Claudius ' love life was unusual for an upper-class Roman of his day, in that he was the only one out of the first 15 emperors not to take men or boys, but only women as lovers.

This move to leadership was not unusual ; he was known among his contemporaries to be willing to step forward and take control.

The unusual end product did not appeal to publishers, and it took several years before anybody agreed to take it on.

Brief treatment due to managed care may be difficult, as individuals diagnosed with DID may have unusual difficulties in trusting a therapist and take a prolonged period to form a comfortable therapeutic alliance.

Its trajectory was designed to take advantage of an unusual alignment of the planets ( that occurs once every 177 years ) that allowed one space probe to fly by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, if everything went well.

Since the early years of the 17th century it was not unusual for the well-educated gentleman, ( virtuosi ), to take up architecture as a gentlemanly activity ; a pursuit widely accepted as a branch of applied mathematics.

This was at a time when a substantial percentage of internet access was via dial-up, causing Activision to take the unusual step of offering to send CDs containing the patch to any owners of the game who did not have sufficient bandwidth to download it from the Internet.

" This unusual remit may have been inspired by the fact that William Beveridge, having just become director of LSE, upon asking a taxi driver to take him to the University of London was met with the response " Oh, you mean the place near the Royal School of Needlework ".

In unusual circumstances, a district court may in a particular case “ withdraw the reference ” ( i. e., take the case or a particular proceeding within the case away from the bankruptcy court and decide the matter itself ) under.

They are unusual among insects in that both the male and female parents take care of the brood.

The songwriting style and musical approach, however, would take a more unusual turn the following year.

Delanoë was virtually unknown before the election of 2001, but soon gained fame for organising new and unusual events in Paris, such as the " Paris Beach " ( Paris-Plages ) on the banks of the Seine every summer in order to give Parisians who could not take a regular vacation a chance to relax, sunbathe and build sandcastles in the center of Paris.

Even more unusual, rather than simply suggesting caution as a prudent way to try to avoid the worst of bad luck, Machiavelli holds that the greatest princes in history tend to be ones who take more risks, and rise to power through their own labour, virtue, prudence, and particularly by their ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

But the name Milan had appeared in other areas of the state and it was not unusual to take European city names at the time.

They shopped Mac Rauch's treatment around to production executives who were their peers but no one wanted to take on such unusual subject matter by two first-time producers and a first-time director.

Some cover albums take the unusual tack of doing classical versions of rock and metal songs.

As a song progressed, multiple soloists would be expected to take over and individually improvise their own part ; however, it was not unusual to have two or three band members improvising at any one time.

* The lifestyle of Osho ( Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ) with his 93 Rolls Royces at his disposal ( though as a gift from his followers ), a bioterrorist attack at The Dalles, Oregon by some of his followers, the group's successful effort to take control of the city of Antelope, Oregon, his unusual teachings that contradicted both traditional morality and Hindu norms, the group therapy sessions with little restraints, and the liberal sexual freedom that he promoted.

Because of the high temperature, unusual nuclear processes may take place as the envelope of the red giant falls onto the neutron star's surface.

" The band's quirky take on the New Wave sound of their era was a combination of dance and surf music set apart from their contemporaries by the unusual guitar tunings used by Ricky Wilson and thrift-store chic.

Under Rule 203-1-Departures from Established Accounting Principles, the departures are rare, and usually take place when there is new legislation, the evolution of new forms of business transactions, an unusual degree of materiality, or the existence of conflicting industry practices.

He has a keen eye for unusual business opportunities that many other people write off-in one story, after a fellow businessman thought he had outsmarted Mr. Lodge by selling him a garbage dump for $ 2, 000, Lodge easily retorted that he had covered the dump with artificial snow and turned it into a ski resort, which made him over $ 2 million in its first year of operation, a revelation which the other businessman did not take well.

Although these strategies tend to take longer to implement and may take longer in recollection, they create new or unusual connections that can increase retention.

The process many take many years, and it is not unusual for a single Restatement of the law project to take over twenty years to complete.

If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

For some unusual photographic subjects, if your vacation takes you nearby, try these events: the 600-mile auto race in Charlotte, N.C.,, on May 27 ; ;

In the period since the end of World War 2, -- a period coinciding with merchandising demands for the colorful, the unusual, and the original in signs and displays -- plastics have come on so strong that today they are the acknowledged leaders in the field.

That had happened on the day when two other unusual things had occurred.

the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

And Houston police have the final say in the matter since she died there on September 20, 1960, `` Diane Harris Graham, 30, D.O.A., circumstances -- unusual ''.

He also developed his own highly unusual theories of physics, according to which such concepts as " penetrability ", " suction and pressure " and " zig-zag-and-swirl " were discoveries on par with Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

The rival forces met at Sievershausen on 9 July 1553, and after a combat of unusual ferocity Albert was put to flight.

Due to a name which is unusual in Denmark, it is speculated that he was christened on the Danish " Absalon " name day, October 30.

Another feature of blue laws restricts the purchase of particular items on Sundays which is an unusual feature in modern American culture.

In his defense, some baseball historians have suggested that it was not customary for game-ending hits to be fully " run out ", it was only Evers's insistence on following the rules strictly that resulted in this unusual play.

Numerous medical studies on treatment of these abscesses with antibiotics have been done with varying results, but the consensus is once pus is aspirated and analysed, provided no unusual bacilli are present, the abscess will generally heal on its own in a matter of weeks.

The first player's bowl has come to rest just in front of the jack ; the second has delivered his bowl and is following after it with one of those eccentric contortions still not unusual on modern greens, the first player meanwhile making a repressive gesture with his hand, as if to urge the bowl to stop short of his own ; the third player is depicted as in the act of delivering his bowl.

It describes Potter ’ s maturing artistic and intellectual interests, her often amusing insights on the places she visited, and her unusual ability to observe nature and to describe it.

Stolpe found very large amounts of amber on the island, which is unusual since amber is not normally found in lake Mälaren.

Often his research was simple: he would review period newspapers of the dates of reported incidents and find reports on possibly relevant events like unusual weather, that were never mentioned in the disappearance stories.

Likewise, a type collection might focus on an unusual design feature such as coins with a hole in the middle, coins that are not circular in shape or coins with brockage.

During sets, it was not unusual for Love to go on monologist rants between songs, or to bring fans onstage and give impromptu guitar lessons.

In describing an unusual miniature fifth-century Greek bronze in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, that takes the form of a man on all fours with the foreparts of a pig, Dorothy Kent Hill expressed the artist's dilemma: how could an artist depict a man bewitched into a pig other than as a man with a pig's head?

Caractacus lived out his days on land provided by the Roman state, an unusual end for an enemy commander.

It was an important step for a leading female novelist to write a biography of another, and Gaskell's approach was unusual in that, rather than analysing her subject's achievements, she concentrated on private details of Charlotte's life, emphasising aspects which countered accusations of ' coarseness ' which had been levelled at her writing.