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 ''.

He left with all the joyous spirit of a child going on a holiday, nodding attentively as Rector gave him his final instructions.

Her friend Rick McKay said that " she just kind of drifted off quietly as if she was going to sleep ... she just kind of gave out.

This practice gave rise to the term bedroom community, meaning that most daytime business activity took place in the city, with the working population leaving the city at night for the purpose of going home to sleep.

Such a dominating performance by the Giants ' defense gave the team a lot of confidence going into the Super Bowl match-up versus the Broncos.

As the final seconds of the game ticked away Harry Carson, continuing the recent trend started by the Giants, gave head coach Bill Parcells a Gatorade shower, going as far as to take off his jersey and pads and sneak behind Parcells with a Rose Bowl security team shirt on.

Paramount Pictures ' Bob Hope was Caught In The Draft, Warner Brothers told Phil Silvers and Jimmy Durante You're In The Army Now, Columbia Pictures put Fred Astaire in the army declaring You'll Never Get Rich, Hal Roach gave his new comedy team of William Tracy and Joe Sawyer Tanks a Million and 20th Century Fox had the former Hal Roach team of Laurel & Hardy going Great Guns.

Additionally, Walter gave the advice to " skate where the puck's going, not where it's been ".

Her refusal to give interviews gave rise to press reporters ' expressions, " pulling a Garbo " or " going Garbo ".

He made a favourable impression on the composer and conductor Fromental Halévy, who gave him lessons in composition and orchestration and wrote to Isaac Offenbach in Cologne that the young man was going to be a great composer.

Horace, after discovering this, tells Regina he is going to change his will in favor of their daughter, and also will claim he gave Leo the bonds as a loan, thereby cutting Regina out of the deal completely.

* The success of the Intifada gave Arafat and his followers the confidence they needed to moderate their political programme: At the meeting of the Palestine National Council in Algiers in mid-November 1988, Arafat won a majority for the historic decision to recognise Israel's legitimacy ; to accept all the relevant UN resolutions going back to 29 November 1947 ; and to adopt the principle of a two-state solution.

Once, when he was pulled over for a $ 50 speeding ticket ( a large sum at the time ), he gave the officer a $ 100 bill ; when the officer protested that he couldn't make change for that much, Johnson told him to keep the change, as he was going to make his return trip at the same speed.

Upon learning his future as Parallax ( not knowing, however, that his future self's actions was the result of being possessed by a fear entity under the machination of Sinestro's future self ) and aware that the future needed him to return to his own time and allow future events to unravel in the way it was supposed to, young Jordan knew he must forget everything he learned from the present, and gave Rayner a copy of his ring to restart the Green Lantern Corps in a bid to undo some of the damages he knew he was going to make once he returned to the past.

" Vincent Canby, of the New York Times, gave the film a highly favorable review, going as far as to say that it " sets new standards for Mr. Allen as well as for all American movie makers.

The Morris Canal, although going into a rapid decline, still employed a number of men ; the Lackawanna Railroad, which had completed its Boonton-Paterson branch in 1875, gave employment to a number of Boonton people and provided commuter service to a number of Boonton residents who worked in New York City.

::: Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor ; and seeing what the sailors did there ; and then going on to Nantucket, and seeing how they spent their wages in that place also, poor Queequeg gave it up for lost.

9 of the Act gave detailed instructions, stating that the road had to go to the most western road in Gilboa and then go north along that road before going to the town of Medary in Putnam County.

When his father discovered his son secretly practising on a violin one day, he gave him a severe whipping, saying that he was going to beat the music out of the boy.

In 2004, Hu gave an unprecedented showing and ordered all cadres from the five major power functions to stop the tradition of going to the Beidaihe seaside retreat for their annual summer meeting which, before, was commonly seen as a gathering of ruling elites from both current and elder cadres to decide China's destiny, and also an unnecessary waste of public funds.

After going through names like " Collins-Akritas method " and " Descartes ' method " ( too confusing if ones considers Fourier's article ), it was finally François Boulier, of Lille University, who gave it the name Vincent-Collins-Akritas ( VCA ) method, p. 24, based on the fact that " Uspensky's method " does not exist and neither does " Descartes ' method ".

He all but gave up drinking, quit smoking, stopped going to movies and became more selective in his reading.

Hence one spoke of going in die Harten (" into the hardwood forest "), a term which gave the Harz its name.

I just told everybody, look I wanna do this my way, let me give this a shot, so everybody gave me their blessing and I'm going out and having some fun.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, claiming the filmmakers did well by not going berserk with the action sequences as other films do.

On the negative side, the New York Times faulted the film's one-sidedness, found its reliance on jargon " fairly dense going ", and gave no recommendation.