His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

Though there has been some avant garde indication that contemporary furniture might go back to the boxy look of the '20's and '40's, two manufacturers chose to take the approach of the sophisticated, but warm look in contemporary.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

Furthermore, masters who chose to kill slaves rather than take the risk were liable to be charged with murder.

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.

On the day set for the crossing of Mount Cadmos, Louis chose to take charge of the rear of the column, where the unarmed pilgrims and the baggage trains marched.

Werbach endorsed building an environmental movement that is more relevant to average Americans, and controversially chose to lead Wal-Mart's effort to take sustainability mainstream.

PASOK and DIMAR chose to take a limited role in Samaras ' Cabinet, being represented by party officials and independent technocrats instead of MPs.

Even after taking control of the Duchy of Normandy he did not take the title of Duke, he chose to control it as the King of England.

Alexander thus chose to retire from the army and take up the new position, and, in anticipation of his viceregal posting, was on 26 January 1946 appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.

Monroe was not particularly interested in legal theory or practice, but chose to take it up because he thought that it offered " the most immediate rewards " and could ease his path to wealth, social standing, and political influence.

When Nehru presented Lord Linlithgow with the demands, he chose not to take them seriously.

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.

Mitsuhide chose that time to take a unit of his men and surrounded the Honnō-ji while sending another unit of Akechi troops to assault Myōkaku-ji, initiating a full coup d ' état.

However, as with his predecessor Pope Pius XII, he chose to have the coronation itself take place on the balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica, in view of the crowds assembled in Saint Peter's Square below.

Dissatisfied with the cleanup measures undertaken by the Second Republic and convinced that the current disoriented state would collapse into communism, they chose to take matters into their own hands.

However, this meeting took place after George W. Bush had become the President of the United States and had rejected the Kyoto Protocol in March 2001 ; as a result the United States delegation to this meeting declined to participate in the negotiations related to the Protocol and chose to take the role of observer at the meeting.

Wallace chose to take the " upper " path, which was much less used and considered in better condition, and which would lead him to reinforce the " right " side of Sherman's last known ( initial ) position at Shiloh Church.

Gelimer, with 11, 000 men under his command, had advance warning of the approach of Belisarius ' 15, 000-man army and chose to take a strong position along the road to Carthage near the post marker.

When Gladstone retired after the defeat of the second Home Rule Bill in 1894, the Welsh Liberal members chose him to serve on a deputation to William Harcourt to press for specific assurances on Welsh issues ; when those were not provided, they resolved to take independent action if the government did not bring a bill for disestablishment.

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.

Dülffer contended that either option were both less expensive, would take less time and more achievable given German resources than the Z Plan which Raeder chose.

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.

Avoiding the obvious temptation to release a greatest hits compilation of his television hits, Walden chose to explore and expand his musical vocabulary.

If, as she walked, her steps fumbled from time to time, she chose to ignore that omen.

`` He chose one from Mr. Miller's window, a plain guitar with no fancy polish.

On the contrary, Miss Mao and Mr. Fuller chose many of their arrangements from the works of composers such as Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Canteloube, Copland and Britten.

These stateless societies are not less evolved than societies with states, but chose to conjure the institution of authority as a separate function from society.

Traditional Calvinists believe in the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, which says that because God chose some unto salvation and actually paid for their particular sins, he keeps them from apostasy and that those who do apostatize were never truly regenerated ( that is, born again ) or saved.

He was prevented from following up his victory by trouble in Africa, which he chose to settle in person.

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.

Because of the market success of the NES, companies chose to develop for it first and were thus barred from developing the same games on competing systems for two years.

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.

For this reason, the hospital chose to continue the induced hypothermia technique for all of its comatose patients that suffered from cardiac arrest.

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.

Hevelius chose the name Asterion ( from the Greek ' αστέριον, meaning the " little star ", the diminutive of ' αστηρ the " star ", or adjective meaning " starry ") for the northern dog and Chara ( from the Greek χαρά, meaning " joy ") for the southern dog, as Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs, in his star atlas.

She got her knowledge of Troy from the Histoire ancienne jusqu ' à César, and chose an anti-Trojan position.

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.

It was after returning to Edinburgh in 1752, as he wrote in My Own Life, that " the Faculty of Advocates chose me their Librarian, an office from which I received little or no emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library ".

In a move that provoked mixed reaction from both fans and critics, Bowie chose Nine Inch Nails as his tour partner for the Outside Tour.

Detective Comics Inc. soon launched a fourth title, Action Comics, and the premiere of which introduced Superman ( a character with which Wheeler-Nicholson had no direct involvement ; editor Vin Sullivan chose to run the feature after Sheldon Mayer rescued it from the slush pile ).

They also note that the discoverers of the two planets around NN Serpentis were confronted with multiple suggestions from various official sources and finally chose to use the designations " NN Ser c " and " NN Ser d ."

Only his family was told, however, and as the doctors gave Sullivan very little time, the family chose to keep the diagnosis from him.

De Rancon however chose to march further, deciding in concert with the Count of Maurienne ( Louis ´ uncle ) that a nearby plateau would make a better camp: such disobedience was reportedly common in the army, due to the lack of command from the King.

Also, it is said that Erasmus chose to remain a Roman Catholic because of a lecture he heard from Savonarola, the Dominican friar who was highly influential in Florence for a time.