Some families place undue emphasis on food: conversations center on it, and rich delicacies are offered as rewards, withheld as punishment.

Throughout his life, he was offered many positions of honor and profit throughout the academic world but declined them all, preferring the uncertain but sufficient rewards of independent literary activity.

Monroe was not particularly interested in legal theory or practice, but chose to take it up because he thought that it offered " the most immediate rewards " and could ease his path to wealth, social standing, and political influence.

Despite enormous rewards being offered, he was never captured nor betrayed.

From 1909 to 1912, rewards were offered for a living specimen no specimens were found.

Large rewards were offered for the return of many of the fugitive slaves, but no one then knew that Tubman was the one helping them.

A chemical company preparing to undertake commercial production and marketing of the diphtheria serum offered a contract to both men, but von Behring maneuvered a way to claim all the considerable financial rewards for himself.

Negotiators representing the government of Japan had also offered to support Yuan's ambitions as one of the rewards for Yuan's support of the Twenty-One Demands .< ref > Barnouin, Barbara and Yu Changgen.

All versions, except that in the Gesta Francorum, generally agree that Urban talked about the violence of European society and the necessity of maintaining the Peace of God ; about helping the Greeks, who had asked for assistance ; about the crimes being committed against Christians in the east ; and about a new kind of war, an armed pilgrimage, and of rewards in heaven, where remission of sins was offered to any who might die in the undertaking.

As reserve officer's, they are offered training, challenge, excitement, teamwork, and significant personal rewards.

The railroad and express company promptly offered rewards " for the capture and conviction " of $ 5, 000 for each participant in the robbery.

Erdős often offered monetary rewards ; the size of the reward depended on the perceived difficulty of the problem.

The hypothetical often cited is to imagine a human child raised in a laboratory with no strong parental bonds being offered snacks as rewards for speaking.

Henson was so grateful for this break that he offered Dean a 40 percent interest in his production company, but Dean declined on the basis that he did nothing to truly earn it and Henson deserved all the rewards for his own work.

During the controversy surrounding Bill Clinton's impeachment, Flynt publicly announced his sympathy for Clinton, and offered cash rewards to anyone with information regarding sexual impropriety on the part of the president's critics.

His remarkable success in reviving the moribund Syriac Orthodox church alarmed the emperor and the Chalcedonian bishops, who offered rewards for his arrest.

Another lesson Abrash offered was how hard-earned performance rewards by such micro-optimizations could disappear or even make the program execute slower.

Napoleon offered liberal monetary rewards to soldiers and laborers who could perform difficult portages in a timely fashion.

The cult was held to be a threat to the security of the state, investigators were appointed, rewards were offered to informants, legal processes were put in place and the Senate began the official suppression of the cult throughout Italy.

In the Fractured Fairy Tales episode " The Enchanted Fly ," one of the rewards offered to the man who would rescue and marry the princess is " an autographed picture of Keye Luke.

Various agencies and individuals have offered rewards for the apprehension of the persons responsible.

Extra rewards were offered to the troops.

They offered solid financial rewards, and negotiations were well advanced with the Swedish King Karl XII at his camp in 1718 during his campaign towards Norway.

He then offered rewards of land to Boer mercenaries who would come and fight on his side.

It suggests that during the next several months, through the spring of 1961, the demand for long-term capital funds may be moderately lower and that interest rates may tend to move a little lower, especially the rates on Federal, state, and local bonds, as well as those on publicly offered corporate bonds.

A $500 reward was offered by the association's local in Kansas City, Kas..

Abd ar-Rahman III did not send an army and only several local Berber jefes offered a pointless resistance.

The local doctor Kilian Stobaeus offered Linnaeus tutoring and lodging, as well as the use of his library, which included many books about botany.

The house was close enough to the local schools for the children to attend and the surrounding landscape offered many suitable motifs for Monet's work.

With the development of the internet, by the late 1990s and early 2000, much of that regulation had been replaced where newer industry technologies developed, offering viewers alternate choices for local events and programming leading to what is today, that being Digital Cable, Internet, and Phone being offered to consumers, bundled, by 2010.

By luck, these men found the Valley of Copiapó, where a Spaniard called Gonzalo Calvo Barrientos, a Spaniard whom Pizarro had expelled from Peru for stealing objects the Inca had offered for his ransom, had already established a friendship with the local natives.

When news came that the local vicar had drowned while trying to save victims of the shipwreck, Squire Cobtree offered the post to Christopher Syn.

Mayr said of his own involvement with the local birdwatchers: " In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

Banks played in local colliery football as a boy and was offered an apprenticeship by Chesterfield after initially going to work as a coal bagger and then as a bricklayer on leaving school.

Suburban railway networks operate in Dublin, Dublin Suburban Rail, and Belfast, Belfast Suburban Rail, with limited local services being offered in, or planned for, Cork, Limerick, and Galway.

The Kosiński family survived the Holocaust thanks to local villagers who offered assistance to Jewish Poles, often at great personal risk ( the penalty in Nazi-occupied Poland being death ).

His master may have agreed with his leaving since he offered the odd amount of 1 cent for his return and waited a month to post the notice in the local newspaper.

According to the Ministry of Economy, the state regulates the prices of goods and services provided by monopolies and the prices of electric or thermal energy, land, medical services, and services offered by local tax regions.

These Eid prayers are supposed to be offered in large groups, and so larger mosques will normally host them for their congregants as well as the congregants of smaller local mosques.

The word derives from traditional inherited divisions of the countryside, reassigned as local jurisdictions known as manors or seigneuries ; each manor being subject to a lord ( French seigneur ), usually holding his position in return for undertakings offered to a higher lord ( see Feudalism ).

Newton's apparent influence and charisma proved beneficial to him and his parish when local Evangelical merchant, John Thornton, to whom he had sent a copy of his autobiography, offered the parish £ 200 per year, requesting that Newton, in part, provided for the poor.

Many local women ’ s groups in the late sixties, such as the UCLA Women ’ s Liberation Front ( WLF ), offered diplomatic statements of radical feminism ’ s ideologies.

: Violence occurs between striking members of a miners ' union in Scranton, Pennsylvania when Welsh miners attack Irish and German-American miners who chose to leave the union and accept the terms offered by local mining companies .< ref > The Coal Riot.

Because of the huge economic profits that could be had from these fisheries, the local authorities offered incentives to the Sami – faced with their own population pressures – to settle on the newly vacant farms.

However, there are inexpensive ways to get involved in sailboat racing, such as at community sailing clubs, classes offered by local recreation organizations and in some inexpensive dinghy and small catamaran classes.

says that the local inhabitants of the land offered to assist with the building of the new temple during the time of Zerubbabel, but their offer was rejected.

He also worked in a local zoo, a post that offered plentiful opportunities to observe animals at close quarters.

It has been documented that local veterinarians have offered to perform neutering of the male rabbits.

However he immediately surrendered himself to the local police and offered his services to MI5.