Forgoing college, Norris joined the United States Air Force in 1956 and was trained as a nuclear weapons specialist, taking courses at the University of New Mexico.

Forgoing the philosophical and Latin references used by Enlightenment era writers, he structured Common Sense as if it were a sermon, and relied on Biblical references to make his case to the people.

Forgoing the experimentalism of Twin Infinitives, the band instead opted for a more lo-fi approach, recording on an 8-track.

Forgoing medical care in favor of orthomolecular treatments can lead to adverse health outcomes.

Forgoing his senior season, García decided to go professional and enter the ranks of the NBA.

Plans for a brief tour with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt to promote their 1987 collaboration Trio fell through, due to the three artists ' conflicting schedules, as well as Parton's prior commitment to her 1987-88 ABC TV series.

In fact, Olwen Hufton notes about the Counter-Revolutionary women: “ for it is her commitment to her religion which determines in the post-Thermidorean period the re-emergence of the Catholic Church …”.

The Michigan Mental Health Code provides that a person " whose judgment is so impaired that he or she is unable to understand his or her need for treatment and whose continued behavior as the result of this mental illness can reasonably be expected, on the basis of competent clinical opinion, to result in significant physical harm to himself or herself or others " may be subjected to involuntary commitment, a provision paralleled in the laws of many other jurisdictions.

One day, to reward him for his loyalty and commitment to her, she told him that the key to his future was outside the temple.

The core view of this group was their disagreement with the former Western Australian Minister for Education ( Ljiljanna Ravlich ) in respect to her commitment to implement OBE.

Also, only a total commitment to her cause could have allowed Möller to have herself inflicted the four stab wounds found near her heart.

Gates McFadden was reluctant to accept the role of Dr. Crusher because of her commitment to appear in the play The Matchmaker at the La Jolla Playhouse.

Francine has difficulty bringing herself to make a romantic commitment to Katchoo, partly due to her Methodist upbringing and partly because of her childhood dream to become a wife and mother.

Unlike her friends, she is capable of deep commitment, as exemplified by her fulfilling her promise to her dead father, and caring for the cougar, Bagheera, bred by her father for his researches.

In 1994, she received the Right Livelihood Award ( also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize ), "... For her commitment to justice, non-violence and understanding of minorities as well as her love and caring for nature.

Redemptoris Missio, subtitled On the permanent validity of the Church's missionary mandate, is a papal encyclical by Pope John Paul II published on December 7, 1990 devoted to the subject of " the urgency of missionary activity " and in which he wished " to invite the Church to renew her missionary commitment

Elizabeth was renowned throughout and beyond Russia for the balls she held and her fierce commitment to the arts, particularly music, theater, and architecture.

After reuniting with Kelly, the pair profess their love for each other but, realizing a future together would be impossible due to her commitment to her family, they part.

Albert first considered becoming a minister but instead he turned to the study of mathematics and physics, where he later became a co-inventor of the x-ray microscope and author of one of the most widely used physics textbooks in the U. S. The Baez family converted to Quakerism during Joan's early childhood, and she has continued to identify with the tradition, particularly in her commitment to pacifism and social issues.

The École Militaire, for the creation of which she successfully lobbied the king, showed her commitment to the training of officers from poor families of the aristocracy.

Stanley had filled out the return and because, when he was finished, it was close to the lunch hour, he had politely asked Kitti to join him, never expecting her to accept.

They swam to Nicosian and attempted to join the six man-boarding party by climbing up her hanging lifeboat falls and pilot ladder.

Lucilla is then " betrayed ", and taken before the Great Honored Matre Dama, who tries to persuade her to join the Honored Matres, preserving her life in exchange for Bene Gesserit secrets.

A vision of St. Dominic strengthened her, though, but her wish to join his Order was no comfort to Lapa, who took her daughter with her to the baths in Bagno Vignoni to improve her health.

Soon she fell seriously ill with violent rash, fever and pain, which conveniently made her mother accept her wish to join the " Mantellate ", the local association of Dominican tertiary Sisters.

In 1967, country entertainer Porter Wagoner invited Parton to join his organization, offering her a regular spot on his weekly syndicated television program The Porter Wagoner Show, as well as in his road show.

The other Sabine Women join in her exhortations.

On July 24, 1936, the Republican cruiser Méndez Núñez arrived at Santa Isabel ; on its way back to Spain the officers planned to join the rebellion, but the Spanish government, knowing this, ordered the ship to go back to the colony ; on August 14 the Méndez Núñez was back in Fernando Poo, where the sailors took control of her ; on September 21 the ship arrived in Málaga ( Republican Spain ).

In addition to performing for the Pope, the singer participated in a live broadcast on British television for Christmas Eve in 1997, before she flew home to County Donegal to join her family at midnight Mass.

From there ' the younger Henry, devising evil against his father from every side by the advice of the French King, went secretly into Aquitaine where his two youthful brothers, Richard and Geoffrey, were living with their mother, and with her connivance, so it is said, he incited them to join him '.

One source claimed that the Queen sent her younger sons to France ' to join with him against their father the King '.

" Stating that she was willing to sacrifice herself by jumping into the Seine if Robespierre were to join her, de Gouges desperately attempted to grab the attention of the French citizenry and alert them to the dangers that Robespierre embodied.

Her husband would ultimately join her in Bologna.

They became friends and, within a year, he asked her to join him in Los Angeles for another attempt to record his first solo album.

She invited him, his brothers, and his sisters to join her on meditation retreats.

Having absorbed some secret haunting memories, she needs to get away from the X-Men and Iceman volunteers to join her on a road trip, though at the same time he was starting to see visions of Emma Frost.

In October 1990, Major and Douglas Hurd, Major's successor as Foreign Secretary, finally persuaded Thatcher to allow Britain to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism, a move which she had resisted for some years, and which had been a cause of her quarrels with Howe and Lawson.

Locke's close friend Lady Masham invited him to join her at the Mashams ' country house in Essex.

Her rage at losing makes her join the Greeks in the battle against Paris's Trojans, a key event in the turning point of the war.

Bertha von Suttner was awarded the 1905 Nobel Peace prize, ' for her sincere peace activities '.

By the terms of the Thirty Years ' Peace ( 445 BC ) Athens covenanted to restore to Aegina her autonomy, but the clause remained a dead letter.

Awareness in the United States of the conflict in Guatemala, and its ethnic dimension, increased with the 1983 publication of the " testimonial " account I, Rigoberta Menchú ; Rigoberta Menchú was later awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in favor of broader social justice.

Ono wrote a song about her daughter, " Don't Worry Kyoko ( Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow )," which appears on Lennon and Ono's album Live Peace In Toronto 1969 and her album Fly.

She returned to No. 1 on the same charts in November 2004 with " Everyman ... Everywoman ...," a reworking of her song " Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him ", in January 2008, with " No No No ," and in August 2008, with " Give Peace a Chance.

On her 78th Birthday, February 18, 2011, Ono took out a full page advert in the UK free newspaper Metro for ' Imagine Peace 2011 '.

In 2002, Ono inaugurated her own peace award, The LennonOno Grant for Peace, by giving $ 50, 000 (£ 31, 900 ) prize money to artists living " in regions of conflict.

In 1648, Sweden became a guarantee power for the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years ' War and left her with the additional dominions of Bremen-Verden, Wismar and Swedish Pomerania.

Of particular note, Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace – her magnum opus, as well as completing translations of Rilke, Mann, Chekov, Veraline, Akmatova, Shakespeare, and Petrarch, among others, plus many other works including reference books and works for children.

Peace may have broken out but it was perfectly clear that Margaret was still not fully trusted, and access to her son was strictly limited.

The marriage of Charles VIII to Duchess Anne of Brittany had allowed the eventual return of his fiance, young Margaret, to Burgundy and the care of her step-grandmother the Dowager Duchess ; the Peace of Senlis, which returned her to her family, also returned her dowry of the Counties of Artois and Palatine Burgundy, and laid down that Duke Philip would take up personal rule in the following year when he reached age 16.

Referring to Charles I of England, historian Veronica Wedgwood wrote this sentence in her 1955 book The King's Peace, 1637 – 1641: " The King in his natural optimism still believed that a silent majority in Scotland were in his favour.

Along with her participation in Farm Aid and Amnesty International concerts, Raitt traveled to Moscow in 1987 to participate in the first joint Soviet / American Peace Concert, later shown on the Showtime television network.

She also modelled for a number of her husband's works, notably Peace Concluded ( 1856 ), which idealises her as an icon of beauty and fertility.

Coming Home was conceived by Jane Fonda as the first feature for her own production company, IPC Films ( for Indochina Peace Campaign ), in association with Bruce Gilbert, an old friend from her protest days.

In 1743 he was elected heir to the throne of Sweden by the Hat faction in order that they might obtain better conditions at the Peace of Turku from Empress Elizabeth of Russia, who had adopted his nephew as her heir.

On her second visit to the capital, HMNZS Te Kaha served as venue for a series of peace talks culminating in the signing of the Townsville Peace Accord.

During the formative years of her career in the 1950s, country singer Loretta Lynn was often a featured star at Bill's Tavern on Peace Portal Drive in Blaine.