The horse is then set loose towards the North-East, to roam around wherever it chooses, for the period of one year ( or half a year, according to some commentators ).

The knight offers to lead Gawain to a bridge, but the hero chooses to jump the ford on his horse Gringolet.

After the Thing chooses to remain on an alien planet where he could change back to human form, Alicia falls in love with the dashing Human Torch, another member of the Fantastic Four.

He chooses the latter, and falls from his high estate by the will of Providence.

" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.

Specifically, if he / she chooses to determine the path, then he / she has no influence whatsoever over which of the two paths, the left one or the right one, nature will tell him / her is the one in which the particle is found.

Likewise, if he / she chooses to observe the interference pattern, then he / she has no influence whatsoever over where in the observation plane he / she will observe a specific particle.

Phoebe begins dating Mike Hannigan ( Paul Rudd ), and chooses to be with him over her ex-boyfriend David ( Hank Azaria ).

Most email clients offer a user option to prefer plain text over HTML ; this is an example of how local factors may affect how an application chooses which " best " part of the message to display.

When forced to choose, he chooses fulfillment of his sexual will over logic.

Despite the relative ease of executive agreements, the President still often chooses to pursue the formal treaty process over an executive agreement in order to gain congressional support on matters that require the Congress to pass implementing legislation or appropriate funds, and those agreements that impose long-term, complex legal obligations on the U. S.

In modern times, the Vice President rarely presides over day-to-day matters in the Senate ; in his place, the Senate chooses a President pro tempore ( or " president for a time ") to preside in the Vice President's absence ; the Senate normally selects the longest-serving senator in the majority party.

A very broad issue affecting the neutrality of science concerns the areas over which science chooses to explore, so what part of the world and man is studied by science.

He chooses action over contemplation, aware of the fact that nothing can last and no victory is final.

After Amelia finally chooses Becky's friendship over his during their stay in Germany, Dobbin leaves in disgust.

However, after this long time the Oversoul is beginning to fail, and it chooses a group of humans to return to Earth in search of the Keeper of Earth, in the hopes it will be able to find a way to maintain power over the people on Harmony.

Lord Raymond An ambitious young nobleman, Raymond becomes famous for his military efforts on behalf of Greece against the Turks, but eventually chooses love over his ambition to become King of England.

However, he ultimately chooses his love for Perdita over his ambition, and the two marry.

Since the Mind concerned chooses its own name this may sometimes even indicate a degree of self-hatred over its purpose for existence.

Bud chooses his father over his mentor and resolves to disrupt Gekko's plans.

Thus the time control " 20 minutes + 15 minutes byoyomi " on IGS means that after the initial 20 minutes of thinking time are over, a player is granted 15 additional minutes, which may be spent however he chooses.

Having the concern over this Yuuzhan Vong threat reinforced by these newly-met Republic aliens, and the arrogance of Jedi Master Jorus C ' baoth with his single-minded determination to not veer from Chiss space, Thrawn chooses to attack.

The Pope alone has the right to convoke, suspend, and dissolve an ecumenical council ; he also presides over it or chooses someone else to do so and determines the agenda ( can.

Therefore, Samkhya chooses representational realism over epistemological solipsism.

Early in the novel, she participates in a festival for Ceres, the goddess of the harvest, and when she performs a baptism she chooses a passage from Genesis, the book of creation, over more traditional New Testament verses.

The council chooses a City Manager, who holds administrative authority over the city government.

The election of a new Pope is often accompanied by conjecture over his choice of papal name ; it is widely believed that a Pope chooses the name of a predecessor whose teachings and legacy he wishes to continue.

The mayor is permitted to propose legislation to the Board of Aldermen and introduces the city budget, but possesses no veto power over what the Aldermen chooses to pass.

* 2005-Following final negotiations between the EU and Japan, ITER chooses Cadarache over Rokkasho for the site of the reactor.

If the Prime Minister dies in office, the Cabinet chooses an Interim Prime Minister, to run the government until a new government is placed in power.

When Henry VII dies, Henry VIII chooses Catherine as his wife, as his dying father requested.

Young Spock chooses the latter, and I Chaya dies peacefully.

In this view, Eustacia dies because she has internalised the community's values to the extent that, unable to escape Egdon without confirming her status as a fallen woman, she chooses suicide.

When Col's Mother dies, a corrupt politician named Vera Watkins makes a secret deal with Births, Deaths and Marriages, to pretend that she has a long lost son, as her political career reaches a landslide, and she chooses Col as he has no family left.

When one of Anne's caretakers, Matthew, dies of a heart attack, Anne chooses to give up the Avery Scholarship in order to stay at Green Gables and support Marilla.

In Real Life Writes Real Bad, Bud ’ s partner Kate dies of cancer, and Bud, rather than dealing with the tragedy, chooses to believe that his wife has abandoned him and refuses to believe that she has died.

In France, when one wishes to entertain at a restaurant and serve truly fine old red wines, one visits the restaurant well ahead of time, chooses the wines and, with the advice of the manager and his chef, builds the menu around them.

Often the organization reviving the language chooses a particular dialect, even standardizes one from several variants, and adds new forms, mainly modern vocabulary, through neologisms, extensions of meaning for old words, calques from sibling languages ( Arabic for Modern Hebrew, Welsh and Breton for Cornish ), or plain borrowings from the modern international languages.

Unless otherwise indicated in advance, poetry readings almost always involve poets reading their own work or reciting it from memory — the recitation of a work by another poet is normally the act of a well-known poet who chooses to read a few poems by lesser-known poets or old friends that the poet feels should be more widely recognized.

He chooses to arrive exactly at midnight and appears in a flash of lightning purely for the dramatic effect, something the old Death finds demeaning and rather excessive.

Crowley also referred to the Left-Hand Path when describing the point at which the Adeptus Exemptus ( such as his old Christian mentor, Macgregor Mathers ) chooses to cross the Abyss, which is the location of Choronzon and the illusory eleventh Sephira, which is Da ' ath or Knowledge.

The book Washington Square and The Heiress have an old maid heroine who ultimately chooses to remain a spinster and embraces the freedom of not having to enter marriage.

In The Crystal Shard he chooses to ally himself with the wizard Akar Kessel, on the promise that when Kessel died ( which wouldn't be long in Errtu's view, even if Kessel died of old age ), he would gain Crenshinibon.

When one Anome grows old, he chooses his successor, a system hundreds of years old.

Sir Isumbras, with no hesitation, chooses to have wealth in his old age, since: