When a child in math class is given a large fraction and told to reduce it to its lowest terms, he may have to make many small reductions before he reaches the lowest terms.
In the early days of the United States Patent Office, an application for a patent for an invention was accompanied by a working model of that invention.
Would it be unfair—"not cricket" in English parlance—for a player to enlist outside help, the power of God, through prayer, if his opponent did not do so?
Abraham, who lived almost as many years before the birth of Christ Jesus as we live after it, heard God's message to take his people to a place where they would live and prosper.