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She may not be an ideal companion for young children.

In an ideal world, there would be no such thing as rubbish.

Their ideal society collapsed around them.

The conditions were ideal for racing.

I was the ideal person to take over the job.

I think that the ideal of marriage involves procreation.

Great tracts of lowland country deforested by logging, fire, or both have become ideal feeding grounds of deer.

It has been suggested that these figurines were an ideal type or an expression of a desire for fertility.

It turns out that the Netherlands was an ideal country for growing tulips.

So I’m sure you can see how having an area that’s off limits to automobile traffic would be ideal for a heavily populated city, where, well, the streets would otherwise be bustling with noisy unpleasant traffic congestion.

Well, uh, lead is strong and flexible so it’s ideal for joining pieces of glass cut in different shapes and sizes.

This new calendar was ideal, because, well, it worked well for agricultural purposes as well as for knowing when to have traditional religious festivals.

Um... the test process went on much longer than expected and we ended up having to put the product on the market with known bugs in it, which was obviously not ideal.

The smooth bark of small red maples makes this species ideal for buck rubs in the forests of the mid-eastern United States.

Although every species has a maximum rate at which the population of that species could increase, assuming ideal conditions for the species in its environment.

Let’s say there was a species that had access to plenty of food and ideal conditions.

From the plants’ perspective, the ideal pollinator is an animal that is under-fed, ready to eat and in a hurry.

Even before Alexander’s time, a life spent in the service of their city-state no longer seemed ideal to Greeks.

The philosopher Plato (428-348 B.C.) felt that the ideal city-state should have about 5,000 citizens, because to the Greeks it was important that everyone in the community should know each other.

Now, estuaries are an ideal place to try to capture energy from changes in tides because, well, there is an exceptionally large difference between the water level at high tide and at low tide.

In an ideal world, the Forest Service would manage and restore the forests, thin them out, and remove the dense understory by cutting or by controlled small fires.

The valley may have narrowed at this point to a mere three kilometers, making it the ideal place for controlling river traffic.

In short, therefore, the site of Memphis offered the rulers of the Early Dynastic Period an ideal location for controlling internal trade within their realm, an essential requirement for a state-directed economy that depended on the movement of goods.

The East African highlands are ideal cattle country and the home today of such famous cattle-herding peoples as the Masai.

In Ancient Greece an oval face was the ideal of female beauty.

Throughout his career she remained his feminine ideal.

Now, the ideal of plain white sculpture goes back to 15th century Europe when Renaissance artists rediscovered ancient Greek and Roman culture.

Her features were almost the opposite of the Japanese ideal of beauty in those days.

He intends to pursue his ideals of justice and human rights.

She's committed to liberal ideals.