Taking aim at the man's face, Matsuo squeezed the trigger up to the point of discharge, and then he changed his mind.

Suppose her father had changed his mind and had refused to let her leave??

Chewing it over with his colleagues and in his own mind, he reaches a tentative identification of the question -- tentative because it may change as he explores it further and because, if no tolerable answer can be found, it may have to be changed into one which can be answered.

This work has not changed the mind of any of the principal authors in the field, however.

But there is a hitch in the arrangements, and by the time another escape plan is arranged, Rambert has changed his mind.

But Ibn Habib soon changed his mind.

He formally resigned as Liberal leader and was succeeded by the Marquess of Hartington, but he soon changed his mind and returned to active politics.

Chaplin prepared to use spoken dialogue, but upon rehearsal changed his mind.

Soon after however, he changed his mind and recanted his order.

While in Vietnam, he attempted to commit suicide by swimming out to sea, but changed his mind more than a mile out.

Furthermore, various sources indicate that Husserl changed his mind about psychologism as early as 1890, a year before he published the Philosophy of Arithmetic.

Husserl stated that by the time he published that book, he had already changed his mind — that he had doubts about psychologism from the very outset.

Some Egyptologists suggest this Lower Chamber was intended to be the original burial chamber, but Pharaoh Khufu later changed his mind and wanted it to be higher up in the pyramid.

Four other librettists were then involved with the opera, as Puccini constantly changed his mind about the structure of the piece.

However, as political pressure in favor of further reform had risen over the twenty years since 1832, John Russell had changed his mind.

It is clear things have drastically changed: Gerald has lost his mind, Scarlett's mother is dead, her sisters are sick with typhoid fever, the field slaves left after Emancipation, the Yankees have burned all the cotton and there is no food in the house.

Soon realizing Frank also has money, Scarlett hatches a plot and tells Frank that Suellen has changed her mind about marrying him.

McLane and Crane had a previous handshake agreement for the franchise in 2008, but Crane abruptly changed his mind and broke off discussions.

Shortly before the books were to be shipped, Salinger changed his mind, and in accordance with his wishes, Orchises withdrew the work.

The idea was initially opposed by Largo Caballero, but after the first setbacks of the war, he changed his mind, and finally agreed to the operation on 22 October.

However, after providing war materiel for Israel through Czechoslovakia ( Arms shipments from Czechoslovakia to Israel 1947 – 1949 ), Stalin later changed his mind and came out against Israel.

Matched with Kasparov in the fifth round, the World Champion changed his mind after making a move and then made another move instead.

However, it is unclear whether Millet changed his mind on the meaning of the painting, or even if the shape actually is a coffin.

Olson pled not guilty to that charge at the time, but on November 7, she changed her mind and pled guilty.

He had initially intended to land in the Kremlin, but changed his mind: he reasoned that landing inside, hidden by the Kremlin walls, would have allowed the KGB to simply arrest him and deny the incident.

At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.

Yet, the object of the element of achieving through the process of goal attaining for this population appears to have been changed by circumstances brought about by the war.

Similarly, when Jean de Schelandre wrote about Banquo in his Stuartide in 1611, he also changed the character by portraying him as a noble and honourable man — the critic D. W. Maskell describes him as “… Schelandre's paragon of valour and virtue ”— probably for reasons similar to Shakespeare's.

After reading popular conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, participants in this study correctly estimated how much their peers ' attitudes had changed, but significantly underestimated how much their own attitudes had changed to become more in favor of the conspiracy theories.

He had believed that Mao's policies were largely responsible for the famine, but that Mao was misled about it, and finally when he found out, he stopped it and changed his policies.

That changed, however, in the 1960s, when Benoît Mandelbrot started writing about self-similarity in papers such as How Long Is the Coast of Britain?

As Xavier learned more about the religious nuances of the word, he changed to Deusu from the Latin and Portuguese Deus.

This section describes the history of the idea of feudalism, how the concept originated among scholars and thinkers, how it changed over time, and modern debates about its use.

Hints about this future war are dropped in several books earlier in the series beginning with Lawrence Miles's Alien Bodies and the war itself plays out as it would have originally done in Miles ' Faction Paradox series in which certain names are changed for copyright reasons ( the Time Lords become the Great Houses and Gallifrey becomes the Home World ).

At about this time he changed his name, drawing " Gavin " from a cerebral palsy victim in a TV drama, and " MacLeod " from his Ithaca drama coach, Beatrice MacLeod.

However, about once a week some character spots the fact that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that Stanley and I were taking a crack at the estimable institution ... As it happened, IBM had given us a good deal of help, so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence.

" Thus irreal works such as Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics and Jorge Luis Borges ' Ficciones can be seen as an attempt to find a new allegorical language to explain our changed perceptions of the world that have been brought about by our scientific and technical culture, especially concepts such as quantum physics or the theory of relativity.

Previously, it was called Quintilis in Latin, since it was the fifth month in the ancient Roman calendar, which traditionally set March as the beginning of the year before it was changed to January at the time of the decemvirs about 450 BC.

In 1994, after personal information about Hoover was released, the school's name was changed to reflect Herbert Hoover instead of J. Edgar Hoover.

Kemp notes that about half of his grandchildren play or have played organized soccer and claims to have since ' changed ' his position on soccer.

In addition to cross-cultural differences in understanding love, ideas about love have also changed greatly over time.

Ellis believed that many women who professed love for other women changed their feelings about such relationships after they had experienced marriage and a " practical life ".

Foster suggests that women would have encountered suspicion about their own lives had they used same-sex love as a topic, and that some writers including Louise Labé, Charlotte Charke, and Margaret Fuller either changed the pronouns in their literary works to male, or made them ambiguous.

Other authors of the time who wrote about Banquo, such as Jean de Schelandre in his Stuartide, also changed history by portraying Banquo as a noble man, not a murderer, probably for the same reasons.

In 1938, the Nazi government ( 1933 – 1945 ) changed thousands of toponyms ( especially names of cities and villages ) of Old Prussian and Polish origin to newly-created German names ; about 50 % of the existing names were changed in 1938 alone, despite resistance by the Prussian people, who continued to use their traditional place names.