In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

It was, the brief writers decided, `` man's best hope for a peaceful and law abiding world ''.

I was ready, like Portia, to present my own brief.

In a brief chapter dealing with `` Various Other Diagnoses '', he quotes isolated passages from some writers whose views seem to corroborate his own, and finds it `` most remarkable that a critical view of twentieth-century society was already held by a number of thinkers living in the nineteenth.

There was a brief interruption while one of O'Banion's men jerked out both his guns and threatened to shoot a waiter who was pestering him for a tip.

After Captain Docherty sent Arleigh Griffith for Hoag he was able to complete his detailed inspection of the third floor and to receive a report from his man covering the floors above before Griffith returned, buoyed up by a brief stop for another glass of champagne.

This, in brief, was the historical background out of which Zen emerged.

When he was made a vice president only a year after the new sales job, a leading business magazine ran his photograph with a brief biography in a series on national business leaders of the future.

Then, a little later, Shilkret discovered there was no one to play the brief celesta solo during the slow section, so he hastily asked Gershwin if he might play the solo ; Gershwin said he could and so he briefly participated in the actual recording.

A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

* Ambrosiaster or the " pseudo-Ambrose " is a brief commentary on Paul's Epistles, which was long attributed to Ambrose.

Andriscus's brief reign over Macedonia was marked by cruelty and extortion.

After graduation and a brief sojourn at the Military School of Paris Napoleon applied for second-lieutenancy in the artillery regiment of La Fère at Valence and after a time was given the position.

After a brief return to his regiment Napoleon was promoted to First Lieutenant and came home again on leave in 1791.

During his brief time in Málaga, he was able to amass local support quickly.

His brief reign was similar to that of Abd ar-Rahman V Mostadir.

Camelot was a hit nonetheless, with a poignant coda ; immediately following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, his widow told Life magazine that JFK's administration reminded her of the " one brief shining moment " of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot.

There were two more brief periods when Athanasius was exiled.

At the end of the work, Bede added a brief autobiographical note ; this was an idea taken from Gregory of Tours ' earlier History of the Franks.

After a brief pause, Marlborough ’ s equerry, Colonel Bringfield ( or Bingfield ), led up another of the Duke ’ s spare horses ; but while assisting him onto his mount, the unfortunate Bringfield was hit by an errant cannonball that sheared off his head.

The Benedictine Confederation, which was established in 1883 by Pope Leo XIII in his brief Summum semper, is the international governing body of the order, headed by the Abbot Primate.

After a brief Conservative interlude ( during which the Second Reform Act was passed by agreement between the parties ), Gladstone won a huge victory at the 1868 election and formed the first Liberal government.

In AABA forms, the B section is usually referred to as the bridge ; often a brief coda, sometimes based on material from the bridge, was added as in " Over the Rainbow ".

He then ravages on Tokyo as payback for the Japanese attempting to erase him from existence, and Shindo is killed ; though not before he and Godzilla share a brief moment of the two remembering each other from when they first met on Lagos Island in 1944, and Godzilla is seemingly sad for once.

In several accounts, it was explained that the explosion of the planet Krypton had opened a " dimensional warp " ( similar to a wormhole in modern theoretical physics ) which allowed the vehicle carrying the young Kal-El to reach Earth in a relatively brief time, and a large amount of planetary debris had also passed through this " warp " and emerged near Earth at virtually the same time, accounting for the seemingly improbable abundance of kryptonite material and its availability to Superman's enemies.

After opening with a brief, seemingly irrelevant scene of a suitcase on an airport carousel, the story quickly focuses on a Paris divorce court where Karol Karol ( Zbigniew Zamachowski ) is pleading with the judge — the same legal proceedings that Juliette Binoche's character briefly stumbled upon in Blue.

Reagan later recounted the incident as a " brief and seemingly small event, one lasting only a few seconds ," that he said he thought, " helped take me to the White House.

A flash mob ( or flashmob ) is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire, and artistic expression.

Whenever Dora and Boots are successful in a given portion of their quest ( quests are usually divided into three portions ), the Fiesta Trio appears from seemingly nowhere to congratulate Dora and celebrate for a brief few seconds with music.

Through brief flash-forward sequences of still images, Lola's fleeting interactions with bystanders are revealed to have surprising and drastic effects on their future lives, serving as concise illustrations of chaos theory's butterfly effect, in which minor, seemingly inconsequential variations in any interaction can blossom into much wider results than is often recognized.

* After a brief stint of being offline during the month of September 2008, HotU seemingly returned late in the month ; however, the games once offered were no longer available.

This location is otherwise not featured in the film and is seemingly unrelated to the plot but for a brief scene in which Johnny ( Tommy Wiseau ) is seen to walk past it.

The strip was seemingly retired after creator Simon Donald left Viz at the end of 2003 ; between then and 2007, he only made two, brief appearances in the comic.

While this verse is brief in regards to words and time, it denotes a subtle and increasing disaffection in the American / Texan experience, adversely affected by seemingly non-relevant incidences.

Conductor Nikolai Malko, who studied harmony with him at the conservatory, wrote, " Lyadov's critical comments were always precise, clear, understandable, constructive, and brief .... And it was done indolently, without haste, sometimes seemingly disdainfully.

The remaining characters stem from a seemingly endless cast of figurines within McGuinness ' collection, who make brief or recurring appearances.

Critics have repeatedly demonstrated that even brief and seemingly inconsequential passages of Blood Meridian rely on historical evidence.

Clavell's daughter ( the above-referenced Michaela, known professionally as Michaela Ross during her brief acting career ) played a seemingly very pleasant young teacher sent to indoctrinate a classroom of American children.

Wise's superior was Inspector Taggert ( created before the TV show of similar name ), who would brief Wise on missions by phoning up as his " Uncle George ", or even encounter him as a seemingly random passer-by.

Jesus gives teachings in unusual and seemingly contradictory phrases, and also offers brief parables.

The King appeared not to catch on with the UK market and was seemingly retired there after only two brief commercials ( featuring him at an ATM and as a pole dancer ).

Recognizing that her term would be brief, voters went to the polls on November 8, 1938, and chose the 48-year-old Pyle seemingly as a gesture of appreciation for her service to the state.

The " Wild One " ( seemingly inspired by Rebel Without A Cause ) is an Elder god who only made one brief appearance, in a plot involving the otherdimensional Sorcerer Supreme Shanzar.

Ledda's Alzheimer's condition ( for which he takes an experimental drug ) periodically impacts him throughout the movie, resulting in disoriention and seemingly forgetful of what he was doing for a brief period of time.

Occasionally, there are brief, surrealist digressions depicting real events which occurred during Schultz's life ( such as the Stock Market Crash ), interspersed with equally surreal yet seemingly unrelated digressions involving Burroughs ' own fictional characters.