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.

The British and Americans preferred to cede Eritrea to the Ethiopians as a reward for their support during World War II.

He petitions Orestes ( magister militum ) to reward his mercenaries for their services and their support of his rebellion a year earlier, by making good on his promise to grant them lands to settle permanently in Italy.

In 1868, in an effort to drum up support for Tubman's claim for a Civil War military pension, a former abolitionist named Salley Holley wrote an article claiming US $ 40, 000 " was not too great a reward for Maryland slaveholders to offer for her.

She had to reward the catholicos Michael's support by making him a chancellor, thus placing him at the top of both the clerical and secular hierarchies.

He later would support Louis in his rivalry with Frederick the Fair of Habsburg, culminating in the 1322 Battle of Mühldorf and in return he received the Egerland as a reward.

That foundation, which offered the Levys staff support and contributed towards a cash reward for information about Chandra's disappearance, was merged into the Laci & Conner Search and Rescue Fund in 2009 ; Susan Levy had previously participated in the efforts to find Laci Peterson, another missing woman from Modesto.

Consequently, in Jewish tradition, the tribe of Zebulun was considered to have a symbiotic relationship with the tribe of Issachar, its neighbour and a tribe that traditionally was seen as having many scholars, whereby Zebulun would financially support Issachar's devotion to study and teaching of the Torah, in exchange for a share of the spiritual reward from such learning ; the terms Issachar and Zebulun came to be used by Jews for anyone engaged in such a relationship.

In 708 Justinian turned on Bulgarian Khan Tervel, whom he had earlier crowned Caesar, and invaded Bulgaria, apparently seeking to recover the territories ceded to Tervel as a reward for his support in 705.

While his father had frequently confiscated church property to reward his followers and to pay for the standing army that had brought him victory at Tours, ( a policy supported by Boniface as necessary to defend Christianity ) by 742 the Carolingians were wealthy enough to pay their military retainers and still support the Church.

The appointment was either a reward from Godwin for Stigand's support during the conflict with Edward or a reward from King Edward for successfully negotiating a peaceful conclusion to the crisis in 1052.

The deal was a mere spec, since Frederick William would definitely have to provide military support, while the reward was only under the condition of a victory.

In 1127 he was married to Gertrude, the only child of Lothair III, King of Germany, whose marriage and inheritance Henry's father had been promised as reward for his changing to support Lothair in the royal election of 1125.

# The quality of being venal ; readiness to give support or favour in return for profit or reward ; prostitution of talents or principles for mercenary considerations.

King Sigismund granted Schwyz the right to High Justice over Schwyz, Einsiedeln, Küssnacht and March in 1415 as a reward for their military support against Frederick IV of Habsburg.

He clipped newspaper articles for a high salary, a reward from Senator Pat Harrison for Bilbo's campaign support.

As a reward for his victory, Thomas Howard was subsequently restored to the title of " Duke of Norfolk ", lost by his father's support for Richard III.

Efforts are further made to indulge interest groups that support the incumbent government and the party's internal politics must be appeased, with Cabinet positions sometimes being a reward for loyal party members.

His son, the 2nd Duke, was created Baron Chatham and Earl of Greenwich in 1705 as a reward for his support for the Act of Union and further elevated to the title Duke of Greenwich in 1719.

Some followers of the case said Nassar was the real strangler and fed DeSalvo details of the murders so DeSalvo could confess and gain notoriety or through Nassar get the reward money to help support DeSalvo's family of wife and two children.

Laval's reward for support of the cartel was appointment as Minister of Public Works in the government of Paul Painlevé in April 1925.

Henry became constable of Warwick castle in 1068 and Earl in 1088 as reward for his support for the king during the Rebellion of 1088.

As a reward for the support of his family Thomas Stanley was created Earl of Derby and amongst other land the confiscated Pilkington estate in Bury was presented to him.