Their possessions consisted of cattle and gold, because these were the only things they could carry about with them everywhere according to circumstances and shift where they chose.

The local authority considered demolishing these properties but chose to refurbish them as part of an Urban Renewal scheme.

The marketing department chose “ Land-O-Matic ” to imply that these aircraft were much easier to land and take off than the preceding conventional landing gear equipped Cessna 170.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that these king " chose Edward as father and lord ".

Most opposition parties chose to boycott these elections.

Viruses were known to be made up of a protein shell and DNA, so they chose two elemental isotopes to label each of these parts uniquely.

He had not yet broken with the mendicant friars, and from these John of Gaunt chose Wycliffe's defenders.

" He responded to such rumours by telling Playboy and other interviewers that he was not gay, and telling Lesley White of the Sunday Times, " I chose for a long time not to answer these questions because of the manner in which they were asked, and because I was never talking to someone I trusted, so why should I?

Of these, approximately 1410 players reported themselves as male, and 916 as female ; the remaining players either stayed with the default neuter gender, or deliberately chose another.

Breckinridge chose the nurse-midwifery model used in England and Scotland because she expected these nurse-midwives on horseback to serve the health care needs of the families living in the remote hills of eastern Kentucky.

In 1994 and 2003, when the ESRB and PEGI ( respectively ) video game ratings systems were introduced, Nintendo chose to abolish most of these policies in favor of consumers making their own choices about the content of the games they played.

New states gained independence during this turmoil, and many of these, such as Ireland, Poland, Finland and Czechoslovakia, chose republican forms of government.

Annie Ellsworth chose these words from the Bible ( Numbers 23: 23 ); her father, U. S. Patent Commissioner Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, had championed Morse's invention and secured early funding for it.

However, these interim bodies lacked any independent authority or de jure sovereignty, which was still held by the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea based in China, but U. S. leaders chose to ignore its legitimacy, partly due to the belief that it was communist-aligned.

One of these planets was Earth during the Triassic period where the Nuwali chose a valley in Antarctica surrounded by active volcanoes, where they installed a number of advanced technological devices in order to maintain a tropical climate.

She also chose Tau Ceti for a final shortlist of just five stars suitable for searches by the ( indefinitely postponed ) Terrestrial Planet Finder telescope system, commenting that " these are places I'd want to live if God were to put our planet around another star.

However, these scenes are not on the DVD as he changed his mind after recording the commentary ; Mendes felt that to show scenes he previously chose not to use would detract from the film's integrity.

In these circumstances, Parliament chose to act as an authority above the King.

Again according to the Azuma Kagami, the first of the Kamakura shoguns, Minamoto no Yoritomo, chose it as a base partly because it was his ancestors ' land ( his yukari no chi ), partly because of these physical characteristics.

The remaining pre-war population was treated as Germanized Poles and a policy of re-Polonization was pursued throughout the country Most of these " Autochthones " chose to emigrate to West Germany from the 1950s through 1970s ( between 1970 and 1988 55, 227 persons from Warmia and Masuria moved to Western Germany ).

Many kept these names, while others later chose their own.

Out of these she chose five representatives — three black, two white — all marvelously lively, intelligent, and articulate women who recall their experiences with a mixture of pleasant nostalgia and detached bitterness.

The 8086, 8088, and 80186 have a 20-bit address bus, but the unusual segmented addressing scheme Intel chose for these processors actually produces effective addresses which can have 21 significant bits.

Despite the unprecedented size of Pompey's corps of legates — he received the right to appoint 24 of these senior adjutants — for his scourge of the pirates from the Mediterranean, Afranius did not number amongst them, as his patron chose to cultivate his links with the Roman aristocracy by appointing only men of distinguished family.

With time, new arrivals to the state chose to live in these towns ( now veritable suburbs ) because, by some educational indicators, their school districts were more successful.

There is no mythology attached to Antlia as Lacaille discontinued the tradition of giving names from mythology to constellations and instead chose names mostly from scientific instruments.

A few institutions chose to keep their historic names, such as the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Xun Zi chapter ( 22 ) " On the Rectification of Names " claims the ancient sage-kings chose names () that directly corresponded with actualities (), but later generations confused terminology, coined new nomenclature, and thus could no longer distinguish right from wrong.

They gave themselves stage names ; Orbison chose his from his musical hero, calling himself " Lefty Wilbury " after Lefty Frizzell.

The XFL chose unusual names for its franchises, most of which either referenced images of uncontrolled insanity ( Maniax, Rage, Xtreme ), evil ( Demons ) or criminal activity ( Enforcers reference to mob enforcer s, Hitmen, Outlaws, and the Birmingham Blast ).

If he chose to, he could turn his original nomen into an additional cognomen that followed his newly gained names.

When her husband asked her to drop one of her two official names, Victoria Mary, she chose to be called Mary, preferring not to take the name of her husband's grandmother, Queen Victoria.

Others chose their profession or habitat as family names: Bakker ( baker ), Slachter ( butcher ), van Dijk ( of dike ) etc.

Emilio Estévez and his sister Renee chose not to take their father Martin Sheen ’ s professional name and use their birth names ; however, their brother Carlos chose to use their father's professional name, and took the name Charlie Sheen.

The other names he chose for himself, Regentag and Dunkelbunt, translate to " Rainy day " and " Darkly multicoloured ".

" Apparently Joyce chose Stephens on superstitious grounds, as he had been born in the same hospital as Joyce, exactly one week later, and shared both the first names of Joyce himself and his fictional alter-ego Stephen Dedalus.

Recent young authors often chose grave pen names, and wrote on such topics as death.

From his historical Scottish novels, Otelia chose the place names of Windsor, Waverly and Wakefield.

The voters chose the name Lincoln County for County A in honor of President Abraham Lincoln, selecting it over the names Sac and Fox and Springer.

In the election, some voters chose a site near the center of the county, but a larger number voted for several different named sites ( which may have been different names for the settlement known as " Skinned Chestnut " or " Skin ( t ) Chestnut "— the early name of Douglasville ).

" Then, when it came time to choose a name for the band, Alan made a list of over 100 names and threw Spock's Beard on the end as a joke, and the band chose it.

A committee of three men from Scranton, Pennsylvania, was responsible for choosing a name from among the entries ; although it considered the names " Wellington " and " Gladmere ", it chose the name " Bethany Beach " suggested by H. L. Atkinson of the University of Chicago.

They also chose the names for the streets, those running north and south after American Presidents, and the east and west streets after Czechoslovak poets, writers, and national patriots and heroes.

From his historical Scottish novels, Otelia chose the place names of Waverly, as well as Windsor and Wakefield.

First names, or even nicknames, are often widely used among politicians in the US, even in formal situations ( as an extreme example, President James Earl " Jimmy " Carter chose to take the Oath of Office using his nickname ).

In common with the early punk bands, various members took on stage names — Milarky became " Johnnie Plague ", Kerr became " Pripton Weird ", MacNeil chose " Sid Syphilis " and Burchill chose " Charlie Argue ".