Twice during the Civil War it was saved from destruction by the opposing armies by the pleas and prayers of a local minister.

Again Reverend Corder saved the bridge when Union soldiers planned to destroy it, after filling its two lanes with hay and straw -- but for what reason is not recorded nor remembered, certainly not because of pressure from an opposing Confederate force.

This has saved us from constant requests seven days a week and made us feel less brutal to the young `` less fortunate '' than ours.

I was saved from making the decision as the phone rang, and the girls were upon me instantly.

Should not everyone have been awakened to it as an outstanding fact of our time that the nations poisoned by anti-Semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom than those whose citizens saved their Jewish compatriots from the transports??

No matter by what name cattle were called, there was no denyin' that they not only saved Texas from financial ruin, but went far toward redeemin' from a wilderness vast territories of the Northwest.

With this ultimate weapon, the two Yankees may have saved baseball from its dullest season.

He knew that his God would save him from his enemies because He had saved him from his sins.

Being convinced that salvation is alone by accepting Christ as Saviour, and being convicted by the Holy Spirit of my lost condition, I do repent of all effort to be saved by any form of good works, and just now receive Jesus as my personal Saviour and salvation as a free gift from Him.

The Constantinois Malouf style is saved by musician from whom Mohamed Tahar Fergani is one of the best performers.

In The Nemean Lion, he sided with the criminal, Miss Amy Carnaby, and saved her from having to face justice by blackmailing his client Sir Joseph Hoggins, who himself was plotting murder and was unwise enough to let Poirot discover this.

) At the intercession of Moses, Aaron was saved from the plague which smote the people ( Deuteronomy 9: 20, Exodus 32: 35 ), although it was against Aaron ’ s tribe of Levi that the work of punitive vengeance was committed ( Exodus 32: 26 ).

This belief follows the theology of St. Paul: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.

Traditional Calvinists believe in the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, which says that because God chose some unto salvation and actually paid for their particular sins, he keeps them from apostasy and that those who do apostatize were never truly regenerated ( that is, born again ) or saved.

In the Iliad, Aeneas is a minor character, where he is twice saved from death by the gods as if for an as yet unknown destiny.

Thus we have the story of his riding across a stick ( horse made of stick ) with his children and upon being discovered by a friend desiring that he not mention till he himself were the father of children ; and because of the affection of his son Archidamus ' for Cleonymus, he saved Sphodrias, Cleonymus ' father, from execution for his incursion into the Piraeus, and dishonorable retreat, in 378 BC.

When the news spread that Agrippina had died, the Roman army, senate and various people sent him letters of congratulations that he had been saved from his mother's plots.

On his return from Troy, his vessel was wrecked on the Whirling Rocks (), but he himself escaped upon a rock through the assistance of Poseidon and would have been saved in spite of Athena, but he said that he would escape the dangers of the sea in defiance of the immortals.

The contemporary ecclesiastics recorded with wonder many instances of the Visigoths ' clemency: Christian churches saved from ravage ; protection granted to vast multitudes both of pagans and Christians who took refuge therein ; vessels of gold and silver which were found in a private dwelling, spared because they " belonged to St. Peter "; at least one case in which a beautiful Roman matron appealed, not in vain, to the better feelings of the Gothic soldier who attempted her dishonor.

Muhammad later reaffirmed this title when he said that Abu Bakr is the ' atiqe ' ( the one saved from hell fire by God ).

She was saved from death by Perseus, her future husband.

The popular story of Winston Churchill's father paying for Fleming's education after Fleming's father saved young Winston from death is false.

If Acorn had thought to include this small modification in the original Electron design it is likely the machine would have had a much greater impact as it would have nearly doubled the amount of motion possible in games and saved modes 0 – 3 ( including the only 16 colour mode ) from being nearly useless due to contended memory timings.

Ironically for a man later to die in an accident himself, at the age of ten, Mazzola saved the life of Andrea Bonomi, later a defender for A. C. Milan, by rescuing him from a river.

Andriy Shevchenko saw his decisive penalty kick saved by Jerzy Dudek to settle the match.

Many of the Savage Land's native people were saved from the ensuing destruction by M ' rin: The Warlord of The Skies who took them into her own native dimension to safety.

Thus, the ensuing revival of Augustinian theology, stating that man cannot be saved by his own efforts but only by the grace of God would erode the legitimacy of the rigid institutions of the church meant to provide a channel for man to do good works and get into heaven.

In the ensuing confusion, Princess Ida falls into a stream, and Hilarion rescues her ( Oh joy, our chief is saved ).

Realising what is about to happen, Holly shoots several of the Armahagger, killing Mahomed in the process ; in the ensuing struggle Leo is gravely wounded, but the three Englishmen are saved when Billali returns in the nick of time and declares that they are under the protection of She.

In the ensuing crash, he sustained head injuries and a badly broken leg, which was only saved after extensive surgery.

Paris was saved with the halting of the German advance at the Marne ; the ensuing retreat, which prompted an Allied counter-offensive, ended at the Aisne.

One of his first major battles on Earth was a duel with the renegade Predacon Dinobot, whose life Primal then saved — grateful, Dinobot joined the Maximals, and Primal dubbed the ensuing conflict for control of the energon on earth as the " Beast Wars ".

Wales shares other Twelfth Night customs with its neighbor, England, including the yule log, and the wassail to wish farmers a good harvest in the coming year, but here the yule log's ashes were saved then buried along with the seeds planted in the ensuing spring to ensure a good harvest, while the wassail bowl was taken to the house of newlyweds or to a family which had recently come to live in the district and songs sung outside the house door.

Nonetheless, the ensuing fight ended with Artemis nearly dying and saved by Jarlaxle, only to be taken to Menzoberranzan under his command.

This was despite Lineker having a goal controversially disallowed for offside and also having a penalty saved by goalkeeper Mark Crossley.

Rare exceptions were found in the Southern press, where the fact that Darrow had saved Leopold and Loeb from the death penalty continued to be a source of ugly humor.

) The photonic rocket is thus wasteful when power and not mass is at a premium, or when enough mass can be saved through the use of a weaker power source that reaction mass can be included without penalty.

Bergkamp took the penalty shot, but it was saved by goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel.

Przemysław Tytoń, who had replaced Andreas Isaksson as first choice in the goal, saved a penalty from Bas Dost.

In England's second match against Spain, Milner had a penalty well saved by Sergio Asenjo, and scored England's second goal in a 2 – 0 win.

Plautius was probably the uncle whose " distinguished service " saved Plautius Lateranus from the death penalty in 48 after his affair with Messalina.

He won a Champions League winner's medal, providing the assist for Liverpool's first goal of the final, although his attempt in the penalty shoot-out against Milan was saved.

Seaman saved two spot-kicks in the tournament ; the first a penalty in normal play from Scotland's Gary McAllister in a group match, while England were 1 – 0 up ( Paul Gascoigne scored soon after to make it 2 – 0 ).

In fact, until Lukas Podolski's shot was saved by the Serbian goalkeeper Vladimir Stojković during group play of the 2010 World Cup, the last penalty missed by a German player dates back to the 1982 World Cup semifinals when the French goalkeeper Jean-Luc Ettori saved Uli Stielike's shot.

During the subsequent penalty shootout, goalkeeper Jens Lehmann saved two shots while his teammates all converted their shots to win the shootout 4 – 2.

Atlético was expected to win easily, but in the event the first leg in Bangor was only won 2 – 0 ; in the return leg in Madrid, Bangor won much admiration with a dogged defence which only allowed Atlético one more goal, and Bangor keeper Dai Davies saved an Atlético penalty kick.

After unsuccessfully trying to persuade the referee to change his decision about the penalty, Fowler took it tamely and Seaman saved.

Portugal won 6 – 5, as goalkeeper Ricardo saved a penalty from Darius Vassell, and then scored himself the winning goal.

A minute after David Seaman had saved a penalty, Gascoigne received the ball from Darren Anderton on the left outside the Scotland penalty area.

A 70th cap came Shilton's way in a 1 – 0 defeat against Scotland at Hampden Park ; he later saved a penalty from Andy Breheme as England beat West Germany 3 – 0 in a tour match in Mexico, a year before England were hoping to return there for the World Cup.

On April 19, 2009, in the FA Cup semi final, he saved two penalties against his former club Manchester United in a penalty shoot-out to send Everton to the final against Chelsea.

In the 1996 Western Conference semi-finals between the Colorado Avalanche and the Chicago Blackhawks, after a controversial game in which Roenick was tripped on a breakaway and no penalty shot was called, Patrick Roy said, " I would have saved it anyway.

The match went to a penalty shootout ; Baker took a penalty which was saved by England celebrity goalkeeper, Jamie Theakston.

Frank de Boer had both a penalty kick and shootout kick saved by Toldo, who also saved from Paul Bosvelt to give Italy a 0-0 shootout victory.