That long night with Nicolas and marijuana in Venice had opened her eyes.

Her eyes had opened, she had caught a glimpse of a new faith.

She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.

He opened it a crack and in doing so made as much shuffling, coughing, and scraping noise as possible in order to drown emanations from the hen who had begun to protest.

Without comment he opened the closet and from its shelves constructed a highboard around the egg case which he had placed on the floor inside.

Now the Czarship had not affected my own sense of social values, but Mother had attained a reflected glory through it, which had opened the doors of Los Angeles-Pasadena Society to her.

The position of receptionist was opened in a large office and an announcement was made to the other girls already working that they could apply for this job which had higher prestige and slightly higher salary than typing and clerking positions.

When the Yalta Conference opened, the American policy of postponing all discussion of Russia's western boundaries until the peace conference had broken down.

Russell had reached the house as Cook surmised, dismounted, but just as the old trapper opened the door to receive him, he fell into the trapper's arms -- dead.

The suburban branch is thereby credited with a sale which would have been made even if its glass doors had never opened.

Young Mrs. Arthur had opened the oven and there was a drifting odor of hot biscuits.

`` In 35 years we have opened 7,000 churches '', the Rev. Mr. Brandt said, adding that the denomination had a national goal of one church for every 10,000 persons.

Then, when the case went to the jury, the judge excused one of the jurors, saying the juror had told him he had been accosted by masked men at his motel the night before the trial opened.

Giving up the violin opened a whole new career for Ilona Schmidl-Seeberg, a tiny Hungarian who Fritz Kreisler had predicted would have a promising career on the concert stage.

The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

Each boy opened his small mouth wide and rocked back and forth on the bench in the way his grandfather and great-grandfather had studied and prayed in the ghettos of Europe.

I opened the door, and Wally stumbled in -- fast -- as if Nadine had pushed him.

The Deep South had advocates to reopen the international slave trade to populate territory that was to be newly opened to slavery.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, at the death of Jesus tombs were opened, and at his resurrection many saints who had died emerged from their tombs and went into " the holy city ", presumably New Jerusalem.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

As Curt had hoped, the house door banged open.

Every path from back door to barn was covered by a grape-arbor, and every yard had its fruit trees.

he tossed a paper toward every front door, and housewives came down to their steps to pick them up and read what their neighbors had been doing.

Adam stared at the door and remembered that Simms Purdew had been awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry at Antietam.

The evaporative cooler had been moved to Granny's room, and her door was kept shut ; ;

Through the door, he had seen Mr. Jack walking around, waiting for Miss Ada.

Going through a door into another small court, I had the Throne Room directly in front.

Mortars had demolished the defense ministry and set fire to the American Embassy next door.

Lizzie stated during the inquest that while her father and uncle were in the sitting room the afternoon before the murders, she had been disturbed by their voices and had closed her door, even though it was a very hot day.

With Lizzie in the barn, the screen door unlocked and Bridget upstairs in her attic room, he would have had free and easy access to the house.

Dave had the latch under his thumb now and he removed his arm from his wife in order to pull the door open.

Her skin crawled: Lolotte had told Maude that she was in the hall and the door was open.

Sarah had begun to tell Lucien of Emile, she had begun to question and a little draft had crept across the room from the bedroom door, open barely enough to show a rim of blackness in the hall.

Old man Arthur had put down the suitcase to open the front door.

fresh scars showed that the door had been prized open.

Back at the Factory-to-You with the other old maids, back there she was the youngest clerk and she was thirty-four, which made her young enough to resent the usual ideal working conditions, like the unventilated toilet with the door you had to hold shut while you sat down.

She could not count the times Herman had rapped on the door, just a couple of bangs that shook the whole damned closet and might, someday, break away the pipe connections from the wall.

The two little bangs meant that he was getting impatient to have a crowd of customers waited on and that if he had to he would jerk open the door and drag out, by the opposite door handle which she would be clutching, whichever-the-hell clerk it was who thought she could waste so much store time on the pot.

The Brazilian foreign policy under the Lula da Silva administration had been focused on the following directives: to contribute toward the search for greater equilibrium and attenuate unilateralism ; to strengthen bilateral and multilateral relations in order to increase the country's weight in political and economic negotiations on an international level ; to deepen relations so as to benefit from greater economical, financial, technological and cultural interchange ; to avoid agreements that could jeopardize development in the long term.

In northern Europe, new technological innovations such as the heavy plough and the three-field system were not as effective in clearing new fields for harvest as they had been in the Mediterranean because the north had poor clay soil, and the potato, otherwise ideal for Northern Europe, was an American crop unknown in Europe at the time.

DARPA ’ s original mission, established in 1958, was to prevent technological surprise like the launch of Sputnik, which signaled that the Soviets had beaten the U. S. into space.

" Despite Afghanistan's great poverty, they had little interest in social, economic and technological development – at one time explaining that " we Muslims believe God the Almighty will feed everybody one way or another.

* 1981 – In a private meeting with U. S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.

Although it was never able to match the number of ships of the Royal Navy, it had technological advantages, such as better shells and propellant for much of the Great War, meaning that it never lost a ship to a catastrophic magazine explosion from an above-water attack, although the elderly pre-dreadnought Pommern sank rapidly at Jutland after a magazine explosion caused by an underwater attack.

In the Known Space stories, Niven had created a number of technological devices ( GP hull, stasis field, Ringworld material ) which, combined with the " Teela Brown gene ", made it very difficult to construct engaging stories beyond a certain date — the combination of factors made it tricky to produce any kind of creditable threat / problem without complex contrivances.

In Europe, technological, cultural, and social developments had forced a dramatic transformation in the character of warfare from antiquity, changing military tactics and the role of cavalry and artillery.

Juche repeated demands that North Koreans learn to build and innovate domestically had run its course as had the ability of North Koreans to keep technological pace with other industrialized nations.

Another technological change was the widespread availability of television in the 1950s ; with televised performances, " pop stars had to have a visual presence ".

There was no particular technological requirement for the QWERTY layout, since at the time there were ways to make a typewriter without the " up-stroke " typebar mechanism that had required it to be devised.

By the end of the century, more technological advances had been made than in all of preceding history.

In the second half of the 19th century, Milan quicklt became the main industrial center in Italy, drewing inspiration from the great European capitals that were hubs of the technological innovations of the second industrial revolution and, consequently, of the deep social change that had been put in motion.

While the offense dominated in the time of Napoleon, the technological advancements had overturned this.

By the late 1980s, many aerospace industry observers believed that the U. S. had the technological capability to build a Mach-5 replacement for the aging Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.

The technological advantage that arcade games had, in their ability to customize and use the latest graphics and sound chips, narrowed, and the convenience of home games caused a rapid decline in arcade gaming.

The French government had an exhibit with its own take on technological progress.

In the 19th century, white settlers in the United States called the Cherokee one of the " Five Civilized Tribes ", because they had assimilated numerous cultural and technological practices of European American settlers.

In the 19th century, the Muscogee were known as one of the " Five Civilized Tribes ", because they had integrated numerous cultural and technological practices of their more recent European American neighbors.

Rather than take a simple technological or evolutionary approach, he realized that the task was to determine in which periods the artifacts had been made.

They lived in large villages or towns, built plank houses and large canoes, and had sophisticated artistic and technological traditions.