Augustine's position, and subsequently that of much of Christianity, was that Adam and Eve had the power to topple God's perfect order, thus changing nature by bringing sin into the world, but that the advent of sin then limited mankind's power thereafter to evade the consequences without divine aid.

To this end, he accommodated Absurd frontman Hendrik Möbus while the latter had fled to the United States in order to evade German authorities.

He used that visit to organize a defection from Lusatia westwards for him and his wife, in order to evade capture by the Red Army, which was famed for its abuse of prisoners of war ( POW ) and German civilians in the east, and gave himself up to British forces in the German province of Lower Saxony.

Since exit visas could not be obtained, Fry arranged for the Werfels to journey on foot across the Pyrenees into Spain, in order to evade the Vichy French border officials.

In the ' 60s, the original Lotus Seven was sold only in kit form in both the UK and the US, in order to evade the very high taxes on complete new cars that were not assessed on automobile parts.

At her mother Jochebed's request, Miriam hid her baby brother Moses by the side of a river to evade the Pharaoh ’ s order that newborn Hebrew boys be killed.

Much technicolor research focuses on exploring strongly-interacting gauge theories other than QCD, in order to evade some of these challenges.

Confusion arose over their legal status ; they often declared themselves to be Malagasy subjects in order to evade the laws against slave-holding or the building of stone houses, both forbidden to British subjects, while their dhows, which they used to transport goods to and from the African mainland, flew French flags.

Collusive gifts to the Church ( which were frequently made in order to evade feudal service ) were forbidden.

This adaptation can be likened to certain terrestrial reptiles such as the glass lizard, which sacrifices its tail in order to evade predators.

Some bacteria are able to switch between multiple flagellin genes in order to evade this response.

In order to evade capture, she had plastic surgery to alter her appearance.

* People who are hiding in order to evade law enforcement.

In the National Basketball Association ( but not in the NHL, which re-seeds teams after each playoff round ), there have also been allegations of teams tanking games in order to finish in sixth rather than fifth place in the conference standings, thus enabling the team in question to evade a possible playoff match with the conference's top seed until the final round of playoffs in that conference ( for more details see single-elimination tournament ).

De Gaulle wanted France to be among " the victors " in order to evade the AMGOT threat.

The group links up with the loyalist resistance on Gereon in order to locate Sturm and evade the heretical forces pursuing them.

The " Savardian Spin-o-rama ", which is a quick pivoting turn with the puck done in order to evade opponents, was coined by Danny Gallivan and named after Serge Savard, and not Denis Savard ( who was adept at the same manoeuvre ) as is often thought.

During the 1950s and 1960s, many plays were produced in theatre clubs, in order to evade the censorship then exercised by the Lord Chamberlain's Office.

Since Nosferatu was a loose and unauthorized translation of Bram Stoker's Dracula Prana had to declare bankruptcy in order to evade infringement lawsuits.

When a black panther attacks, he learns how to swim in order to evade it while another chimp is killed.

Initially, they sold 49. 98 % of their Class A shares to Shaw, 49. 98 % to the Allard family, and 0. 04 % to CanWest, in order to evade the coat-tail provision while Shaw completed a takeover bid for the non-voting shares.

The Blues Brothers is a video game based on the band The Blues Brothers, where the object is to evade police in order to make it to a blues concert.

* Hong Kong often uses the number 141 (" one for one ") to refer to prostitutes working out of a private apartment in order to evade Hong Kong's " Vice Establishment " law.

Predictably, Vern believes that they are fleeing " the Smoke " and heading for the Costa del Crime in order to evade justice.

Many people, especially practitioners of Parkour and Freerunning and Georges Hébert's Natural Method, find benefit in using quadrupedal movement in order to build full body strength.

The most notable example is the Knight's Tour which sets the order of the chapters in Georges Perec's novel Life: A User's Manual.

Attaining excellent results at the school, in the autumn of 1946 Foucault was admitted to the elite École Normale Supérieure ( ENS ); in order to get in, he had to undertake a series of exams and oral interrogation by Georges Canguilhem and Pierre-Maxime Schuhl.

And one of the last great mimes of the century, Georges Wague ( 1875 – 1965 ), though he began his career in Pierrot's costume, ultimately dismissed Baptiste's work as puerile and embryonic, averring that it was time for Pierrot's demise in order to make way for " characters less conventional, more human.

In order to alleviate traffic congestion, the Boulevard was planned along this abandoned land, and completed on 25 April 1973 under the presidency of Georges Pompidou.

The French writer Georges Bataille in his book La part Maudite uses Mauss's argument in order to construct a theory of economy: to his point of view the structure of gift forms the presupposition for all possible economy.

During the Occupation, Antoine Pinay remained mayor of Saint-Chamond, although he had been urged by General Georges to move to Algiers, in order to better protect the residents of this city.

The French Communist Party leader Georges Marchais described Cohn-Bendit as the " German anarchist Cohn-Bendit " and denounced some student protesters as " sons of the upper bourgeoisie ... who will quickly forget their revolutionary flame in order to manage daddy's firm and exploit workers there ".

In order to make a little money, Georges and his gang decided to turn to small thefts whose principal victims were their respective families.

With the closure of the Officer Cadet School, Portsea, in December 1985, and the closure of the Women's Officer Training Wing at Georges Heights, Sydney, in December 1984, the Royal Military College, Duntroon became the sole General Service Officer training institute in the Australian Army, as all Regular Army officers serving in combat, combat support or service support Corps must attend Duntroon in order to be commissioned.

Several linguists, including Georges Dumézil, have used the terms eastern Circassian ( Kabardian ) and western Circassian ( Adyghe ) in order to avoid this confusion, but both " Circassian " and " Kabardian " may still be found in linguistic literature.

Georges Perec's 1969 novel A Void, notable for not containing a single letter e, contains an e-less rewriting of Poe's " The Raven " that is attributed to Arthur Gordon Pym in order to avoid using the multiple es found in Poe's name.

From his father, he inherited the love of fast cars, but wishing to maintain a low profile Philippe used the pseudonym " Georges Philippe " in order to race anonymously.

Georges now signs his articles Du Roy ( an aristocratic style of French name ) in order to add prestige to his name.

Khena knew that the local laws restricted families to two children each and used this in order to stay on Earth with Uncle Georges.

After the great 1775 flood, Ypsilantis ordered a branch canal to be built, in order to prevent, or at least diminish the effects of such flooding ; in 1813, Prince Jean Georges Caradja decided to clean up the river bed.

Pachydermata ( from two Greek words παχύς pachys, " thick " and δερμα derma, " skin ", meaning ' thick skin ') is an obsolete order of mammals described by Gottlieb Storr, Georges Cuvier and others, at one time recognized by many systematists.

Una Voce ( or FIUV ) was founded on December 19, 1964 in Paris by Georges Cerbelaud-Salagnac in order to promote the Tridentine mass from the Pre-Vatican II Missale Romanum ( 1962 ).

The winner receives € 35, 000 personally and up to € 30, 000 in order to produce an exhibition of their work in the Modern Art museum ( Centre Georges Pompidou ).

This order later ceased to be enforced ; Georges Sada, an Assyrian Christian, was an Air Marshall in the Iraqi Air Force in the 1980s.