Unlike the Vedic religion, ancient Buddhism had strong misgivings about violent ways of punishing criminals and about war.

Although Dominic and the early brethren had instituted female Dominican houses at Prouille and other places by 1227, some of the brethren of the Order had misgivings about the necessity of female religious establishments in an Order whose major purpose was preaching, a duty in which women could not traditionally engage.

Although he had personal misgivings about the capability of the nominee, Warren G. Harding, Hoover publicly endorsed him and made two speeches for Harding.

The Governor General, Lord Elgin, had serious misgivings about the bill but nonetheless assented to it despite demands from the Tories that he refuse to do so.

" Forced to adapt to the new circumstances ( whatever misgivings he had about them in private ), Prokofiev wrote a series of " mass songs " ( Opp.

The psychiatrist had misgivings about giving the drug to Huxley, and wrote that " I did not relish the possibility, however remote, of being the man who drove Aldous Huxley mad ," but instead found him an ideal subject.

The Zeelanders in particular had misgivings about this arrangement at the beginning.

The lack of interest stemmed from the scholars ' misgivings about fantasy, as well as to their belief that lengthy series had little literary merit.

He realized that he was getting very old ( 69 by this point ) and, at Sun Jun's recommendation, commissioned Zhuge Jin's son Zhuge Ke as the future regent for Sun Liang, even though he correctly had misgivings about how Zhuge Ke was arrogant and had overly high opinion of his own abilities, because at that time, virtually the entire empire, awed by Zhuge's prior military victories, was convinced that Zhuge would be the correct choice for regent.

The British also had misgivings about the US command, especially Gen. Eisenhower.

Columbia Pictures purchased the screen rights in September 1932, and the studio scheduled the production to begin the following May, although director Frank Capra had misgivings about the project.

" Roy Oliver Disney had misgivings about the project, doubting that it was " big enough in caliber and natural draft " to warrant a budget over $ 1 million and more than twenty-five minutes of animation, but in June 1944, Walt hired Southern-born writer Dalton Reymond to write the screenplay, and he met frequently with King Vidor, whom he was trying to interest in directing the live-action sequences.

Napoleon dismissed Joseph's misgivings out of hand ; and, to back up the raw and ill-trained levies he had initially allocated to Spain — the Emperor sent heavy French reinforcements to assist Joseph in maintaining his position as King of Spain.

" Although Miller had massive popularity, many jazz critics of the time had misgivings.

Production nearly ended before it began when Pacino's lawyers told Coppola that he had grave misgivings with the script and wasn't coming.

409, 151 L. Ed. 2d 310 ( 2001 )( finding “ an absence of authority ” on the issue of whether counsel for victims can participate in a sentencing hearing, and raising “ misgivings ” about the practice where the government had agreed not to argue for the very issues the victims ' counsel did ), overruled by statute, 18 U. S. C.

The principal and almost contemporary source for the career of Priscillian is the Gallic chronicler Sulpicius Severus, who characterized him ( Chronica II. 46 ) as noble and rich, a layman who had devoted his life to study, vain of his classical pagan education, already being looked on with misgivings ( see Gregory of Tours ).

Ball, however, had many misgivings about hiring Vance, who was around the same age as she, and far more attractive than the concept of Ethel as an older, somewhat homely woman.

It's said that Buster didn't understand Godot and had misgivings about this script as well.

They were received warmly by the President of the mission, José Bernardo Sánchez, who managed to hide any misgivings he might have had.

She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

He had an uneasy feeling about it.

Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.

After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

He had done his rustling openly and boasted about it.

An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

Nor could they stop and find out about all that had happened until they made circle, tended the cattle, tethered the horses, gathered fuel, carried water, and started their cooking fires.

They'd peddled the soap virtually alone, and without much success, until about a year ago, when -- with the addition of `` SX-21 '' to their secret formula and the inauguration of a high-powered advertising campaign -- sales had soared practically into orbit.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

They had never seen a tultul but they had heard about it from their fathers ''.

Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

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

The white girl with the penetrating green eyes sipped the lemonade handed to her by a handsome man of about 30, who had coppery skin and beetling eyebrows.

But that had been a time before all this, a time he didn't think about.

But before this came about, 214,938 Americans had given their lives in battle for the two concepts of the sovereign rights of men and of states.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.