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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 in a position of power, Sclerus used it to poison Constantine against Maniakes-ransacking the latter's house and even seducing his wife, using the charm his family were famed for.
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.

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Finding no top drivers available despite coming close to bringing Rindt back to the team, Brabham decided to race for one more year.
Finding conditions no better there, they finally migrated north to Kuwait where they found water and consequently settled.
:: Finding she has no chance of evading eventual death, she immediately loses her obsession with safety, becomes interested in biochemistry again, and invents a new theory.
Finding that he received no adequate support from the head of the Irish government, and that all his efforts were opposed and thwarted by those who presided in the councils of Ireland, he resigned the command.
Finding no way of giving false information without arousing suspicion, and being unwilling to give correct information, Harris arranged for him to be ' arrested '.
Finding no French ships there, he then sailed for New York.
Finding he could get no work done at home, he spent more and more time away, until September of that year, when he realised how grave her condition was.
Finding, as he said, that the liberality of former kings had left the Crown " no estates except the high roads of Portugal ," he determined to crush the feudal nobility and seize its territories.
Finding no support among the Londoners, Essex retreated from the city, and surrendered after the Crown forces besieged Essex House.
Finding no Norse survivors, he started a mission among the Inuit and baptized the first child converts in 1724.
Finding no one home, they finally succeed in getting the piano in the house, making a shambles of the living room while unpacking it.
Finding no other way to be together, Kelly and Katsumi commit double suicide.
Finding no peace there either, Stoke chairman Albert Booth told Matthews he would not be allowed to leave the club, and 3, 000 City supporters organized a meeting to make their feelings known – they too demanded that he stay.
Finding sufficient legal texts was also a seriously debilitating issue, and there was no standardization in the books assigned to the clerk trainees because they were assigned by their mentor, whose opinion of the law may have differed greatly from his peers.
Finding no resistance, he reached Mulhouse on the 29th.
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.
Finding their handlers could no longer control Commons, and that the goodwill that had attended Charles II at the Restoration was wearing thin, the Cabal recommended doing without them, and persuaded Charles II to keep parliament out of session with repeated prorogations.
Finding that he no longer desired the Georgia plantation life of his youth, he taught mathematics at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, and then served in executive positions with the Charlotte, Columbia, and Augusta Railroad ( executive superintendent ), the Savannah and Memphis Railroad ( president ), and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad ( president ).
" ( Ch. 18 ) Finding no solace in religion — at least that kind of religion — but at the same time unable to get over the loss of her son and also increasingly disgusted by her husband's matter-of-fact behaviour, Bertha escapes her dreary surroundings and finds refuge in London, where she moves into her aunt's flat.
( Finding an F which produces polynomials independent of the sequences of crossings used in a recursion is no trivial exercise.
Finding no later reports that were properly authenticated, Kräupl Taylor was of the opinion that the symptom " does not seem to have occurred in the past 100 years or so.
Finding no legitimate alternative, leaders of the realms composing the Crown of Aragon agreed by means of the Compromise of Caspe that the vacant throne should go to the Castilian Ferdinand I, as he was among the nearest relatives of the recently extinguished House of Barcelona through a maternal line.
If after investigation and drafting of the environmental assessment no substantial effects on the environment are found the agency may produce a Finding of No Significant Impact ( FONSI ).
* Finding of No Significant Impact ( FONSI ): Occurs when no significant impacts are identified in an EA.

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