They are the good workers, the efficients, the kinetic successes of the driven world.

But quick work by an efficient department prevented the flames from spreading to the buildings on either side of the one where it had started.

By the exertion of all her powers and her force she had made of herself an exceptionally efficient mistress.

His career in the arduous campaigns of the South against Cornwallis, and the efficient commander of his cavalry arm.

This opportunity was now given him in the Mexican War; and the efficient character of his services may be seen in Scott's Autobiography, where "Captain Lee, of the Engineers," is mentioned in every report, and everywhere with commendation.

The work now was to drill, equip, and put it in efficient condition for taking the field.

We find that for a long time the navy has possessed an efficient organisation; that its right position as an element of the national defences was understood ages ago; and that English naval officers of a period which is now very remote showed by their actions that they exactly appreciated andwhen necessarywere able to apply the true principles of maritime warfare.

What other efficient defence against that can a continental country have?

Steam transport and efficient food preservation were equally unknown in her reign and for long after.

Naval officers are more hostile to 'red tape' than most men, and they may lament the vast amount of bookkeeping that modern auditors and committees of public accounts insist upon, but they are convinced that a reasonable check on expenditure of stores is indispensable to efficient organisation.

The control of ocean communications, or the command of the sea, being the end of naval warfare, and its acquisition being practicable only by the assumption of a vigorous offensive, it follows as a matter of course that we must have a strong and in all respects efficient mobile navy.

It is incumbent on every section of the empire, without neglecting its land forces, to lend zealous help in keeping the fleet efficient.

That which constitutes the spirit in man, both for others and itself, is the real man; and to this the elements and elementary powers contribute its bulk ([Greek: tò] 'videri et tangi') wholly, and its phenomenal form in part, both as co-efficients, and as conditions.

With good management however, and an efficient body of men to guard against a breach of the peace, this need never occur.

Perhaps the author is more familiar with natural-historical than with philosophical inquiries, and, not having decided which particular theory about efficient cause is best founded, he meanwhile argues the scientific questions concernedall that relates to secondary causesupon purely scientific grounds, as he must do in any case.

Wherefore, Darwin's reticence about efficient cause does not disturb us.

The origination of this power is a question about efficient cause.

So the real question we come to is as to the way in which we are to conceive intelligent and efficient cause to be exerted, and upon what exerted.

Are we bound to suppose efficient cause in all cases exerted upon nothing to evoke something into existence,and this thousands of times repeated, when a slight change in the details would make all the difference between successive species?

The theory of the immediate, orderly, and constant, however infinitely diversified, action of the intelligent efficient Cause.

Him Alessandro persuaded, by means of a heavy bribe and the promise of efficient protection, to undertake the removal of Ippolito.

A report from the Postmaster-General is likewise communicated, presenting in a highly satisfactory manner the result of a vigorous, efficient, and economical administration of that Department.

This included the "Colonial Corps," stationed in France itself, which, in case of war, belongs to the field army in the European theatre of war, and the "Service auxiliaire "that is, some 30,000 non-efficients, who are drafted in for service without arms.

Germany still leads as one of the most prominent countries that practices efficient forestry.

Sheridan contradicts himself yet more pointedly on this subject; and his discrepancies may have been the efficients of Murray's.