She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

Each brass handle and hinge shone for his reward, and he knew how to get at the dust in the china flowers and how to take down the long glass drops which hung from the chandelier.

To forestall any change of allegiance, the Democrats hastily organised a testimonial banquet for O'Banion, as public reward for his past services and as a reminder of where his loyalties lay.

Others because they expected some sort of reward for the information.

The fire fighters association here offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for the bombing.

Although they " were expecting to see activity in the brain's reward centers ", based on the idea that " people perform altruistic acts because they feel good about it ", what they found was that " another part of the brain was also involved, and it was quite sensitive to the difference between doing something for personal gain and doing it for someone else's gain ".

This suggests a link between circuits responsible for fear and also reward in anxious people.

Many religions, whether they believe in the soul's existence in another world like Christianity, Islam and many pagan belief systems, or in reincarnation like many forms of Hinduism and Buddhism, believe that one's status in the afterlife is a reward or punishment for their conduct during life.

In most denominations, Heaven is a place of everlasting reward for the righteous to go after they die.

The Book of Enoch describes Sheol as divided into four compartments for four types of the dead: the faithful saints who await resurrection in Paradise, the merely virtuous who await their reward, the wicked who await punishment, and the wicked who have already been punished and will not be resurrected on Judgment Day.

In particular, the belief that heaven is a reward for good behavior is a common folk belief in Christian societies, even among members of churches which reject that belief.

Like Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists use key phrases from the Bible, such as " For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten " ( Eccl.

This was generally done as a reward for some service to the state.

On Good Friday 1158, bishop Asser of Roskilde died, and Absalon was eventually elected bishop of Roskilde on Zealand with the help of Valdemar, as the king's reward for the Hvide family support.

Woodruff's sleeping car company, as a reward for holding shares that Woodruff had given to Scott and Thomson, as a payoff.

* 2004 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.

Zimmerman, winner of a $ 10 million state lottery in 1988, immediately put up a $ 5, 000 reward for the perpetrators, told the press that “ Beavis and Butt-Head ” was responsible for the death, and started a letter-writing campaign against the show.

According to classical rabbinical sources, Benjamin was only born after Rachel had fasted for a long time, as a religious devotion with the hope of a new child as a reward.

After a long war Ishbaal is murdered hoping for reward from David, but David has them killed for killing God's anointed.

In the more recent series of the franchise, special instances have occurred whereby contestants are allowed to view televised events which are usually as a reward for winning a task.

Some argue that no act of sharing, helping or sacrificing can be described as truly altruistic, as the actor may receive an intrinsic reward in the form of personal gratification.

A Muslim may also donate more as an act of voluntary charity ( sadaqah ), rather than to achieve additional divine reward.

Every type of reward that has been studied increases the level of dopamine transmission in the brain, and a variety of highly addictive drugs, including stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamine, act directly on the dopamine system.

Because the rats are encouraged to act via the reward of pleasure, not muscularly compelled to behave in a particular manner, their behavior under MFB stimulation is likened to a carrot-and-stick model of encouraged behavior versus a system of mind control.

Note that in order to act near optimally, the agent must reason about the long term consequences of its actions: In order to maximize my future income I better go to school now, although the immediate monetary reward associated with this might be negative.

Streck and Scholz ( 2006 ) explain how a group of scientists from various institutions have developed a compensated reduction of deforestation approach which would reward developing countries that disrupt any further act of deforestation.

Australian rules football leagues employ finals systems which act as a combination between a single elimination tournament for lower-ranked teams, and a double elimination tournament for higher-ranked teams, in order to provide teams with an easier pathway to the Grand Final as reward for strong performances throughout the season.

In perhaps the most infamous act of treason in American history, General Benedict Arnold attempted to turn the site over to the British Army in 1780 for a bribe consisting of a commission as a Brigadier General in the British Army and a cash reward of £ 20, 000 ( about $ 1. 3M in 2009 dollars ).

( 1 ) Despite the rules of common law, a person described in subsection ( 2 ) who voluntarily and without reasonable expectation of compensation or reward provides the services described in that subsection is not liable for damages that result from the person's negligence in acting or failing to act while providing the services, unless it is established that the damages were caused by the gross negligence of the person.

* Contract of mandate-a contract of bailment of goods without reward, to be carried from place to place, or to have some act performed about them.

In Catholic theology, a supernatural merit can only be a salutary act to which God in consequence of his infallible promise may give a reward.

On 26 June 1716, the Irish Parliament passed an act extinguishing the regalities and liberties of the county palatine of Tipperary ; for vesting his estate in the crown and for giving a reward of £ 10, 000 for his apprehension, should he attempt to land in Ireland.

Some scholars believe that " blowing off steam " may reduce physiological stress in the short term, but this reduction may act as a reward mechanism, reinforcing the behavior and promoting future outbursts.

" It is common knowledge that the people for whose good actions there is no reward are those who act most morally.

In Arabic it means :" What is taken from the Dhimmis, which is the amount of money agreed upon in the contract that gives the none-Muslim the Dhimmai status ; and it's derived from the act of the verb " reward "; as if it ( Jizya ) is a requital for not being killed.

It talks about reward circuitry in the brain and related circuitry, but the emphasis is not on the external rewards that act on the reward system.

Another version of this legend states that hundred dollar bills are placed in the Bibles as a reward or as an act of charity.

It is particularly disturbing to some that some video games allow children to act out crimes ( for example, the Katamari Damacy series ), and reward them for doing so.

First, the tension between creativity, which destroys the old as it fashions the new, and the conservative desire to preserve things as they are ; second, the difference between liberty, which consists of a lack of restraint, and freedom, which lies in the ability to act ; finally, the sense that human life is difficult and happiness elusive, that fleeting joy is life's only reward and that love is necessary to humanity.

Every act performed by someone in the usual way of things has some kind of reward attached whether it is financial, power, love, status or just feeling good about oneself.

Mayor Eduardo Paes called the act " a crime against the nation " and vowed to jail the vandals, even offering a reward of R $ 10, 000 for any information that might lead to an arrest.

The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan ( John the Baptist ) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils.

Afterward, Kyle could never attempt to perform an act for any type of reward without turning into panther, and return to his human form only by taking a life.