He acquired, sold, and exchanged lands, but never strove to build himself a territorial power base or a large armed force of retainers ( which proved fatal in the end ).

She strove to work as much as possible to support herself and her son ; she never put herself under contract to any one studio and priced her services at $ 1000 a week.

Dhan Gopal never lost the sense of mission which he shared with his brother, and throughout his life strove to complete the task he had set himself: to emancipate India from foreign rule and win for her culture and philosophy the respect he felt it deserved.

That's why the British never got the tribes to fight for the King.

Hez looked up at the high face of Emigrant Rock, official signboard for the Raft River turnoff, and gloated, `` Seems funny that them Burnsides never took time to leave their John-Henry up thar ''.

Thinking fast, Tilghman never hesitated for one instant.

As for states' rights, they have never counted in the thinking of my liberal friends except as irritations of a minor and immoral nature which exist now only as anachronisms.

It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.

Washington never had a chance to work for an extended stretch at the occupation he loved best, plantation management.

`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.

Even Hemingway, for all his efforts to formulate a naturalistic morality in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell To Arms never maintained that sex was all.

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

and bright though they all were, they could not possibly compete for her interest with Papa, whose mind -- although he never tried to dazzle or patronize lesser lights with it -- naturally eclipsed theirs and made them seem to her even younger than they were.

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

I had known him for some years, when I was a delegate and before, and this manner had never been his ''.

Oxford, realizing that the law required the issuance of the writ, took the opposite view, for which the Queen never forgave him.

Koenigsberg never did learn what Hearst wanted, for the latter shook hands and moved toward the door.

Economic analysis was never Trevelyan's strong point and the England of the industrial transformation cries out for economic analysis.

He never saw that it was a complement to his infantry and not a substitute for it.

Conflict of interest between savers and borrowers was never fully reconciled in the building societies but upon deregulation that reconciliation became something of a lost cause.

Although he never mentions Christianity in his surviving works, his writings have been taken as an attempt at reconciliation between Greek religion traditions and the Christian beliefs he may have encountered in Constantinople.

Nicholas never ceased his efforts to bring about a reconciliation between Lothair and his lawful wife, but without effect.

The two men never achieved a reconciliation, and Jack Jr. is not mentioned in his father's 1964 autobiography.

In silence, then, we bow our heads before the endless line of those who suffered and were put to death here ; yet our silence becomes in turn a plea for forgiveness and reconciliation, a plea to the living God never to let this happen again.

Even as it became clear the Greek Church would never consent to the Filioque clause, the Emperor continued to press for a reconciliation.

In books such as Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy ( ISBN 0-384-15780-7 ), Fiske aimed to show that " in reality there has never been any conflict between religion and science, nor is any reconciliation called for where harmony has always existed.

However, the colonists never explicitly called for its repeal, and would seek reconciliation with the crown up until the last minute.

" It was clearly not a gesture that looked toward reconciliation, Fox never apologized, and the differences remained.

The OAS was also accused of murders and bombings nullifying reconciliation opportunities between the communities, while ' Pieds-Noirs ' themselves never believed such reconciliation possible as their community was targeted from the start.

The promise of the international conference never took root, and in the following years Kossuth, living abroad in Turin, Italy, had to watch Ferenc Deák guide Hungary toward reconciliation with the Austrian monarchy.

Following her parents ' reconciliation in October 2007, Kapoor explained that they " were never officially divorced ... ... liv separately.

However, despite the formal reunification embodied by the acts of these councils, no effective reconciliation was realized since the Orthodox believe that the acts of councils must be ratified by the wider Church and the acts of these councils never attained widespread acceptance among Orthodox churches.

Aimone felt that Dalmatia " was a land that could never be Italianized " and was an obstacle to Italian-Croatian reconciliation.

Kemény's enthusiasm for Hungarian independence had waned, believing that the European balance of power would never accept an independent Hungary, and advocated a policy of reconciliation with Austria.

While audiences may have hoped for a reconciliation between the two, it was never meant to be.

Chances for reconciliation are impossible according to Madonna's longtime publicist Liz Rosenberg, who in a June 2003 news story in New York Magazine said “ I can assure you that Madonna will never work with Junior again.

" Why was the concept of reconciliation never done for the late Turaga Bale the Tui Nayau ( Ratu Mara ) or for that matter the late Marama Bale the Roko Tui Dreketi ( Ro Adi Lala Mara )?

Frank tells him that he worries too much, and the two have a reconciliation of sorts with Frank telling Gil that worry for one's children never ends.

A reconciliation never quite happened, but the two did settle on a good friendship for the sake of the kids.

Pinedo shot to kill, but missed, and de la Torre missed deliberately, so neither was injured, but reconciliation never came.