For the oyabun to make such a trip was either a sign of great weakness or an indication of equally great confidence, and from all the available information it was probably the latter.

This mentality is difficult to understand in our modern age but the ancients took great stock in success as a sign of favoritism by the gods.

" Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

The city will be taken, the houses looted, and the women raped … Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations … Thus the Lord my God will come, and all the saints with you .” 14: 2-5 In Matthew, Jesus says, " The sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Those who place first lunar month of the year in twelfth zodiacal sign before the spring equinox and fix the Paschal fourteenth day accordingly, make a great and indeed an extraordinary mistake

God graced me with being able, through such a singular sign, to reveal to my Lord my devotion and the desire I have that his glorious name live as equal among the stars, and since it is up to me, the first discoverer, to name these new planets, I wish, in imitation of the great sages who placed the most excellent heroes of that age among the stars, to inscribe these with the name of the Most Serene Grand Duke.

In 1999, Lewinsky declined to sign an autograph in an airport, saying, " I'm kind of known for something that's not so great to be known for.

If requested to do so by a petition signed by a majority of the membership of the Seanad, and one-third of the membership of the Dáil, the President may, after consultation with the Council of State, decline to sign into law a bill ( other than a bill to amend the constitution ) he / she considers to be of great " national importance " until it has been approved by either the people in an ordinary referendum or the Dáil reassembling after a general election, held within eight months.

All sources agree that before his accession, either in his early childhood or later, members of the royal household witnessed a nimbus of fire about his head while he slept, a sign of divine favour, and a great portent.

" Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

As a sign of great respect, some great rabbis are simply called " The Rav ".

Civic building was of great importance to these towns as a sign of wealth and pride.

* Overt diabetes – Diabetes in the person who shows clear sign / s of the disease such as a great thirst and the need to urinate often.

* Polydipsia – A great thirst that lasts for long periods of time ; a sign of diabetes.

Mythographer Karl Kerenyi suggested that the consonance might ultimately derive from a deeper, pre-Indo-European language layer: indeed the sign combination ro-ja, which is someone with great power, is attested in Linear A.

Joel wrote that this would be a sign before the great and dreadful Day of the Lord.

In the Olivet Discourse, Jesus states that after the time of tribulation and the sign of the sun, moon and stars going dark the son of man would be seen arriving in the clouds with power and great glory.

Athenians of the Classical age were aware that the festival was of great antiquity ; Walter Burkert points out that the mythic reflection of this is the Attic founder-king Theseus ' release of Ariadne to Dionysus, but this is no longer considered a dependable sign that the festival had been celebrated in the Minoan period.

Harry Carter, the Grammar School's art teacher of the 1960s, was responsible for a great number of the carved village signs that are now found in many of Norfolk's towns and villages, most notably perhaps Swaffham's own sign commemorating the legendary Pedlar of Swaffham, which is in the corner of the market place just opposite the old school's gates.

The influence of Rome manifested itself at Chiswick through Burlington's strategic deployment of statues, including those of a Borghese gladiator, a Venus de ' Medici, a wolf ( used to inspire nostalgic memories of the legendary founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, a goat ( symbolising the zodiac of Capricorn, the birth sign of the Emperor Augustus ) and a boar located at the rear of the Villa ( symbolic of the great Boar hunt ).

" However, when the power of Ali appeared to threaten the existence of the Ottoman dynasty, particularly given the death of the Sultan on 1 July 1839, he succeeded in bringing the great powers together to sign a collective note on 27 July pledging them to maintain the independence and integrity of the Turkish Empire in order to preserve the security and peace of Europe.

Richard was less dogmatic on the rights of the clergy than his great predecessor had been ; but his compromises were regarded by the monastic writers and the followers of Becket as a sign of weakness.

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Atlantic Records was now attempting to sign Jennings, but Nelson's rise to popularity persuaded RCA to renegotiate with Jennings before losing another potential success.

As a sign of the popularity of the naming scheme, the German dramatist and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe composed four poems about clouds, dedicating them to Howard.

At the height of its popularity, the cast of the show did many road tours to malls and other places, where they would interact with fans and sign autographs.

From the 1960s it was adopted as a standard feature on most European cars, with saloons declining in popularity apart from at the top of the market where it was unpopular, where a saloon is seen as a sign of status.

The popularity of the sport in America was perhaps no more evident than when Don Carter became the first athlete of any kind to sign a US $ 1 million endorsement contract, inking a multi-year deal with Ebonite International in 1964.

Bern then began urging close friend Irving Thalberg, production head of MGM, to sign Harlow, noting Harlow's pre-existing popularity and established image.

A salary cap can also help to control the costs of teams and prevent situations in which a club will sign high-cost contracts in order to reap the benefits of immediate popularity and success, only to later find themselves in financial difficulty because of those high costs.

This level of popularity is below the electoral support he received in the 2004 elections and is attributed by some analysts to the decision of the government led by Vázquez not to sign a Free Trade Agreement with the United States under pressure from the more radical base of his party, which may have alienated more conservative voters.

While neither Billboard nor the Recording Industry Association of America tracked polka sales at the time the award category was introduced, polka musicians viewed its inclusion as a sign of respect and increasing popularity.

However, due to the immense popularity of Mikhail Gorbachev with ordinary East Germans disillusioned with their own hardline Communist leaders, the DSF's membership grew massively in the last years of the regime which many interpret as a sign of support of Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika by the East German people.

The popularity of the sign led to many clones being produced, some of which remain to this day.

After gaining popularity in the Kansas City area, Shooting Star became the first American group to sign with Virgin Records.

Twain reportedly visited the distillery in the 1880s, and Old Crow advertised this heavily ; John C. Gerber sees in this commercial exploitation a sign of Twain's continuing popularity.

Yudhoyono's supporters saw Yudhoyono's participation in the Vice Presidential election as a sign of his popularity and recognized Yudhoyono's potential as a possible leader for Indonesia.

As another sign of the popularity of knitting in the early 21st century, a large international online community and social networking site for knitters and crocheters, Ravelry, was founded by Casey and Jessica Forbes in May 2007.

The popularity of closet drama at this time was both a sign of, and a reaction to, the decline of the verse tragedy, so popular during the Neoclassical period, on the European stage in the 1800s.

In a sign of its continuing popularity, Phantom ranked second in a 2006 BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the " Nation's Number One Essential Musicals ".

The tour boosted both bands ' popularity in Germany and helped them sign a recording contract with the German record company Drakkar.

Having established numerous contacts within the C64 development scene through the popularity of their Zzap! 64 gaming magazine, Thalamus were able to sign up Finnish programmer Stavros Fasoulas to develop their first three titles, Sanxion, Delta and Quedex.

This was a very good sign for the popularity of singles, however sales were at their all-time low.

As the ultimate sign of his popularity, the Nazis even silently accepted his relationship with Hansi Burg for a long time.

The award is unusual in two ways: first, it is not an award for a specific class of thing, but can be awarded to a person, product, publication, company, organization, event or trend – anything related to gaming ; second, it does not count popularity or commercial success as a sign of " excellence ".

Where Kramer saw the work's popularity as a sign that it was of a lesser quality, Lippard and Chicago herself thought that its capability of speaking to a larger audience should be considered a positive attribute.