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.

According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

Afonso IV was displeased with his son's choice of lovers, and hoped that the relationship would be a futile one.

For Joseph and his supports of Imperial reform, besides encouraging any first buddings of pan-national pride that would unite his multi-lingual and ethnic subjects under one common language ; they also hoped to save a considerable amount of money in the process.

He indicated that he hoped to one day work on the official supplement.

He realized that all knowledge could never be amassed in just one large work, but he hoped the relations among the subjects could be.

There were many in Hollywood who considered sound a threat to the industry and hoped it would pass quickly ; McBride notes that " Capra was not one of them.

He hoped to find among the " English Dissenters " a spiritual understanding absent from the established church but fell out with one group, for example, because he maintained that women had souls:

Ribbentrop hoped that the prospect of facing the Tripartite Pact would deter the United States from supporting Britain, but since the Pact was more or less openly directed against the United States ( the Pact made a point of stressing that the unnamed great power it was directed against was not the Soviet Union ), it had the opposite effect on American public opinion than the one intended.

The one notable filmmaker excluded from the licensing agreement was Biograph, which Edison hoped to squeeze out of the market.

Speaking in Lokoja, Nigerian President Umaru Yar ' Adua stated that the project would lead to " all-year-round navigability " on the River Niger and that he hoped that, by 2020, Nigeria would have become one of the twenty most industrialised nations in the world.

A national concordat with Germany was one of Pacelli's main objectives as secretary of state, because he had hoped to strengthen the legal position of the Church.

Hastily formed under President Nasser's leadership ( but on the initiative of Syrian leaders who feared a takeover by communists or " reactionaries " and hoped to lead the new entity ), the UAR was a unitary state, not a federal union, with its critics seeing this as hardly more than a small country being annexed by a larger one.

Producer Michael White had hoped to begin work on the production and described the script as being "... in the same style as the other one.

According to William A. Niskanen, one of the architects of Reaganomics, " Reagan delivered on each of his four major policy objectives, although not to the extent that he and his supporters had hoped ", and notes that the most substantial change was in the tax code, where the top marginal individual income tax rate fell from 70. 1 % to 28. 4 %, and there was a " major reversal in the tax treatment of business income ", with effect of " reducing the tax bias among types of investment but increasing the average effective tax rate on new investment ".

Conversations split screen sometimes showed flashbacks of the recent or distant past juxtaposed with the present ; moments imagined or hoped by the characters juxtaposed with present reality ; present experience fractured into more than one emotion for a given line or action, showing an actor performing the same moment in different ways ; and present and near future actions juxtaposed to accelerate the narrative in temporal overlap.

Jefferson hoped to avoid national humiliation on the one hand, and war on the other.

When the Second Continental Congress convened at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia in May 1775, some delegates hoped for eventual independence, but no one yet advocated declaring it.

While he cared little for who should become King of Poland, the cause of protecting the King's father-in-law was a sympathetic one, and he hoped to use the war as a means of humbling the Austrians, and perhaps securing the long-desired Duchy of Lorraine from its duke, Francis Stephen, who was expected to marry Emperor Charles's daughter Maria Theresa, which would bring Austrian power dangerously close to the French border.

Curly's health necessitated a temporary retirement from the act, and while the Stooges hoped for a full recovery, Curly never starred in a film again, except for one brief cameo appearance in the third film after Shemp returned to the trio, Hold That Lion!

He may well have been influenced by Emma, who hoped to keep her power by ensuring that one of her sons was succeeded by another.

Todd left the company to develop a system of his own which, he hoped, would be as impressive as Cinerama, yet be simpler and cheaper and avoid the problems associated with three-strip projection, in his own words he wanted " Cinerama out of one hole ".

His maternal grandmother, the Duchess of Teck, did not like the first name the baby had been given, and she wrote prophetically that she hoped the last name " may supplant the less favoured one ".

Justinian hoped that this would contribute to a reunion between the Chalcedonians and monophysites in the eastern provinces of the Empire ; various attempts at reconciliation between the monophysite and orthodox parties were made by many emperors over the four centuries following the Council of Ephesus, none of them succeeding, and some, attempts at reconciliation, such as this — the condemnation of the Three Chapters — causing further schisms and heresies to arise in the process, such as the aforementioned schism of the Three Chapters, and the heresies of monoenergism and monotheletism — the propositions, respectively, that Christ had only one function, operation, or energy ( purposefully formulated in an equivocal and vague manner, and promulgated between 610 and 622 by the Emperor Heraclius under the advisement of Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople ) and that Christ only had one will ( promulgated in 638 by the same ).

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.

After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.

With the official cessation of violence by some of the major paramilitary organisations and the creation of the power-sharing executive at Stormont in Belfast under the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the Saville Inquiry's re-examination of the events of that day is widely hoped to provide a thorough account of the events of Bloody Sunday.

It hoped to begin these services in 2013 using Class 407 ICE units, with three trains per day each way — morning, midday and afternoon.

While many of the school's attendees were day students, Coubertin boarded at the school under the supervision of a Jesuit priest, which his parents hoped would instill him with a strong moral and religious education.

The pair hoped that after setting off home-made explosives in the cafeteria at the busiest time of day, killing many hundreds of students, they would use their guns to shoot survivors as they fled from the school.

Sam was particularly interested in the Elves, and always hoped to one day see one.

It was hoped that this would be a 3 day dash to Johannesburg before the Boer commandos could mobilise, and would trigger an uprising by the Uitlanders.

U. S. Senator Richard Russell, Jr. | Richard B. Russell of Georgia ( U. S. state ) | Georgia told Helms in 1952 that he hoped Helms would one day become a senator ; an event twenty years in the future and one that Russell did not live to see.

The lock is in poor condition but it is hoped that this section of canal will one day be restored and made navigable again.

Peiper had hoped to exploit an opening as early as the morning of December 16, the offensive's first day, but he had been delayed by massive traffic jams behind the front, with the infantry which was to breach the U. S. lines waiting for him to arrive.

Three months later, the exiled leader of the separatist government, Akhmed Zakayev, called for a halt to armed resistance against the Chechen police force starting on 1 August, and said he hoped that " starting with this day Chechens will never shoot at each other ".

" However, in the majority opinion Justice Stevens expressed, though denying them support at that time, that he hoped " the voices of voters allied with these respondents may one day be heard in the halls of Congress.

The government of the day had hoped that UK based manufacturers would be able to compete on a level playing field with foreign ( notably Japanese ) manufacturers for a share of the potential market.

The colonial government hoped to make Demasmaduit comfortable while she was with the English, so that one day she might be a bridge between them and the Beothuk.

" In his letter Hugo hoped that one day France would feel guilty and return what it had plundered from China.

Ignoring the amendments to JCS 1067 that had been inserted by McCloy of the War Department, Morgenthau told his staff that it was a big day for the Treasury, and that he hoped that " someone doesn't recognize it as the Morgenthau Plan.

Its proponents hoped one day to establish it as a writing system for a reformed Chinese script.

He knew Africa well and hoped one day to return there.

The young man idolized his stepfather, and hoped to become a newspaperman himself one day.

On the day before her death, she made her physician promise to tell Wilson " later " that she hoped he would marry again ; she murmured at the end, "... take good care of my husband.

It is hoped that a documentary or film will one day be made on Clapton Orient's proud service during the Great War.

According to journalist Afshin Molavi, many Iranians hoped the day would lead to an uprising that would " break the back " of the hardliners, but instead the Islamic Republic " employed violence, intimidation, and sophisticated carrot-and-stick approach to suck the wind out of the demonstrations.

Originally, promoters had hoped to make the event three days ( Friday-Sunday ) and even considered the UK band Massive Attack to be the third day headliner-but those plans never came to fruition.