Before him are seven tall white candles on a table, and, as they melt, his hopes of survival also diminish.

Little could Abd al-Rahman have known that as he set off to settle matters in that northern city, his hopes of warring against Baghdad would be indefinitely put on hold.

In December of that year, Tycho invited Kepler to visit him in Prague ; on January 1, 1600 ( before he even received the invitation ), Kepler set off in the hopes that Tycho's patronage could solve his philosophical problems as well as his social and financial ones.

He next re-teamed with director Ashby in 1982's Lookin ' to Get Out, in which he played Alex Kovac, a con man who has run into debt with New York mobsters and hopes to win enough in Las Vegas to pay them off.

The Corinthians, the Spartans, and others in the Peloponnesian League sent more reinforcements to Syracuse, in the hopes of driving off the Athenians ; but instead of withdrawing, the Athenians sent another hundred ships and another 5, 000 troops to Sicily.

Wilson and the bills ' supporters requested that Marshall put a gag-order in place to cut off debate, but he refused on ethical grounds, allowing a number of bills to be defeated in hopes that opposition would eventually end their filibuster.

He also cut off Sun He and Sun Ba's access to the officials who supported them in hopes of receiving future favors, but this could not stop Sun Ba's machinations.

Boe started off his ownership with big hopes for the offseason.

In Ancient Greece a Gorgoneion ( or stone head, engraving, or drawing of a Gorgon face, often with snakes protruding wildly and the tongue sticking out between her fangs ) frequently was used as an apotropaic symbol and placed on doors, walls, floors, coins, shields, breastplates, and tombstones in the hopes of warding off evil.

New commands were sent every 20 minutes in the hopes that the spacecraft had drifted off course and could regain contact.

The investors had bought more land than they actually required, in hopes of selling the excess and using the income to pay off their own mortgages.

He gets the idea to form his own strip tease group using local men in hopes of making enough money to pay off his child support obligations.

However, his time at Selhurst Park was not a success, as he failed to save Palace from relegation and he resigned the following November as a disappointing start to the 1981 / 82 season saw their promotion hopes effectively written off ( promotion was ultimately not achieved for another seven seasons ).

The hopes that students living off campus would stay around to eat dinner in their colleges were not met, whilst the abolition of college amenities fees removed students ' direct stake in their colleges.

For formerly he despised us, and, placing his hopes further off, admired the Egyptians, hearing much of their elephants, fleets, and palaces.

By the time one or two more singles were met with the same results, a combination of Davies ' own lack of interest in continuing and Pye's decision to stop killed off any hopes of an album.

However, two late goals for Tottenham ended County's hopes of pulling off a shock result.

A run of five heavy defeats stretching into mid-July, including a 6-0 walloping at the hands of the Virginia Beach Submariners, put pay to any scant playoff hopes they might have had, and despite gaining a 3-1 revenge win over Virginia Beach in the penultimate game of the season, their 2-0 defeat to Raleigh Elite on the final day left them fourth in the Mid Atlantic Division, ten points off the playoff positions.

As he drives off to the police station to deliver the criminals, he gleefully utters his name with the new title he hopes to be promoted to and laughs, " Detective Inspector Tom Campbell, OBE.

However, its establishment a little over a decade after the Second and Third Partitions had appeared to wipe Poland off the map meant that Poles had their hopes rekindled of a resurrected Polish state.

After taking over the galaxy the Silent King ordered the Necrons to sleep, and then set off directionless on his ship in hopes of finding someway to gain atonement for his failure to his people.

As the plane caught fire and was crashing, his parents fastened Alex and Scott into a parachute and pushed them off the plane in hopes that they would survive.

A pit miscue which allowed a rear tire to fall off on the track ended his hopes of a good finish in the race, but success for Davey Allison would be just around the corner.

Burrows threw on Colin West, however within minutes of coming on the former West Brom striker was sent off, and ended any hopes of a Wembley final.

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The debate needed no additional controversy and soon I could ask each individually what he expected from life, what his hopes were and what his fears.

He did a smattering of additional horror and war stories, respectively, for the two publishers, and then, after being turned down by DC's Batman editor Julius Schwartz, approached fellow DC editor Murray Boltinoff in the hopes of drawing for Boltinoff's Batman team-up title The Brave and the Bold.

Despite orders to seek no direct military assistance from France, the American commissioners were instructed to work to acquire most favored nation trading relations with France, along with additional military aid, and also encouraged to reassure any Spanish delegates at that the United States had no desire to acquire Spanish lands in the Americas in the hopes that Spain would in turn enter a possible Franco-American alliance.

Lopsang did so, with the hopes that he would be able to send someone else back up with additional supplemental oxygen and help Fischer get down.

While their stated goal was to achieve the conversion of the pagans, most also sought additional territory and tithe for their dioceses ; Abbot Wibald of Corvey went in the hopes of acquiring the island of Rügen.

Nacogdoches could have won but needed a win by 8 points to keep its postseason hopes alive and so intentionally forced additional overtime periods rather than win by fewer than 8 points.

In the same interview, Reid's new plastic surgeon, Dr. Steven Svehlak, reported that he performed a procedure called a " doughnut mastopexy " to correct her original augmentation, and performed additional liposuction in hopes to even out her stomach.

After securing food and a lantern on short notice, the player enters the pyramid with hopes of finding additional equipment abandoned by earlier expeditions.

Ralf Schumacher was 5 seconds ahead of Alonso until he pitted and rejoined in fourth, whilst Alonso's podium hopes were later dashed by a problem with the fuel hose which forced the Renault pit crew to resort to the spare hose, costing Alonso an additional 16 seconds.

Although to some extent disappointed in his hopes, he did not look any more kindly on the political condition of Germany ; this lent additional zest to the brilliant satirical letters ( Briefe aus Paris, 1830 – 1833, published Paris, 1834 ), which he began to publish in his last literary venture, La Balance, a revival of Die Wage.

Once again they receive additional feedback from observers, in hopes that the learning can be used in their workplace.

Kennedy declared that " As a power which will never strike first, our hopes for anything close to an absolute deterrent must rest on weapons which come from hidden, moving, or invulnerable bases which will not be wiped out by a surprise attack ," and lobbied instead for ten additional Polaris nuclear submarines and an increased Minuteman nuclear arsenal.

, the group consists of over 300 student singers, instrumentalists, production staff-members and officers, and hopes to put on additional shows at Dartmouth each term in the coming year.

Despite midseason trade rumors, Beltrán would prove instrumental to the team's hopes, hitting eight home runs in the postseason.

The game itself would have taken place in a world inside the Avatar's mind ( the world was called " Alucinor ", which roughly translates from Latin " Wandering in the mind "), and the people in the world were tasked to follow the eight virtues in the hopes of aiding the Avatar in gaining the power to completely defeat the Guardian.

In a February 2012 profile of the department, Roll Call wrote that “ The DCCC ’ s team of mostly 20-somethings researches opposition targets for eight weeks at a time, scouring news clips and YouTube videos and traveling across the country to comb through public records, all in hopes of finding a good hit.

One of his eight goals for the Tractor Boys came in February 1993 as they beat Premier League title favourites Manchester United 2-1 at Portman Road, a result which saw Ipswich occupy fourth place in the league and spark hopes of a late run to the title, but instead a slump in form followed and Ipswich finished 16th.

Remembering how Pistone's infiltration had damaged the family, he also decreed that all prospective made men had to have a working relationship with an incumbent member for at least eight years before becoming made, in hopes of ensuring new mafiosi were as reliable as possible.

Introduced a just eight months before The Attack on Pearl Harbor, Packard's hopes for the future rode on a new car design.