Above all, they will stop in the middle of anything, anywhere, to hear or quote some poetry.

Above all, he had learned to write formal Latin prose and verse to a remarkable degree of artistry.

Above all, he is a person to whom a fledgling Representative can go to discuss the personal and professional problems which inevitably confront a new Congressman.

Above all, don't set up extravagant fringe benefits just to buy employee good will.

Above all, disabuse yourselves of any thought that I propose to vent moral indignation at your rifling my residence, to whimper over the loss of a few objets d'art, or to shame you into rectitude.

Above all, we should seek to encourage the leaders of these societies to accept the unpleasant fact that they are responsible for their fates.

Above all, he did not want to appear to be running hat in hand to Premier Khrushchev's doorstep.

Above all, he does not debate mere contingencies, and therefore, if these are possibly dreadful, find himself forced into inaction.

Above all, Claude Lévi-Strauss helped institutionalize anthropology in France.

Above all, The Great Bordello provides a deeper understanding of the human desire to accomplish something of enduring value amidst commercial success and ruthless realities of life.

Above all, he was a thorough believer in revelation and in a divine providence, and was a sincere, law-observing follower of rabbinical Judaism.

*" Above all, the prophets remind us of the moral state of a people: Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

Above all other qualities, Catullus seems to have valued venustas, or charm, in his acquaintances, a theme which he explores in a number of his poems.

Above, it turns into an helical antiferromagnetic state in which all of the atomic moments in a particular basal plane layer are parallel, and oriented at a fixed angle to the moments of adjacent layers.

Above all, however, Domitian valued loyalty and malleability in those he assigned to strategic posts, qualities he found more often in men of the equestrian order than in members of the Senate or his own family, whom he regarded with suspicion, and promptly removed from office if they disagreed with imperial policy.

Above all, they would want to see whether my life corresponded with my teaching.

Above all, it was based on a feeling of European identity and common values — or so it appeared at the time.

Above all, Hadrian patronized the arts: Hadrian's Villa at Tibur ( Tivoli ) was the greatest Roman example of an Alexandrian garden, recreating a sacred landscape, lost in large part to the despoliation of the ruins by the Cardinal d ' Este who had much of the marble removed to build Villa d ' Este.

Above all, those living or cultivating on the crest of a levee have easy access to water for irrigation and household use in a dry, hot country.

Above all, prayer is not performed with a desire for any material goal.

Above all, in time of peace this is fine, but when there is a fear that there may even be a war, then more importantly, considering the welfare of the imperial house, I wonder about the wisdom of a member of the imperial family serving prime minister.

Above all, the Empire would not be divided: the Emperor would rule supreme over the subordinate kings, whose obedience to him was mandatory.

Above all, if some public goods are provided by the state, he believed that they should not be a legal monopoly where private competition is prohibited ; for example, he wrote:

Above it on the wall was a graffito in chalk commonly held to have read: " The Juwes are the men that Will not be Blamed for nothing ".

When it came to the eyesight test he managed to pass, as Wallis later recalled, " I did the first line with my good eye then they covered it up and asked me to read the bottom line with my bad eye, without them realising I just turned my head slightly so I could again see with my good eye – I passed it with Above Average Eye Sight!

Preferring to feel her way effectively into the industry, Diaz avoided large studio films for the next three years and took roles in the independent films The Last Supper ( 1995 ), Feeling Minnesota ( 1996 ), She's the One ( 1996 ), and Head Above Water ( 1996 ).

Some of the influential and popular directors from the 1980s to 2000s include James Cameron ( the first two Terminator films, Aliens, True Lies ); Andrew Davis ( Code of Silence, Above the Law, Under Siege ); John Woo ( Hong Kong action films such as Hard Boiled and US-made English-language films such as Hard Target, Broken Arrow and Face / Off ); John McTiernan ( the first and third Die Hard films, Predator, The Last Action Hero ); Ridley Scott ( Black Rain, Black Hawk Down ); The Wachowski Brothers ( The Matrix trilogy ), Andrzej Bartkowiak ( Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li ), Robert Rodriguez ( Mexico trilogy, From Dusk till Dawn, Machete ) and Michael Bay ( the first two Bad Boys films, The Rock, Transformers trilogy ); Louis Leterrier ( the first two Transporter films, Unleashed ).

Above this shrine is the painting Last Supper by the lesser-known Giovanni Balducci.

Pitt next appeared in Asia Argento's The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and headlined Gus Van Sant's Last Days, playing a rock star " inspired " by Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain.

The Now Show provided an outlet for his fierce dislike of David Blaine, referring to Blaine himself as a " Git Wizard ", and his " Above The Below " stunt as Freakdangle.

Above the crown he added a liberty cap, the old Roman symbol of an emancipated slave.

Above the shield and helm ( in the position technically known as the ' crest ' in heraldry ) more local industry representations are made by the inclusion of a fleece of wool ( suspended by a band ) and the iron centre of an old mill-stone ( known as a mill-rind ).

Above her bed is a portrait of Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt at 5 years old, and beside that, to the left of the bed is a sketch of her as a young woman.

Above all the CNAA saw itself as preserving a comparability with degree level awards in universities, a feature which can be seen as having both positive and negative aspects: positive in that it preserved a formal ‘ parity of esteem ’ between the awards of the two parts of the binary system ( e. g. retaining the common currency of the undergraduate degree for entry to postgraduate study ); but negative, in the eyes of some ( e. g. Pratt, 1997 ), in that it encouraged an ‘ academicism ’ in the new sector and slowed an acceptance of the transformations required finally to break the boundaries of the old ‘ elite ’ system.

Above is a copy of the old three section semi-secret ballot, which was last used in the conclave of 1939.

Above all one would hope that the good sense, if not the mercy, of the English people, will cry out against the further development of this cruel system which falls with crushing effect upon the old, the weak, and the children.

Above these mud flat reaches, narrow piers or pelantars were built at higher elevations and the old city of Tanjung expanded with a maze of streets and alleys.

Above all, they gave new life to old chapters in the South ( including the mother chapter at Alabama ) and founded new ones in the North and West.

Above the entrance to the old parochial school in 1766, is a statue of Queen Elizabeth I, taken from the old Ludgate, which was demolished at that time.

Above all, the events in Thompson's book directly contradict Baum's specification that Mombi would be provided for by Ozma herself in her old age.

On 29 January, all three were reunited for the first time in fifteen years when Pyle sat in with the Richard Sinclair Band for a few old numbers (" Above And Below ", " Share It ", " Halfway Between Heaven And Earth " and " Didn't Matter Anyway ") during a gig at Whitstable's Horsebridge Arts Centre.