`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

So, for happy years, Helva scooted around in her shell with her classmates, playing such games as Stall, Power-Seek, studying her lessons in trajectory, propulsion techniques, computation, logistics, mental hygiene, basic alien psychology, philology, space history, law, traffic, codes: all the et ceteras that eventually became compounded into a reasoning, logical, informed citizen.

It eventually became used for the descendant languages of Latin ( the Romance languages ) and then for most of the other languages of Europe.

Even more extreme, the Pahlavi abjad eventually became logographic.

Although he was committed to maintaining what the church had defined at Nicaea, Constantine was also bent on pacifying the situation and eventually became more lenient toward those condemned and exiled at the council.

The instrumental on that album, " Sirius ", eventually became the best-known ( or at least most frequently heard ) Parsons instrumental.

Although Amalaric eventually became king in his own right, the political continuity of the Visigothic kingdom was broken ; " Amalaric's succession was the result of new power structures, not old ones ," as Heather describes it.

The count of Barcelos, a personal enemy of the Duke of Coimbra ( despite being half-brothers ) eventually became the king's favourite uncle and began a constant struggle for power.

Hill eventually became a Carnegie collaborator.

As 10-BASE-T became the de-facto cabling system for Ethernet, second-generation Power Macintosh machines added a 10-BASE-T port in addition to the AAUI, and eventually dropped AAUI on Macs with the New World ROM.

He quickly became the most successful publisher in Germany, eventually owning twenty-four printing-presses and having many offices in Germany and abroad.

Although he eventually became a supporter of the claims of Lambert, he initially gave his support to Arnulf.

The question eventually became the focal point for a philosophical issue ( the theory of possible worlds ) and a theological topic on the distinction between God's absolute power ( potentia absoluta ) and His ordained power ( potentia ordinata ).

Alfred G. Caplin eventually became " Al Capp " because the syndicate felt the original would not fit in a cartoon frame.

At first a gnostic Valentinian and Marcionist, Ambrose, through Origen's teaching, eventually rejected this theology and became Origen's constant companion, and was ordained deacon.

The Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington contains an outstanding collection of Tiffany glassware presented to the town by Joseph Briggs, an Accrington man who had joined Tiffany ’ s in the late 19th century and eventually became art director and assistant manager.

It became a special section of the Post, sold only in the Bronx, and eventually disappeared from view.

Adam Bosworth initiated and headed up the Quattro project until moving to Microsoft later in 1990 to take over the project which eventually became Access.

The newly arrived family soon hired Louise Delfault, a maid who eventually became an instrumental member of the family.

AKCL eventually became GNU Common Lisp.

After some early struggles, that team eventually became baseball's most successful franchise — the New York Yankees.

When the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) was formed, Karmal became one of its leading members, and eventually became the leader of the Parcham faction.

When the Boston Braves relocated to Milwaukee in 1953, Selig switched alligences, and eventually became the team's largest public stockholder.

It rotated the primitive mixture, starting in one corner or point, and gradually extended until it gave distinctness and reality to the aggregates of like parts, working something like a centrifuge, and eventually creating the known cosmos.

With what can crudely be summed up as a clash of ideologies between an expansion of ITV's commercial ethos and a public service approach more akin to the BBC, it was ultimately something of a compromise that eventually led to the formation of Channel 4 as launched in 1982.

Decay theory states that when something new is learned, a neurochemical, physical " memory trace " is formed in the brain and over time this trace tends to disintegrate, unless it is occasionally used. Decay theory states the reason we eventually forget something or an event is because the memory of it fades with time.

After these recitations, he would most often be hit over the head with a rubber chicken, or in later years be given a bomb or something that would eventually explode.

However around 750 BC, or a little later, there was a migration of sea-going merchants from his original home in Cyme in Asia Minor to Cumae in Campania ( a colony they shared with Euboeans ), and possibly his move west had something to do with that, since Euboea is not far from Boetia, where he eventually established himself and his family.

With the mission to " make something with neutrons ", the Swedish team, with scientists like Rolf Maximilian Sievert, set out to research the subject and eventually build a nuclear reactor for testing.

After the first couple of years ' specials ' began to appear eventually making the ' stock ' car name something of a misnomer.

UEN was a heterogeneous group: broadly national conservative, it included some parties which were either uncomfortable with this characterization or eventually evolved into something different.

Even at the time there were those who could see that guided missiles would eventually make such aircraft vulnerable, but development of such missiles was proving difficult, and fast and high-flying bombers were likely to serve for years before there was a need for something better.

The term " Three Kingdoms " itself is something of a mistranslation, since each state was eventually headed not by kings, but by an emperor who claimed legitimate succession from the Han Dynasty.

Novalee cannot hear what he is saying, and eventually perceives that something bad has happened so she drives to Lexie's house.

Mao believed that Khrushchev was not adhering to Marxism – Leninism, but was instead a revisionist, altering his policies from basic Marxist concepts, something Mao feared would allow capitalists to eventually regain control of the country.

The phrase was coined in adverse reaction to something Murphy said when his devices failed to perform and was eventually cast into its present form prior to a press conference some months later — the first ever ( of many ) conferences given by Dr. John Stapp, a U. S. Air Force colonel and Flight Surgeon in the 1950s.

Troughton's decision would eventually become something of an unwritten law ( the " Troughton Rule ") among actors, in order to prevent one from becoming typecast in a particular role in a potentially long-running television programme.

Cray eventually told CDC's CEO, William Norris that something had to change, or he would leave the company.

From this came the figurative meaning of boundary and eventually the phrase beyond the pale, as something outside the boundary.

Recognising that something is strange, Ford begins to hitchhike across the galaxy to reach Earth, eventually using the ship of a giant robot to land in the centre of London and causing a panic.

However, eventually they had to admit that something had to be done.

He eventually returns to Amber, which is in mourning: the news has just come that Caine has been murdered, and Bleys injured, by a mystery assassin with a rifle-an assassin who demonstrates ( with a thrown bomb at Caine's funeral, which misses any other family members ) that he has access to something with explosive properties in Amber.

U2's performance established them as a pre-eminent live group for the first time – something for which they would eventually become superstars.

Caution eventually destroys or incapacitates it by telling it a riddle that involves something Alpha 60 can not comprehend: poetry ( although many of its lines are actually quotations from the Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges ; the opening line of the film, along with others, is an extract of Borges's essay " Forms of a Legend " and other references throughout the movie are made by Alpha 60 to Borges's " A New Refutation of Time ").

The group, however, had to continuously cope with intense schedules and early starts whilst recording for the programme, something which, although the group felt " laid back " about it at the time, was to eventually take its toll and lead to the demise of the band.

Issues regarding the continued tolling of the bridge, and those over its deteriorating condition and proposals to have it replaced or supplemented by an additional crossing, have caused it to become something of a political football for the Scottish Parliament, which eventually voted to scrap tolls on the bridge with effect from 11 February 2008.