For example, to protect infants one propitiated Cuba (" lying down to sleep "), Cunina (" of the cradle ") and Rumina (" of breast-feeding ").

The tree was sacred to Rumina, one of the birth and childhood deities, who promoted breastfeeding.

Not only had he no canteen, but he lacked even the belt to hang one on.

They too loved their families, longed for their villages: yet lacked the faith that drove one to dare the fearful chance of escape ''.

Assistant Fire Chief Chester Cornell said gas fumes apparently were ignited by a candle which one of the three Kowalski girls present held for her mother, because the flat lacked electricity.

It was clearly unpopular in the parishes of Devon and Cornwall where, along with severe social problems, its introduction was one of the causes of the " commotions ", or rebellions in the summer of that year, partly because many Cornish people lacked sufficient English to understand it ,.

In the 16th century Portugal had one of the biggest colonial empires of the world, but it lacked people to actually colonize it.

As of 2002, 50 % of Parties lacked one or more of the four major requirements for a Party: designation of Management and Scientific Authorities ; laws prohibiting the trade in violation of CITES ; penalties for such trade ; laws providing for the confiscation of specimens.

At the turn of the century, the Seminary lacked a source of permanent funding and was ordaining on average no more than one Rabbi per year.

The League was well-attended, at least in some cities, but was underfunded and its owners lacked the confidence to continue beyond the one season.

In one version, Christ was so divine he could not have been human, since God lacked a material body, which therefore could not physically suffer.

Many Confucian-educated Chinese who now lacked profession turned to the arts of painting and theatre instead, as the Yuan period became one of the most vibrant and abundant eras for Chinese artwork.

Simón Bolívar was both the main instigator of the revolts and one of its most important theorists was sympathetic to liberal ideals, but felt that Latin America lacked the social cohesion for such a system to function and advocated autocracy as necessary.

The move was considered controversial and was frequently maligned by fans and writers who thought that owner Tom Hicks was placing too much emphasis on one player instead of utilizing team resources to acquire several players, especially for a team that lacked pitching talent.

Williams lacked foot speed, as attested by his 19-year career total of only one inside-the-park home run, one occasion of hitting for the cycle, and just 24 stolen bases.

Most important was the populist argument ; that there was a need to " Awaken, in the senators ... a more acute sense of responsibility to the people ," which it was felt they lacked ; election through state legislatures was seen as an anachronism that was out of step with the wishes of the American people, and one that had led to the Senate becoming " a sort of aristocratic body-too far removed from the people, beyond their reach, and with no special interest in their welfare ".

" He was one of several critics to react negatively to her reinterpretation of Lady Macbeth in 1955, saying that her performance was insubstantial and lacked the necessary fury demanded of the role ; however, after her death he revised his opinion, describing his earlier criticism as " one of the worst errors of judgment " he had ever made.

It used a 7. 16 MHz 8088-2 processor, had 384k of memory ( upgradeable to on the motherboard ), came with either one or two 5. 25 " internal floppy disk drives, had the light pen port ( not a serial port ) like the original Tandy 1000, and lacked the volume control and headphone jack of the TX ( also like the original 1000 ).

In 1986, more controversy was caused by an essay published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 25 April 1986 entitled " Land Without A History " written by one of Kohl's advisors, the historian Michael Stürmer, in which Stürmer argued that West Germany lacked a history to be proud of, and called for effort on the part of the government, historians and the media to build national pride in German history.

Lower courts decided that because the Commonwealth's Attorney doesn't prosecute fornication cases and no one had been prosecuted for fornication anywhere in Virginia in over 100 years, Martin had no risk of prosecution and thus lacked standing to challenge the statute.

Hitler went on to castigate the Navy, saying that Navy had done nothing in the wars of unification, that the High Seas Fleet " played no important role in the World War " and lacked "... men of action who were determined to fight with or without the Kaiser ", that the Navy were a nest of traitors whose only contribution to World War I was the High Seas Fleet mutiny of 1918, and that given this history, it was no surprise that the Navy's record in World War Two with the notable exception of the U-boats was one of failure after failure.

Fraser and the Liberal-CP senators ... lacked the numbers to defer the Budget until the arrival in the Senate of Albert Patrick Field, whose arrival was not due to any decision by the Australian voters but to a decision by one of the rulers, the Whitlam-hating Bjelke-Petersen ... Whitlam for his part had decided even before the Budget was deferred to embark upon the bold, Cromwellian project of changing the Australian Constitution, not through the vote of the mass electorate ... but through prodigious personal exertions backed by the support of his parliamentary followers.

According to one estimate, the native population in and around the missions proper was approximately 80, 000 at the time of the confiscation ; others claim that the < u > statewide </ u > population had dwindled to approximately 100, 000 by the early 1840s, due in no small part to the natives ' exposure to European diseases they lacked immunity from, and from the Franciscan practice of cloistering women in the convento and controlling sexuality during the child-bearing age.

Still one asset that ABC lacked in the early 2000s that most other networks had was popularity in reality television.

Many of his battles ended in stalemates, prompting at least one modern historian to argue that William lacked an ability to manage armies in the thick of conflict.

The sets are remarkably elaborate for a road-show that doesn't pause long in any one place, and they are devised so that they shift with a minimum of interruption or obtrusiveness.

Most games begin with a specific layout of cards, called a tableau, and the object is then either to construct a more elaborate final layout, or to clear the tableau and / or the draw pile or stock by moving all cards to one or more " discard " or " foundation " piles.

To elaborate, in trying to find the length of a wavy non-fractal curve, one could find straight segments of some measuring tool small enough to lay end to end over the waves, where the pieces could get small enough to be considered to conform to the curve in the normal manner of measuring with a tape measure.

Despite all this, the film is also one of the most widely seen Godzilla films in the United States — it was popular in its initial theatrical release, largely due to an aggressive marketing campaign, including elaborate posters of the two title monsters battling atop New York City's World Trade Center towers, presumably to capitalize on the hype surrounding the Dino De Laurentiis remake of King Kong, which used a similar image for its own poster.

An elaborate lottery is described as giving the maximum amount of chance in appointing patricians to particular offices, and care is taken to point out if two of one family are standing for similar posts.

The eye is a famous example of a supposedly irreducibly complex structure, due to its many elaborate and interlocking parts, seemingly all dependent upon one another.

In this capacity, Davis gave Congress four annual reports ( in December of each year ), as well as an elaborate one ( submitted on February 22, 1855 ) on various routes for the proposed Transcontinental Railroad.

The ceremony includes speeches by senior Israeli officials, an artistic presentation, a ritual march of flag-carrying soldiers forming elaborate structures ( such as a Menorah, a Magen David and the number which represents the age of the State of Israel ) and the lighting of twelve beacons ( one for each of the Tribes of Israel ).

Lyon & Healy produces one of the most ornate and elaborate harps in the world, the Louis XV, which includes carvings of leaves, flowers, scrolls, and shells along its neck and kneeblock, as well the soundboard edges.

In other words, Nyaya says that the polytheist would have to give elaborate proofs for the existence and origin of his several celestial spirits, none of which would be logical, and that it is more logical to assume one eternal, omniscient god.

" He goes on to elaborate on this, in one postulate, and twenty eight theorems.

On the basis of a land grant made to him by the Anglophile native King of the Mosquito people in what is present-day Honduras, MacGregor wove one of history's most elaborate hoaxes, managing to charm the highest levels of London's political and financial establishment with tales of the bucolic, resource-rich country he claimed to rule as a benevolent sovereign prince, or " Cazique ", when he arrived in the UK in 1822.

These were avoided in PM by building an elaborate system of types: a set of elements is of a different type than is each of its elements ( a set is not an element ; one element is not the set ) and one cannot speak of the " set of all sets " and similar constructs, which would lead to paradoxes ( see Russell's paradox ).

The elaborate procedure was recorded by a 15th-century witness in an oft-quoted description: " he will lie upon his back, with his head covered and his feet, and one arm will be drawn to one quarter of the house with a cord, and the other arm to another quarter, and in the same manner it will be done with his legs ; and let there be laid upon his body iron and stone, as much as he can bear, or more ..."

He set forth one of the most elaborate and fully developed systems of Neoplatonism.

Among the other constructions, large reservoirs, important for conserving water in a climate that alternates rainy seasons with dry times, and elaborate aqueducts, some with a slope as finely calibrated as one inch to the mile, are most notable.

Many individuals have much more fanciful signatures than their normal cursive writing, including elaborate ascenders, descenders and exotic flourishes, much as one would find in calligraphic writing.

He has a flair for showmanship and will prepare elaborate traps to capture and expose a culprit, often to impress Watson or one of the Scotland Yard inspectors.

But one city, Kirstendale, sets up a successful order in which citizens constantly shift their status, titles and duties ( from servant to aristocrat and back again ) according to an elaborate schedule.

The material was alternated from one monitor to the next in an elaborate choreography.

The white wedding style was given another significant boost in 1981, when three-quarter billion people — one out of six people around the globe — watched Charles, Prince of Wales marry Diana Spencer in her elaborate white taffeta dress with a 25-foot-long train.

The best-known, most elaborate, and most popular events are in New Orleans, while other South Louisiana cities such as Lake Charles, Lafayette, Mamou, Houma, and Thibodaux all of which were under French control at one time or another, are the sites of famous Carnival celebrations of their own.

However, some cathedrals retain elaborate medieval structures on either side of the church, one for the reading of the Gospel and the other for the reading of the Epistle.