At first Matilda could not believe her own eyes.

At the insistence of his own supervisor -- the president of the firm -- he enrolled in a course designed to develop leaders.

At the same time, Roosevelt's Federal Housing Administration, coupled with Henry Morgenthau's cheap-money policy, permitted ordinary lower-middle-class families to build their own homes.

At first the kitchen help was tolerant, but ordered their own supply of white bread for themselves.

At first the Belgian royal family administered the Congo as its own private property.

At times, Alcott offered his own hand for an offending student to strike, saying that any failing was the teacher's responsibility.

At the emperor's further insistence, and for their own protection they took refuge at the convent of Petrion, where eventually they were joined by Irene Doukaina's mother, Maria of Bulgaria.

At that point the deposed emperor was ransomed by Michael I of Epirus, who sent him to Asia Minor, where Alexios ' son-in-law Theodore I Laskaris of the Empire of Nicaea was holding his own against the Latins.

At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

At the news of the emperor's death, his son and co-emperor John was murdered by his own troops in Thrace.

At Sparta women competed in public exercise — so in Aristophanes ' Lysistrata the Athenian women admire the tanned, muscular bodies of their Spartan counterparts — and women could own property in their own right, as they could not at Athens.

At his memorial service on 22 June 1825 his own Requiem in C minor — composed in 1804 – was performed for the first time.

" At first I thought, despite everything that I saw with my own eyes, that the Soviet state was a breakthrough into the future, a kind of prototype for all countries ".

At around from the target, the missile activates its own radar to provide terminal guidance.

At first this interest drew him to the study of Biblical Hebrew, but he studied the indigenous languages of Mesoamerica on his own.

At this time, the community of Barcelonnette successfully purchased the seigneurie of the town as it was put to auction by the Duke of Savoy ; it thereby gained its own justicial powers.

At his own request Nehemiah is sent to Jerusalem as governor of Yehud, the official Persian name for Judah.

At last her own woman, Potter settled into the partnerships that shaped the rest of her life: her country solicitor husband and his large family, her farms, the Sawrey community and the predictable rounds of country life.

At the same time, the Habsburg empire had its own internal problems with significant Slav populations that campaigned against German-Hungarian control of the multinational state.

At this level students could start to move on their own.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.

At the same time, Jade Fox's own unorthodox relationship with a Wudan master ( who she claims would not teach her, but did take sexual advantage of her ) brought her to a life of crime.

At the end of the second season, an inebriated Johnny LaRue is given his very own crane by Santa Claus, implying he would be able to have a crane shot whenever he wanted it.

At various periods, and particularly during the Middle Ages, the citadel-having its own fortifications, independent of the city walls-was the last defence of a besieged army, often held after the town had been conquered.

At regular intervals, the housemates each privately nominate a number of fellow housemates that they wish to see evicted from the house.

At the end of the 1980s the South Africans did not wish to continue to support the mercenary regime and France was in agreement.

At the 2007 New York Comic Con, Coleman said, " I wish there was a lawyer on Earth that would sue them for me.

At White's funeral, Parsons and Bernie Leadon launched into an impromptu touching rendition of " Farther Along "; that night, the distraught and drunken musician reportedly informed Phil Kaufman of his final wish: to be cremated in Joshua Tree.

At his own express wish, he was buried at St. Anne's Church, Kew, where the Family regularly worshipped.

( de quo varia fama est, aliis eum devotum pro Hadriano adserentibus, aliis quod et forma eius ostentat et nimia voluptas Hadriani ) At any rate, the Greeks, at Hadrian's wish, consecrated him as a god, claiming that oracles were given through him, which Hadrian is supposed to have composed himself.

At first, Tiresias refuses to give a direct answer and instead hints that the killer is someone Oedipus really does not wish to find.

At the time it seemed like, ' This is your one and only chance to go to college and you had just better do it because some day you might wish that you did.

At the rear of the Villa were positioned ' herm ' statues that derive from the Greek god Hermes, the patron of travellers and thus are welcoming figures for all who wish to visit Lord Burlington's gardens ( Lord Burlington's gardens at Chiswick were the most visited of all London villas.

At first, new writs could be drafted to fit new situations, although in practice the clerks of the Chancery would re-use old forms, and there were many books that were collections of forms of writ, much as in modern times lawyers frequently use fixed precedents or boilerplate, rather than re-inventing the wording of a legal document each time they wish to create one.

At the park, Josh finds the machine and makes a wish to become " a kid again.

At his father's wish, he gave up writing and decided to engage in a more settled profession, selecting medicine.

" At one extreme are the ' Free Christians ' who wish to remain part of the Church Universal ; at the other are those who wish to move beyond Christianity

At that time the congregants did not kneel during the prayer for the conversion of the Jews ( even though moments of kneeling in silent prayer were prescribed for all of the other petitions in the Good Friday rite ), because, it was said, the Church did not wish to imitate the Jews who mocked Christ before his crucifixion by kneeling before him and reviling him.

At the close of his four-day trial the prophet declared: " It is not my wish that evil should come to the two races.

At the start of the match, Baiken states that while he does not wish to kill Musashi, he can only use his chain and sickle with the intent to kill.

At the time, most tribal members, although strongly connected to their community, did not wish ( or need ) to relocate to the new Reservation.

At the same time, Black was developing a similar method of treatment for stomach ulcers, but ICI did not wish to pursue the idea so Black resigned in 1964 and joined Smith, Kline and French for whom he worked for nine years until 1973.

At the end of 2000, President Chen Shui-bian of the Republic of China and government officials from Kaohsiung visited Fo Guang Shan bringing with them the wish from their constituents that Fo Guang Shan re-open its mountain gate.

At the end of 2000, ROC President Chen Shui-bian and government officials from Kaohsiung visited Fo Guang Shan bringing with them the wish from their constituents that Fo Guang Shan reopen its gates.

At the beginning of 1987, relations between the Douglas and Lange offices were strained when Douglas and his ally Richard Prebble persuaded cabinet to reject Lange ’ s wish to accept the resignation of the Minister of Maori Affairs.

At the end of the year team managers decide which players they wish to protect ( the number varies-from protecting and keeping all players, to keeping as few as three or four players ).

At the end of the year team managers decide which players they wish to protect ( the number varies – from protecting and keeping all players, to keeping just one player ).

At the end of the day, Hugo Khan expresses his wish for Chandara to be reopened culturally to the rest of Dinotopia.