditions.

Manufacturing jobs and the rich political, cultural, and economic life of the city offered the children of sharecroppers and immigrants undreamed of opportunities, and in the working-class neighborhoods where they struggled for a better life, schools, churches, libraries, hospitals, and parks flourished. And as the children of these factory workers got the education, jobs, homes, and health care their parents had dreamed of, cities became cleaner and safer places to raise families, replete with museums, symphonies, theaters, and occasionally a winning ball club.

An idea from a UK paramedic for people to keep details of their next of kin on their mobile phone is reported to have flourished following the bombings in London, UK on 7 July 2005.