You may be sure he marries her in the end and has a fine old knockdown fight with the brother, and that there are plenty of minor scraps along the way to ensure that you understand what the word Donnybrook means.

An independent Athens was a minor power in the Hellenistic age ; it rarely had much in the way of foreign policy ; it generally remained at peace, allied either with the Ptolemaic dynasty, or later, with Rome ; when it went to war, the result ( as in the Lamian, Chremonidean, and Mithridatic War ) was usually disastrous.

Only 15 citations of Jensen's paper were in any way supportive of his theories, and 7 of these 15 were only in relation to minor points.

A few library schools sometimes taught the BC system to their students, but only in a minor way.

A few minor Christian sects advocate celibacy as a better way of life.

In other cases, they did nothing for them except in a minor way.

The advent of new weapons like firearms would also have a profound impact on the African battlefield, but as will be seen, the impi-style forces largely eschewed firearms, or used them in a minor way.

The concrete definition given above is easy to work with, but has some minor problems: to use it we first need to represent a Lie group as a group of matrices, but not all Lie groups can be represented in this way, and it is not obvious that the Lie algebra is independent of the representation we use.

Many legionaries became devotees in the cult of the minor goddess Disciplina, whose virtues of frugality, severity and loyalty were central to their code of conduct and way of life.

Like the decomposition rank characterization, this does not give an efficient way of computing the rank, but it is useful theoretically: a single non-zero minor witnesses a lower bound ( namely its order ) for the rank of the matrix, which can be useful to prove that certain operations do not lower the rank of a matrix.

After several minor skirmishes and a stalemate in the siege that was initiated by the caliph, Saladin intended to find a way to withdraw from the siege without damage to his reputation while still keeping up some military pressure.

In a paradoxical way, Schumann's superficial characterization of the G minor Symphony can help us to see Mozart's daemon more steadily.

The fact that the orchestra's recent rendition of Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony in B minor was pretty much a piece of shit should not in any way detract from this.

In minor skirmishes along the way they learned from prisoners taken that a sizable force was in place at Bennington.

According to the myth, during her search Demeter traveled long distances and had many minor adventures along the way.

Unlike the National Labor Relations Act ( NLRA ), which adopts a less interventionist approach to the way the parties conduct collective bargaining or resolve their disputes arising under collective bargaining agreements, the RLA specifies both ( 1 ) the negotiation and mediation procedures that unions and employers must exhaust before they may change the status quo, and ( 2 ) the methods for resolving " minor " disputes over the interpretation or application of collective bargaining agreements.

Boulton and Watt had been involved in a minor way with attempts to apply steam power to boats, providing in 1807 for Robert Fulton the engine for North River Steamboat, the first steamboat to run on the Hudson river, ( the boat later referred to as the Clermont ).

One frequently proposed explanation is that she is a ( minor ) Maia associated with the element of water and in some way with the river Withywindle in particular, though that is by no means the only possible answer.

Six of the episodes were clip shows with mostly minor plots that paved the way for scenes from previous stories.

As a younger son of a minor nobleman, William had no lands or fortune to inherit, and had to make his own way in life.

There were minor protests in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia on the way, which were suppressed by the local security forces.

The imaginative use of the camera makes this film a minor landmark in the way that musicians have been filmed.

" Well tempered " means that the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in most major or minor keys and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.

Gehrig works his way up through the minor leagues and finally joins the Yankees.

Charles first appeared on television as a performance poet, which led on to minor presenting roles.

When Chilperic II died the following year ( 720 ), Charles appointed as his successor the son of Dagobert III, Theuderic IV, who was still a minor, and who occupied the throne from 720 to 737.

Lyell's father, also named Charles, was a lawyer and botanist of minor repute: it was he who first exposed his son to the study of nature.

* Nemo, a minor character from the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House ( 1852 )

The Dauphin, now Charles VIII, was still a minor, and his regent until 1491 was his sister Anne of France.

Paul Davis, another modern historian who addresses both sides in the debate over whether or not this Battle truly determined the direction of history, as Watson claims, or merely was a relatively minor raid, as Cardini writes, says " whether Charles Martel saved Europe for Christianity is a matter of some debate.

Marshal Traun, summoned from the Rhine, held the king in check in Bohemia, the Hungarian irregulars inflicted numerous minor reverses on the Prussians, and finally Prince Charles arrived with the main army.

While his heir Louis-Charles was still a minor, the Count of Provence, the Duke of Orléans or, if either was unavailable, someone chosen by election should become regent, completely passing over the rights of Charles who, in the royal lineage, stood between the Count of Provence and the Duke of Orléans.

Charles was a minor, so a regency was undertaken by his uncles, Louis, Duke of Anjou, John, Duke of Berry, Philip himself, and Louis II, Duke of Bourbon, Charles VI's maternal uncle.

With the Treaty of Bruzolo ( April 25, 1610 ), Charles Emmanuel allied with France against Spain, but the assassination of Henry IV changed the situation, as the treaty was not recognized by Marie de ' Medici, who immediately assumed regency for Henry's son Louis XIII, a minor.

As he was a minor, his aunt Margaret of Parma born as Archduchess of Austria acted as regent as appointed by Emperor Maximilian until 1515 and soon she found herself at war with France over the question of Charles ' requirement to pay homage to the French king for Flanders, as his father had done.

In achieving these aims, Charles turned to a minor noble from Brittany named Bertrand du Guesclin.

On the assassination of Gustav III in 1792, Charles acted as regent of Sweden till 1796 on behalf of his nephew, King Gustav IV, who was a minor when his father was shot in the Stockholm opera.

On 12 February, Charles X Gustav signed his testament: His son, Charles XI of Sweden, was still a minor, and Charles X Gustav appointed a minor regency consisting of six relatives and close friends.

In late 1699 Charles sent a minor detachment to reinforce his brother-in-law Frederick IV of Holstein-Gottorp, who was attacked by Danish forces the following year.

In 1915, Charles Lightbrown borrowed money and attempted to market the subdivision plat from 1888 with a few minor changes.

Later to be known as the Carolean style ( from " Carolus ," the Latin name for the reigning monarch Charles II ), it was popular with the minor aristocracy and gentry for both their town and country houses until long after Charles II's death.