Such duties were also extended to the dead, where the living stood as sons to their deceased family.

Many pictures show the serpent Python living in amity with Apollo and guarding the Omphalos, the sacred navel-stone and mid-point of the earth, which stood in Apollo's temple " ( Kerenyi 1951: 136 ).

When living in Sonoma, he stood for election to represent the region in the California legislature but was defeated by James Bennett of Santa Rosa.

After Eitoku's death in 1590, Tōhaku stood alone as the greatest living master of his time.

On foot, Ryan proceeded towards the town's common, injuring two more people: Marjorie Jackson, who was shot as she watched Ryan from the window of her living room and 14-year-old Lisa Mildenhall, whom Ryan shot in both legs as she stood outside her home.

Renowned within Judaism as a sage and scholar, he was the founder of the House of Hillel school for Tannaïm ( Sages of the Mishnah ) and the founder of a dynasty of Sages who stood at the head of the Jews living in the land of Israel until roughly the fifth century of the Common Era.

He stood down at the 2005 general election after 26 years as an MP, and returned to living in Scotland where he died in November 2009.

The house stood vacant for 30 years, before the Aokis, now living in Osaka, donated the house to its hometown, Mima.

Finally, a Wright-designed table lamp with an art glass shade stood on a Wright-designed library table in the living room.

Such duties were also extended to the dead, where the living stood as sons to their deceased family.

Between the walls stood living and working buildings.

The song was restored to the original lyrics ( including the ' There was a big high wall there ' and ' Nobody living can ever stop me ' verses ) for this performance ( as per Pete Seeger's request ) with the exception of a change in the end of the ' Relief Office ' verse to " As they stood hungry, I stood there whistling, This land was made for you and me.

In the 2005 general election, he stood in the new constituency of Glasgow North East, where three quarters of children living in the constituency are classed as being in poverty.

He said that he stood outside the papal living quarters in 1960 whilst Pope John XXIII and Cardinal Bea and others were reading the document containing the third secret, and that, in order to assure Russian cooperation at the approaching Second Vatican Council, the Pope decided against the mandate.

He stood godfather at a christening on 8 July 1540, but was no longer living in December 1541.

The Hungarian word ispán ( county head ) is derived from the Southern Slavic word župan ( жупан ), which was used by the Slavs living in the Carpathian Basin before the arrival of the Hungarians and stood for the head of various territorial units.

He was living in Miami at the time ( having been given asylum by the United States ), was not extradited, and thus never stood trial.

" It was ", he wrote afterwards, " the most remarkable event of its kind I ever witnessed .... One after another, prominent fraternity men ... stood up before their fellows and confessed that they had been living poor, low-grade lives and from henceforth meant to be good.

To the surprise of the diggers, 12 feet below the level of the ground, instead of coming to the end of the post, great roots were found stopping further progress, showing that a living oak had been trimmed and made use of as it stood.

Based on the fossil evidence, it is believed that adult male Gigantopithecus blacki stood about tall and weighed as much as, making the species two to three times heavier than modern gorillas and nearly five times heavier than the orangutan, its closest living relative.

In the past, they stood little chance of earning a living in these fields without an advanced degree.

She was like a midwife helping them to go through that process .” Dorothy Maclean, now also living and working in London, says: “ She ’ d know what stood between you and your divinity, what you put before the divine .” Eileen Caddy, who had met Peter Caddy in 1952 at RAF Habbaniyah, joined them in London in 1953, soon Dorothy Maclean was to join in, thus at one point all the future founders of the Findhorn Foundation were part of her London group.

The wood was green as mosses of the Icy Glen ; the trees stood high and haughty, feeling their living sap ; the industrious earth beneath was as a weaver's loom … " Herman Melville was living not too far from Pittsfield when he wrote the novel, and he is known to have visited the Ice Glen on at least one occasion.

Diffraction of electrons and neutrons stood as one of the powerful arguments in favor of quantum mechanics.

According to Simplicius, Diogenes the Cynic said nothing upon hearing Zeno's arguments, but stood up and walked, in order to demonstrate the falsity of Zeno's conclusions.

He had concluded that the powerful Zulu kingdom stood in the way of this, and so was receptive to Shepstone's arguments that King Cetshwayo and his Zulu army posed a threat to the peace of the region.

* 1 ) ' rizo ', being derived from the Italian word " rosso " meaning " red ", either from the reddish color of the rocks of the island, or from the reddish color of the castle at sunset, or from the color of the coat of arms of the Great Master of the Knights of Rhodes, Juan Fernandez de Heredia, which stood above the gate of the castle ; these arguments are widely discredited as the rocks on the island do not contain any red pigment and the name Kastellorizo, pre dates the arrival of the Knights ; or

He concluded that the powerful Zulu kingdom stood in the way of this, and so was receptive to Sir Shepstone's arguments that King Cetshwayo and his Zulu army posed a challenge to the colonial powers peaceful occupation of the region.

Al Deppe's Restaurant, a highly popular establishment resembling Chuck E. Cheese's which had stood at the corner of Richmond Avenue and Arthur Kill Road since 1921, was forced out of business while the arguments raged.

Toward the end of his life he regretted some of his arguments, but still stood on the principle that a unified church was the quickest way to emancipate slaves.

During the so-called " Fischer Controversy " which coalesced the German historical profession in the early 1960s, Hillgruber stood apart from the various right-wing historians who attempted to rebut Fischer, such as Gerhard Ritter, Hans Herzfeld, Egmont Zechlin, and Karl Dietrich Erdmann, by accepting Fischer's arguments in part instead of attempting to rebut Fischer in toto.

Towards the end of his life, he stood out against the arguments made by Sir Edward Coke, the Lord Chief Justice, and ultimately aided the King in securing his dismissal.

# We recline at the Seder table because in ancient times, a person who reclined at a meal was a free person, while slaves and servants stood.

* " There was never a more loyal woman in the South after we were forced by our political leaders to go to battle to defend our rights in ownership of African slaves, but they called it " State's Rights ," and all I owned was invested in slaves and my people were loyal and I stood by them to the end.

" In early 1778 he proposed to his father to use the 40 slaves he stood to inherit as part of a brigade.

Sharp consulted lawyers and found that as the law stood it favoured the master's rights to his slaves as property: that a slave remained in law the chattel of his master even on English soil.

While such a large-scale slave rebellion was never again repeated, the Haitian Revolution stood as a model for achieving emancipation for slaves in the rest of the Atlantic World.

That morning, after sounding the slave bell that indicated to his slaves it was time for work, they stood before him waiting for orders, and Céspedes announced they were all free men, and were invited to join him and his fellow conspirators in war against the Spanish government of Cuba.

Historian Frank Lawrence Owsley depicted antebellum Southern society as a broad class of yeoman farmers who stood and worked between the slaves and poor whites at one end and the large planters at the opposite end of the economic spectrum, Owsley asserted that the real South was liberal, American, and Jeffersonian, not radical or reactionary.

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

Still the guards did not move, but stood inert, aloof from the slow-scrambling man.

Speaking in a low voice of loathing she went up to the girl, who stood with the same upright, scornful bearing and did not even look at the knife.

He did not oppose the annexation of the Hawaiian islands, Cuba and Puerto Rico, but Carnegie stood still on his opposition towards the annexation of the Philippines.

He did not allow anyone to enter his cell ; whoever came to him stood outside and listened to his advice.

However, Scullin stood firm, and on 29 November the King agreed to Isaacs's appointment, but made it clear that he did so only because he felt he had no option.

Marrow stood out from most of his friends because he did not drink alcohol, smoke tobacco, or use drugs.

Not only has Secretariat's record time stood for 39 years and counting, but in the race itself, he did something unique in Triple Crown races: each successive quarter, his times were faster.

When Edward Witten named M-theory, he did not specify what the M stood for — perhaps because the nascent theory was not fully defined.

At Margaret's suggestion, her father, who did not own a gun, stood guard with a sword.

John Locke, on the other hand, who gave us Two Treatises of Government and who did not believe in the divine right of kings either, sided with Aquinas and stood against both Machiavelli and Hobbes by accepting Aristotle's dictum that man seeks to be happy in a state of social harmony as a social animal.

: The public, however … did not really know on the first day where it stood.

When the league was first organized in 1999, it was originally supposed to stand for " Xtreme Football League "; however, there was already a league in formation at the same time with that name, and so promoters wanted to make sure that everyone knew that the " X " did not actually stand for anything ( though McMahon would comment that " if the NFL stood for the ' No Fun League ', the XFL will stand for the ' extra fun league '").

In his treatment of ecclesiastical policy and ecclesiastical reform, Gregory did not stand alone, but found powerful support: in England Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury stood closest to him ; in France his champion was Bishop Hugo of Dié, who afterwards became Archbishop of Lyon.

In a November 2008 interview in Hot Press in a grim assessment of where Ireland stood, Taoiseach Brian Cowen said that many people still did not realise how badly shaken the public finances were.

The vast majority of Baylor staff did not know of the center's existence until its website went online, and the center stood outside of the existing religion, science, and philosophy departments.

Valentino did not back down, and Famous Players realized how much they stood to lose.

He stood for election to the lower house in December ; however, he did not earn enough votes to win election as a Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) representative.

People entering were unaware of the problems at the fence ; police or stewards usually stood at the entrance to the tunnel and when the central pens reached capacity directed fans to the side pens, but on this occasion, for reasons not fully explained, did not.

When Msiri did not appear, he sent his second-in-command, Captain Bodson to arrest Msiri, who stood his ground.

It did not want and was not able to undertake the revolutionary liquidation of the social system that stood in its path to power.

At the time of Secretariat's death, the veterinarian who performed the necropsy, Dr. Thomas Swerczek, head pathologist at the University of Kentucky, did not weigh Secretariat's heart, but stated, " We just stood there in stunned silence.

However, Carter's spiritual transformation did not compensate for his liberal policies in the minds of Christian conservatives, as reflected in Jerry Falwell's criticism that " Americans have literally stood by and watched as godless, spineless leaders have brought our nation floundering to the brink of death.

stood with his eyes closed, and gradually approached one of the glasses until the surface of the water covered the glans but did not touch the foreskin.