* Hobson's choice

In time though Hale comes to understand the Hobson's choice made by Morgan, and the brothers reconcile their own differences.

* January 1 – Thomas Hobson, English carrier and origin of the phrase " Hobson's choice " ( b. 1544 )

** Thomas Hobson, English carrier and origin of the phrase " Hobson's choice " ( d. 1631 )

They were faced with Hobson's choice: either a complete extinguishing of the national identity in the form of annexation to the Empire, or the lesser evil of a new kingdom under one of Napoleon's relatives.

* Hobson's choice

The Venus Flytrap's evolution was the product of a " Hobson's choice " in which plants that did not evolve nutrient-capturing abilities in nitrogen and phosphorus-poor environments would not have survived.

A Hobson's choice is a free choice in which only one option is offered.

An ultimatum game is a form of Hobson's choice.

Hobson's choice is different from:

:" If in this Case there be no other ( as the Proverb is ) then Hobson's choice ... which is, chuse whether you will have this or none.

:" Where to elect there is but one, / ' Tis Hobson's choice — take that, or none.

Hobson's choice is one between something or nothing.

On occasion, speakers and writers use the phrase " Hobbesian choice " instead of " Hobson's choice ," confusing the philosopher Thomas Hobbes with the relatively obscure Thomas Hobson.

( It's possible they may be confusing " Hobson's choice " with " Hobbesian trap ," which refers to the trap into which a state falls when it attacks another out of fear.

Henry Ford was said to have sold the Ford Model T with the famous Hobson's choice of " any color ... so long as it is black ".

See, also, Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U. S. 658 ( 1978 ) (" here was ample support for Blair's view that the Sherman Amendment, by putting municipalities to the Hobson's choice of keeping the peace or paying civil damages, attempted to impose obligations on municipalities by indirection that could not be imposed directly, thereby threatening to ' destroy the government of the states '").

Hobson's Choice is a play by Harold Brighouse, the title coming from the popular expression, Hobson's choice — meaning no choice at all.

Combining Hobson's activation synthesis hypothesis with Solms ' findings, the continual-activation theory of dreaming presented by Jie Zhang proposes that dreaming is a result of brain activation and synthesis ; at the same time, dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms.

Hobson's theory is thus useful in explaining the role of over-accumulation in overseas economic and colonial expansionism while Wallerstein perhaps better explains the dynamic of inter-capitalist geopolitical competition.

Hobson's Choice is the title of a full length stage comedy written by Harold Brighouse in 1915.

One day, Mrs Hepworth, a rich customer of Hobson, demands to know who made her boots: it is Hobson's underpaid bootmaker, Will Mossop.

Thanks to Will's skill as a bootmaker and Maggie's business acumen, their shop is very successful and, within a year, they have taken nearly all of Hobson's trade.

Thomas Hobson ( 1544 – 1 January 1631 ), sometimes called " The Cambridge Carrier ", is best known as the name behind the expression Hobson's choice.

His policy, " this one or none ", has come to be known as " Hobson's choice ", when an apparent choice is in fact no choice at all.

In addition to his contribution to English vernacular, Hobson is also remembered for his involvement in the construction of Hobson's Conduit, a man-made watercourse built in 1614 to provide clean drinking water to the city of Cambridge.

Hobson's Conduit is alternatively known as Hobson's Brook.

Hobson's argument constitutes a challenge to certain flavors of sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology, in that it traces the conception of the human mind back to a ' cradle ' of social interactions, without which consciousness in the full, human sense is unobtainable.

Since Africa was the centerpiece of New Imperialism and formal empire, opponents of Hobson's accumulation theory often point to frequent cases when military and bureaucratic costs of occupation exceeded financial returns.

The paper effectively presented him with many Hobson's choices: where he had to choose between helping different people in need for assistance.

Construction of the Gippsland line was authorised in 1873 but the line could not be brought into Melbourne by the direct route used today as the private Melbourne and Hobson's Bay United Railway Company controlled the lines from Flinders Street station to South Yarra, and no connection existed between Flinders Street and Spencer Street stations.

* Hobson's choice – the choice between taking an option and not taking it.

Australia's first steam operated railway was a Victorian broad gauge line between the Melbourne ( or City ) Terminus ( on the site of modern day Flinders Street Station ) and Sandridge ( now Port Melbourne ), constructed by the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company and opened in September 1854.

* Hobson's choice: a choice between something and nothing ; " take it or leave it ".

This is undoubtedly the origin of a similar provision in Article Two of the Treaty of Waitangi, as part of Hobson's remit for " securing British sovereignty over New Zealand by the negotiation of a Treaty between Māori and the Crown ".

Season two continues Hobson's adventures with the paper and his friends.

This observation forced him to question Hobson's prevailing theory, which marked the brain stem as the source of the signals interpreted as dreams.

In January 1964 at the National he played the title role in Hobson's Choice, which he admitted was well outside his range: " I couldn't do the Lancashire accent and that shook my nerve terribly-all the other performances suffered.

Hobson's analysis fails to explain colonial expansion on the part of less industrialized nations with little surplus capital, such as Italy, or the great powers of the next century — the United States and Russia — which were in fact net borrowers of foreign capital.

Valerie Hobson's last starring role was in the original London production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play The King and I which opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on October 8, 1953.

Perrin believed that Hobson's DNA was altered due to radiation, which caused his child's autism.

During the next three months Hobson and his officers thoroughly surveyed Port Phillip, the northern portion of which, by direction of Governor Sir Richard Bourke, was named Hobson's Bay, after Hobson.

" MacNeill was unaware of the detailed planning which was going on in the background, but was aware of Hobson's political leanings.

In 1865, the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company, who owned the St Kilda line, purchased the Melbourne Suburban Railway Company and became the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay United Railway Company, and subsequently bought the St. K. & B. R. C., which was in financial difficulties, for £ 99, 500.

On 7 September 1851 a public meeting called for a railway linking Melbourne to Port Melbourne ( then called Sandridge ) which led to the establishment on 20 January 1853 of the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company.

As with many of Australia's early railways, it was owned and operated by a private company-the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company, which was formed in 1853.

An Igor's expertise in human surgery also extends to the veterinary world ; there is known to be one horse in Ankh-Morpork, owned by Hobson's livery stables ( which employs an Igor ), with a longitudinal seam extending the entire circumference of the animal, sewn together from the remains of a particularly nasty collision.

* Hobson's choice, a free choice in which only one option is offered.

Her West End stage appearances included roles in Waters of the Moon, starring Ingrid Bergman, Hobson's Choice with Penelope Keith, A Coat of Varnish and School for Wives, which was directed by Peter Hall.

Finally, Zimmer kept third baseman Butch Hobson in the lineup, even though Hobson's elbow miseries ( he had floating bone chips which he frequently rearranged before coming to the plate ) made it impossible for him to hit for power or average, or throw accurately.

He made several films with David Lean including The Sound Barrier ( 1952 ) and Hobson's Choice ( 1954 ), as well as Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and the British Society of Cinematographers Award.

Since its inception, Atlantic has produced more than 120 plays, including the Tony Award winning productions of Spring Awakening ( which the company moved to Broadway in 2006 ) and The Beauty Queen of Leenane, as well as The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh, David Mamet ’ s adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance by Harley Granville Barker, Mamet ’ s Romance, Joe Penhall ’ s Blue / Orange, Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson, Woody Allen ’ s Writer ’ s Block, the revival of Hobson's Choice, the revivals of Mamet's American Buffalo and Edmond, Dangerous Corner by J.