Cursing himself for having ridden out the last few days without a rifle in his saddle boot, Russ drew his Colt and examined it briefly.

Cursing the men who would not cross the river, General Wadsworth surrendered at the edge of the precipice with 300 men.

Cursing the city walls, Timon goes into the wilderness and makes his crude home in a cave, sustaining himself on roots.

* Cursing the name of God in God's name.

* The Cursing of the Fig Tree — Jesus cursed a fig tree, and it withered.

Cursing the Athenians, he self-exiles to Crete.

Cursing is most often conveyed through particular variants of existing, harmless words ( such as the term " kisama ," very rude version of " you ," commonly translated as " damn you "), rather than words that can be easily translated into profane equivalents.

* âh-âyîtaw isi ê-kî-kiskêyihtahkik maskihkiy / They Knew Both Sides of Medicine: Cree Tales of Curing and Cursing Told by Alice Ahenakew ( 2000 ) Coeditor.

Calling Peace and Cursing War.

This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.

In essence this involves grounding one's thought and emotion in the values and experience of others, rather than in one's own values and experience.

One may be exasperatingly aware that if the answer is favorable it will be judged such only by those of one's own age.

It was expected that the comparison of different approaches to ethics would produce a better grasp of each other's positions and better comprehension of one's own.

It was like finally getting into one's own nightmares to punish one's dreams.

One always wakes up, even from one's own dreams.

What Sam Rayburn's life proves to us all is the magnificent lesson in political science that one can devotedly and with absolute dedication represent the seemingly provincial interests of one's own community, one's own district, one's own State, and by that help himself represent even better the sweep and scope of the problems of this the greatest nation of all time.

Mainly these were concerned with the possibility of the death of one parent and the complication of living with the survivor afterward, but the possible death of one's own spouse was not overlooked.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

And even more complex items can be interpreted to conform to one's own point of view, which is by nature so personal.

A sense of self-certainty and the freedom to experiment with different roles, or confidence in one's own unique behavior as an alternative to peer-group conformity, is more easily developed during adolescence if, during early childhood, the individual was permitted to exercise initiative and encouraged to develop some autonomy.

The developmental process involves the individual's progressively experiencing a sense of dignity and achievement resulting from having completed tasks, having kept commitments, and having created something ( however small or simple -- even a doll dress of one's own design rather than in the design `` it ought to be '' ).

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

To be human, he believes, is to seek one's own destruction: the Freudian `` death-wish '' cliche inevitably cited whenever laymen talk about auto race-drivers.

If one finds a stranded whale corpse, one is in charge of holding the funeral for the " Lord " as if it was one's own parent.

# Since 1983, having the same name with one's any parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent.

In Troxel v. Granville ( 2000 ), the U. S. Supreme Court affirmed that a biological parent holds a fundamental right in choosing how to raise one's children as they see fit.

It is also traditional, in all branches of Judaism, to show respect to one's parent using a similar gesture.

Compare with parricide ( the killing of a relative or other person in a position of authority ), matricide ( the killing of one's mother ), filicide ( the killing of a child by his or her parent ), fratricide ( the killing of one's sibling, in particular a brother-compare to sororicide ), regicide ( the killing of a monarch ), suicide ( killing oneself ), homicide ( killing another person ) and genocide ( killing large numbers of people of one particular race, tribe or other group ).

* Wounding one's own parent.

A step-grandparent can be one's parent's step-parent or one's step-parent's parent or one's step-parent's step-parent.

Age of majority pertains solely to the acquisition of control over one's person, decisions and actions, and the correlative termination of the legal authority and responsibility of the parents ( or guardian ( s ), in lieu of parent ( s ) over the child ’ s persons and affairs generally.

The fact that Spain aided the colonies in their struggle against Britain weakened the idea that it would be a crime to end one's allegiance to the parent state.

Storge (; στοργή, storgē ), also called familial love, is the Greek word for natural affection — such as the love of a parent toward a child, " cherishing one's kindred, especially parents or children ".

For example, ownership in one's child's education, for a parent, might be in the form of an education voucher, a vote in the running of a school, influence on the school curriculum, or a generalised ' right ' to have a child educated in line with one's own values.

Furthermore, all of the living descendants of the decedent's parent ( if one had no issue of one's own ) will take first, before the living descendants of grandparents take.

There is domestic adoption ( adopting a non-relative child from within the United States ), international adoption ( adopting a non-relative child from another country ), step parent adoption ( adopting a child who is the legal child of one's spouse ) and adult adoption ( the adoption of an adult from within the United States ).

Two men, together like us, we could do somethin fine out there, maybe find a place where no one's ever been.

Coyotes and hunting wolves sounded like signaling Indian scouts, the whinny of a restless pony made one's skin crawl.

Alley fences were made of solid boards higher than one's head, but not so high as the golden glow in a corner or the hollyhocks that grew in a line against them.

And yet -- a year to a child is an eternity, and in the memory that phase of one's being -- a certain mental landscape -- will seem to have endured without beginning and without end.

These desires presuppose a sense of causally efficacious powers in which one is involved, some working for one's good, others threatening ill.

In its place is a passionate consciousness grasped and molded to feelings of positive or negative values even as the actions of one's life are determined by constellations of process in which one is caught.

It takes a great deal of abstraction to free oneself from the primitive impression of larger unities of power and influence and to view one's world simply as a collection of sense data arranged in such and such sequence and pattern, devoid of all power to move the feelings and actions except in so far as they present themselves for inspection.

Well, after everybody has followed the New England pattern of segregating one's children into private schools, only the poor folks are left.

After that, he declared, `` to return to freedom was to fall to one's knees before the real world and adore it ''.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

In the great one's personal quarters, a portable house, almost every evening saw an elegant banquet or reception.

And there is one other point in the Poetics that invites moral evaluation: Aristotle's notion that the distinctive function of tragedy is to purge one's emotions by arousing pity and fear.

But there are at least two reasons for contemplating one's mind in even a cracked mirror.

Cardboard noisemakers, substitutes for the unavailable tin models, were being hawked and bought at makeshift stands every few yards along Broadway, and one's ears were continually serenaded by the horns' rasps and bleats.