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I and promised
But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.
`` OK., I won't play hard '', he promised.
`` I promised him I wouldn't ''.
He promised nearly 200 Democratic county committee members at the meeting in the Puddingstone Inn: `` When I come back here after the November election you'll think, ' You're my man -- you're the kind of governor we're glad we elected ' ''.
`` After the primary '', he promised, `` I'll be explicit on where I stand to bring you a strong, dynamic administration.
`` I put Arger on the payroll because he promised to get my firm the stevedore account at Navy pier '', Stein said.
`` I'm going to turn my generator back on, as I promised to do.
The first-born of this union, Infanta Maria of Portugal, married King Alfonso XI of Castile in 1328, at the same time that Afonso IV's heir, Peter I of Portugal, was promised to another Castilian infanta, Constance of Peñafiel.
It irked you, and I promised
Supposedly the twenty domes were built instead of the twenty separate mosques which Sultan Bayezid I had promised for winning the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396.
After a promised Feast of Venus for Duke Alfonso I d ' Este of Ferrara, of which only drawings remain, his last work is fresco of Noli me tangere also in Pian di Mugnone.
Booth, who had promised his mother at the outbreak of war that he would not enlist as a soldier, increasingly chafed at not fighting for the South, writing in a letter to her, " I have begun to deem myself a coward and to despise my own existence ".
* 1932 – World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D. C. in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
" Sanger was offered a more lenient sentence if she promised to not break the law again, but she replied: " I cannot respect the law as it exists today.
When she was only two years old she was promised to the Dauphin, the infant son of King Francis I of France, but the contract was repudiated after three years.
Lynn Anderson made famous a song full of proverbs, I never promised you rose garden ( written by Joe South ).
#*:" In some of the delightful conversations with you, in the evenings of 1798 – 99, and which served as an anodyne to the afflictions of the crisis through which our country was then laboring, the Christian religion was sometimes our topic ; and I then promised you, that one day or other, I would give you my views of it.
The Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa had promised to aid him against his revolted subjects, but the death of Eugene III at Tivoli, on 8 July 1153, prevented the fulfillment of the engagement.
During his presidential campaign, in the aftermath of World War I, he promised a return of the nation to " normalcy ".
In 1958, the Moroccan King Mohammed V in an address at El Ghizlan called for a renewal of the " everlasting allegiance " that some Saharan tribes had pledged to Moulay Hassan I and promised that Morocco would mobilise itself to see the Western Sahara brought under Moroccan rule.
2010 saw Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, and Mini-Zork formatted specifically for the Amazon Kindle – with more interactive text adventures promised for the platform.

I and illustrate
I used his polarity to illustrate what I thought had happened to us in that form of liberalism we call Progressivism.
Two stories will illustrate what I have in mind.
In Cologne, Max Ernst used images from World War I to illustrate messages of the destruction of war.
Some television series, again including Magnum, P. I., have also used shots of the raid on Pearl Harbor taken from the film to illustrate episodes.
While Beck oversaw the visual aspects of the various comics featuring Captain Marvel, he emphatically stated in an interview with Tom Heintjes published in Hogan's Alley # 3 that he and his fellow artists had no input or influence on the scripts they illustrated, noting " In the 13 years I spent drawing Captain Marvel, I wrote only one story, about Billy ’ s trip to a Mayan temple, which had to be submitted in typed form and edited and approved before I was allowed to illustrate it.
In the final chapter of Book I, Hindemith seeks to illustrate the wide-ranging relevance and applicability and of his system in analysis of music examples ranging from the early origins of European music to the contemporary.
Even as I fell I heard the door slam, which brought me a little comfort … that meant they were not pursuing me down the street with a stick, to beat me .”) “ into an environment where he cannot exist but cannot escape … Whereas Godot ’ s existence remains uncertain, here an external force exists ” “ represented by a sharp, inhuman, disembodied whistle ” which will not permit him to leave ; “ like Jacob, wrestles with it to illustrate its substance .” In simplistic terms the man ’ s actual fall could be seen to represent the fall of Man.
Opposite where I lay was a bureau with a swinging glass upon it ( and here he got up and placed furniture to illustrate the position ), and looking in that glass I saw myself reflected nearly at full length ; but my face, I noticed had two separate and distinct images, the tip of the nose of one being about three inches from the tip of the other.
In a 1947 lecture, the Danish mathematician Harald Bohr said, " To illustrate to what extent Hardy and Littlewood in the course of the years came to be considered as the leaders of recent English mathematical research, I may report what an excellent colleague once jokingly said: ' Nowadays, there are only three really great English mathematicians: Hardy, Littlewood, and Hardy – Littlewood.
" On another occasion he said, " When I have to read economic documents I have to have a box of matches and start moving them into position to simplify and illustrate the points to myself.
" I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race, by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life, equality of man before his Creator.
" I was writing songs to illustrate outrageous characters concocted by Michael Cotten, Prairie Prince and myself.
Bernini has represented the triton to illustrate the triumphant passage from Ovid's Metamorphoses book I, evoking godlike control over the waters and describing the draining away of the Universal Deluge.
To illustrate the difference between the two methods, Stanislavski has the actor ask himself, " What would I do if I were in this circumstance " while Strasberg adopted a modification, " What would motivate me, the actor, to behave in the way the character does?

I and lecture
I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.
Somehow managing to get out a cool, poised, `` Won't you hold on a second, please '', I covered up the mouthpiece, and with more warmth and less poise, gave a quick lecture on crime and punishment, mostly the latter, including Devil's Island and the remoter reaches of Siberia.
In that period, Niels Bohr was on a lecture engagement at the Princeton University and I remember one afternoon Willis Lamb came back very excited and said that Bohr had leaked out great news.
In his Nobel Prize lecture, he remarked that the success didn't make up for his girlfriend breaking up with him shortly before: " I was sagging as I walked out to my little silver Honda Civic.
Being stubborn and not wanting to return to the typewriter so early, I hastily looked around for a door to a lecture hall where I could sneak some listening time and get a line on current research, and be out of sight before the desk was reoccupied by the guardian of the gate.
On 4 March 1590, as a chaplain of Queen Elizabeth I, he preached before her an outspoken sermon and, in October that year, gave his introductory lecture at St Paul's, undertaking to comment on the first four chapters of the Book of Genesis.
* Basics of M-Theory by A. Miemiec and I. Schnakenburg is a lecture note on M-Theory published in Fortsch. Phys.
He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.
In 1996 she said in the Keith Joseph memorial lecture: " The kind of Conservatism which he and I ... favoured would be best described as " liberal ", in the old-fashioned sense.
Upon hearing Ammonius lecture, he declared to his friend, " this was the man I was looking for ," and began to study intently under his new instructor.
" he love feeling ," Rank observes in a lecture delivered in 1927 at the University of Pennsylvania, " unites our I with the other, with the Thou Du, with men, with the world, and so does away with fear.
In the 1996 Keith Joseph memorial lecture Mrs. Thatcher argued that " The kind of Conservatism which he and I ... favoured would be best described as ‘ liberal ’, in the old-fashioned sense.
When I gave the lecture about supply-side economics, I thought they were applauding.
Because of the outbreak of World War I, all academic activities and lectures were halted as lecture halls were converted to military hospitals.
In England in 1292 when Edward I first requested that lawyers be trained, students merely sat in the courts and observed, but over time the students would hire professionals to lecture them in their residences, which led to the institution of the Inns of Court system.
:" Tarski has stressed in his lecture ( and I think justly ) the great importance of the concept of general recursiveness ( or Turing's computability ).
( According to Nuttall ’ s journal entry for 1 February 1877 “ President Young was present and gave some instructions not previously given, which I wrote for safe keeping and reference hereafter .”) It is claimed by some that the instructions recorded by Nuttall on 1 February 1877 included what has come to be called “ the lecture at the veil ” and that Nuttall and John Daniel Thomas McAllister had been specifically requested to record that particular lecture.
Friedman has wondered why some have attacked him for giving a lecture in Chile: “ I must say, it ’ s such a wonderful example of a double standard, because I had spent time in Yugoslavia, which was a communist country.

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