She softly let herself into the bed, and took her regular side, away from the door, where she slept better because Keith was between her and the invader.

Keith was on his feet because he didn't care at all about life any more: Penny on her feet, proudly, because she cared too much.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.

But she was afraid the First Lady would not understand, because Rob Roy was a perfect angel with the First Family.

Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.

There, to the Evening Post, she emphatically denied the divorce rumors and explained that she had stayed behind because of the schooling of their son, which henceforth would be strictly American.

It was a pity because she had planned to lay a wreath at the foot of the Garibaldi statue, towering over Rome in spectacular benediction from the highpoint of the Gianicolo.

Rachel wore a smart hat and, because she had been warned recently about smoking, puffed at her cigarettes through a long ivory holder stained with lipstick.

He recognized her because she was the one who, in a winter twilight, on the edge of camp, had once stopped him and reached down her hand to touch his fly.

It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.

She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.

Piepsam's fatal rage arises not only because he cannot stop the cyclist, but also because God will not stop him ; ;

But a modern Oedipus who is doomed because he cannot oppose his own childhood is only pathetic, and for renouncing the mystery in favor of psychological truth he gives up the claim on our sympathies.

and yet they cannot ignore this problem because it concerns the implementation of nearly all the planning programs they have devised.

Having had every opportunity to rebut the finding of the local board before both the hearing officer and the appeal board, petitioner cannot now claim that he was denied due process because he did not succeed.

Why it was ever forgotten for even a moment I cannot say because it works perfectly for everyone, no matter whether he has short or long thigh-bone lengths!!

Any irregularity on the piston heads will make it impossible, with normal means, to determine the final combustion chamber volume because the volume displaced by the piston heads cannot be readily computed.

`` The political and intellectual Left began fighting humor and comedy years ago, because they fear things they do not understand and cannot manage, such as satire and irony, such as humor and comedy.

That a writer who is gay cannot be serious is a common professional illusion, sedulously fostered by all too many academics who mistakenly believe that their frivolous efforts should be taken seriously because they are expressed with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of expression their authors are capable of.

`` Unfortunately '', says Chief Postal Inspector David H. Stephens, who has prosecuted many device quacks, `` the ghouls who trade on the hopes of the desperately ill often cannot be successfully prosecuted because the patients who are the chief witnesses die before the case is called up in court ''.

The escheat law cannot be enforced now because it is almost impossible to locate such property, Daniel declared.

But this argument cannot be pushed very far because the Communist system makes up for any shortcomings of its leaders in respect to corrosion.

Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.

This is because such orders cannot be appealed " as of right ".

In the second example CH < sub > 3 </ sub > COOH undergoes the same transformation, in this case donating a proton to ammonia ( NH < sub > 3 </ sub >), but cannot be described using the Arrhenius definition of an acid because the reaction does not produce hydronium.

This reaction cannot be described in terms of Brønsted theory because there is no proton transfer.

The assumption that ZF is consistent is harmless because adding another axiom to an already inconsistent system cannot make the situation worse.

He argues that because a child's suffering is so horrible and cannot easily be ex-plained, it forces people into a crucial test of faith: either we must believe everything or we must deny everything, and who, Paneloux asks, could bear to do the latter?

Some subfields of R have nontrivial field automorphisms, which however do not extend to all of R ( because they cannot preserve the property of a number having a square root in R ).

Hell, however, does not fit modern, humanitarian concepts of punishment because it cannot deter the unbeliever nor rehabilitate the damned, this however, does not affect the Christian belief which places Biblical teaching above the ideas of society.

John 3: 16 says that only those that accept Jesus will be given eternal life, so the people that do not accept him cannot burn in hell for eternity because Jesus has not given them eternal life, instead it says they will perish.

and Nagaoka himself recognized a fundamental defect in the theory even at its conception, namely that a classical charged object cannot sustain orbital motion because it is accelerating and therefore loses energy due to electromagnetic radiation.

9 of the 20 standard amino acids are called " essential " amino acids for humans because they cannot be created from other compounds by the human body, and so must be taken in as food.

Of the 22 standard amino acids, 9 are called essential amino acids because the human body cannot synthesize them from other compounds at the level needed for normal growth, so they must be obtained from food.

The education bill appears to be temporarily stalled in the Rules Committee, where two Northern Democratic members who usually vote with the Administration are balking because of the religious controversy.

Proponents ( especially of majoritarianism ) deny these accusations, and argue that any faults in Athenian democracy were because the franchise was quite limited ( only male citizens could vote — women, slaves and non-citizens were excluded ).

If a party has gained more direct mandates in a Land than it is entitled to according to the results of the second vote, it does not forfeit these mandates because all directly elected candidates are guaranteed a seat in the Bundestag.

Usually, a meeting which is held without notice having been given is still valid if all of the directors attend, but it has been held that a failure to give notice may negate resolutions passed at a meeting, because the persuasive oratory of a minority of directors might have persuaded the majority to change their minds and vote otherwise.

Following the general election of 1950, the Labour party experienced a greatly reduced parliamentary majority, a mere five seats compared to the triple-digit majority of five years previous, despite an increase in the popular vote ( possible because of the first-past-the-post voting system ).

After the vote was delayed because of a dispute between the players and the league, the race began again in 1993.

This happened because in the new states of Germany, the Greens, in a joint effort with Alliance 90, a heterogenous grouping of civil rights activists, were able to gain more than 5 % of the vote.

In 1832, John Russell had been nicknamed " Finality John " because of his statement that the 1832 Reform Act had just been approved by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords would be the " final " expansion of the vote in Britain.

Gerrymandering is effective because of the wasted vote effect.

Thus, the other legislators will vote against the measure because the funding is not worthwhile.

Kahane also believed that a Jewish democracy with non-Jewish citizens was self-contradictory because the non-Jewish citizens might someday become a numerical majority and vote to make the state non-Jewish: " The question is as follows: if the Arabs settle among us and make enough children to become a majority, will Israel continue to be a Jewish state?

Therefore, when a merger with a controlling stockholder was: 1 ) negotiated and approved by a special committee of independent directors ; and 2 ) conditioned on an affirmative vote of a majority of the minority stockholders, the business judgment standard of review should presumptively apply, and any plaintiff ought to have to plead particularized facts that, if true, support an inference that, despite the facially fair process, the merger was tainted because of fiduciary wrongdoing .″

Smith finished second in MVP balloting to Andre Dawson, who had played on the last-place Chicago Cubs, largely because Smith and teammate Jack Clark split the first-place vote.

" In addition, the group Presbyterians for Middle East Peace has issued a statement against the divestment vote as well, saying, " We are not surprised by the MRTI recommendation because there is a small group of activists within the PCUSA that has relentlessly sought to punish Israel.

The two-round system is such a method, because the voters are not forced to vote according to a single ordinal preference in both rounds.

Under the " first past the post " ( plurality ) system voters are encouraged to vote tactically by voting for only one of the two leading candidates, because a vote for any other candidate will not affect the result.

Technically, he has been sworn in four times because after a cabinet reshuffle, as happened with Berlusconi in 2005, the new ministry is sworn in and subjected to a vote of confidence.

Nevertheless, they were still unable to vote because they were women.

Sojourner argues that if these women were able to perform such tasks, then they should be allowed to vote because surely voting is easier than building roads.

A president may also withdraw a nominee's name before the actual confirmation vote occurs, typically because it is clear that the Senate will reject them, most recently Harriet Miers in 2006.

A presidential runoff was triggered because their candidate, José Mujica, only received 47. 96 percent of the vote.

Delaware cast no vote because the delegation was split between Thomas McKean ( who voted yes ) and George Read ( who voted no ).

In the election of 1796, for instance, Federalist John Adams came in first, but because the Federalist electors divided their second vote amongst several Vice Presidential candidates, Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson came second.

However, to date the referendum has not been held because of questions over who is eligible to vote.