Considering the high cost of the F-108 system -- over $4 billion for the force that had been planned -- and the time period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project.

He then decided to become a lawyer and began teaching himself law by reading Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and other law books.

In 1941, van Vogt decided to become a full-time writer, quitting his job at the Canadian Department of National Defence.

He decided at an early age to become a painter, and moved to Paris in 1881 to study art.

Capp had already decided to become a cartoonist.

The designers of the language decided to make the compiler available free of charge so that the language would become widespread.

The agreement proposed that an " international administration " would be established in an area shaded brown on the agreement's map, which was later to become Palestine, and that the form of the administration would be " decided upon after consultation with Russia, and subsequently in consultation with the other allies, and the representatives of the sheriff of Mecca ".

Griffith decided to become an actor, and appeared in many plays as an extra.

His study of law was short-lived however and in 1734 Diderot decided to become a writer.

Afterwards, realizing that Clegg had become too notorious, Syn decided to abandon his quest and return to England, and Mipps set up a second " accidental " explosion to destroy the Imogene and her crew.

Young and Allen eventually decided to collaborate on a book intended to be an attack on organized religion, as Young had convinced Allen to become a Deist.

Unlike his older brother Bonomo he did not step into the company, but decided to become an author.

The piano teacher later decided to make a career change and become a children's agent, as she knew people in the business through her daughter's work.

Shearer attended UCLA as a political science major in the early 1960s and decided to quit show business to become a " serious person ".

" By 1965 Rosenbloom had decided to stop manufacturing guitars and chose to become the exclusive North American distributor for Ibanez guitars.

Macdonald's parents decided he should become a lawyer after leaving school.

He decided to leave the army and become a cotton planter with his brother Joseph ; this may have been partly due to Zachary Taylor's concerns.

In his teens he was fascinated by Walt Disney's " Silly Symphonies " and decided to become an animator.

Following this victory, Alboin decided to lead his people to Italy, which had become severely depopulated after the long Gothic War ( 535 – 554 ) between the Byzantine Empire and the Ostrogothic Kingdom there.

I decided that if I could get into as many pictures as possible, I'd become known, and there would be a demand for my work.

It has been reported that Abu Qulabah narrated: Some of the Companions of the Prophet ( peace be on him ) decided to relinquish the world, forsake their wives, and become like monks.

Like many children in postwar Japan, Miyazaki decided he wanted to become a manga artist during high school.

After the war he decided to become a comedian and worked in the Windmill Theatre where he met Harry Secombe.

By 1936, having spent a year working on an M. A., he decided to become a professional writer.

However, the nearly 78-year-old Hughes decided to let the Country Party leader, Arthur Fadden, become Prime Minister even though the Country Party was the nominal junior partner in the Coalition.

He decided to turn his back on society, take Buddhist vows, and became a hermit, living outside the capital.

This somewhat mysterious phrase is most likely to refer to the two " men " from whose oppressive power Saint Marinus had decided to separate himself, becoming a hermit on Mount Titano: respectively the Emperor and the Pope.

Cholmeley, a former Chief Justice and local landowner, decided to found a charitable school for poor boys from the local parishes, and acquired from the Bishop of London some land on the site of the old gatehouse to the Bishop ’ s park and hermit ’ s chapel ( opposite the Gatehouse Inn, which still exists ).

Billy decided to set an example by arresting one of the ranchers, named Ed Dunn, who lived at Rock Fort.

It was at this point that Pike decided to capitalize on the bad feelings between the two men.

But the Cunard line, influenced by unpleasant economic facts and not sentiment, has decided to keep the Queen Mary in service until next Spring at least.

Having hedged its bets in this way, PHS apparently decided it would be possible to make some sort of determination after all: `` At present radiation levels, and even at somewhat higher levels, the additional risk is slight and very few people will be affected ''.

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.

I decided I hated the Pedersen kid too, dying in our kitchen while I was away where I couldn't watch, dying just to entertain Hans and making me go up snapping steps and down a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the end like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling.

In 1793 the brothers decided to enter the University of Copenhagen ( founded in 1479 ) and the following spring found them at the university preparing to matriculate for the autumn session.

A long flat known as the St. John field seemed to answer their purpose, and since the Winooski bridges were at last passable, they decided to use it.

But she decided to stay at Spelman.

The maid answered and he decided Nancy must be at work.

He glanced at his watch, saw it was only seven, and decided to indulge his weakness now.

But he decided he wouldn't mind company in return for free drinks, even though he made good money at his job.

We met at Maxine's and decided we were set to stay as long as it took, into or even through the evening, to talk things out.

Resentment welled up yesterday among Democratic district leaders and some county leaders at reports that Mayor Wagner had decided to seek a third term with Paul R. Screvane and Abraham D. Beame as running mates.

But after that service, they decided to try to let the girls say grace at the table, have bedtime prayers, and Bible stories.

Moreover, the President is meeting the Soviet leader at a time when the Administration has still not decided on the scope of America's firm foreign policy commitments.

Secretary-General Hammarskjold decided that it would be preferable if the U.N. troops sent into the Congo were to come from African, or at least nonwhite, nations -- certainly not from the U.S., Russia, Great Britain or France.

I saw that I would soon run out of buildings at this rate, so I decided to take another measure -- the whole state of Pennsylvania.

Then Via called to say they had decided to cremate her -- as they had Ellen, the thought leaped to my mind -- and did I want to meet her at the funeral home the next morning.

The standards committee decided against shifting, and so ASCII required at least a seven-bit code.

Moseley, after discussions with Bohr who was at the same lab ( and who had used Van den Broek's hypothesis in his Bohr model of the atom ), decided to test Van den Broek and Bohr's hypothesis directly, by seeing if spectral lines emitted from excited atoms fit the Bohr theory's demand that the frequency of the spectral lines be proportional to a measure of the square of Z.

Gen. George H. Thomas moved against the Confederates, Crittenden decided to attack one of the two parts of Thomas's command at Logan's Cross Roads near Mill Springs before the Union forces could unite.

With Beauregard's help, Johnston decided to concentrate forces with those formerly under Polk and now already under Beauregard's command at the strategically located railroad crossroads of Corinth, Mississippi, which he reached by a circuitous route.

In the summer of 1996, the RNLI decided to station a lifeboat at Kildownet.