Greek orators spoke, on their own behalf rather as representatives of either a client or a constituency, and so any citizen who wished to succeed in court, in politics, or in social life had to learn techniques of public speaking.

Aborigines who wished to improve their status looked to education rather than headhunting as the new form of power.

As he had requested, a wake was held rather than a funeral ; he had wished to be remembered as a " good cartoonist.

West Richland was founded by dissatisfied residents of Richland, who wished to be home owners rather than renters of government-owned houses, after the arrival of Hanford.

Because of this, he wished for Wario to come off as macho rather than silly, and requested that the art designers emphasize his masculinity.

In October 1973 he announced on BBC Radio that he wished to be known as Mr Tony Benn rather than as Anthony Wedgwood Benn, and his book Speeches from 1974 is credited to " Tony Benn ".

Videocassettes finally made it possible for consumers to buy or rent a complete film and watch it at home whenever they wished, rather than simply catching it at a movie theatre or having to wait until it was telecast.

It is also likely that he wished to continue the siege of Tripoli rather than remain in Jerusalem.

Because of his mother's declining health, however, rather than going to Harvard, as father wished, Lomax matriculated at the University of Texas at Austin.

His sexual intention was therefore secret, rather than unconscious, and any ' parapraxis ' would inhere in the idea that he unconsciously wished to express that intention, rather than in the sexual connotation of the substitution.

Eventually, he was allowed to follow his desire to become an artist, rather than join the army as his father wished, and he attended Westminster School of Art in 1902.

Until the 1950s, transatlantic liners would disembark passengers who wished to catch a fast train to London rather than spend another day on board going up the Channel.

His friends Lect and Giovanni Diodati wished, rather than hoped, to get him back to Geneva.

Grover Whalen, a public relations innovator, saw the Fair as an opportunity for corporations to present consumer products, rather than as an exercise in presenting science and the scientific way of thinking in its own right, as Harold Urey, Albert Einstein and other scientists wished to see the project.

His lawyers ' primary arguments before US District Magistrate Robert P. DeGiacomo stated that his alleged acts of lawbreaking in Liberia were political rather than criminal in nature and that the extradition treaty between the two republics had lapsed ; in response, Assistant United States Attorney Richard G. Stearns argued that Liberia wished to charge Taylor with theft in office, rather than with political crimes, and that any international political decisions that could hold up the trial should only be made by the US State Department.

The future historian was well educated, but his family wished him to devote himself to commerce rather than literature, and he became a banker's clerk in Lyon.

However these trends had developed fortuitously, rather than in response to a specific philosophy of art ; Wagner, who recognised the reforms of Gluck and admired the works of Weber, wished to consolidate his view, originally, as part of his radical social and political views of the late 1840s.

However none of the other Balkan States wished to see an independent Albania, but rather envisaged the partition of Albania between them.

The fight was later romanticized by the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson: " Out-gunned, out-fought, and out-numbered fifty-three to one ", Grenville was said to have wished to blow up his ship rather than give up the fight: " Sink me the ship, Master Gunner — sink her, split her in twain!

However, Takeda ’ s intent was not to attack Ieyasu nor to seize Hamamatsu ; rather, he wished to avoid conflict if possible to save his forces to destroy Nobunaga and to march on Kyoto.

A plebiscite was held in the Territory of the Saar Basin ( presently Saarland ) on January 13, 1935: 90. 3 % of those voting wished to join Germany rather than join France.

Two currents existed within the reformists of the Parti canadien: a moderate wing, whose members were fond of British institutions and wished for Lower Canada to have a government more accountable to the elective house's representative and a more radical wing whose attachment to British institutions was rather conditional to this proving to be as good as to those of the neighbouring American republics.

The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

A new bill had been passed under Harding that designated the Government, rather than the President, as the tab-lifter for official meals.

Repnin, who had a rather narrow face, longish nose, high forehead, and arching brows, looked like a quizzical Mephistopheles.

It was rather a childish game, all in all, but everybody seemed to be getting into the spirit of the thing and he could not remember when he had enjoyed planning anything quite so much.

and, although he later explained that he was talking French, it seems rather more likely that he had succumbed to the joys of the evening.

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

To prevent the manager from deliberately controlling himself only during the sessions, they were rather lengthy ( about twenty minutes ), the situations were imperfectly described to the manager so that he would not know what to expect, new antagonists were brought on the scene unexpectedly, and the antagonists were instructed to deliberately behave in such ways as to upset the manager and get him to operate in a manner for which he had been previously criticized.

The tendency to treat elections as an instrument of self-interest rather than an instrument of national interest had two important effects on electoral planning in Morocco.

The authors insist, however, that these abnormalities in the sense of touch were due absolutely to no organic disorders in that sense faculty but rather to the injuries which the patient had sustained to the sense of sight.

Maude was neither hysterical nor silly and Sarah rather doubted if she had ever been childish.

The King Arthur had fifty-four overnighters, again counting rooms rather than people.

They faced a rather small audience, as quite a few subscribers apparently had decided to forego the pleasures of the afternoon.

I had come prepared to worship at the feet of this classic, and he turned out to be a rather bitter old man who smelled of dead cigars.

`` I had a rather small place of my own.

Mousie Chandler had been to school with her someplace near Baltimore and tried to explain rather than defend her to the gang having lunch at Horne's.

Douglas ' provision, which Lincoln opposed, specified settlers had the right to determine locally whether to allow slavery in new U. S. territory, rather than have such a decision restricted by the national Congress.

Influenced by the German tradition, Boas argued that the world was full of distinct cultures, rather than societies whose evolution could be measured by how much or how little " civilization " they had.

For example, the subprogram in Euclid's algorithm to compute the remainder would execute much faster if the programmer had a " modulus " ( division ) instruction available rather than just subtraction ( or worse: just Minsky's " decrement ").

This was the last try to develop itself as a sports club rather than just a football team, such as Lomas, Belgrano and Quilmes had successfully done in the past, but the efforts were not enough.

It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.