The straight, black hair flopped in a vigorous nod, the slender nose plunged toward glass teeth and drew safely back.

The dream of a descent into the gardens of the south always drew German ambitions toward Rome and Sicily.

Wanting a loyal workforce, he developed a town agenda that drew upon environmentalism as well as popular attitudes toward capital's treatment of labor.

During Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign Wheeler's cavalry corps screened the flanks of the Army of Tennessee as Gen. Joseph E. Johnston drew back from several positions toward Atlanta.

The ban issued at Vilna drew the eyes of the world toward Hasidism.

Shortly after Melanchthon drew up the 1527 Articles of Visitation in June, Agricola began to be aggressive toward him, but Martin Luther succeeded in smoothing out the difficulty at Torgau in December 1527.

He drew upon his expertise in law and trade, to steer the regional body toward the development of a Caribbean jurisprudence through the Caribbean Court of Justice, and a borderless regional economy through the CARICOM Single Market, which came to fruition in 2005 and 2006 respectively.

The first group of the Qin army withdrew toward the Qin fortress and drew Zhao Kuo after them.

moving toward revolutionary industrial unionism, Denver's labor radicals were not building from scratch ; rather, they drew upon and elaborated ideas and strategies generated by the previous twenty years of Denver's labor history ... the labor wars of 1903-4 may have triggered the formation of the IWW, the ideological synthesis it would uphold had been worked out in the American Labor Union's leadership by the summer of 1903 ...

After Saigo's death, Beppu and the last of the " ex-samurai " drew their swords and plunged downhill toward the Imperial positions and to their deaths.

At 19: 30 the 22nd Mounted Yeomanry Brigade was moving toward Divisional Headquarters while the 6th Mounted Yeomanry Brigade drew back to a better position while Ottoman soldiers dug in on Hill 405.

# Diefenbach and West ( 2007 ) drew upon the third-person effect in their analysis of the relationship between amount of television viewing and attitudes toward mental health.

The offensive was not designed to win the war outright, but North Vietnam aimed to gain as much territory and destroy as many units of the ARVN as possible, to improve the North's negotiating position as the Paris Peace Accords drew toward a conclusion.

The act drew public attention to Jesus, who during the next few days was asked to define his position toward the conflicting parties in Jerusalem.

As Johns continued collecting comics, he gravitated toward DC Comics and later Vertigo Comics, and also drew comics.

The Freedom Democrats efforts drew national attention to the plight of African-Americans in Mississippi, and represented a challenge to President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for reelection ; their success would mean that other Southern delegations, who were already leaning toward Republican challenger Barry Goldwater, would publicly break from the convention's decision to nominate Johnson — meaning in turn that he would almost certainly lose those states ' electoral votes in the election.

The defending general, Guo Huai, had readied his troops to attack Chen Shui, but drew back as he recived intelligence that Zhuge Liang was marching toward Jiawei, a northern county of Wudu Commandery.

The company invested $ 15 million toward that end and drew in other major international investors and donors, including Microsoft, HP and Google.

At the end of the walk, Sheriff Smith drew a perpendicular line back toward the northeast, and claimed all the land east of these two lines ending at the Delaware River.

It drew on divine knowledge and precepts, and applied these laws in order to direct the individual toward right action and warn against wrong action.

In 1969, as Fairport drew increasingly from a British traditional folk repertoire, Matthews found out he had not been invited to a recording session and, after a short discussion with Ashley Hutchings, departed toward a musical direction of his own.

The book also included a chapter that attacked contemporary comic books as harmful to children ; because his critique drew about his view that it was a consequence of the aforementioned cultural permissive views toward violence he wasn't a leading voice during the subsequent debate about the impact of comics that instead was dominated by Fredric Wertham.

When WASC imposed severe sanctions against the college in July 2007, the core faculty tried to move the school toward greater democracy and accountability by forming a college-wide Faculty Council, an effort that drew praise from the accrediting agency.

The officer drew his gun after Bauer got out of the car and began heading toward the officer's car in an " aggressive manner.

He drew a line under it, by adopting the concept of composite polyarchy, which held sway subsequently.

Dürer either drew his design directly onto the woodblock itself, or glued a paper drawing to the block.

In 1833, Charles Babbage moved on from developing his difference engine ( for navigational calculations ) to a general purpose design, the Analytical Engine, which drew directly on Jacquard's punched cards for its program storage.

The MACSS team drew heavily on the influence of minicomputer processor design, such as the PDP-11 and VAX systems, which were similarly microcoded.

His efficient design drew praise in American scientific circles but by this time there were multiple competing versions of the marine propeller.

With influences that included the early 20th-century commercial artist J. C. Leyendecker, he drew for the school newspaper ( The Clintonian ), the literary magazine ( The Magpie ) and the yearbook, and did stage design, leading him to consider doing that kind of work for theater.

The educational program at Princeton in these years was a key factor in Venturi's development of an approach to architectural theory and design that drew from architectural history in analytical, as opposed to stylistic, terms.

The architecture of Robert Venturi, although perhaps not as familiar today as his books, helped redirect American architecture away from a widely practiced, often banal, modernism in the 1960s to a more exploratory, and ultimately indubitable, design approach that openly drew lessons from architectural history and responded to the everyday context of the American city.

In 1944, the United States Bureau of Reclamation chief design engineer, John L. Savage, surveyed the area and drew up a dam proposal for the ' Yangtze River Project '.

Barton drew a design very quickly, using a rooster on the crest, but it was much too complex.

The M14 drew styling cues from blocky, upright American luxury sedans of the period, but, unlike the M13 did not directly copy any one design.

Farrand drew influence in her design from her several tours through Europe, where she visited many notable gardens throughout Italy, France, Germany, and England.

The design of the current Chilean flag is commonly attributed to Bernardo O ' Higgins's Minister of War, José Ignacio Zenteno, having been designed by the Spanish soldier Antonio Arcos, although historians argue that is was Gregorio de Andía y Varela who drew it.

These Scottish castle palaces drew on Italian Renaissance designs, in particular the fashionable design of a quadrangular court with stair-turrets on each corner, using harling to giving them a clean, Italian appearance.

His self-declared trademark design is a spiral-zipped dress in ciré satin, first seen worn by Amanda Lear in Nova's cover story for its May 1970 issue, ' How To Undress for Your Husband ' and later featured as one of ' Princess Zonda's archetypal outfits in the advertisements Price drew himself for Plaza in the late seventies.

At the age of 73, the eminent architect Norman Shaw was brought in to resolve the design, and drew up proposals for the Circus and the Quadrant which were approved in principle, but still subject to indecision and dispute, both on property acquisition matters, and the retailers ' demand for bigger display windows.

In 1952, Focke and other members of his former design team were employed by Brazil's Centro Técnico Aeroespacial ( CTA ), at the time the air force's technical center, to develop a Convertiplane, the " Convertiplano ", which drew heavily on Focke's wartime work on the Fa 269.

In terms of hardware, the new motherboard was a cleaner design that drew less power and resolved audio noise issues that interfered with the Ensoniq synthesizer in the original motherboard.

Educational psychologists only infrequently drew on qualitative literatures in the past 11 years to design their research studies.

The design competition drew 329 entries from 28 countries.

The designers drew inspiration for the design from Antonio Sant ' Elia's drawings of Casa a gradinata and Marcel Breuer ’ s 1928 scheme for a hospital at Elberfeld, Indiana, another source of inspiration was Leslie Martin ’ s Bodleian Law Library in Oxford.

It is noted that drew inspiration from the similar design for Boston City Hall although a member of Madin ’ s design team said they had only seen this design after the library was complete.

Bernardo drew upon a variety of sources in arriving at his design for the tomb, including 14th-century wall tombs in Rome done by members of the so-called Cosmati school, as well as the recently executed tomb of Baldassare Coscia ( Antipope John XXIII ) by Donatello and the Brancacci tomb by Michelozzo.