She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

Each brass handle and hinge shone for his reward, and he knew how to get at the dust in the china flowers and how to take down the long glass drops which hung from the chandelier.

To forestall any change of allegiance, the Democrats hastily organised a testimonial banquet for O'Banion, as public reward for his past services and as a reminder of where his loyalties lay.

Others because they expected some sort of reward for the information.

The fire fighters association here offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for the bombing.

Although they " were expecting to see activity in the brain's reward centers ", based on the idea that " people perform altruistic acts because they feel good about it ", what they found was that " another part of the brain was also involved, and it was quite sensitive to the difference between doing something for personal gain and doing it for someone else's gain ".

This suggests a link between circuits responsible for fear and also reward in anxious people.

Many religions, whether they believe in the soul's existence in another world like Christianity, Islam and many pagan belief systems, or in reincarnation like many forms of Hinduism and Buddhism, believe that one's status in the afterlife is a reward or punishment for their conduct during life.

In most denominations, Heaven is a place of everlasting reward for the righteous to go after they die.

The Book of Enoch describes Sheol as divided into four compartments for four types of the dead: the faithful saints who await resurrection in Paradise, the merely virtuous who await their reward, the wicked who await punishment, and the wicked who have already been punished and will not be resurrected on Judgment Day.

In particular, the belief that heaven is a reward for good behavior is a common folk belief in Christian societies, even among members of churches which reject that belief.

Like Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists use key phrases from the Bible, such as " For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten " ( Eccl.

This was generally done as a reward for some service to the state.

On Good Friday 1158, bishop Asser of Roskilde died, and Absalon was eventually elected bishop of Roskilde on Zealand with the help of Valdemar, as the king's reward for the Hvide family support.

Woodruff's sleeping car company, as a reward for holding shares that Woodruff had given to Scott and Thomson, as a payoff.

* 2004 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.

Zimmerman, winner of a $ 10 million state lottery in 1988, immediately put up a $ 5, 000 reward for the perpetrators, told the press that “ Beavis and Butt-Head ” was responsible for the death, and started a letter-writing campaign against the show.

According to classical rabbinical sources, Benjamin was only born after Rachel had fasted for a long time, as a religious devotion with the hope of a new child as a reward.

After a long war Ishbaal is murdered hoping for reward from David, but David has them killed for killing God's anointed.

In the more recent series of the franchise, special instances have occurred whereby contestants are allowed to view televised events which are usually as a reward for winning a task.

Bishop Jan of Wroclaw in Silesia, was the first of the Poles to ascend the episcopacy, inasmuch as only Italians had governed it previously ; he was a Wroclaw canon elected to that dignity in 1062, presided over it for 10 years, and went to his reward for his pastoral labors in 1072, as Dlugosz attests in his Kronika where he writes of him explicitly as of the Jastrzebiec clan.

The two armies met at Interamna Nahars ( modern Terni ), at the southern end of the eastern branch of the Flaminia, and Aemilian won the battle ; Gallus and Volusianus fled with few followers towards north, probably to gather time before the arrival of the reinforcements, but at Forum Flaminii ( modern San Giovanni Profiamma ), on the western branch of Flaminia, they were killed by some of their own guards, who thought that their betrayal could earn them a reward.

So Prokofieff was able to cultivate his musical talents and harvest a rich reward from them.

A $500 reward was offered by the association's local in Kansas City, Kas..

One did one's best and if fortune smiled, there was a reward.

she unquestionably assumed that the more he was entwined with Freddy, the more likely he was to reward Freddy richly upon his death.

: " Always a man who had taken his stomach seriously, he was reaping his reward in old age.

Arriving at one's reward in afterlife was a demanding ordeal, requiring a sin-free heart and the ability to recite the spells, passwords and formulae of the Book of the Dead.

Many deist freethinkers held that belief in an afterlife with reward and punishment was a necessity of reason and good morals.

As a reward, Federko was drafted 7th overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft.

Within four days Nelson had been elevated to Baron Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe, a title with which he was privately dissatisfied, believing his actions deserved better reward.

But it was unaware of the Bulgarian plans over Thrace and Constantinople, territories on which it had long-held ambitions, and on which it had just secured a secret agreement of expansion from its allies France and Britain, as a reward for participating in the upcoming Great War against the Central Powers.

Research in the mid-1980s found that juvenile salmon were suffering substantially from the predatory pikeminnow, and in 1990, in the interest of protecting salmon, a " bounty " program was established to reward anglers for catching pikeminnow.

At one extreme, anthropologist Marvin Harris, author of Cannibals and Kings, has suggested that the flesh of the victims was a part of an aristocratic diet as a reward, since the Aztec diet was lacking in proteins.

Therefore, the only motivation for labour was either the possibility of great reward or fear of hunger.

On May 14, he was breveted a colonel in the Continental Army in " reward of his fortitude, firmness and zeal in the cause of his country, manifested during his long and cruel captivity, as well as on former occasions ," and given military pay of $ 75 per month.

The biggest extension of Eritrea was reached during the Italian empire ( 1936 – 1941 ), when northern parts of conquered Ethiopia were assigned to Eritrea by the Italians as a reward for the Eritrean " Ascaris '" help in the conquest of Ethiopia

" When there is no recourse to a superior by whom judgment can be made about an invader, then he who slays a tyrant to liberate his fatherland is be praised and receives a reward " ( Commentary on the Magister Sententiarum ).

After Hattusa was made capital, the area encompassed by the bend of the Halys River ( Hittite Marassantiya, ) was considered the core of the Empire, and some Hittite laws make a distinction between " this side of the river " and " that side of the river ", for example, the reward for the capture of an eloped slave after he managed to flee beyond the Halys is higher than that for a slave caught before he could reach the river.

They see heaven as promised by God as a reward for good works made possible only by his grace, while " the works of the flesh " exclude from heaven.

Specifically Tyrnavos holds an annual Phallus festival, a traditional " phallkloric " event in which giant, gaudily painted effigies of phalluses made of papier maché are paraded, and which all women present are asked to touch, or kiss, their reward for doing so being a shot of the famous local tsipouro alcohol spirit.

The Germans made it clear that if Spain entered the war, Franco would have to promise at a minimum, extraterritorial naval bases in Morocco and the Canary Islands to the Reich in exchange for which the Germans would reward Spain with various British and French colonies in Africa ; Franco rejected the German preconditions which he saw as interfering with Spanish sovereignty, and stayed neutral.

McKimson made more benevolent use of Daffy ; in " Ducking the Devil ," for example, his greed becomes a vital tool in subduing the Tasmanian Devil and collecting a big cash reward.

However, while Rado was confirmed as mayor in Austrasia and Warnachar in Burgundy, Pepin did not receive his reward until 623, when he was appointed mayor in Austrasia after Chlothar made his young son Dagobert king there.

As a reward, Drusus was made praetor urbanus for 11 BC.

The reward was a crown, and, on 27 September 1130, Anacletus ' papal bull made Roger king of Sicily.

Laomedon had promised them the magic horses as a reward for their deeds, but when he broke his word, Heracles and his allies took vengeance by putting Troy to siege, killing Laomedon and all his sons save Podarces, who saved his own life by giving Heracles a golden veil Hesione had made ( and therefore was afterwards called Priam, from priamai ' to buy ').

In spite of what was for many years a standing offer of $ 50, 000 for a live, healthy snake over long by the New York Zoological Society ( NYZS ), known since 1993 as the Wildlife Conservation Society ( WCS ), no attempt to claim this reward was ever made.

* Funding fire departments by the number of fire calls made is intended to reward the fire departments that do the most work.

The Greek tyrant Phalaris, of Akragas in Sicily, is said to have roasted his enemies alive in a brazen bull ; it was devised for him by a workman named Perillus or Perilaos, who made it so that the screams of the victims sounded like the roaring of a bull ; when Perillus asked for his reward, he became the first victim.

No arrests have been made, however, in connection with the incidents in 2007, even though the town posted a $ 24, 000 reward.

Debate is fairly common about whether the use of these terms should be restricted, and generally reflects an awareness of the distinction made by Burns ( 1978 ) between " transactional " leadership ( characterized by e. g. emphasis on procedures, contingent reward, management by exception ) and " transformational " leadership ( characterized by e. g. charisma, personal relationships, creativity ).

Anxious to reward Marlborough for his diplomatic and martial skills in Ireland and on the Continent, Anne made him the Master-General of the Ordnance – an office he had long desired – a Knight of the Garter and Captain-General of her armies at home and abroad.

He made himself useful by giving information to the English government, and even Mary Tudor sent him a reward in June 1554.

In addition, Zadir reveals that to reward their idea, he has made them part-owners of the club.

As a reward for his services he was first knighted and then made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

Carder's historical research, however, revealed that the reward was offered under conditions that made it highly unlikely to be collected.

In the Fasti Ovid relates only the myths that associate Janus to Saturn, whom he welcomed as a guest and with whom eventually shared his kingdom in reward of his teaching the art of agriculture, and to the nymph Crane Grane or Carna, whom Janus raped and made the goddess of hinges as Cardea, while in the Metamorphoses he records his fathering with Venilia the nymph Canens, loved by Picus.

In 1187, King Alfonso VIII of Castile made the abbot of San Emeterio lord of the town, and in 1248 Santander participated in the battle for Seville, receiving a coat of arms as reward.

A number of pre-altered graphics packages were distributed, including some which replaced the reward buildings with images of various well known international buildings, such as the Eiffel Tower, but most buildings were made by fan-artists and shared on the Internet.

This was intended as a reward for the attempts made by Terence O ' Neill to end discrimination against Roman Catholics and normalise relations with the Republic.