McBride gave him his opportunity when he showed up in town with a pistol on his hip.

His present maximum altitude, up against the overcast, gave him the opportunity to exploit his advantages.

Hamilton, poorest of the seven, gave up a brilliant law practice to enter Washington's Cabinet.

At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.

Esther jumped up, ran to him and gave him a little hug.

Another classic sight that gave us considerable pleasure was the Evzone sentry, in his ballet skirt with great pompons on his shoes, who was patrolling up and down in front of the palace.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

Finally, after years, I gave up.

The day Alfred left his home and Fleischmanns he gave up the convictions of a lifetime.

She gave me the names of some people who would surely help pay for the flowers and might even march up to the monument with me.

So Linda Kay gave up asking, and accepted her reprieve.

Somehow managing to get out a cool, poised, `` Won't you hold on a second, please '', I covered up the mouthpiece, and with more warmth and less poise, gave a quick lecture on crime and punishment, mostly the latter, including Devil's Island and the remoter reaches of Siberia.

gave up verse for prose, 1868 - 70 ; ;

Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.

The northern cowboy called all the red Mexican cattle which went up the trail `` Sonora reds '', while they called all cattle drove up from Mexico `` yaks '', because they came from the Yaqui Injun country, or gave 'em the name of `` Mexican buckskins ''.

Each time he got the same answer and in the end he gave up.

Rookie southpaw George Stepanovich relieved Hyde at the start of the ninth and gave up the A's fifth tally on a walk to second baseman Dick Howser, a wild pitch, and Frank Cipriani's single under Shortstop Jerry Adair's glove into center.

Keegan, a 6-foot-3-inch 158-pounder, gave up the Orioles' last two safeties over the final three frames, escaping a load of trouble in the ninth when the Birds threatened but failed to tally.

Whee the People: Lovely Thrush Annamorena gave up a promising show biz career to apply glamor touches to her hubby, Ray Lenobel's fur firm here.

Everywhere he went in town, people sidled up, gave him the guttural bit or broke into a frightening Tarzan yodel.

He planned at one time to enter the legal profession, but gave up the plan in favor of the entertainment field.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

It gets so frustrating, but then again I don't know what I could do if I gave up racing ''.

`` If it gave me pleasure to say hard things '', he wrote, `` I would shut up forever ''.

In early 1960, Mwai Kibaki left academia for politics when he gave up his job at Makerere and returned to Kenya to become executive officer of Kenya African National Union ( KANU ), at the request of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga ( who went on to become Kenya's first Vice President ).

The work with Iodine gave Gräbe an eye infection, so he returned to academia.

Even if such repackaged non-relational products eventually gave way to SQL DBMSs, no popular " relational " DBMSs are actually relational, be it by Codd ’ s twelve rules or by the more formal definitions in his papers, in his books or in succeeding works in the academia or by its coworkers and successors, Christopher J.

Under his direction, Foreign Policy gave voice to intellectuals in academia, finance, politics and government.

In 1930 he gave up politics and returned to academia.

Tatarkiewicz belonged to the interbellum Lwów-Warsaw School of Philosophy, created by Kazimierz Twardowski, which gave reborn Poland many outstanding scholars and scientists: philosophers, logicians, psychologists, sociologists, and organizers of academia.

As a direct consequence, desire for greater control of the course of development of technology gave rise to disenchantment with the model of technological determinism in academia.

I couldn't see him, but the electric bugging device gave steady beeps when it was straight ahead, short half beeps when the car I was following was to the left, and long drawn-out beeps when it turned to the right.

The word `` church '' which turned up over and over again among Jubal's words gave him knotty difficulty ; ;

Later however the Government turned around and gave 50 % of the order to Philips and their P2000 homecomputer even though the P2000 did not meet all the technical demands, was made in Austria and did not have network hard nor software.

He is believed to have moved in with Ziad Jarrah, who got a new apartment on Bougainvilla Dr. in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, after both men gave the landlord photocopies of their German passports, which he later turned over to the FBI.

His third marriage was to Deianira, for whom he had to fight the river god Achelous ( upon Achelous ' death, Heracles removed one of his horns and gave it to some nymphs who turned it into the cornucopia.

" He also turned down several other advantageous offers, sometimes with a brusqueness bordering on truculence that gave offense and caused him problems.

This blood was swallowed by a washer woman, who gave birth to Chen Jinggu ( 陈靖姑 ) or Lady Linshui ( 临水夫人 ); the hair was turned into a female white snake and sexually used men and killed rival women.

St-Laurent chatted with children, gave speeches in his shirt sleeves, and had a ' common touch ' that turned out to be appealing to voters.

Having discovered his talent, at the age of 46, he turned over his parishes to a curate, and gave himself up to the exercise and delight of humor writing for the rest of his life.

It was after the veteran TV globetrotter Alan Whicker and journalist Miles Kington turned down presenting the first of these, Around the World in 80 Days, that gave Palin the opportunity to present his first and subsequent travel shows.

This angel was similar in design to his previous angels, but he gave Moroni a slightly more massive build, with its left hand opened, and the body turned slightly to show more action.

The British gave up their attacks over Spanish territories when the Peninsular War turned Britain and Spain into allies against Napoleon.

Jarrah rented a new apartment in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea after both men gave the landlord photocopies of their German passports, which he later turned over to the FBI.

These basic motifs gave rise to numerous variants, for example, where the branches, generally of a linear character, were turned into straps or bands.

Powell gave this speech at the Mecca Dance Hall in the Bull Ring, Birmingham to an audience of 1, 500, with some press reports estimating that 7, 000 had to be turned away.

After she gave birth, Flora turned the baby over to ex-slave Virginia Prentiss, who remained a major maternal figure throughout London's life.

It gave the camera a new dominion, a new freedom ... It influenced the future of motion picture photography ... all over the world, and without suggesting any revolution in method, without storming critical opinion as Caligari had done, it turned technical attention towards experiment, and stimulated ... a new kind of camera-thinking with a definite narrative end.

The legend associated with Campbell is that a number of years prior — while still living in Scotland — Campbell gave shelter to a stranger who turned out to have killed Duncan's cousin.

He gave up his insurance job to enroll in Preston repertory theatre and turned professional as an actor at the comparatively late age of 27.

After they massacred the Caribs, the British and French turned on each other and St Kitts changed hands between the two several times before the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ) gave the island to Britain.

Three Colors: Blue, The Horseman on the Roof and A Couch in New York all gave Binoche the opportunity to work with prestigious directors she had turned down during the prolonged shoot of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf.

The reports of a government army turned out to have been false, but Charles's retreat gave the English time to muster an actual army.

In 1961 Szasz gave testimony before a United States Senate committee in which he argued that the use of mental hospitals to incarcerate people defined as insane violated the general assumptions of patient-and-doctor relationships and turned the doctor into a warden and a keeper of a prison.

As Chiang Kai-shek entered his final years, he gradually gave more responsibilities to his son, and when he died in April 1975, the presidency was turned over to Yen Chia-kan and Chiang Ching-kuo succeeded to the leadership of the Kuomintang ( he opted for the title " Chairman " rather than the elder Chiang's title of " Director-General ").