Moreover, the Persian king Darius was a usurper, and had spent considerable time extinguishing revolts against his rule.

However, he relates in his Memoirs that a considerable part of his time was spent in reading Greek and Latin comedies.

He spent a great part of his life in travel, visiting England, the Netherlands and France, and residing for a considerable period at Naples.

Having amassed considerable wealth, Yale spent it liberally in England.

Dr. Fu Manchu has extended his already considerable lifespan by use of the elixir vitae, a formula he spent decades trying to perfect.

In his later days, he spent considerable effort on trying to characterize the methods that people use to solve problems, and to describe how problem-solving should be taught and learned.

Schmitt spent considerable time becoming proficient in the CSM and LM systems.

Alexander took his duties as the viceroy quite seriously, feeling that, as governor general, he acted as a connection between Canadians and their king, and spent considerable time travelling Canada during his term ; he eventually logged no less than 294, 500 km ( 184, 000 mi ) during his five years as governor general.

The US spent billions of dollars to aid the mujahideen Muslim Afghanistan enemies of the Soviet Union, and non-Afghan veteran of the war returned home with their prestige, " experience, ideology, and weapons ", and had considerable impact.

Prospects were daunting: his father had spent a considerable fortune in the attempt to cast steel in large ingots, and to keep the works going the widow and family lived in extreme frugality.

The first issues of the rifle generated considerable controversy because the gun suffered from a jamming flaw known as “ failure to extract ,” which meant that a spent cartridge case remained lodged in the chamber after a bullet flew out the muzzle.

He was a professional soldier who spent a considerable part of his life fighting against Napoleon.

Meanwhile, Lorenzo spent much of his life in England where he initiated the famous phrenological publishing house, L. N Fowler & Co., and gained considerable fame with his phrenology head ( a china head showing the phrenological faculties ), which has become a symbol of the discipline.

On his return from the congress, Pius II spent a considerable time in his native district of Siena, where he was joined by his erstwhile host in Mantua Ludovico Gonzaga.

Before becoming Pope, he spent time at the then very liberal and cosmopolitan University of Padua, which maintained considerable independence from the Church and had a very international character.

Nonetheless, Khalifa ibn Hamad, as heir apparent and deputy ruler, gained considerable power, in large part because Ahmad ibn Ali, as had his father, spent much time outside the country.

Eisenstein and his entourage spent considerable time with Charlie Chaplin, who recommended that Eisenstein meet with a sympathetic benefactor in the person of American socialist author Upton Sinclair.

He lived from paycheck to paycheck to finance his company, and though he spent considerable amounts of money on a splendid collection of rare books at the end of his life, many people noticed that his impeccably cut suits had frayed cuffs and trouser-ends.

Marshall's wife was heavily involved in charitable activities in Washington and spent considerable time working at the Diet Kitchen Welfare Center providing free meals to impoverished children.

Her first husband, Leigh Holman, also spent considerable time with her.

The Allies finally accepted Pujol when the Germans spent considerable resources attempting to hunt down a fictional convoy.

The high-performance ECL circuitry generated considerable heat, and Cray's designers spent as much effort on the design of the refrigeration system as they did on the rest of the mechanical design.

In pursuit of the retrieval of this question, Heidegger spent considerable time reflecting on ancient Greek thought, in particular on Plato, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Anaximander, as well as on the tragic playwright Sophocles.

Charlemagne is thought to have spent considerable time in Paderborn and nearby parts.

This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.

The small half-heartedly tended fields of men who'd spent more time rustling cattle than farming were lying fallow.

Much as they had to look forward to, they didn't begrudge a moment of the time they spent seeing them go.

His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.

Mrs. Coolidge spent more time in her bedroom among her doll collection.

He was shown a warm welcome regardless, and spent the time in Winchester recuperating from his ailment, enjoying his family and arranging his private affairs which were, of course, run down.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

These biographical analogies are obvious, and far too much time has been spent speculating on their possible implications.

The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.

He was an emotional, lonely boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely any schoolwork.

This time, added to that which I had already spent in school prior to my induction in 1954, makes a total of twenty-two ( 22 ) years of education.

Without exception Hino's brothers turned to either one or both of their father's occupations, but Hino showed a talent for neither and instead spent most of his time on the beach where he repaired nets and proved immensely popular as a storyteller.

He knew the house like a blind man, through his fingers, and he did not like to think of all the time and rags and polishes he had spent on keeping it up.

The applicant pays the rest of the cost, but his own time spent on the work and charges for the use of equipment which he owns may be applied toward his share of the cost.

However, as much time as possible should be spent within the shelter to hold radiation exposure to a minimum.

The cleaner air means less time spent pushing a vacuum, fewer trips to the dry cleaners, lighter loads for the washing machine.

but they all hastened to add that certainly less time was needed on it than presently spent.

( 1 ) A great deal of time was spent on processes for solving marital differences.

More time was spent in trying to marry these incompatibles than over any subject discussed at Yalta.

Too much damage is done by `` experts '' who have spent even less time, if any at all, in the U.S.S.R..

She eyed the chickens with, if she had known it, something of Glendora's dismal look and thought with a certain fury of the time she had spent on Latin verbs.

-- A Houston teacher, now serving in the Legislature, proposed Thursday a law reducing the time spent learning `` educational methods ''.

His spare time is spent in soaring gliders.

They even talked about Lucille down at the Young Christians' League where I spent a lot of time in Bible classes and helping out with the office work for our foreign mission.

Part of the time saved was spent on a preliminary estimate for a long-distance plan to free bound oxygen in the sands of Mars to make the planet more friendly to future human generations.