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.

After a visit from a North Korean Political Officer, who attempted to persuade them to volunteer to join a prisoner-of-war group known as " Peace Fighters " ( that is, active participants in the propaganda movement against their own side ) with a promise of better food, of medical treatment and other amenities as a reward for such activity-an offer that was refused unanimously-he decided to order his men to pretend to accede to the offer in an effort to save their lives.

Image: 8239th AU leaflet 2508. png | A propaganda leaflet promising a $ 100, 000 reward to the first North Korean pilot to deliver a jet fighter to UN forces.

Here earlier forms of the myth differ from later forms ; in the earlier version, Tak notices that the geode is striving to become alive, and as reward for the service it had given, makes it into the first troll ; in a later, reedited version ( written by dwarfs as propaganda ), the geode comes alive of its own accord and was left to wander the world without purpose.

Stravinsky worked on the opening " Nocturne " and the closing " Valse Brillante "; his reward was a much bigger commission, to write the music for a new ballet, L ' Oiseau du Feu ( The Firebird ) for the 1910 season.

The 21 December 1911 edition of L ' Auto, a popular Paris newspaper, carried an announcement on its front page that a man was offering a reward for information leading to the recovery of his limousine.

On December 23, 1256, Pope Alexander IV elevated the churches of Saints Massimo and Giorgio to the status of cathedrals as a reward to the citizens of L ' Aquila for their opposition to King Manfred who, in July 1259, had the city razed to the ground in an attempt to destroy the negotiations.

So Prokofieff was able to cultivate his musical talents and harvest a rich reward from them.

A $500 reward was offered by the association's local in Kansas City, Kas..

One did one's best and if fortune smiled, there was a reward.

she unquestionably assumed that the more he was entwined with Freddy, the more likely he was to reward Freddy richly upon his death.

: " Always a man who had taken his stomach seriously, he was reaping his reward in old age.

Arriving at one's reward in afterlife was a demanding ordeal, requiring a sin-free heart and the ability to recite the spells, passwords and formulae of the Book of the Dead.

Many deist freethinkers held that belief in an afterlife with reward and punishment was a necessity of reason and good morals.

As a reward, Federko was drafted 7th overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft.

Within four days Nelson had been elevated to Baron Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe, a title with which he was privately dissatisfied, believing his actions deserved better reward.

But it was unaware of the Bulgarian plans over Thrace and Constantinople, territories on which it had long-held ambitions, and on which it had just secured a secret agreement of expansion from its allies France and Britain, as a reward for participating in the upcoming Great War against the Central Powers.

Research in the mid-1980s found that juvenile salmon were suffering substantially from the predatory pikeminnow, and in 1990, in the interest of protecting salmon, a " bounty " program was established to reward anglers for catching pikeminnow.

At one extreme, anthropologist Marvin Harris, author of Cannibals and Kings, has suggested that the flesh of the victims was a part of an aristocratic diet as a reward, since the Aztec diet was lacking in proteins.

Therefore, the only motivation for labour was either the possibility of great reward or fear of hunger.

On May 14, he was breveted a colonel in the Continental Army in " reward of his fortitude, firmness and zeal in the cause of his country, manifested during his long and cruel captivity, as well as on former occasions ," and given military pay of $ 75 per month.

The biggest extension of Eritrea was reached during the Italian empire ( 1936 – 1941 ), when northern parts of conquered Ethiopia were assigned to Eritrea by the Italians as a reward for the Eritrean " Ascaris '" help in the conquest of Ethiopia