For convenience we chose a stronger pigment, unknown to the early Italians or to Brumidi, titanium oxide, reserving the active lime white for highest lights, put on at the end of the day's stint.

To end the opposition from labor unions ( which wanted no training programs started when so many of their men were unemployed ) Roosevelt chose Robert Fechner, vice president of the American Machinists Union, as director of the corps.

Toward the end of her career, Plato chose roles that could be considered erotic or even softcore pornography.

Heracles chose a voluntary death, asking that a pyre be built for him to end his suffering.

At the end of his second term Jacques Chirac chose not to run again at the age of 74.

Passengers who chose not to walk down the escalators were asked to stand on the right so that anyone wishing to overtake them at the end would be able to take advantage of the extra section of moving stairway.

Only 16 of 80 " contestants " ( teachers ) chose to end the game before delivering the highest voltage punishment.

In October 1918, Romania joined the war again and by the end of the war, the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires had disintegrated ; governing bodies created by the Romanians of Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina chose union with the Kingdom of Romania, resulting in Greater Romania.

In the end, Mustafa chose to enter his father's tent, confident that the support of the army would protect him.

This attitude of Hitler's was further shown at the very end of the war, when he refused to station himself in the OKW bunker in Berlin, claiming that he did not ' trust the strength of army concrete ', however the true reason was probably that he feared another generals ' plot and so chose to stay in his own headquarters, surrounded by an apparently more loyal SS retinue.

Rejecting the offer, Louis chose to continue fighting until the bitter end.

However, cassette Walkman innovation would come to an end as during its 25th Anniversary, Sony chose to not introduce another limited run cassette model but instead, brought out the hard disk based NW-HD1 in 2004 to officially augur the death of the compact cassette.

Boole considered converting to Judaism but in the end chose Unitarianism.

During the reign of Ferdinand ( 1367 – 1383 ) and under the regency of Leonora the ruling dynasty ceased to represent the national will ; the Portuguese people therefore made an end of the dynasty and chose its own ruler.

Stevens and producer Anthony M. Taylor wanted a device to make the film unique, and, to this end, chose Esperanto as the film's language.

The city's independence came to an end when it chose to join forces with the Spanish during the Eighty Years ' War in 1594.

Angered over the reduction of his program for the second time, Keeshan chose to step down at the end of 1984, after his contract with CBS expired.

On both occasions, a player whammied a late spin and chose to pass to the only player with money remaining, desiring that player to end on a Whammy and invoke the tie rule.

Legislative Council President Tsang chose to end debate without calling for a cloture vote, which is questionable.

Kaller chose four ethnic Poles as canon candidates to replenish the chapter to the end that ethnic Poles and Germans would each have half the seats.

Initially, St. Jerome's and Waterloo Lutheran were both expected to federate with the new UW, but in the end Waterloo Lutheran chose to remain independent.

Upon their arrival in New Amsterdam, Huguenots were offered land directly across from Manhattan on Long Island for a permanent settlement and chose the harbor at the end of Newtown Creek, becoming the first Europeans to live in Brooklyn, NY, then known as Boschwick, today known as Bushwick.

A view of Grose Valley from Govetts Leap, the site where Childe chose to end his life.

The situation is reflected in the plot, since audiences are kept guessing until the end who Arthur's character would chose to marry.

And in the role of Will Danaher, Philip Bosco roars and sneers sufficiently to intimidate not only one American but the whole British army, if he chose.

Queen Victoria chose British Columbia to distinguish what was the British sector of the Columbia District from that of the United States (" American Columbia " or " Southern Columbia "), which became the Oregon Territory in 1848 as a result of the treaty.

James Gelvin, a Middle East history professor, cites at least three reasons for why the British government chose to support Zionist aspirations.

The line the British chose to defend stretched between the sea and the Qattara Depression, which meant that Rommel could outflank it only by taking a significant detour to the south and crossing the Sahara Desert.

In addition, the fact that Ribbentrop chose to spend as little time as possible in London in order to stay close to Hitler irritated the British Foreign Office immensely, as Ribbentrop's frequent absences prevented the handling of many routine diplomatic matters.

Neville Chamberlain's European Policy in 1939 was based upon creating a " peace front " of alliances linking Western and Eastern European states to serve as a " tripwire " meant to deter any act of German aggression The new “ containment ” strategy adopted in March 1939 comprised giving firm warnings to Berlin, increasing the pace of British rearmament and attempting to form an interlocking network of alliances that would block German aggression anywhere in Europe by creating such a formidable deterrence to aggression that Hitler could not rationally chose that option.

The British occultist Aleister Crowley chose the spelling to differentiate the occult from stage magic and defined it as " the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will ", including both " mundane " acts of will as well as ritual magic.

When Wilson re-entered government in 1974 Jenkins returned to the Home Office, but, increasingly disenchanted by the swing to the left of the Labour Party, he chose to leave British politics in 1976 and was appointed President of the European Commission in 1977, serving until 1981: he was the first and to date only British holder of this office.

Thomas Jefferson, who felt that the procedure resembled the Speech from the Throne delivered by British monarchs, chose instead to send written messages to Congress for reading by clerks.

They were disappointed in this, since both the Dutch and the British chose to pursue a policy of neutrality.

He chose to join the service of the British East India Company and in 1802 at the age of 18 boarded the East Indiaman Brunswick.

This was also true of author and actress Fannie Flagg, who chose this pseudonym ; her real name, Patricia Neal, being the name of another well-known actress ; and British actor Stewart Granger, whose real name was James Stewart.

The captain of the Admiral Graf von Spee, Hans Langsdorff, believing that his damaged ship was faced with a superior British force, chose to scuttle his ship to spare the lives of his men.

He initially chose to use a voice with a British accent that he named " Lawrence ", but then switched to a high quality voice with an American accent included with Mac OS X named " Alex ".

When the colony was captured by the British in 1781, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Kingston chose the mouth of the Demerara River for the establishment of a town which was situated between Plantations Werk-en-rust and Vlissengen.

At a meeting with Hitler in Munich, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, ( 1869 – November 1940 ), and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier chose diplomacy over war.

The British, however, on their arrival in the late eighteenth ( 18th ) century, chose to develop Calcutta, now the capital city of West Bengal, as their commercial and administrative center in South Asia.

When the British government eventually chose to centralise and regulate the system in 1872 the Scottish school system was initially placed under a " Scotch Education Department " with offices in London.

In 1937 the British Royal Air Force ( RAF ) chose a set of six essential flight instruments which would remain the standard panel used for flying in Instrument Meteorological Conditions ( IMC ) for the next 20 years.

Chamberlain favoured a more belligerent stance, but Salisbury chose to tread tentatively, and even the Prime Minister's cautious reply to the American demand provoked President Grover Cleveland to imply in December 1895 that war might be the result of British non-compliance.

Arnold, whose business activities before the war had included sailing ships to Europe and the West Indies, carefully chose the site where he wanted to meet the British fleet.