In the last pages of the book Sibylla comes to Rome to seek an audience with the great Pope and to give her confession.

I managed to do this by the time the great A.B. returned to the place where he last had seen the fierce nihilist.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Richards got a great performance out of his combination of youth and experience last season.

He turned from the flying trees to look ahead and saw with an inward boy's eye again the great fieldstone house which, built on one of the many acres of ancestral land bordering the west harbor, had been Izaak's bride-gift to his cousin-wife as the last century ended.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

but the first glass of Chateau d'Yquem or Montrachet is a great deal better than the last ''!!

Scientists say it is the last spewings of a great glacier, but one rather feels that only a malevolent giant could have piled up those crouching monsters of granite which still seem to preserve a sort of suspended, ominous life in them.

The young Texas pianist can make great chords ring out as well as anyone, so last night the massive sonorities of this challenging concerto were no hazard to him.

If she chose, and in that final decision discarded, what, above all, all of us value, life itself, must she not have risen to her fullest height, and transcending her murky self, felt at last the passion of a great moral decision??

Among the Turkmen leaders the Ottomans emerged as great power under Osman and his son Orhan I. Smyrna was conquered in 1330 AD, and the last Byzantine possession, Philadélphia ( modern Alaşehir ), fell in 1390 AD.

He was the last great ruler of Egypt before the Persian conquest.

This last great work, the Four Apostles, was given by Dürer to the City of Nuremberg — although he was given 100 guilders in return.

He was and may remain the last great textual critic.

She studied book illustration from a young age and developed her own tastes, but the work of the picture book triumvirate Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, the last an illustrator whose work was later collected by her father, was a great influence.

It has been described as the single most important and influential work in the West on Medieval and early Renaissance Christianity, and is also the last great Western work that can be called Classical.

tap water is not potable ; poaching has diminished its reputation as one of the last great wildlife refuges ; desertification ; deforestation

A well-known instance of the " John Cardinal Doe " style is that in the proclamation, in Latin, of the election of a new pope by the cardinal protodeacon: " Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum ; habemus Papam: Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum ( first name ) Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem ( last name ), ..." ( Meaning: " I announce to you a great joy ; we have a Pope: The Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord, Lord ( first name ) Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church ( last name ), ...")

After the death of Ashurbanipal, the last great Assyrian king in 627 BC, the Assyrian empire descended into a series of bitter dynastic civil wars.

Judaism has a great many teachings about peace and compromise, and its teachings make physical violence the last possible option.

Mars Being Disarmed by Venus | Mars Being Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces, David's last great work ( 1824 )

David created his last great work, Mars Being Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces, from 1822 to 1824.

Currently, most electrochemical power comes from closed electrochemical cells (" batteries "), which are arguably utilized more as storage systems than generation systems ; but open electrochemical systems, known as fuel cells, have been undergoing a great deal of research and development in the last few years.

Christian eschatology is concerned with death, an intermediate state, Heaven, hell, the return of Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, for several evangelical denominations, a rapture, a great tribulation, the Millennium, end of the world, the last judgment, a new heaven and a new earth ( the World to Come ), and the ultimate consummation of all of God's purposes.

If the last day ( due date ) for performing any act for tax purposes, such as filing a return or making a tax payment, etc., falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, you may perform that act on the next succeeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.

it introduces Pimen when he comes before Boris in the last act.

Al has added some sidemen to the act which makes for a smoother operation but it's substantially the same format heard last spring.

last act

The last act of this secretary of letters was to burn all of Claudius ' correspondence — most likely so it could not be used against him and others in an already hostile new regime.

This line by Cyril shows his belief in the selflessness of Jesus especially in this last final act of Love.

She feeds him the last of their food, and Elijah's promise miraculously comes true ; thus, by an act of faith the woman received the promised blessing.

The Federal Reserve System was designed as an attempt to prevent or minimize the occurrence of bank runs, and possibly act as a lender of last resort when a bank run does occur.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, " the Federal Reserve has the authority and financial resources to act as ' lender of last resort ' by extending credit to depository institutions or to other entities in unusual circumstances involving a national or regional emergency, where failure to obtain credit would have a severe adverse impact on the economy.

“ There would be no enduring conflicts — harmony, no matter how contrived and specious, would ultimately triumph in the last frame ... In true Hollywood fashion, no Capra film would ever suggest that social change was a complex, painful act.

Great Auk specialist John Wolley interviewed the two men who killed the last birds, and Ísleifsson described the act as follows:

# Each service was instituted parallel to a sacrificial act in the Temple in Jerusalem: the morning Tamid offering, the afternoon Tamid, and the overnight burning of this last offering.

The Act was last amended in the year 2009 and all the financial institutes are following this act.

Beauty pageant coach Victor Melling ( Michael Caine ), whose reputation was ruined after his last contestant criticized his methods, teaches the tomboyish Hart how to dress, walk, and act like a contestant.

He attended to Nobunaga as he sought a moment of peace to carry out his last act, then Ranmaru likewise killed himself in the same way.

Normally this occurs when a player calls, and the next player whose turn it is to act is the one who made the last raise, so he cannot raise further ( this ends the betting round ).

The round can also said to be closed before it has actually ended if there are still players remaining to act, but they will not be entitled to raise either because the last raise was a sub-minimum all-in raise ( see poker table stakes rules ) or because the limit (" cap ") on allowed raises has been reached.

The moral writings of Descartes came at the last part of his life, but earlier, in his Discourse on Method he adopted three maxims to be able to act while he put all his ideas into doubt.

Pattern of racketeering activity requires at least two acts of racketeering activity, one of which occurred after the effective date of this chapter and the last of which occurred within ten years ( excluding any period of imprisonment ) after the commission of a prior act of racketeering activity.

The boy expected to be executed ; Richard, as a last act of mercy, forgave the boy of his crime, saying, " Live on, and by my bounty behold the light of day ," before ordering the boy to be freed and sent away with 100 shillings.

According to one chronicler, Richard's last act of chivalry proved fruitless ; in an orgy of medieval brutality, the infamous mercenary captain Mercadier had the crossbowman flayed alive and hanged as soon as Richard died.

In tort law, if a defendant commits a series of illegal acts against another person, or, in criminal law, if someone commits a continuing crime ( like molesting a child over a long period of time, which can be charged as a single offense ), the period of limitation may begin to run from the last act in the series.

For the last 500 years, religious and cultural intolerance, more than the small travel barrier that the straits present, has come to act as a powerful enforcing agent of the cultural separation that exists between these two groups.