It was doing very well, too, having reached the center, and was pursuing its way with commendable singleness of purpose when Mr. Podger saw hazard approaching in the shape of a flashy little sports car.

Had it been bestowed while the Secretary General of the United Nations was living, unquestionably he would have been greatly encouraged in pursuing a difficult and, in many ways, thankless task.

According to a 16th century French poem, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, and of wine, was pursuing a maiden named Amethystos, who refused his affections.

In 1965, after a stadium ( Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium ), was built, the city of Atlanta felt the time was right to start pursuing professional football.

But it is more likely that he was pursuing a large enemy cavalry force, probably Sarmatians, which was possibly acting as a decoy.

In recent years a large number of writers and historians have come to the conclusion it was not a new form of warfare invented by the German military, but an old method of pursuing decisive battles using new technology.

Chaplin quickly began work in another role, touring with his brother — who was also pursuing an acting career — in a comedy sketch called Repairs.

While pursuing one's own self-interest is not necessarily bad, one would be a better, more righteous person if one's life was based upon following a path designed to enhance the greater good.

Lynch had become interested in painting and drawing from an early age, becoming intrigued by the idea of pursuing it as a career path when living in Virginia, where his friend's father was a professional painter.

Mipps then joined Syn in his quest for revenge, pursuing Tappitt and Imogene throughout the thirteen American colonies ( supposedly preaching the gospel to the Indians ) and around the world ( as part of a whaling voyage ) afterwards, and was with him in the Caribbean when Dr. Syn turned again to piracy, assuming the name of Captain Clegg ( taking the name " Clegg " from a certain vicious biting fly he had encountered in America ), hijacking his enemy Tappitt's own ship and crew and sailing off with them ( renaming the ship the Imogene ) to become the most infamous pirate of the day.

Humbert was a great lover of languages, and encouraged linguistic studies among the Dominicans, primarily Arabic, because of the missionary work friars were pursuing amongst those led astray or forced to convert by Mohammedans in the Middle East.

Relations between the two nations have been highlighted following Julian Assange's bid to seek political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London following repeated claims that the US government was pursuing his extradition due to his work with Wikileaks.

Christopher Hatton and Sidney's friend Hubert Languet also tried to dissuade Sidney from pursuing the matter, and it was eventually dropped.

While pursuing his bachelor's degree, Coppola was elected president of The Green Wig ( the university's drama group ), the Kaleidoscopians, ( its musical comedy club ) and he then merged the two into The Spectrum Players.

However, most chemists followed Kekulé's lead in pursuing and developing what some have called " classical " structure theory, which was modified after the discovery of electrons ( 1897 ) and the development of quantum mechanics ( in the 1920s ).

< p > I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of post-graduate studies in Naples, Italy.

Romans defeated the barbarians on sea at first, then a battle in Thrace was won by Gallienus's army and the Emperor kept pursuing the invaders.

Goebbels was one of the most enthusiastic proponents of aggressively pursuing Germany's territorial claims sooner rather than later, along with Himmler and Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop.

Much capital was spent in pursuing the ground-breaking patent on Watt's invention.

He was nearly captured and lost his signature plumed hat and cloak to pursuing Federals during a raid in August, but in a retaliatory raid at Catlett's Station the following day, managed to overrun Union army commander Maj. Gen. John Pope's headquarters, and not only captured Pope's full uniform, but also intercepted orders that provided Lee with valuable intelligence concerning reinforcements for Pope's army.

He was an African American pursuing rock, which by the late ' 60s had few minorities because they were increasingly pigeonholed in pre-determined, segregated genre roles based on their racial and ethnic backgrounds ( with Santana and Jimi Hendrix two notable exceptions ).

The pavane, the earliest-known example of which was published in Venice by Ottaviano Petrucci, in Joan Ambrosio Dalza's Intabolatura de lauto libro quarto in 1508, is a sedate and dignified couple dance, similar to the 15th-century basse danse.

The single " Waydown ," and especially its plane-crash themed video, received heavy play in the U. S. A more sedate strain of rock known as Britpop was taking over in the UK, causing C. W.

His scoring was more sedate in the remaining Tests as Australia won 4 – 1, and he finished with 428 runs at 42. 80.

In 1930 – 31, against the first West Indian side to visit Australia, Bradman's scoring was more sedate than in England — although he did make 223 in 297 minutes in the Third Test at Brisbane and 152 in 154 minutes in the following Test at Melbourne.

Costello's sedate funeral service at a Manhattan funeral home was attended by 50 relatives, friends, and law enforcement agents.

It was much smaller and more sedate than the other parades of the day put on by Rex and the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club.

This type of dance was eventually replaced by the danzón, which was, like the habanera, much slower and more sedate.

The Miura was originally conceived by Lamborghini's engineering team, who designed the car in their spare time against the wishes of company founder Ferruccio Lamborghini, who showed a preference towards producing powerful yet sedate grand touring cars, rather than the racecar-derived machines produced by local rival Ferrari.

At one point, Vysostsky's personal physician A. Fedotov ( the same doctor who had brought him back from clinical death a year earlier in Uzbekistan ) attempted to sedate him, inadvertently causing an asphyxiation from which he was barely saved.

However, in contrast to Hugh Hefner ( who threw wild parties at his Playboy Mansions ), life at Guccione's mansion was remarkably sedate even during the hedonistic 1970s.

In a highly unpopular move with both fans and the cast, the producers fired Villechaize from the series before the 1983 – 1984 season ( which ended up being its last ) and Tattoo was replaced by a more sedate butler type named Lawrence, played by Christopher Hewett.

It turned out that the Chevrolet rumor was false and consumers disliked the smaller Plymouth and Dodge cars introduced for 1962, the styling of which was bizarre compared to more sedate Ford and GM products.

American television viewers were able to hear the surprise and drama as NBC expert analyst Dick Bank screamed, " Look at Mills, look at Mills " over the more sedate play-by-play announcer Bud Palmer, who seemed to miss what was unfolding.

The Legislative Council was considerably more sedate than in the lower house, and Allen was not overly stressed by its activities.

A model dust storm was recreated in CG, and in addition to the typically sedate movement Red Dwarf was shown, in appropriate scenes, racing through space.

The choice of the koala as a mascot and moniker was often mocked and tagged tacky as the Australian marsupial animal is not a bear and is typically sedate and hardly ferocious.

It was replaced with the more sedate, stylish, and popular Z series.

At the end of the 1950s, Hotshot Charlie was dropped from the strip, which was drawn and colored in a more sedate manner with careful attention to the airplanes flown by Terry Lee and his friends.

The sedate atmosphere of the Burlington Arcade was interrupted in 1964 when a Jaguar Mark X charged down the arcade, scattering pedestrians, and six masked men leapt out, smashed the windows of the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Association shop and stole jewellery valued at £ 35, 000.

It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

The hands and their bosses saw him as a lone knight of the range, waging a dedicated crusade against a lawless new society that was threatening a beloved way of life.

It would be literary license calculated to glamorize life to say that he, oh, dropped his napkin, so startled was he by Mary Jane's beauty.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??

Keith was on his feet because he didn't care at all about life any more: Penny on her feet, proudly, because she cared too much.

Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.

Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

The games were over, this was life.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

Bertha, blue-eyed like Mamma, was from the start her mother's daughter, destined for her mother's role in life.

but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.