The best approach, he figured, was to try to influence young people like the high schoolers he and his wife serve as advisors at First Presbyterian Church.

Considering that the cancer was detected early, the fact he was young, optimistic, and had the best treatments available, Gould figured that he should be in the favorable half of the upper statistical range.

As a composer, Marcello was best known in his lifetime and is now still best remembered for his Estro poetico-armonico ( Venice, 1724 – 1727 ), a musical setting for voices, figured bass ( a continuo notation ), and occasional solo instruments, of the first fifty Psalms, as paraphrased in Italian by his friend G. Giustiniani.

Warneken ’ s subjects rapidly figured out which individual in the group was the best rope puller and assigned it the bulk of the task.

Rosa figured that he would honor the written word best by sending the Ducks on an epic quest for the Library of Alexandria, where he

The label's CEO, Carl Severson signed the band without a contract simply to get the album out to the public because he thought the album " ruled ", and stated " I had a one-off deal and when I knew they wanted to go someplace bigger, I figured is was in my best interest, as their friend, to make the best thing happen for them.

So I figured that it's best to get in shape so I can feel good about flaunting it ".

I always figured I could hold my own against the best in the world.

The Metroplex had been mentioned as a possible expansion site since the 1950s, and Arlington Mayor Tom Vandergriff figured that Arlington, halfway between the two cities, would be the best site for a prospective major league team.

Though they eventually figured it out, the producers still thought Kunis was the best fit for the role.

I figured my best chance of winning without seriously hurting him was to beat on him with punches ...

So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked best for the band.

Outside of Mr. Big, the primary villain was Malkil, the warlock who was the main enemy of Kuros, who appeared to be far more sinister than Mr. Big and worked alone, save for one episode when Mr. Big was targeting the Power Team only to be interrupted by Malkil appearing, and both villains figured an alliance may be best to destroy the Power Team.

: So I figured to drop that loaded sap was the best thing I could do.

Lyle was rarely used this early in a game, but Martin figured he was fresh, having only pitched one inning the whole series and, in Martin's own words, " I wanted my best pitcher out there.

" It has also figured as one of the favorite episodes on a number of " best of " lists.

* Harry B. Liversedge, two-time track star at both the 1920 and 1924 Olympics and later Brigadier General best known as the leader of the regiment figured in the historic Iwo Jima flag raising.

( NOT $ 2 based on the $ 40 bet as the way buy bet commissions are figured.

But they never said anything, so he figured it was all right.

`` Funny thing '', Mr. Kahler said, when they were seated, `` when I heard you ringing, I figured it was that guy down the block, Hausman ''.

Also, it should be noted that the polytonal freedom of his melodies and harmonic modulations, the brilliant orchestrations, the adroitness for evading the heaviness of figured bass, the skill in florid counterpoint were not lost in his mature output, even in the spectacular historical dramas of the stage and cinema, where a large, dramatic canvas of sound was required.

They figured prominently in the Balafrej government of May, 1958, which the King was reportedly determined to keep in office until elections could be held.

`` There had been a threesome at the party in the suite's bedroom: Miss Harrington ( this was Diane's choice for a Roman name ), another woman who has figured in other very interesting events and one of your well-known American actors.

She didn't mind working hard, not as if she figured to do anything wrong to live easy and soft -- all she wanted was a chance, where she wasn't marked as what she was.

`` I figured he was sick ''.

It was three o'clock before I figured it was all right to go.

He was plenty attentive, all right, but he behaved like a gentleman, and I figured that, emotionally, I was closer to his age than to my own eighteen and a half.

American Media's corporate headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida, figured prominently in news headlines in late 2001, after an anthrax attack was perpetrated on the company.

Wolfenstein 3D was not designed to be expandable, but fans had nevertheless figured out how to create their own levels for it, and Doom was designed to further extend the possibilities.

The Apsu was figured as the abyss of water beneath the earth, and since the gathering place of the dead, known as Aralu, was situated near the confines of the Apsu, he was also designated as En-Ki ; i. e. " lord of that which is below ", in contrast to Anu, who was the lord of the " above " or the heavens.

* 1502 10 July – By a Royal Warrant passed in Toledo by Isabella I of Castile, Gibraltar was granted its coat of arms: " An escutcheon on which the upper two thirds shall be a white field and on the said field set a red castle, and below the said castle, on the other third of the escutcheon, which must be a red field in which there must be a white line between the castle and the said red field, there shall be a golden key which hangs by a chain from the said castle, as are here figured ".

In time, this kind of exercise was incorporated into a system that figured prominently in the state regulations for education.

A technology created by one of their slave races was the stasis field, which makes its contents impervious to harm and provides indefinite suspended animation, which has figured in several Known Space stories.

After viewing the first 20 minutes of landmark cyberpunk film Blade Runner ( 1982 ), which was released when Gibson had written a third of the novel, he " figured was sunk, done for.

Their happiness is short-lived, however, as Sydney gets a call from Sloane, who has figured out that she is still alive.

Because they were simply referred to as " The Band " by Dylan and their friends and neighbors in Woodstock, New York, they figured that was just what they would call themselves.

So I figured that I take everything I see around and put it maybe in the form of a girl maybe, something like that, you know, and call it ' Little Wing ', in other words, just fly away.

However, after doing some screen tests and storyboards, Toho figured Jet Jaguar would not be able to carry the film on his own, either in screen appearance or marketing value, so they shut the project down during pre-production.

Yount later recalled at a Brewers banquet that he did not have to dive to catch the line drive hit by Murray but figured ending the game with a diving catch would be the icing on the cake for Nieves ' no-hitter.

Simon Reynolds wrote in his book Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978 – 1984 that " The Residents and their ' representatives ' were one and the same ", elaborating on one of his blogs that " this was something that anybody who had any direct dealings with Ralph figured out sooner rather than later.

John looked at a globe and figured out that if Ana Ng is in Vietnam and the person is on the other side of the world, then it must be written by someone in Peru ".

The GID controversy figured prominently at the 2009 meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in San Francisco, both in presentations in the meeting and in protests outside the meeting ; protesters focused on the attitude of the psychiatric community and tried to make the point that GID is not a mental disorder, as well focusing on the role of Kenneth Zucker in leading the DSM-V Task Force on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders.

Stegmaier also refers to " the principal Southern demand for a division of California at the line of 35 ° north latitude " and says that " Southern extremists made clear that a congressionally mandated division of California figured uppermost on their agenda.

" " Politicians and lobbyists at the core of this clever enterprise figured out how to pull it off in an organized, camouflaged way -- covering their tracks while they put one over on an unsuspecting public.

NFS and ONC figured prominently in the network-computing war between Sun Microsystems and Apollo Computer, and later the UNIX wars ( ca 1987-1996 ) between AT & T and Sun on one side, and Digital Equipment, HP, and IBM on the other.

Extensive archaeological evidence for the chewing of coca leaves dates back at least to the sixth century A. D. Moche period, and the subsequent Inca period, based on mummies found with a supply of coca leaves, pottery depicting the characteristic cheek bulge of a coca chewer, spatulas for extracting alkali and figured bags for coca leaves and lime made from precious metals, and gold representations of coca in special gardens of the Inca in Cuzco

The second part presents Emanuel Bach's ideas on the art of figured bass and counterpoint, where he gives preference to the contrapuntal approach to harmonization over the newer ideas of Rameau's theory of harmony and root progressions.

Larson, through meticulous watching of the show, had figured out patterns to key off of the square next to the square in the upper left-hand corner of the board ( which, in that he numbered the squares from the upper-left clockwise, was numbered " 2 ") and that, several squares later, would end up either on a spot on the right side of the screen in which all three slides would contain smaller amounts of money plus a spin ( numbered " 8 ") or the spot in the top center of the screen ( numbered " 4 ") in which the " Big Bucks " ( the largest amounts of money ) plus a spin always resided.

After the program was figured out on paper, the process of getting the program " into " ENIAC by manipulating its switches and cables took additional days.

The Bedouin kept the scrolls hanging on a tent pole while they figured out what to do with them, periodically taking them out to show people.

Walter Burkert notes that though the story of Hippodamia's abduction figures in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and on the chest of Cypselus ( c. 570 BCE ) that was conserved at Olympia, and though preparations for the chariot-race figured in the east pediment of the great temple of Zeus at Olympia, the myth of the chariot race only became important at Olympia with the introduction of chariot racing in the twenty-fifth Olympiad ( 680 BCE ).

Whether the Etruscans shared the Ixion figure with Hellenes from early times or whether Ixion figured among those Greek myths that were adapted at later dates to fit the Etruscan world-view, the figure on the mirror-back is shown as winged, a characteristic shared with Etruscan daimones and Underworld figures rather than human heroes.