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In order to win the Athenians ' support, the Segestaeans claimed that they were capable of funding much of the cost of sending a fleet, offering 60 talents of uncoined silver up front, and tricking Athenian ambassadors into believing that the city was more prosperous than it actually was, by making sure that the ambassadors saw all their golden and other valuable objects in a way as if these were just part of what they had.
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He gave a resume of the steps taken in order for the boy he sponsored to win the scholarship.
I tell you when it's necessary to hurt in order to win -- you won't do it.
Politicians in the party win a place in parliament by being on the Party List, which is drawn up before the elections and enumerates, in order, the party's preferred MPs.
In order to win the final cash prize, all the contestants have to do is survive periodic evictions and be the last one standing.
* In the third UK series, " Big Brother " set live tasks for the housemates on a Saturday night in order to win treats ; this was used until Series 5 of the program.
* Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time ( 1995 ) – the genius in question was John Harrison, who spent decades trying to convince the British Admiralty of the accuracy of his naval timepieces and their use in determining longitude when at sea in order to win the longitude prize.
Apollo chased her, and in order to win her favours turned himself into a tortoise, of which the girls made a pet.
Davros is the head of the Elite Scientific Division, created to devise new military strategies in order to win the war.
There is, however, no " post " that the winning candidate must pass in order to win, as the winning candidate is required only to have received the highest number of votes in his or her favour.
The world floorball championships are an annual event where teams from across the world gather to play in a tournament in order to win the world championship.
In order to win power and carry out political reforms, the socialists had to overcome the Finnish Parliament.
Davis evaluated the Confederacy's national resources and weaknesses and decided that, in order to win its independence, the Confederacy would have to fight mostly on the strategic defensive.
Two teams occupy opposite halves of a small swimming pool / field and take turns sending a " raider " into the other half, in order to win points by tackling members of the opposing team ; then the raider tries to return to his own half, holding his breath and chanting the word " Kabaddi " during the whole raid.
But in 1482 Leonardo went off to Milan at the behest of Lorenzo de ' Medici in order to win favour with Ludovico il Moro, and the painting was abandoned.
The objective of mancala games is usually to capture more stones than the opponent ; sometimes, one seeks to leave the opponent with no legal move or to have your side empty first in order to win.
Michael and his younger brother Ralf Schumacher are the only brothers to win races in Formula One, and they were the first brothers to finish 1st and 2nd in the same race, in Montreal in 2001, and there again ( in switched order ) in 2003.
Somoza García benefited from Sacasa's diminishing power, and at the same time brought together the National Guard and the Liberal Party ( Partido Liberal-PL ) in order to win the presidential elections in 1936.
They had to win and have the Packers lose in order to get into the playoffs.
Rollout games are frequently played high-low split, and players choose which cards to reveal in order to delay as long as possible revealing which half of the pot they intend to win.
Not only draws benefit from additional cards ; many made hands can be improved by catching an out — and may have to in order to win.
Cordon Sanitaires, however, have been increasingly abandoned over the past two decades in multi-party democracies as the pressure to construct broad coalitions in order to win elections-along with the increased willingness of outsider parties themselves to participate in government-has led to many such parties entering electoral and government coalitions.
In order for the winning bidder to win the hand, the combined total of melding and trick points must be equal to or greater than the winning bid.
In February 2009, Shawn Michaels, who was under the kayfabe employment of John " Bradshaw " Layfield, interfered in a match and super kicked JBL in front of the referee in order to get his employer the win via " outside interference ".
This is because, in order to win an absolute majority in the second round, it is necessary for a candidate to win the support of voters whose favourite candidate has been eliminated.
order and Athenians
The following year, Sparta sent an army into Boeotia, reviving the power of Thebes in order to help hold the Athenians in check.
In order to face the Persians in battle, the Athenians had had to summon all available hoplites ; and even then they were still probably outnumbered at least 2 to 1.
Especially during the Fourth Century BC, after the restoration of democracy from oligarchical coups, the Athenians used the drawing of lots for selecting government officers in order to counteract what the Athenians acutely saw as a tendency toward oligarchy in government if a professional governing class were allowed to use their skills for their own benefit.
In order to uphold the Thirty Years ' Peace, however, the Athenians were instructed not to intervene in the battle unless it was clear that Corinth was going to press onward to invade Corcyra.
The Athenians however allowed Alcibiades to go on the expedition without being tried ( many believed in order to better plot against him ).
In order to persuade the Spartans to defend Attica, Themistocles needed to show them that the Athenians were willing to do everything necessary for the success of the alliance.
In short, the entire Athenian fleet must be dispatched to Artemisium ; in order to do this, every able-bodied Athenian male would be required to man the ships ; and this in turn meant that the Athenians must prepare to abandon Athens.
Aristides had been recalled from exile along with the other ostracised Athenians on the order of Themistocles, so that Athens might be united against the Persians.
* 413 BC: Demosthenes suggests the Athenians leave Syracuse in order to return to Athens, where help is needed.
The Athenians, who have originally approved their mercenaries ' collaboration with Artabazus of Phrygia, order them to leave due to their fear of Persian support for the revolting states of Chios, Rhodes, and Cos. Thebes follows suit and withdraws its mercenaries.
In order to redirect the Spartans attention to Greek affairs, Artaxerxes subsidized their enemies: in particular the Athenians, Thebans and Corinthians.
"( or give in ) Thucydides created the Dialogue in order to represent the actual events of the Athenians speaking to the Melians.
The Syracusans were deployed sixteen men deep, in order to offset the advantage of the Athenians in experience.
The Athenians, who in the previous battle had been able to take advantage of their superior maneuverability in the open sea, were reluctant to enter the constricted waters of the Gulf, but were forced to follow the Peloponnesians in order to protect Naupactus, which had been left ungarrisoned.
Even then the generals refused to order the fortification of the promontory, and Demosthenes was similarly rebuffed when he attempted to appeal directly to the troops and subordinate commanders ; only when the boredom of waiting out the storm overcame the Athenians did they set to work building fortifications.
The Spartans and their allies had been invading Attica every year, burning, looting and vandalizing farm property with unusual ferocity in order to provoke the Athenians into a land battle that they couldn't win.
" For some reason, he chose not to obey this order, and attempted to implement a stratagem that he thought would give the Athenians a victory.
The Athenians, in order to pay their court to Demetrius, consecrated a temple to Phila, under the name of Aphrodite.
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