The men inside informed him that they had some wounded men among them but he would not be allowed to see them even though he offered medical aid.

For example, Dürer offered his last portrait of Maximilian to his daughter, Margaret of Austria, but eventually traded the picture for some white cloth after Margaret disliked the portrait and declined to accept it.

Different bookmakers may offer different odds on the same outcome of a given event ; by taking the best odds offered by each bookmaker, a customer can under some circumstances cover all possible outcomes of the event and lock a small risk-free profit, known as a Dutch book.

Qualifications such as undergraduate degrees and higher are not offered at community colleges, though some community colleges do offer certificate courses I to IV.

During the 17th century cavalry in Europe lost most of its armor, ineffective against the muskets and cannon which were coming into use, and by the mid-19th century armor had mainly fallen into disuse, although some regiments retained a small thickened cuirass that offered protection against lances and sabres and some protection against shot.

The enterprise PABX market had some success, and all the major PABX vendors have offered DECT access options.

After making some stories for the Dutch publisher Oberon, the publishers of an American Disney children's magazine called DuckTales ( based on of the animated series of the same name ) offered him employment.

The weblink was to a fake webpage advertising a prize offered to anyone who could discover the secret location of some valuable urns.

Bonaventure ( 1221 – 1274 ), one of Aquinas ' fiercest intellectual opponents, offered some of the strongest arguments in favour of the Platonic idea of the mind.

The variant is also offered by some online venues, although it is not as popular as other variants such as Texas hold ' em.

From his 1988 book Infinite in All Directions, he offered some criticism of then current models predicting a devastating nuclear winter in the event of a large-scale nuclear war:

While almost any game can be played for money, and any game typically played for money can also be played just for fun, some games are generally offered in a casino setting.

Despite Stephenson's losing some routes to competitors due to his caution, he was offered more work than he could cope with, and was unable to accept offers for additional work.

Though it was crude, the hypo helmet was a stopgap measure for British troops in the trenches that offered at least some protection during a gas attack.

However, some 22 years later, in the 1740 autobiography, he offered a different explanation, claiming that he was motivated by his desire for university education.

Determined to avoid an international conflict, the United States, after some hesitation, offered to meditate the dispute, hinting to the Honduran president that if he refused the offer, open intervention might follow.

According to a very different account by an ancient grammarian, Herodotus refused to begin reading his work at the festival of Olympia until some clouds offered him a bit of shade, by which time however the assembly had dispersed-thus the proverbial expression " Herodotus and his shade " to describe any man who misses his opportunity through delay.

At the peak of the hysteria, some hospitals offered free X-rays of children's Halloween hauls in order to find evidence of tampering.

While from a Catholic viewpoint there have been tensions concerning some developments of the practice, the Pope said, there is no denying the goodness of the intention that inspired its defence, which was to stress that man is offered the concrete possibility of uniting himself in his inner heart with God in that profound union of grace known as theosis, divinization.

The third explanation offered by Jex & Britt says that some employees have personality traits that predispose them to participate in organizational citizenship behavior.

In some areas baby hatches, safe places for a mother to anonymously leave an infant, are offered, in part to reduce the rate of infanticide.

A pivotal book on Hart was written by Neil MacCormick in 1981 ( second edition due in 2007 ), which further refined and offered some important criticisms that led MacCormick to develop his own theory ( the best example of which is his recently published Institutions of Law, 2007 ).

Keno () is a lottery or bingo gambling game often played at modern casinos, and is also offered as a game in some state lotteries.

Mihdhar and Hazmi raised some suspicion when they offered extra money to their flight instructor, Richard Garza, if he would train them to fly jets.

In their addresses, they also supported the communal Rabbi in helping to teach those who could not learn the spiritual and practical life of Jewish learning, and offered personal examples of Jewish conduct.

For the former, the apprenticeship is provided by employers, while the practical training for the latter is offered in school.

If that happens, Franks said, “... the Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we ’ ve seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy .” Franks then offered “ in a practical sense ” what he thinks would happen in the aftermath of such an attack.

The location offered practical advantages: it lay within the Lithuanian heartland at the confluence of two navigable rivers, surrounded by forests and wetlands that were difficult to penetrate.

Similar systems are offered by organizations in other countries and typically include a range of courses, both theoretical and practical.

For decades, magazines such as Popular Mechanics and Mechanix Illustrated offered a way for readers to keep current on useful practical skills and techniques.

The Longitude Prize was a reward offered by the British government for a simple and practical method for the precise determination of a ship's longitude.

This institution offered traditional classical education courses as well as some more practical coursework.

Second ( and even more importantly ), when a software writer in pre-IBM days had to be careful to use as plain a subset of the possible techniques as practicable ( so as to be able to run on any hardware that ran CP / M ), with a major part of the market now all using the same exact hardware ( or a very similar clone of it ) it was practical to take advantage of any and every hardware-specific feature offered by the IBM.

To produce a literate citizenry, elementary education was made compulsory for all boys and girls, and higher education on practical lines was offered for a select few.

In the 1850s there were many proprietary schools which originated from a practitioner taking on multiple apprentices and establishing a school and which provided a practical legal education, as opposed to the one offered in the universities which offered an education in the theory, history and philosophy of law.

holders ) are also offered. This curriculum is professionally oriented, but does not provide the education sufficient for a license to practice as an attorney in Japan, as all candidates for a license must have 12 month practical training by the Legal Training and Research Institute after passing bar examination.

The Ottawa River was significant because it offered a route that was practical for Europeans, by taking the traders northward out of the territory dominated by the Iroquois.

Moreover, instead of the traditional classical studies, the school offered a practical curriculum that stressed science and the modern languages.

In the 19th century, St Andrews offered a traditional education based on classical languages, divinity and philosophical studies, and at that time was slow to embrace more practical fields such as science, medicine and law that were the vogue.

Attracted by the practical solution nursing offered Albertina took his advice and applied to various nursing schools.

Apart from the practical advantages it offered, the design also became closely associated with imperial power, being later adopted by Trajan's successors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.

The first practical commercial night vision device offered on the market was developed by Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin working for the Radio Corporation of America and was intended for civilian use.

Generally most arborists only attain chainsaw related safety certificates ( NPTCs ) in addition to the practical qualifications offered by many land-based colleges.

Emphasising the " exemplary realisation " of Karl Marx's " teaching on building a new, better social order " in the USSR, it was declared that Socialism offered at the time " the best opportunity for the realisation of Christ's demands and for exercising the practical Christianity ".

Almanacks were very popular books in colonial America, with people in the colonies using them for the mixture of seasonal weather forecasts, practical household hints, puzzles, and other amusements they offered.

Other high-impact educational opportunities offered by Purchase College include learning communities, service learning, and internships, which provide a practical connection between academic studies and potential career paths.

The courses offered by the university are practical and business-focused, including courses in business administration and information technology.