Desiring to fill the only remaining lack, he selected the best site on the ranch for a chapel and spared no expense in erecting it.

" This title hails back to England's separation from the See of Rome, when King Henry, as supreme head of the newly independent church, took over all of the monasteries, mainly for their possessions, except for St. Benet, which he spared because the abbot and his monks possessed no wealth, and lived like simple beggars, disposing the incumbent Bishop of Norwich and seating the abbot in his place, thus the dual title still held to this day.

Again, no expense was spared, and following his earlier liberal education, at 16 he began studies at the prestigious local sanctuary or Asclepieum dedicated to Asclepius, god of medicine, as a θεραπευτής ( therapeutes, or attendant ) for four years.

The diversion held an added advantage ; due to the holy places that lay along the way, including Hebron, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem, the Mamluk authorities spared no efforts in keeping the route safe for pilgrims.

Leicester was keen to impress Elizabeth in a final attempt to convince her to marry him, and no expense was spared.

They spared no expense and photographed a large percentage of the film in Technicolor.

He also shows that no individual Jews were spared, as is often claimed, after Pius personally intervened with the Nazis.

After the siege was raised, Innocent again spared no efforts to induce the Christian princes to lend a helping hand for the expulsion of the Turks from Hungary.

Almost no species in the Persian Gulf is spared from the real estate development of UAE and Oman, including the hawksbill turtle, the flamingo, and the booted warblers, mainly due to destruction of the mangrove habitats to make way for towers, hotels, and luxury resorts.

He spared no expense in acquiring great past masterworks, such as those of Dürer and Brueghel.

His lifelong quest was to find the Philosopher's Stone and Rudolf spared no expense in bringing Europe's best alchemists to court, such as Edward Kelley and John Dee.

For this independence of the Congo, even as it is celebrated today with Belgium, a friendly country with whom we deal as equal to equal, no Congolese worthy of the name will ever be able to forget that it was by fighting that it has been won, a day-to-day fight, an ardent and idealistic fight, a fight in which we were spared neither privation nor suffering, and for which we gave our strength and our blood.

They spared a few homes " because Turner believed the poor white inhabitants ' thought no better of themselves than they did of negros.

Thus, this branch spared in carpal tunnel syndrome, and there is no loss of palmar sensation.

He always insisted that there must be the same standard of examination for degrees at Sydney as in the leading British universities, and he spared no pains in helping his students to reach that standard.

Napoleon " spared no pains " to please her and claimed at one point to prefer Marie Louise to his first wife Joséphine ; while he had loved Joséphine, he claimed, he had not respected her, whereas with Marie Louise, there was " Never a lie, never a debt " — presumably a reference to Joséphine's rumoured extramarital affairs and reputation as a spendthrift.

Hence such a feat made Apollonius look like a good Pythagorean who spared no pains in his efforts to discover the sources of oriental piety and wisdom.

Artemisia spared no expense in building the tomb.

With Hannibal defeated and Rome resplendent with Carthaginian wealth, there was no longer any need for women to contribute towards the exigencies of an impoverished treasury the savings spared from their ornaments and pleasures.

The Duke spared no expense to make the Queen's visit enjoyable, and he succeeded.

The W. W. Curdy store apparently was spared, but it played no further role in Humboldt's defenses.

The entire city was under a mandatory evacuation and almost no homes were spared damage.

And when the lead was torn off and cast down into the church and the tombs in the church were all broken ( for in most abbeys various noblemen and women were buried, and in some kings, but their tombs were no more regarded than those of lesser persons, for to what end should they stand when the church over them was not spared for their cause ) and all things of value were spoiled, plucked away or utterly defaced, those who cast the lead into fodders plucked up all the seats in the choir where the monks sat when they said service.

The medieval chronicler Roger of Wendover said that the king " had Archbishop Hubert of Canterbury to act for him in the matter of the church property, Geoffrey fitz-Peter in the matter of lay property ; and these two spared no one in carrying out their orders.

Unlike persistent vegetative state, in which the upper portions of the brain are damaged and the lower portions are spared, locked-in syndrome is caused by damage to specific portions of the lower brain and brainstem, with no damage to the upper brain.

Jesus enters Jerusalem in triumph and drives the money changers from the temple, holds a last supper, prays to be spared the coming agony, and is betrayed.

He spared no expense in recruiting his men and acquired 120 matched dapple gray horses with his own money.

And first of all it took money — smelly bourgeois money: ... of careful calculations, investments and loans, of interest and dividends accumulated until surplus could be spared from the pleasures of the flesh, from the purchase of senates, signories, and mistresses, to pay a Michaelangelo or a Titian to transmute wealth into beauty, and perfume a fortune with the breath of art.

Here he spared neither health nor money in the public service.

The Comptons continued to lavish money on this new mansion for the next century or so ; as a consequence, Compton Wynyates has survived almost intact as the perfect Tudor mansion, spared the constant improvements of successive generations.

The malevolent feudal party told her that if she wanted the trees to be spared, she would have to give them money as bribe.

The malevolent feudal party told her that if she wanted the trees to be spared, she should give them money as bribe.

She lost, but Two-Spear spared her life, and let all Wolfriders choose if they wanted to follow her or him.

Cao Cao laughed and said, " Even when my son's clothings were just by his side, they could not be spared from the rats, let alone the saddle in the store.

Having spared her life, she was persuaded to let him live too, and gave up her quest for revenge.

The odds thus appear favorable that the secretary's neck may be spared.

he must pray to be spared.

I pray to God that he may be spared to us for many years to come for this is an influence the United States and the whole world can ill afford to lose.

Nobody wanted Americans to be hurt or captured, and few soldiers could be spared as escorts.

but, as he had a special fondness for magic and divination, he ordered that books on these subjects should be spared.

It was safe to assume that Papa, sighing heavily, had said many times to his remaining daughter, `` Thank God your poor mother was spared this '', and indeed it might be true that it had been easier for Henrietta to leave, with her hand in Charles' hand, just because her `` poor mother '' was gone already and would never know.

Later, Paneloux attends at the bedside of Othon's stricken son and prays that the boy may be spared.

* Severe limb injuries in which the limb cannot be spared or attempts to spare the limb have failed

" In 1009, during the reign of the sixth Fatimid Caliph, al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the Church of the Nativity was ordered to be demolished, but was spared by local Muslims, because they had been permitted to worship in the structure's southern transept.

" A man should not say: I shall carry out the precepts of the Torah and study her wisdom in order to receive all the blessings written therein or in order to merit the life of the World to Come and I shall keep away from the sins forbidden by the Torah in order to be spared the curses mentioned in the Torah or in order not to be cut off from the life of the World to Come.

In " The Knight's Tale " in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Emily prays to Diana to be spared from marriage to either Palamon or Arcite.

This forces the structural metal to be cathodic, thus spared corrosion.

When the Nazis came to power, Hausdorff, who was Jewish, felt that as a respected university professor he would be spared from persecution.

The true reason for his acknowledgement of guilt is the subject of debate, but it may have been prompted by his sickness, or by a view that through his fame and the greatness of his office he would be spared harsh punishment.

Abraham protests that it is not just " to slay the righteous with the wicked ," and asks if the whole city can be spared if even ten righteous men are found there.

Thomas Wintour begged to be hanged for himself and his brother, so that his brother might be spared.

His role as lover was perhaps to explain why he was the only son of Neleus to be spared by the hero.

In the same way, a merchant shall be spared his merchandise, and a husbandman the implements of his husbandry, if they fall upon the mercy of a royal court.

After being selected in April 1945, Hiroshima was spared conventional bombing to serve as a pristine target, where the effects of a nuclear bomb on an undamaged city could be observed.

The particles were never observed to rise above 6 km and when combined with scavenging by clouds gave the smoke a short residency time in the atmosphere and localized its effects ; Professor Carl Sagan of the Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, Sagan ( TTAPS ) study hypothesized in January 1991 that enough smoke from the fires " might get so high as to disrupt agriculture in much of South Asia ...." Sagan later conceded in his book The Demon-Haunted World that this prediction did not turn out to be correct: " it was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4 °– 6 ° C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared.

The quarrel with the Colonnas culminated in Boniface VIII ordering the destruction in 1298 of their family city Palestrina after it surrendered peacefully under Boniface's assurances that it would be spared.