Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

In The Law Of Civilization And Decay Brooks Adams traced this evolution, always pointing to the fact that although the forms became more rational, the substance remained unchanged.

But as the more concrete plans for the work of the Council gradually became known, there was a rather sharp and abrupt disappointment on all sides.

But it had largely disappeared on account of protest by the whites and through growing resentment on the part of the Negroes as they became more educated and got better wages.

The weeks went by, and the longer our separation grew, the more unbounded and almost unbearable my fantasies became.

The more I talked with him, the more convinced I became that that was the secret of their riotous blooming.

In many cases the revolutionary production has offered no more than sensational effects: the first hearing was fascinating and the second disillusioning as the gap between sound and substance became clearer.

Eventually such incidents became more sporadic, and more sharply demarcated from her day-after-day behavior, and in one particular session, after several minutes of such behavior -- which, as usual, went on without any accompanying words from her -- she asked, eagerly, `` Did you see Granny ''??

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

Law became a conscious process, something more than simply doing justice and looking to local customs and a common morality for applicable norms.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

As the material at the command of the potters grew and the volume of their production increased, the local variations within a common style became more evident.

Through 1911 and 1912, as the Cubist facet-plane's tendency to adhere to the literal surface became harder and harder to deny, the task of keeping the surface at arm's length fell all the more to eye-undeceiving contrivances.

and as the aspect of the subject was transposed into those clusters of more or less interchangeable and contour-obliterating facet-planes by which plasticity was isolated under the Cubist method, the subject itself became largely unrecognizable.

Hardy's two productive decades were separated by forty years, yet between them he developed only in that he became more steadily himself -- it was a narrowing, not an expanding process.

Thereafter seed and food became more plentiful and the colony remained in the north the year round.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

To many a Frenchman -- they came 95 years ago, colonized, and stayed until Laos became independent in 1953 -- the land had been even more delightfully tranquil than Tahiti.

When cattle became more valuable, ranch owners frowned upon this practice and it was discontinued, at least when the boss was 'round.

As their identity diffusion increased, they became more susceptible to sporadic diversions in love and sexual affairs.

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

He became particularly interested in graduating and precision measurement during the 1840's, and his thinking along these lines developed considerably during this period.

After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World, for a nation that does not believe in the cult of personality or in careerism, Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said: `` I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum, or how far it can fly.

a review of the philosophy of Communist leaders by Ted Slack, another real estate agent who became interested as a philosophy major at the University of Miami ; ;

Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.

In 1948 Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Laboratory at Manchester University, where he assisted in the development of the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology.

He became interested in Kemmerich's boots and inherits them when Kemmerich dies early in the novel.

Around 1924 Whorf first became interested in linguistics.

The ambitious Holly became increasingly interested in the New York music / recording / publishing scene, while his band mates wanted to go back home to Lubbock.

Beatrix Potter Heelis became keenly interested in the breeding and raising of Herdwick sheep, the indigenous fell sheep, soon after acquiring Hill Top Farm.

It was an isolated performance, but at nine years old Chaplin became interested in the theatre.

The trip had been a stimulating experience for Chaplin, including meetings with several prominent thinkers, and he became increasingly interested in world affairs.

After gold was discovered and became a precious metal, many people were interested to find a method that could convert other substances into gold.

Throughout ITV's history and until Channel 4 finally became a reality, a perennial dialogue existed between the GPO, the government, the ITV companies and other interested parties, concerning the form such an expansion of commercial broadcasting would take.

During his early journalism career, Marker became increasingly interested in filmmaking and experimented with photography in the early 1950s.

Elsie left open the possibility that she believed she had photographed her thoughts, and the media once again became interested in the story.

The media subsequently once again became interested in Frances and Elsie's photographs.

He later took up the mandolin, became interested in country music, and played guitar with Arlo Guthrie.

However, Commodore UK lost its financial backing after several larger companies, including Gateway Computers and Dell Inc., became interested, primarily for Commodore's 47 patents relating to the Amiga.

As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors ' Studio.

As a teenager, McLean became interested in folk music, particularly the Weavers ' 1955 recording At Carnegie Hall.

He became seriously interested in learning how to fly in 1959.

At the turn of the 20th century, moral theories became more complex and are no longer concerned solely with rightness and wrongness, but are interested in many different kinds of moral status.