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Mother and insisted
The lead part called for a 23 year old University student and at first he was turned down due to his young age, but Pearce's Mother insisted that her son could play the part.
Jag Tanna ad-libbed the name I Mother Earth and has always insisted it has no special meaning.
The remaining members insisted that they would carry on under the I Mother Earth name, and announced they would be searching for a new lead singer.

Mother and for
`` Since the war I have seen the way the Germans have behaved and I think, Holy Mother, we have behaved like this for hundreds of years.
I couldn't invite Viola to our house, for Mother snobbishly refused to receive her.
Mother even went so far as to trump up for me matrimonial opportunities with Pasadena debs who had been educated abroad, and with those of the more lenient Los Angeles area where a debutante was a girl who had been to high school.
But in order to keep Letch in the public eye and out of trouble, I wrote in a part especially for him -- that of a dashing ruffian who `` sees the light '' and is saved by the inspiring example of Mother Cabrini.
for Mother to be able to call, Susan must be napping now, surrounded by her multitude of dolls.
As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.
Ward had originally written the music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother dear, Jerusalem in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892.
He composed the tune for the old hymn " O Mother Dear, Jerusalem ", retitling the work " Materna ".
She refused to go with them and demanded that they allow her to pray to the Mother of God for protection.
According to Herodotus, when Anacharsis returned to the Scythians he was killed by his own brother for his Greek ways and especially for the impious attempt to sacrifice to the Mother Goddess Cybele, whose cult was unwelcome among the Scythians.
Other properties on the estate include Birkhall, formerly home to Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, and used now by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall for their summer holidays.
The oldest canal built for industrial purposes in North America is Mother Brook in Dedham, MA.
A horizontal strip can also be used for a single panel with a single gag, as seen occasionally in Mike Peters ' Mother Goose and Grimm.
A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.
The pope, as Bishop of Rome, may open a process and has the authority to waive the five year waiting period, as was done for Mother Teresa by Pope John Paul II, and for Lúcia Santos and for John Paul II himself by Pope Benedict XVI.
In Eddy's Message to The Mother Church for 1901, in the section titled " Christ Is One and Divine ", she writes:
In late 1993, a group of Christian Scientists filed suit against the Board of Directors, alleging a willful disregard for the Manual of the Mother Church in its financial dealings.
: begotten before all ages of the Father according to the Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, according to the Manhood ;
Umm-ul-Momineen ( Mother of Muslims ) Rehana was a prisoner of war that Muhammad kept for himself as a concubine after the battle against tribe of Bani Qariza ( Ghazwa-e-Bani Qariza ).

Mother and is
Another stock vaudeville gag ran: `` Mother is home sick in bed with the doctor ''.
`` All we have left in the world is one another, and we must stay together the way Mother wanted '', Kowalski said in telling his children of their mother's death yesterday afternoon.
Galileo announced his discovery that Venus had phases like the Moon in the form " Haec immatura a me iam frustra leguntur-oy " ( Latin: These immature ones have already been read in vain by me-oy ), that is, when rearranged, " Cynthiae figuras aemulatur Mater Amorum " ( Latin: The Mother of Loves Venus imitates the figures of Cynthia the moon ).
Central to Ambrose is the virginity of Mary and her role as Mother of God.
Amphisbaena (, plural: amphisbaenae ), amphisbaina, amphisbene, amphisboena, amphisbona, amphista, amphivena, or anphivena ( the last two being feminine ), a Greek word, from amphis, meaning " both ways ", and bainein, meaning " to go ", also called the Mother of Ants, is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.
Jane Chance ( Professor of English, Rice University ) in her 1980 article " The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother " argued that there are two standard interpretations of the poem: one view which suggests a two-part structure ( i. e., the poem is divided between Beowulf's battles with Grendel and with the dragon ) and the other, a three-part structure ( this interpretation argues that Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother is structurally separate from his battle with Grendel ).
The second funeral is distinguished by themes contrasting with those of the first, as well as by a change in the direction of the plot which leads to Beowulf's fight against Grendel's Mother.
It is a satanic counterfeit, an ecclesiastic tyranny over the souls of men .... It is the old harlot of the book of the Revelation —' the Mother of Harlots.
Emperor John II Komnenos | John II ( 1118 – 1143 ) is shown on the left, with the Mary, Mother of Jesus | Virgin Mary and infant Jesus in the centre, and John's consort Piroska of Hungary | Empress Irene on the right.
Douglas Engelbart introduced the chorded keyset as a computer interface in 1968 at what is often called " The Mother of All Demos ".
The communion service is not held at The Mother Church.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist is the legal title of The Mother Church and administrative headquarters of the Christian Science Church.
The Lesson, as it is informally called, is compiled by a committee at The Mother Church, and is usually made up of six sections, each of which consists of passages from the Bible ( read by the Second Reader ) and passages from Science and Health ( read by the First Reader ).
Odrade is also killed in the melee and Murbella shares memories with her, thereby also becoming Reverend Mother Superior.
This is rather different to the modern version known in Wicca, though they have the same premise, that of the rules given by a great Mother Goddess to her faithful.
Umm-ul-Momineen ( Mother of Muslims ) Maria Qibtia is reported to be another concubine gifted to Muhammad by the King Maqooqas in response to his letter inviting him towards Islam.
Cyril is credited with creating a basis for all other mariological developments through his teaching of the blessed Virgin Mary, as the Mother of God.

Mother and seldom
In discussing examples of his Great Mother archetype, Neumann mentions the Fates as " the threefold form of the Great Mother ", details that " the reason for their appearance in threes or nines, or more seldom in twelves, is to be sought in the threefold articulation underlying all created things ; but here it refers most particularly to the three temporal stages of all growth ( beginning-middle-end, birth-life-death, past-present-future ).

Mother and indeed
Many times it is the ballad that the child learns first, no Mother Goose melodies are as familiar, and it is strange indeed to listen to a little tot singing of the courtly days of old, the knights and ' ladyes ' and probably the tragic death of the lover.
Systems of government are dynamic and they are bound to change in accordance with the wishes of and aspirations of the people ... During my term of office, I selflessly dedicated myself to the good cause of Mother Malawi in the fight against Poverty, Ignorance and Disease among many other issues ; but if within the process, those who worked in my government or through false pretence in my name or indeed unknowingly by me, pain and suffering was caused to anybody in this country in the name of nationhood, I offer my sincere apologies.
While the nationalistic representation of Hindu values may seem unusual in that the " Mother India " figure was portrayed by a Muslim actress and directed by a Muslim director, people such as Salman Rushdie stated that Bombay cinema is " highly syncretic ", and its " hyphenated Hindu-Muslim nature is present in not only its discourses and production practices but indeed its very ideology ".
* January-Thomas Spring Rice, the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies writes " If coming events should constrain the British Legislature to interpose its supreme authority to appease the internal dissensions of the Colony, it would then, indeed, become my duty to submit for the consideration of Parliament, some modifications of the charters of the Canadas, not however, for introducing institutions inconsistent with monarchy, but to preserve and cement their connection with the Mother Country, adhering ever to the spirit of the British Constitution, and confining within their legitimate bounds the rights and privileges of His Majesty's subjects.
It is indeed said that among the night from the 17th to the 18th of November 1521, the troops of the Duke who were surrounding the city fled scared by the vision of the Virgin Mother with Saint Berardo defending the city.
" Mother Popcorn ," which was indeed recorded live, appears without added audience noise and with a longer running time on the CD compilation Foundations of Funk: A Brand New Bag 1964-1969.
The concerns with this stemmed around a lack of serious ident to link into the news, and indeed this problem famously occurred one day into the new look upon the death of The Queen Mother.
All in all, Bannerman made six trips to England, and he enjoyed the actual touring of the Mother Country just as much as he did playing cricket there ; indeed, many of his most memorable experiences occurred in places where his contribution on the field was negligble.

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