Abandoning the orphans and Honey, father and son lived in a trailer park in Las Vegas, gaming and trafficking in stolen Beanie Babies.

Abandoning his monumental life's work, he returned to die with his family, among whom he was regarded as a bum, artist, crazy or a genius.

Abandoning caution, Alec leaped out of bed and groped for the light switch.

Abandoning the provocative policy of maintaining a British resident in Kabul, but having achieved all their other objectives, the British withdrew.

Abandoning the Tories, James looked to form a ' King's party ' as a counterweight to the Anglican Tories, so in 1687 James supported the policy of religious toleration and issued the Declaration of Indulgence.

Abandoning the official church, many of the people here began to attend illegal field assemblies, known as conventicles.

Abandoning previous ventures, Nintendo developed into a video game company, becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most valuable listed company with a market value of over US $ 85 billion.

Abandoning the Marxist goals of educating the proletariat, the New Left turned to student activism as its reservoir of power.

Abandoning Hispania, Hasdrubal moved to bring his mercenary army into Italy to reinforce Hannibal.

Abandoning the deal he had just made, Stephen gathered his army again and sped north, but not quite fast enough — Ranulf escaped Lincoln and declared his support for the Empress, and Stephen was forced to place the castle under siege.

* A. Huffington, Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream.

Abandoning the car, eventually THX locates a route to the surface.

Abandoning the mundane parking lots and funeral homes, the refocused Kinney renamed itself in honor of its best-known holding, Warner Communications.

Abandoning the strikes on the ground and focusing on grappling techniques is one of the main weaknesses of grappling-based styles.

Abandoning the promises of the Berlin Conference in the late 1890s, the Free State government restricted foreign access and extorted forced labor from the natives.

Abandoning his wife, Danglars flees to Italy with the Count's receipt, hoping to live in Vienna in anonymous prosperity.

Abandoning the child she fled in shame, letting drop a " lump of flesh " which was born away by Gwydion and concealed in a chest.

Abandoning the deal he had just made, Stephen gathered his army again and sped north, but not quite fast enough — Ranulf escaped Lincoln and declared his support for the Empress, and Stephen was forced to place the castle under siege.

Abandoning the hope of a regenerated Catholicism, Ochino and Vermigli left Italy.

Abandoning his position, he retreated to Isen, leaving Kienmayer to fend for himself.

Abandoning his position at Fromentières, where Marmont's infantry had just begun to irrupt, Blücher ordered the continuation of the retreat towards Champaubert and Étoges, with Kleist's Corps on the left, south of the road and Kapsevitch's Corps on the right, north of the road.

Abandoning graduate study because of the Great Depression, he taught English at several universities, including Lafayette College, Pennsylvania State University, and Bennington College.

Abandoning this effort as fruitless, he became famous for his theory that behaviour is determined by an unconscious mind, of which the waking mind is unaware.

Abandoning his meal in a nearby cave, he ran to meet her.

Abandoning that effort, he returned to Mexico City, where he claimed to have been kidnapped by members of the Mexican secret police and driven to the U. S. border, where he was arrested by U. S. forces.

* Todas Las Noches A Las Once

Las Noches de Diciembre ( Spanish, " The Nights of December ") is a small terrorist cell led by renegade newspaper columnist Skip Wiley, a brilliant-but-insane Uncle Duke-like character, as El Fuego.

After an uncomfortable encounter with Wiley's girlfriend, Jenna ( Brian's ex-girlfriend ), Keyes tracks Wiley to a cabin in the Everglades, where he is abducted by Las Noches.

Wiley reveals himself as the group's leader, and tells Brian that his job is to return to Miami ( alive ), and spread the word of Las Noches demands.

To drive home the fact that Las Noches is serious, Wiley has Keyes witness as their latest victim, retiree Ida Kimmelman, is fed to Pavlov.

Since it is the start of the tourist season, the police's initial reaction to Keyes's warnings is to cover up, dismissing the Las Noches communiques as a hoax.

Believing that Las Noches are dead, the Miami civil leaders breathe a sigh of relief.

With all their security measures focused on the Parade, the game is a perfect opportunity for Las Noches, alive and well, to strike.

* Skip Wiley ( White, 37 ): A popular columnist for the Sun, leader and founder of Las Noches.

Overflowing with machismo, he thinks of himself as the most experienced and well-trained of Las Noches at committing terrorist acts, but in fact is completely inept at anything except writing snappy press releases ( a number of farcical situations in the novel arise from his attempts to plant homemade bombs ).

* Tommy Tigertail ( Seminole, mid-20's ): A member of the Seminole Nation, and the source of Las Noches funding.

* During the civic meeting to discuss Las Noches, one of the city leaders in attendance laments, half-jokingly, that he wishes they had targeted Disney World instead of Miami.

* Tommy Tigertail, the only surviving member of Las Noches, reappears, peripherally, in Hiaasen's novel Nature Girl.

* Las Mil y Una Noches ( 2003 )

* Las Mil y Una Noches ( 2003 )

Las Noches del Hombre Lobo / The Nights of the Wolf Man ( 1968 ) directed by Rene Govar ; ( this is apparently a lost film today, but Naschy insisted that he made this film in Paris ; perhaps it was filmed, but never completed.

* Las Noches del Hombre Lobo ( Nights of the Wolf Man ) 1968, directed by Rene Govar