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 ''.

God gave Moses instructions for the construction of the tabernacle so that God could dwell permanently among his chosen people, as well as instructions for the priestly vestments, the altar and its appurtenances, the procedure to be used to ordain the priests, and the daily sacrifices to be offered.

The Tribe of Levi received a few Cities of Refuge spread out over Israel, and relied for their sustenance on the priestly gifts that the Children of Israel gave them.

After his arrival in New York, Cardinal Terence Cooke gave him written permission to exercise his secular priestly faculties.

Niyogis are a sect of Telugu Brahmins, from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, who gave up priestly occupations and are predominantly speakers of Telugu language.

Though his work was based on syntagmatic structure, it gave the scope to understand the structure of folktales, of which he discovered thirty one functions.

English scholar Russell Martineau, who had studied under Bopp, gave the following tribute: “ Bopp must, more or less, directly or indirectly, be the teacher of all who at the present day study, not this language or that language, but language itself — study it either as a universal function of man, subjected, like his other mental or physical functions, to law and order, or else as an historical development, worked out by a never ceasing course of education from one form into another .”

In 1962, Baba gave one of his last public functions, a series of meetings he called The East-West Gathering.

The jurists worked in different functions: They gave legal opinions at the request of private parties.

After two years of struggle, a peace agreement was signed in 1872 that gave the Blancos a share in the emoluments and functions of government, through control of four of the departments of Uruguay.

After the publication of the Méry video-tape by Le Monde on 22 September 2000, in which Jean-Claude Méry, in charge of the RPR's financing, directly accused Chirac of organizing the network, and of having been physically present on 5 October 1986, when Méry gave in cash 5 millions Francs, which came from companies who had benefited from state deals, to Michel Roussin, personal secretary ( directeur de cabinet ) of Chirac, Chirac refused to follow up his summons by judge Eric Halphen, and the highest echelons of the French justice declared that he could not been inculpated while in functions.

Alongside his development of the Taylor series of the trigonometric functions, he also estimated the magnitude of the error terms created by truncating these series and gave a rational approximation of an infinite series.

Abbe gave lectures on theory of gravity galvanism and electrodynamics, complex analysis theory of functions of a complex variable, applications of physics, selected divisions of mechanics, and mechanics of solids.

Three of the archons have special functions: the basileus, or sovereign ; the polemarch ( originally a military commander ); and the archon eponymous ( chief magistrate ), who gave his name to the year.

Except at the start of her career, Garbo conducted few interviews ( she gave only fourteen in her life ), signed no autographs, attended few industry social functions, and turned down all but a few requests for public appearances.

Notably, in his 1821 Cours d ' analyse, Cauchy gave a famously incorrect proof that the ( pointwise ) limit of ( pointwise ) continuous functions was itself ( pointwise ) continuous.

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.

In his Pia Desideria, he gave six proposals of how to enact this reform: ( 1 ) to more thoroughly acquaint believers with scripture by means of private readings and study groups in addition to preaching ; ( 2 ) to increase the involvement of laity in all functions of the church ; ( 3 ) to emphasize that believers put into practice their faith and knowledge of God ; ( 4 ) to approach religious discussions with humility and love, avoiding controversy whenever possible ; ( 5 ) to ensure that pastors are both well-educated and pious ; and ( 6 ) to focus preaching on developing faith in ordinary believers.

Additionally, being a woman gave her exclusive access to the chambers of wives of tribe leaders, giving her access to other perspectives and functions.

extended this to arbitrary multivalued analytic functions and gave informal aguments in its favor.

Al-Biruni ( 973-1050 ) wrote one of the most valuable Islamic works on pharmacology entitled Kitab al-Saydalah ( The Book of Drugs ), where he gave detailed knowledge of the properties of drugs and outlined the role of pharmacy and the functions and duties of the pharmacist.

gave several other conditions for the vanishing of the Wronskian to imply linear dependence ; for example, if the Wronskian of n functions is identically zero and the n Wronskians of n – 1 of them do not all vanish at any point then the functions are linearly dependent.

He was also the first to introduce the notion of rational approximations of functions ( nowadays known as Pade approximants ), and gave the first full proof for the Cayley – Hamilton theorem.

Following a Congress of the PDG in January 1979 and the December 1979 elections, Bongo gave up some of his ministerial portfolios and surrendered his functions as head of government to Prime Minister Mebiame.

Divisor functions were studied by Ramanujan, who gave a number of important congruences and identities.

" Another hair color word of French origin, brunet ( te ) ( from the same Germanic root that gave " brown "), also functions in the same way in orthodox English.

Being a docent in Tartu, Molien prepared and gave different lecture courses: Theory of analytic and elliptic functions, modern geometry and algebra, theory of algebraic equations, number theory, projective geometry, theory of quaternions, history of mathematics and others.

This legislation gave the CAA's functions to a new independent body, the Federal Aviation Agency.

He therefore gave up his other functions in order to concentrate solely on his responsibilities as Member of the European Parliament.