Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

In the interim between now and next year, we trust the House and Senate will put their minds to studying Georgia's very real economic, fiscal and social problems and come up with answers without all the political heroics.

Naive of us, maybe, but the results of our impulsive invitations to `` come over next summer and swim in our new pool '' were both unexpected and unsettling.

The next level attempts to weigh varied evidence and come to a balanced, sensible conclusion ; ;

The modern student, who knows what was to come next, is likely to place first the factors of change which are visible in the eighth century.

The consummation should come at the next stopping place when they have a long private time ( day or night ) for that purpose.

Governor Notte said last night he plans to name a committee to make the study and come up with recommendations for possible changes in time for the next session of the General Assembly.

Certainly nobody will predict that the next time the lawmakers come back together Barnett will be able to enjoy a re-enactment of the strange but successful `` honeymoon '' he had in the 1960 legislative session.

If the Orioles are to break their losing streak within the next two days, it will have to be at the expense of the American League champion New York Yankees, who come in here tomorrow for a night game and a single test Sunday afternoon.

Owen wanted to be pleasant because Buzz worked the territory next to his, but he hadn't come to Reno for stag dinners.

yet if he said: Make an excuse yourself, come out here today, she would have been on the next train -- and, similarly, if she had been in need, he would have gone to her.

The next few years in ` Akka were relatively free of pressures and pilgrims were able to come and visit ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

In this case, the batter will come to bat again in the next inning, though he now has no balls or strikes on him.

While Maitreya ( Pāli: Metteya ) is mentioned in the Pāli canon, he is not referred to as a bodhisattva, but simply the next fully awakened Buddha to come into existence long after the current teachings of the Buddha are lost.

The cell theory, first developed in 1839 by Matthias Jakob Schleiden and Theodor Schwann, states that all organisms are composed of one or more cells, that all cells come from preexisting cells, that vital functions of an organism occur within cells, and that all cells contain the hereditary information necessary for regulating cell functions and for transmitting information to the next generation of cells.

As well, even though in many cases the popular change from one to the next can be swift and sudden, the beginning and end of movements are somewhat subjective, as the movements did not spring fresh into existence out of the blue and did not come to an abrupt end and lose total support, as would be suggested by a date range.

A player making a come bet will bet on the first point number that " comes " from the shooters next roll, regardless of the table's round.

Because of the come bet, if the shooter makes their point, a player can find themselves in the situation where they have a come bet ( possibly with odds on it ) and the next roll is a come-out roll.

The associated rave scene this genre helped to spawn had major ramifications for the art house cinema that was to come out of Germany for the next twenty years.

Now suppose that we have just tossed four heads in a row, so that if the next coin toss were also to come up heads, it would complete a run of five successive heads.

Participants in an early study by Beach and Swensson ( 1967 ) were shown a shuffled deck of index cards with shapes on them, and were told to guess which shape would come next in a sequence.

Over the next two years, Richard D ' Oyly Carte and Carl Rosa were two of several theatrical managers who negotiated with the team but were unable to come to terms.

Thus, he cautiously states: " But knowing the sure number declared by Scripture, that is six hundred sixty and six, let them await, in the first place, the division of the kingdom into ten ; then, in the next place, when these kings are reigning, and beginning to set their affairs in order, and advance their kingdom, them learn to acknowledge that he who shall come claiming the kingdom for himself, and shall terrify those men of whom we have been speaking, have a name containing the aforesaid number, is truly the abomination of desolation.

It was on the eve of a momentous U.N. session to come to grips with cold war issues.

Out of this session may come: 1

The idea for Big Brother is said to have come during a brainstorm session at the Dutch-based international television production firm Endemol, on March 10, 1997.

The School of International and Public Affairs traditionally extends invitations to many heads of state and heads of government who come to New York City for the opening of the fall session of the United Nations General Assembly.

About the closest that a bass player can come to this is in the case of classical bass players who win an audition at a professional orchestra or the tiny number of top session pros that are hired by recording studios.

The objective in a session is not to provide music for an audience of passive listeners ; although the punters ( non-playing attendees ) often come for the express purpose of listening, the music is most of all for the musicians themselves.

A pub owner might have one or two musicians paid to come regularly in order for the session to have a base.

The plotters, however, had anticipated this and, fearing that Antony would come to Caesar's aid, had arranged for Trebonius to intercept him just as he approached the portico of Theatre of Pompey, where the session was to be held, and detain him outside.

Moments after he is confirmed by Congress, while waiting in a tunnel beneath the building to come up after the vote, a Japanese airline pilot deliberately crashes his 747 into the Capitol during the joint session of Congress, killing most of the people inside, decapitating the U. S. government and elevating Ryan to the Presidency.

The sheriff did come down to Chokoloskee after that, and took a number of Chokoloskee residents back to Fort Myers for a court session, but nothing came of it.

The MP Sir William Gregory was told by a member of the Cabinet that " at the beginning of each session and after each holiday, Mr Gladstone used to come in charged to the muzzle with all sorts of schemes of all sorts of reforms which were absolutely necessary in his opinion to be immediately undertaken.

On the subject of the beat, Anderson recalls, " When I went to the recording session, I heard the drum beat he had come up with and I thought, ' Christ, is this all he could produce?

In 1653, after learning that Parliament was attempting to stay in session despite an agreement to dissolve, and having failed to come up with a working constitution, Cromwell ’ s patience ran out.

The term, which was first used during the session of the Legislative Assembly, did not come into general use until 1793.

In a typical session, a patient will visit the sangoma and the sangoma must determine what the affliction is or the reason the patient has come to them for help.

While many did come to Dublin still for the Social Season, where the Lord Lieutenant hosted debutantes balls, state balls and drawing rooms in a period from January until St. Patrick's Day ( 17 March ) every year, many found them less appealing than in the days when they could sit in parliament for a session in College Green.

The grassroots of his own party condemned the move, all the more so when the wheat board that had been the purpose of the special session failed to come to fruition.

* Rescue: A friend or relative is notified to come over at a certain time ( that time being after the bondage session is planned to end ).

Klaus's first term as President concluded on Friday 7 March 2008 ; he took oath for the second term on the same day so as not to create a president-less interregnum since the Parliament could not otherwise come to a joint session before the following Tuesday.

Since re-mixing or mixdown can take place weeks, months, or even years after the original recording session, it may be impossible to have the guitarist come in to re-record a new part.

He eventually succeeds by convincing Haruhi to come to a study session, as neither of them have done their homework yet.

At the start of the session government ministers, forewarned by an informant within the bloc of the attack to come, left the chamber.