Ben Shapiro

During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.

American Author

Julie Wainwright

When I started in e-commerce, there was not a lot of clutter because there were not a lot of companies. Nowadays, you have to have a pretty serious moat around your business to compete with Amazon, Wal-Mart, and even Alibaba online.

American Businesswoman

Joe Mansueto

I thought a company that provides mutual-fund information could be a great business, because you could construct an effective moat by building large financial databases and customer lists and a strong brand name.

American Businessman

Mary Pope Osborne

When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So when I heard stories of American history, I felt as if those dramas were taking place right in my own backyard.

American Writer

Kim Basinger

The smartest thing you can do in this business is get connected with a great agent to help you. Get connected with people who will form a family around you, or a moat.

American Actress

Diplo

You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.

American Musician

Tim Berners-Lee

I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.

English Inventor

Bill Wyman

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

British Musician

Victoria Beckham

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

English Musician

Gyles Brandreth

There is an invisible moat around the senior royals.

British Actor

Understanding 'moat' implies knowledge of medieval structures and their defense mechanisms.

Historical Context

While commonly water-filled, 'moat' can refer to dry ditches providing a similar defense.

Not Always Water

In a non-literal sense, 'moat' can symbolize any protective barrier or separation.

Metaphorical Use

When used in farming, a 'moat' is functional and related to water management.

Agricultural Use

The word 'moat' in agriculture is practical, indicating a direct action to improve irrigation.

Practical Term

Though similar, an irrigation 'moat' is usually smaller than a canal and more temporary.

Similar to 'Canal'

In business, a 'moat' can be a unique strategy that keeps competitors at bay.

Business Strategy

Economically, 'moat' doesn't refer to a physical barrier, but a competitive advantage.

Not Physical

A 'moat' in modern business often comes from innovative ideas or technology.

Innovation Importance

 science she founded the lab that would become the moat marine lab in florida and for a while she worked with lemon sharks there these sharks are about 10 feet long and their yellow brown skin helps them stay hidden in sandy waters eugenie did a lot of experiments with them in an oceanside pit and that's when i realized that they

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 It contained the priceless knowledge of the classical world which was fading in the West. To protect this masterpiece from its many enemies, Constantine's successors built the finest defensive fortifications ever made. The first line of protection was a moat 60 feet wide and 22 feet deep,

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 to make sure that when the Cubs go outside in the yard with their mother that if they were to fall in the moat that they know how to swim over to the edge and climb out on their own and that's exactly what they did today the boy went in first and he swam around for

Tiger Cubs Pass Swim...

 before you had to reload somebody must have been an up top shooting away maybe practicing shooting out at the ocean when they got done shooting they probably took that empty clip and just tossed it right off into the moat old world war two or world war one lip

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 has a lip at the end and I see no signs of a horseshoe at all which means it's pre-roman that would be pre-roman oh oh here we go okay yeah yeah there's a bunch of stuff here the investigators she wide moat like circles that surround

Investigating Rock...

 think the craziest in terms of hunts that I've ever seen is lion and elephant and lion and rhino as the boys always been the the moat and line and hippo for that matter but that's more common but lion runner and lion and elephant are

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 His was a strict understanding of justice." "Multiple accounts show his army's brutality going beyond ripping unborn children from mothers' wombs, using prisoners as human shields, or moat fillers to support siege engines,

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 because the science hadn't been there before, epidemics of plague or typhus or leprosy, where the prevalent ideas were that there were bad people or bad humors or bad air, and widows were dragged around the moat,

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 feet wide it's dry moat was 29 feet across and 12 feet 9 inches deep it had always safely kept Tigers apart from the viewing public until now the tiger that escaped was named tatianna

Zoo-Tiger Escape PIPE...

 sits the main living room vented with a chimney to keep it from overheating in time they might build an addition or dig a moat but this will do for now

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