Taylor won and Lincoln hoped to be appointed Commissioner of the General Land Office, but that lucrative patronage job went to an Illinois rival, Justin Butterfield, considered by the administration to be a highly skilled lawyer, but in Lincoln's view, an " old fossil ".

After graduation, Eiffel had hoped to get a job in his uncle's works in Dijon, but a family dispute made this impossible.

" Bogart's roles were not only repetitive, but physically demanding and draining ( studios were not yet air-conditioned ), and his regimented, tightly-scheduled job at Warners was not exactly the " peachy " actor's life he hoped for.

Letterman, who had hoped to get the hosting job of The Tonight Show following Johnny Carson's retirement, moved to CBS in 1993, when the job was given to Jay Leno.

As a teenager, Blassie went to McKinley High School ; after graduating he got a job at a meatpacking plant, which his family hoped he would turn into a lucrative meat cutting job with the local trade union.

Just a few months later, after the failure of General Nivelle, General Pétain was appointed Chief of the General Staff ; Foch hoped to succeed Pétain in command of Army Group Centre, but this job was instead given to General Fayolle.

The album did not sell as well as the label had hoped ; merely four months after the release of Sneaks, Spoon's Elektra A & R man Ron Laffitte quit his job and that week the band was dropped from the label.

When Ford promised that he would be rewarded, Johnson hoped it would be with another doubling job, or maybe a small speaking role.

Some others hoped for a job as waitress, maid or au-pair ; some were simply abducted.

Despite what he later called " the best flying job in the world ", Engle decided to apply again to NASA as he expected to be rotated to another Air Force assignment within a year and hoped to go to the Moon.

Daniel Knauf conceived the initial script for the show between 1990 and 1992 when he was unsatisfied with his job as a Californian health insurance broker and hoped to become a screenwriter.

Both Moore and Bolland are well-known for their meticulous and time-consuming work-both creators ' then-recently-finished 12-issue maxiseries titles had seen delays-and Bolland made it clear that he " wanted to do the best possible job ," even though it wasn't perhaps " quite what I'd hoped to draw.

Kwolek had planned on becoming a doctor and hoped that she could earn enough money from a temporary job in a chemistry-related field to go to medical school.

With a new Prime Minister due to be chosen on 24 December, Toafa announced that he would not be standing for the job, but that he hoped his deputy and Foreign Affairs and Environment Minister, Enele Sopoaga, would be chosen by Parliament in his place.

His grandmother, who hoped to make a clergyman of him, offered him an education at Yale College, but, impatient to begin an active career, he got a job as captain's boy, deck hand, and man-of-all-work on a steamboat plying between New Haven and Hartford.

Kinkaid hoped his next assignment would be that of naval attaché to London but the job went to Captain Alan G. Kirk.

Even as his health failed in his later years, he hoped to secure a professional coaching job, but his only connection with baseball was as a volunteer coach for Northeast High School in Fort Lauderdale.

In his early media interviews, Boyd stated that he hoped to bring a more collaborative and community-oriented style of leadership to the job than Fantino did, particularly around controversial issues such as racial profiling.

By allowing the country ’ s brightest pupils to benefit from foreign expertise and to broaden their experience abroad, it is hoped to prepare young Bahrainis for the challenges of the modern job market, and in particular for employment in fields such as information technology, finance and law.

After taking the job, Gannon said that he hoped to bring in up to six players, most of them from England to bolster a squad threadbare after summer exits.

To replace him, Rangers ' manager Lester Patrick hoped to obtain the services of minor-leaguer Omer Kelly, but he was fixed in a wartime manufacturing job in Baltimore.

Steerpike hoped to become Master of Ritual ( a very prestigious job in Gormenghast ) after Sourdust died, but the title, like so many things in the castle, is hereditary, and so goes to Sourdust ’ s seventy-four-year-old son Barquentine, who has lived almost completely forgotten in a remote part of the castle for sixty years.

The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.

But if they really hoped to succeed they needed professionals, men who knew how to use a gun against men, who would match the killers on the other side.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

No one wanted a larger family or no children, and none hoped for a castle or said that living in less settled circumstances would be satisfactory.

Helion also hoped that America's mastery of technology and industrial efficiency would be accompanied by the production of new and beautiful art works.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question.

When the end did come, and the schools were disbanded and abandoned, we felt and hoped that the machinery of psychological warfare would not be allowed to rust.

I didn't want to touch him and I hoped Ma would do it but she kept looking at the kid's clothes piled on the floor and the pool of water by them and didn't make any move to.

It was also hoped that responses to a mail questionnaire would suggest fruitful inquiries that might be made in subsequent studies of a more detailed nature.

It was hoped that the facts concerning the characteristics and practices of the respondents would offer clues to the reasons why they took the positions and made the recommendations which they did.

He hoped they would put in somewhere way, way down in the earth.

It was hoped that to this post would flow a large quantity of furs from the west, principally down the Arkansas River.

He realized now he had more than half hoped he wouldn't find him -- that Muller would not be here, that the attempt would be scheduled for somewhere beyond Hoag's control.

Well-wishers around the world hoped that the Congo would quickly assume a respectable position in the society of nations.

They begged Grandma to let them put a bed in the kitchen for her, but Grandma said she was getting too old to sleep in strange beds and be seen with her teeth out, and that she hoped to die in privacy like a Christian and if the Lord willed it to be of pneumonia than it would have to be that way.

It had grown hot early that day, and I hoped that the boy, my brother's son, would soon come across the broad black area of plowed ground, carrying the jar of cool water.

I touched it and the coolness, the ice-feeling, was gone, and even then it moved a little, perhaps a tiny spasm of the dead muscles, and I hoped that it was truly dead, so that I would not have to kill it.

Because Albert was a member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, it had been hoped that his election as Grand Master would reverse the decline of the Teutonic Knights since 1410 ; Duke Frederick of Saxony of the House of Wettin had been elected for the same reason.

Germanicus was always favored by his great uncle and hoped that he would succeed Tiberius, who had been adopted by Augustus as his heir and successor.

Germanicus was a favorite of his great-uncle Augustus, who hoped that Germanicus would succeed his uncle Tiberius, who was Augustus's own adopted son and heir.