Mr. Paray resisted the temptation to over-emphasize the melodic elements of the score.

The Rhodesian authorities resisted the temptation to nationalise major enterprises without paying proper compensation, consistently refused to radically alleviate unemployment, and shied from filling civil service posts with partisan appointees.

Henry, who had travelled through Burgundy, had been greeted with enthusiasm by the Lombards, but resisted the temptation to employ force against Gregory.

One of his revisionist modern biographers, however, Miriam Griffin says in her biography of Seneca that " the evidence for Seneca's life before his exile in 41 is so slight, and the potential interest of these years, for social history as well as for biography, is so great that few writers on Seneca have resisted the temptation to eke out knowledge with imagination.

However after the adoption of Islam, bidadari is equated with heavenly maiden mentioned in the Quran, in which God stated that the ' forbidden pearls ' of heaven are for those men who have resisted temptation and borne life's trials.

Sincere repentance is manifested when the same temptation to sin, under the same conditions, is ever after resolutely resisted.

The temptation to draw conclusions about what is " natural " for human sexual behavior from observations of animal mating systems should be resisted: a socio-biologist observing the kinds of behavior shown by humans in any other species would conclude that all known mating systems were natural for that species, depending on the circumstances or on individual differences.

In an encounter with Asgardian trolls, Moondragon resisted the temptation of letting the trolls and the Dragon of the Moon remove her headband, thus proving herself to Odin, who promptly let the headband fall off.

On the August 21, 1858, by a vote of 11, 812, 192, 346, Kansas resisted this temptation.

However, the Army resisted any temptation to dilute their quality, and recruits continued to be of above-average size and stamina.

Despite fantasizing about killing Black, Superman resisted temptation and told Black that he would devote the rest of his life to keeping the villain behind bars, and not in the morgue, as vengeance isn't justice.

Smout said later in life that he resisted the temptation to souvenir the Red Baron's boots and Iron Cross.

Unfortunately, in addition to viewing left-handedness as a conscious choice, “ Pure backwards of what ’ s right and good ,” Ezekiel also views baseball as a temptation that needs to be resisted, so Luke must practice pitching in secret, by throwing rocks and may apples in the woods.

They agreed to continue the traditional day of August 15 and resisted the temptation to move it to the nearest weekend as most other communities have done with their particular festivals throughout the year.

He has an evenness of execution which indicates an artistic conscience uncommon in Spanish playwrights ; he resisted the temptation to write too much, and he unites a virile dignity of expression to impressive conception of character.

MassMutual largely resisted the temptation, sticking to life and health insurance and pension-related products.

* George Kastrioti, Skenderbeg – Albanian Prince who resisted the Ottomans for almost 30 years ( 1443 – 1468 ).

In 1707, during the War of the Spanish Succession, Toulon successfully resisted a siege by the Imperial Army led by the Duke of Savoy and Prince Eugene.

Cadets of France's princes étrangers began to affect similar usage but when, for example, the House of La Tour d ' Auvergne's ruling dukes of Bouillon, attempted to use the same style, it was initially resisted by historians such as Père Anselme – who, however, willingly recognized use of territorial titles, i. e. he accepts that the ducal heir apparent is known as prince de Bouillon, but would record in 1728 only that the heir's cousin, the comte d ' Oliergues was " known as the Prince Frederick " (" dit le prince Frédéric ").

Prince Demidoff insisted on keeping his lover, Valentine de St Aldegonde, which of course was fiercely resisted by Mathilde.

The Prince of Lu, a member of the Southern Ming Dynasty, resisted the invading Manchu Qing dynasty forces.

Reynier sent a regiment ahead to seize Gaeta by a coup de main, but the fortress, commanded by the Prince of Hesse-Philippstead, resisted stoutly ; he would hold out until July 18.

" Several times, officials reminded Emperor Wu of this, and Emperor Wu, not realizing the extent of Crown Prince Zhong's disability, resisted the implicit calls for him to be replaced.

Although the Zachlumoi mostly accepted the Ban's rule, some resisted, like Peter of Tolien who ruled the Seaside from his capital in Popovo ; he was the grandson of the famous Zachlumian Prince Andrew.

) of Murlagan resisted Bonny Prince Charlie's attempt in 1745 for the British throne although his two sons went out in support of the prince under Cameron of Locheil, and one died at Culloden, the other rescued the prince and the last skirmish of the 1745 rebellion against the House of Hanover was on the land and policies of Murlagan, where French gold to fund the rebellion was rumoured buried, as the remnants scattered into hiding and the Prince went on his secret journey to the Isle of Skye and exile in France and into legend.

The city stayed loyal to the Prince of Orange and resisted the Spanish army in a 7-months siege.

Both Emperor Wu's brother Yuwen Xian the Prince of Qi and the general Wang Gui ( 王軌 ) were said to have suggested that Emperor Wu execute Yang Jian, but Emperor Wu resisted.

When a third Swedish army commanded by Prince Carl Gustaf came close to Prague, all three Swedish armies launched a number of attacks against the city which thanks to the citizen soldiers and strong fortifications resisted.

After the Bismarck action, Tovey resisted moves to court-martial the Prince of Wales ' captain, John Leach, and Frederic Wake-Walker, the admiral commanding Suffolk and Norfolk, who had broken off the battle with Bismarck after Hood had been sunk.

Himmler's belief that " it is in the nature of German blood to resist " led to his conclusion that Balts or Poles who resisted Germanization were racially superior to more compliant ones.

He joined the Nationalist Party ( KMT ), supported the Northern Expedition and became blood brothers with Chiang Kai-shek, but resisted Chiang's consolidation on power in the Central Plains War, and broke with Chiang again in resisting Japanese incursions in 1933.

Four hikers who resisted armed robbery were shot in 2004, one dying of blood loss before rescue.

For example, Grady stated in an 1888 speech about the New South: " the supremacy of the white race of the South must be maintained forever, and the domination of the negro race resisted at all points and at all hazards, because the white race is the superior race ... declaration shall run forever with the blood that feeds Anglo-Saxon hearts ".

As acting governor on September 11, 2001, the day terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, he resisted calls to declare a state of emergency and instead urged Arkansans to remain calm and to donate blood, which they did.

At the end of Avengers: The Initiative, Prodigy was released from 42 Prison, in which he was detained for having resisted Osborn's regime, and is depicted as working on the motivational speaker circuit while trying to reunite the Slingers.

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

I had always resisted the passes made at me by other kids, and many times I had thought about my love for Johnnie who, being thirty, brought a maturity to love that the kids around town could know nothing about.

About 385-380 BC the philhellene Evagoras of Salamis was similarly opposed by Amathus, in conjunction with Citium and Soli ; and even after Alexander the city resisted annexation, and was bound over to give hostages to Seleucus.

However, a percentage of the indigenous Assyrian population ( known as Ashuriyun by the Arabs ) resisted this process, Assyrian Aramaic language and Church of the East Christianity were still dominant in the north, as late as the 11th and 12th centuries AD.

The reforms and the PDPA's affinity to the Soviet Union were met with heavy resistance among the population, especially as the government attempted to enforce its Marxist policies by arresting or simply executing those who resisted.

Surrounded by the vizier Said ibn al-Mundhir who had ordered the construction of bastions around the city, he resisted the siege for six months, until he surrendered, having his life spared ( 928 ).

The introduction of Islam to Burkina Faso was initially resisted by the Mossi rulers.

However, the government resisted calls for the nationalisation of the network ( first proposed by William Ewart Gladstone as early as the 1830s ).

The emperor Leo III issued a decree in 726 against images, and ordered the destruction of a statue of Christ over one of the doors of the Chalke, an act that was fiercely resisted by the citizens.

These seven problems are considered by CMI to be " important classic questions that have resisted solution over the years ".

By his account, upon having been told by friends and relatives that they had prayed for him, he resisted the urge to ask them, " Did you also sacrifice a goat?

" They noted that " the law of transformation of quantity into quality ", " holds that a new quality emerges in a leap as the slow accumulation of quantitative changes, long resisted by a stable system, finally forces it rapidly from one state into another ," a phenomenon described in some disciplines as a paradigm shift.

In 1970s and early 1980s, a subculture of C / SCSC analysis grew, but the technique was often ignored or even actively resisted by project managers in both government and industry.

The only violence in Cork occurred when the Kent brothers resisted arrest by the RIC, shooting one.

Locals often resisted de-Christianization by attacking revolutionary agents and hiding members of the clergy who were being hunted.

Domitian's aggressive claim to divinity would have been rejected and resisted by Christians.

The shape of the Earth is to a large extent the result of its rotation, which causes its equatorial bulge, and the competition of geological processes such as the collision of plates and of volcanism, resisted by the Earth's gravity field.

He executed the laws enforcing religious conformity with severity, and filled the parish churches, but resisted the excessive measures of tyranny prescribed by the English government ; and in consequence of an intrigue of the Duke of Queensberry and Lord Perth, who gained the duchess of Portsmouth with a present of £ 27, 000, he was dismissed in 1684.

In the northeast side, the " province " of Taguzgalpa resisted all attempts to conquer it, physically in the sixteenth century, and spiritually, by missionaries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The third variable that is seen is that attempts of the therapist to correct the pusher posture by aiming to realign them to upright posture are resisted by the patient.

In reaction the government sent elite troops, which were resisted by Benghazi's inhabitants and mutineering members of the military.

There is little space for further large-scale housing and employment growth within the designated boundaries of Hastings, and development on the outskirts is resisted by Rother council whose administrative area surrounds Hastings.

They successfully resisted the northwestern kingdoms until the arrival of the Hunas, who established themselves in Afghanistan by the first half of the 5th century, with their capital at Bamiyan.

Creating free-standing, three-dimensional sculptures of holy figures was resisted by Christians for many centuries, out of the belief that daimones inhabited pagan sculptures, and also to make a clear distinction between Christian and pagan art.