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Finding and himself
Finding himself on his own, since his father and uncle had more or less disowned him, the teenage Rousseau supported himself for a time as a servant, secretary, and tutor, wandering in Italy ( Piedmont and Savoy ) and France.
Finding, however, that they were bent on forcing the papal dignity upon him, he fled to Monte Cassino, where he busied himself in exhorting the Normans and Lombards to rally to the support of the Holy See.
Finding himself now in secure surroundings, Innocent summoned as many bishops as could get to Lyon to attend what became the 13th General ( Ecumenical ) Council of the Church, the first in Lyon.
Finding himself in a unique situation, the figure skater Gillis Grafström is the first one ever to successfully defend his Summer Olympics title at the Winter Olympics.
Finding himself unable to cope with the combined forces of Eumenes and Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia, Pharnaces is compelled to purchase peace by ceding all his conquests in Galatia and Paphlagonia, with the exception of Sinope.
Finding it easy to express himself on stage and losing his stutter in the process, Willis began performing on stage and his high school activities were marked by such things as the drama club and student council president.
Finding himself to be a neighbour of the actor Gérard Philipe, he persuaded him to appear in a 16mm surrealist short, Schéma d ' une identification ( now lost ).
Finding himself in present-day Homewood again, Sloan makes his way back to the gas station, now walking with a limp.
Finding himself totally alone in a shattered world with food to last him a lifetime, but no one to share it with, Bemis succumbs to despair.
Finding little prospect of a career in Scotland, in 1802 he went to London, in company with Sir John Stuart, then member of parliament for Kincardineshire, and devoted himself to literary work.
Finding himself without the means to complete his theological studies under Johann August Wilhelm Neander and Friedrich August Tholuck in Berlin, he accepted a post at Basel as tutor in Oriental languages to Johann Jakob Stähelin ( 1797 – 1875 ), later a professor at the university.
Finding himself responsible for the bulk of the band's songwriting and dealing with the extra pressures of being the frontman in a high-level group, Belew squabbled with Fripp over group approach and sound.
Finding himself considerably outnumbered, Totila ostensibly entered into negotiations while planning a surprise attack, but Narses was not fooled by this stratagem.
Finding that his brother had procured his election for the County of Kildare, and desiring to maintain political independence, Lord Edward refused the command of an expedition against Cadiz offered him by Pitt, and devoted himself for the next few years to the pleasures of society and his parliamentary duties.
Finding that when he got there he would be expected to serve under an officer he considered junior to himself von Tempsky joined the mutiny and refused to accept any further orders.
Finding that he was colour blind, he determined to devote himself to etching.
Finding himself pushed aside, Norfolk spent considerable time away from court in 1525 – 7 and 1528.
Finding himself outgunned by a larger English ship, he fled south and captured the new HBC base at Fort Severn.
Finding himself seated on a couch with Socrates and Agathon, Alcibiades exclaims that Socrates, again, has managed to sit next to the handsomest man in the room, Agathon, and that he is always doing such things ( 213c ).
Finding himself neglected by Marlborough, he made friends with the Tories, and succeeded in retaining the queen ’ s confidence, while his wife replaced the Duchess of Marlborough as Mistress of the Robes in 1711.
Finding none on the list to suit his criteria, Roosevelt nominated Frankfurter himself, and he was confirmed without dissent.
Finding himself and his wife living out of only four rooms in the enormous mansion, he donated it and the estate in 1955 for a new school of architecture.
Finding himself the head of his family, he found a job as an accounting assistant at a commercial clothing enterprise to support his relatives.

Finding and position
Finding their position in mainland Europe precarious, they crossed to England in 330 ships in two divisions.
Finding just such a position near Saratoga, overlooking the Hudson at Bemis Heights, Kościuszko proceeded to lay out an excellent array of defenses ; nearly impregnable to attack from any direction.
Finding the English in a defensive position on a hill, David elected to force a battle counting on his superior numbers, 16, 000 Scots against 10, 000 Englishmen.
Finding support in this position from two other justices ( William J. Brennan and William O. Douglas ), Goldberg published an opinion dissenting from the Court's denial of certiorari in a case, Rudolph v. Alabama, involving the imposition of the death penalty for rape, in which Goldberg cited the fact that only five nations responding to a UN survey indicated that they allowed imposition of the death penalty for rape, including the U. S., and that 33 states in the U. S. had outlawed the practice.
Finding themselves in a weak position, the Volunteers withdrew to the Royal College of Surgeons on the west side of the Green.
Finding the luxuries of living in Canada not to his liking, he accepted the position.
Finding himself once again in a position of power, he began wrestling for control of the ideologically diverse movement, and of the PLO, pitted against PLO chairman and PNA president Mahmoud Abbas.
Finding the terrain too marshy for the artillery, Carrington removed the cannon to a position of safety and awaited further orders.
Finding a second-class degree in Classics insufficient to obtain a steady teaching position at a major school, he returned to Cambridge for a further year to qualify as a teacher of physics and chemistry.
Finding themselves in a desperate position, they finally went to Vienna to ask emperor Leopold I of the Habsburg dynasty for pardon.
Finding itself facing extreme financial pressure as part of a national education funding squeeze at the latter days of the Thatcher government ( under Keith Joseph, Kenneth Baker, and others ), the future of the College ( and others in a similar position ) then became in doubt.

Finding and power
His other books in sociology and power structure research include Finding Meaning in Dreams ( 1996 ) and The Scientific Study of Dreams ( 2003 ).
Finding the head of the town's electric company, he asked him how this could happen and was told the secret to it was not a flat rate bill, but use of a demand metered billing system, measuring not only total power consumption, but a set of rates for low-demand and high-demand electric use times.
Finding prototypes of those titans underground which could be remote-controlled and realizing their immense power on the battlefield, Dr. Hell goes insane and has all the other scientists of his research team killed except for Professor Kabuto, who manages to escape.

Finding and used
The same piece was used for a scene in the film Ratcatcher and used as an influence in the film Monster and Finding Forrester.
At Pixar, he was a key developer of the RenderMan rendering system used in films such as Toy Story and Finding Nemo.
The distinct technology Range and Direction Finding was the abbreviation used to describe the predecessor to radar.
Finding that no lesser person than the jurist Sir Matthew Hale had permitted this evidence, supported by the eminent philosopher, physician and author Thomas Browne, to be used in the Bury St Edmunds witch trial and the accusations against two Lowestoft women, held in 1662 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, they also accepted its validity and the trials proceeded.
* The 2004 film Finding Neverland used a Great Pyrenees to represent J. M. Barrie's Landseer Newfoundland dog.
Finding herself deeply in debt, her pension from England was used to pay off her creditors in Syria.
( Finding an F which produces polynomials independent of the sequences of crossings used in a recursion is no trivial exercise.
Finding development on the systems difficult due to a lack of clear information, he started experimenting with the system's hardware assisted smooth scrolling and used it to produce a scrolling map display.
Finding the Antarctic oceans deeper ( the measurements he used may not have been fully representative ) and attributing this to the gravitational attraction of the Antarctic ice sheet, he postulated a truly enormous ice sheet approximately 90 km thick.
This version has been used in several commercials, films and television programs including Finding Forrester, Meet Joe Black, 50 First Dates, Snakes on a Plane, Charmed, South Pacific, Cold Case, ER, Life on Mars, Horizon, and Scrubs.
Finding himself incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum, he used this project as a pretext for obtaining paper and writing materials, saying he had an assignment to fulfill for Goebbels's office.
Finding himself unable to disarm the warhead, Hale decides to place the unarmed weapon deep in the abandoned mine to prevent them from being used elsewhere.
Finding this " bridge " involves an abstraction process that necessarily goes beyond logical inference, theory and experiment and involves an element of " art ", because it must establish an appropriate connection between the language used, the intersubjective interactions between the surveyor and the respondent, and how respondents and those who process the data construct the meaning of what is being asked of them.
Brompton Cemetery has featured in a number of films, including David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises ( starring Viggo Mortensen ), The Wisdom of Crocodiles ( Jude Law ), Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes ( 2009 film ) ( also with Jude Law ) as the location of ' Lord Blackwood's Tomb ', Crush ( Imelda Staunton and Andie MacDowell ), Stormbreaker ( starring Alex Pettyfer, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Fry and Mickey Rourke ), Finding Neverland ( starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet ) and Johnny English ( starring Rowan Atkinson ); The Wings of the Dove ( 1997 film ) ( starring Helena Bonham Carter ), as well as being used as a location by photographers such as Bruce Weber ( see " The Chop Suey Club ").
The town has several times been used for film locations, including Ned Kelly ( 1970 ), The Year My Voice Broke ( 1987 ), On our Selection ( 1995 ), Finding Joy ( 2003 ) and The Discontinuity ( 2009 ).
( Range and Direction Finding was the abbreviation used to describe the predecessor to Radar.
Finding a knife not suitable for working against the grain in harder woods, Bewick used the engraving tool the burin, which has a V-shaped cutting tip.
In 2004 and 2005, ABC instead used A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving as the lead-in to a feature film ( the 2000 adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas in 2004, and Finding Nemo in 2005 ), which was given an extended 2½-hour time slot.
Finding out that the housekeeper that he used to humiliate was his real mother caused him a psychological trauma.
Finding car parks in and around Holland Village used to be a problem, especially within peak hours.
Finding US and Cuban radar-based data on the location in mutual contradiction ( see image ), the ICAO used the known positions of the cruise liner Majesty of the Seas and fishing boat Tri-Liner to locate the incidents at 10 to 11 miles ( 18 to 20 km ) outside Cuba's 12-mile limit.
Finding a suitable name for the combined CCE & HR and C & SLR routes proved a challenge for the LPTB and a number of variations were used including Edgware, Morden & Highgate Line in 1933 and Morden-Edgware Line in 1936.
Finding that the United States government had deliberately misled the United States Supreme Court in securing its affirmance of the conviction, on November 10, 1983, Patel formally vacated the conviction, saying, " stands as a caution that in times of distress the shield of military necessity and national security must not be used to protect governmental actions from close scrutiny and accountability ".

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