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When Jane died in 1511, More remarried almost immediately, choosing as his second wife a rich widow named Alice Middleton.
In a time when royals were expected to marry fellow royals, it was unusual that Albert had a great deal of freedom in choosing a prospective wife.
Cephalus eventually married again, choosing a daughter of Minyas to be his wife.
In July 2009, British conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife Joan died together at a suicide clinic outside Zürich " under circumstances of their own choosing ".
He also added his impressive looks, dignified bearing and generosity towards his wife in his allowance to her for entertaining those guests of her own choosing.
According to the custom in the palace, when choosing a new wife, the Emperor was first presented with portraits of all the possible women.
Samuel Pepys ( whose wife was French ) recorded a party in London on Epiphany night, 6 January 1659 / 1660: "... to my cousin Stradwick, where, after a good supper, there being there my father, mothers, brothers, and sister, my cousin Scott and his wife, Mr. Drawwater and his wife, and her brother, Mr. Stradwick, we had a brave cake brought us, and in the choosing, Pall was Queen and Mr. Stradwick was King.
The game tests a wide range of skills: hand-eye coordination during the fencing sections, tactical ability during the land and sea combat phases, and strategic thinking, for everything from choosing a wife to deciding when to divide up the plunder.
The story has four narrators: Donald, a mixed-blood Indian, now middle-aged and dying of Lou Gehrig ’ s disease ; Donald ’ s wife, Cynthia, whom he rescued as a teen from the ruins of her family ; Cynthia ’ s brother David ( the central character of True North ); and her nephew and Donald ’ s soul mate K. Ultimately, the extended family helps Donald end his life at the place of his choosing, and then draw on the powers of love and commitment to reconcile loss and heal wounds borne for generations.
Negri claims in her autobiography that she opted not to renew her contract with Paramount, choosing instead to retire from films and live as a wife and expectant mother in the Château de Rueil-Séraincourt in Vigny, France, which she owned at the time.
Later on, Steinbeck and his wife Elaine were inspired by Stevenson in choosing the title Travels With Charley.
He further suggests that Adeline, by choosing the role of quiet and dutiful wife, has excised from herself the erotic power to which the Baron is drawn.
" Later, in It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown, she writes Santa's wife herself, and, when Charlie Brown comments that some people call her " Mary Christmas ," Sally congratulates her on choosing to keep her own surname.
Colville never knew this grandmother, who died young ; his grandfather, a Liberal Cabinet minister, re-married, choosing Margaret ( Peggy ) Primrose, daughter of Lord Rosebery, Liberal Prime Minister in 1894-1895, and his wife Hannah, heiress to the Rothschild fortune.
He told Barber-Schools. org that he waited 9 years before choosing to open the barbershop, and it took his wife advising him to do it now while he had the time and money to pursue his lifelong dream.
Additionally, on certain weekends, the player must take his fiancee / wife shopping for expensive items, ranging from a pet dog ( from a couple of species ) to a painting for the new house ( choosing from two different fictional artists ).
The rhyme is first recorded in Germany in 1826, as " Es fuhr ein Bau ' r ins Holz ," and was more clearly a courtship game with a farmer choosing a wife, then in turn the selecting of a child, maid, and serving man, who leaves the maid after kissing.
Despite Darwin's concerns that his children were weakened as his wife Emma Darwin was his cousin or had inherited his own illness, around early 1868 his sons had successes with William Darwin doing well as a bank manager, Leonard Darwin coming second in the entrance exam for the Royal Military Academy and George coming runner-up in his mathematics degree class at the University of Cambridge, getting offered a science mastership at Eton College but choosing to make his career in law.
Hardin, who suffered from a heart disorder, and his wife Jane, who suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease, were members of End-of-Life Choices, formerly known as the Hemlock Society, and believed in individuals choosing their own time to die.
He carries guilt from the incident because in choosing to stay and perform CPR on his daughter, his wife bled to death.
Many years had now passed since James Austen's first wife had died and he had remarried again, choosing the younger Miss Mary Lloyd to be his second wife.

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Knowing the location of potential dangers, as well as being useful in estimating the effects of weather and tide in the anchorage, is essential in choosing a good place to drop the hook.
In choosing analgesics, the severity and response to other medication determines the choice of agent ; the WHO pain ladder, originally developed in cancer-related pain, is widely applied to find suitable drugs in a stepwise manner.
The consequence of choosing incorrectly is that characters outside the printable ASCII range ( 32 to 126 ) usually appear incorrectly.
Although choosing two options in the same division is discouraged, it is still possible.
While the phonetic system is easy to learn, choosing appropriate Chinese characters slows typing speed.
One last distinction within citizenship is the so-called consent descent distinction, and this issue addresses whether citizenship is a fundamental matter determined by a person choosing to belong to a particular nation –– by his or her consent –– or is citizenship a matter of where a person was born –– that is, by his or her descent.
By adopting the name Chung-cheng (" central uprightness "), he was choosing a name very similar to the name of Sun Yat-sen, who was ( and still is ) known among Chinese as Zhongshan ( 中山 — meaning " central mountain "), thus establishing a link between the two.
In most of East Asia today, the Gregorian calendar is used for day-to-day activities, but the Chinese calendar is still used for marking traditional East Asian holidays such as the Chinese New Year, the Duan Wu festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in astrology, such as choosing the most auspicious date for a wedding or the opening of a building.
For larger-scale enterprises, a complete and detailed plan is required to obtain the funding, resources, and company-wide support that can make the initiative of choosing and implementing a system successful.
Some products log all sites that a user accesses and rates them based on content type for reporting to an " accountability partner " of the person's choosing, and the term accountability software is used.
He advises choosing ones company carefully, to avoid being corrupted by immoral people, and while arguing that material wealth is no sin in itself, it is too likely to distract one from the infinitely more important spiritual wealth which is found in Christ.
This purposeful random walk is a result of simply choosing between two methods of random movement ; namely tumbling and straight swimming.
It does not teach that choosing good is impossible-only at times more difficult.
Choosing a Cartesian coordinate system for a one-dimensional space — that is, for a straight line — means choosing a point O of the line ( the origin ), a unit of length, and an orientation for the line.
Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.
If the limit exists, meaning that there is a way of choosing a value for Q ( 0 ) that makes the graph of Q a continuous function, then the function f is differentiable at a, and its derivative at a equals Q ( 0 ).

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As a teenager, she changed the spelling of her name to " Abbie " before choosing to use only " May ".
In 2011 it was reported that only one captive insurance company was formed in the jurisdiction with many dozens choosing to leave on account of the hostile regulatory environment.
For example, there will only be one term x < sup > n </ sup >, corresponding to choosing x from each binomial.
Kidd took pride in personally selecting the crew, choosing only those he deemed to be the best and most loyal officers.
By choosing the angle of bank to match the car's speed around the curve, the car seat transmits only a perpendicular force to the passengers, and the passengers no longer feel a need to lean nor feel a sideways push by the car seats or doors.
Instead of choosing the traditional natural view as background for an outdoor scene, Manet opts for the iron grating which " boldly stretches across the canvas " The only evidence of the train is its white cloud of steam.
These factors limit the extent to which agents can make a fully rational decision, thus they possess only “ bounded rationality ” and must make decisions by “ satisficing ,” or choosing that which might not be optimal but which will make them happy enough.
" Various critics, including historian Norman Cohn and folklorist Jacqueline Simpson, have highlighted what they see as Murray's " extreme selectivity " in choosing only sources that backed her argument, and ignoring those that did not.
Mark Yarhouse, of Pat Robertson's Regent University, wrote that " psychologists have an ethical responsibility to allow individuals to pursue treatment aimed at curbing experiences of same-sex attraction or modifying same-sex behaviors, not only because it affirms the client's rights to dignity, autonomy, and agency, as persons presumed capable of freely choosing among treatment modalities and behavior, but also because it demonstrates regard for diversity.
Most games have only one skin, but others allow choosing from multiple skins.
This category typically featured " young, idealistic, and uncompromising protagonists are able to maintain their integrity only by choosing death.
The COP can be maximized at design time by choosing a heating system requiring only a low final water temperature ( e. g. underfloor heating ), and by choosing a heat source with a high average temperature ( e. g. the ground ).
Not eager to step into the limelight, he only agreed to perform the song at the ceremony after the producers informed him that his song would be played live that night — either by him or another musician of their choosing.
Sometimes it is assumed that mean anomaly is zero at the epoch ( by choosing the appropriate definition of the epoch ), leaving only the five other orbital elements to be specified.
The formation of the ion gradient is achieved by choosing a pH value at which the ions of the buffer are only moderately charged compared to the SDS-coated proteins.
Among other enhancements, it was also possible to change the character after losing a single life, while the original version allowed to change it only after completing a level or when the player lost all its lives and chose " Continue ", making the game much more forgiving when choosing a character not adept at some specific level.
He is one of only three Australian prime ministers who left the position at a time of their own choosing.
As a result, starting with the 2011 season, NASCAR implemented a rule that stated that a driver could only race for the drivers ' championship in one of three national series ( Sprint Cup, Nationwide, and Camping World Truck ) of the drivers ' choosing.
Most striking among the stories include the countess of Cellant seeking vengeance on one lover by means of others ( part 1, story 4 ), two whores seeking to win their husbands back ( part 1, story 17 ), two brother thieves in cahoots to rob the treasures of the king of Egypt ( part 1, story 23 ), a disdained lover voluntarily choosing to live inside a cave ( part 1, story 25 ), a woman killing herself only out of fear that her good fortune will turn bad ( part 1, story 48 ), Filippo Lippi, released from slavery in Africa because of his talent as a celebrated painter ( part 1, story 50 ), a woman disdaining a man and then killing herself when he no longer pursues her ( part 2, story 16 ), an abbot making music from a chorus of pigs ( part 2, story 23 ), an adulterous lover buried alive and then saved ( part 3, story 1 ), a merchant's murder of another ( part 4, story 1 ), a case of double adultery whereby each husband cuckolds the other ( part 4, story 11 ), and two women yelling at each other after being falsely told they are hard of hearing ( part 4, story 21 ).
* Constables: Seven constables are elected in odd-numbered years, though individual voters are only permitted to vote for any four of their choosing on the ballot.
The idea is that while there are composite probable primes to base a for any fixed a, we may hope there exists some fixed P < 1 such that for any given composite n, if we choose a randomly the probability that n is pseudoprime to base a is at most P. If we repeat this test k times, choosing a new a each time, the probability of n being pseudoprime to all the as tested is hence at most P < sup > k </ sup >, and as this decreases exponentially, only moderate k is required to make this probability negligibly small ( compared to, for example, the probability of computer hardware error ).
There are many ways of choosing, we only assume that is a sphere that completely contains and is as small as possible.
While 95 percent of first-year students live on campus, only 50 percent of upperclassmen live on campus, instead choosing to live in homes and apartments surrounding the College.

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