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course and quest
Baltimore's quest for a championship seemed doomed from the start when starting quarterback Johnny Unitas suffered a pre-season injury to his throwing arm and was replaced by Earl Morrall, a veteran who had started inconsistently over the course of his 12 seasons with four different teams.
His quest for increased executive power put him on a collision course with the parliament led by then Prime Minister Francisque Ravony.
Over the course of his quest, Ness is joined by three other children his age: Paula, another powerful psychic ; Jeff, a mechanical genius and child prodigy ; and Poo, a martial arts master with some psychic ability.
Over the course of the game, The Nameless One meets seven characters who can join him on his quest: Morte, Annah-of-the-Shadows, Dak ' kon, Ignus, Nordom, Fall-From-Grace, and Vhailor.
" Taking Sha ' bi's advice, Abū Ḥanīfah embarked on a prolific quest for knowledge that would in due course have a profound impact on the history of Islam.
It was not uncommon for parties to lose members in the course of the quest.
In the course of the poem, such literal journeys become the metaphorical vehicle for a spiritual journey — the quest within the poet's memory [...]".
In the course of the Lutheran Reformation numerous Imperial States had adopted the new confession, against the opposition of the ruling Catholic House of Habsburg, who recognised these conversions as a quest for increasing autonomy to the detriment of the central Imperial authority.
Over the course of the game, Soma meets additional characters that aid him in his quest: Genya Arikado, an enigmatic government agent and disguise for Alucard, the son of Dracula ; Yoko Belnades, a witch and member of the Belnades clan ; J, an amnesiac man drawn to Dracula's castle ; and Hammer, a soldier of the United States Army ordered to investigate the events occurring at Dracula's castle, although he abandons this mission and sets up a shop to sell Soma equipment ( potions, weapons and the like ).
In the course of their quest to destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes, Harry, Ron, and Hermione learn of the Hallows and The Tale of the Three Brothers, notably through conversations with Xenophilius Lovegood and the wandmaker Ollivander.
The protagonist is Link and during the course of the book he is on a quest to stop Ganondorf ( ガノンドロフ ) from taking over Hyrule ( ハイラル ).
The Avatar also gains maximum strength, intelligence, and dexterity in the course of the tests, and after completing the quest, Lord British grants the player double strength on top of that.
Besides the city ruins, the wilderness features a temple for healing, a tavern, and a number of special locations from where the party will embark on missions to other worlds over the course of their quest.
A golfer's quest for a course record is thwarted by a bloodthirsty Ninja.
Upon actually beginning a quest, the player has been transported to Belém, Brazil, and is given the option of choosing one of two native guides ( Isabel or Antonio ), who offer advice over the course of the game pertinent to navigating the river and maintaining ample supplies & good health.

course and learns
During the course of the day, Hennessy learns that the princess is missing, not ill as claimed.
When a legitimate argument is raised against his course of action by Tiresias, he is in fact completely open to changing course, even before he learns of the deaths of his family members.
He learns that without his weight altering the ship's course, it would be destroyed by an uncharted asteroid.
Over the course of the book, he learns of the legends of Pooley and Omally and sets out in search of The Flying Swan, culminating in a desperate race to stop the return of Adolf Hitler.
In the second degree Reiki course, sometimes given the Japanese name of Okuden (" 奥伝 " in Japanese, meaning " Inner Teachings "), the student learns the use of a number of symbols that are said to enhance the strength and distance over which Reiki can be exerted.
In the course of the game, Link learns three tunes to play on the harp.
At first, she allows Ignatius his space and drives him where he needs to go, but throughout the course of the novel she learns to stand up for herself.
However, at the request of now-President Palmer ( Jack's close friend ), he goes to CTU, where he learns that there are terrorists in Los Angeles who plan to detonate a nuclear bomb in the city sometime within the course of that day.
During the course of those events, Sally Floyd learns that Daily Bugle editor Jonah Jameson was the mysterious financial backer of the publication, a fact which they agreed to hide from Urich, lest it kill his spirit.
During the course of APO's first mission, to bring down a terrorist and assassin-for-hire, she learns the man was actually hired to kill her-by Irina.
In the course of his investigation, Sheridan learns that Isogi's plan was create a free and independent Mars, without bloodshed, and beneficial to all parties.
But Jack learns that whoever stabs Davy Jones ' heart will become immortal, and instead plots his own course.
Eventually of course, Arsalan learns of his royal origins and takes it in his mind to reclaim his throne.
The Ranger student receives instruction on airborne / air assault operations, demolitions, environmental and " field craft " training, executes the infamous " Darby Queen " obstacle course, and learns the fundamentals of patrolling, warning and operations orders, and communications.
Eventually, after being prescribed a course of leeches by a doctor and an attempt to throw Bob out, he learns the truth ( after Kate opens her doublet in front of him ), and several minutes later they have sex and become engaged.
Such qualification requires completing the Military Free Fall Jumpmaster course, wherein the student learns how to be a jumpmaster in military free fall operations ; course requirements include experience as a military free fall parachutist and completion of the static line jumpmaster course.
Over the course of the novel Antonio becomes disillusioned with the faith and through Cico, one of his closer friends learns of another god.
In the course of the story Meg also learns to " kythe " with Calvin and others, communing with them essentially by telepathy.
Being an unintelligent, rigid bigot, of course, Moultry learns nothing from the experience.
When Brent's face is pasted on a pornographic image, he is upset with the prank until he learns it was the work of Chris Finch, at which point Brent rapidly changes course and claims to find the joke funny, even refusing to apologize for reprimanding other employees who laughed at the joke.
In the course of the story he learns that he has misunderstood his mission, meets his future wife, and is alienated from his fellow heroes.

course and about
Of course, there were books about which nothing good could be said.
On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
It is pertinent to ask the question: Has the long upswing of interest rates during the past 15 years just about run its course, and are we now entering a period in which both capital market forces and Federal policies will produce a prolonged decline of interest rates??
Of course, the list also excludes all writers who are fairly `` optimistic '' about the modern situation ; ;
Music, of course, is not so explicit an art, but anybody who knew Charlie Parker knows that he felt much the same way about his own gift.
Patiently, he explained what he knew about their course and their objectives.
When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??
In spite of the shading of one type of course into another, I believe it is useful to talk about vocational courses as apart from academic courses.
Of course On Thursday, Haney mailed the monthly check for separate maintenance to his wife Lolly, and wished the stranger could do something about her
Rosburg had started early in the day, and by the time Palmer and Player were on the course -- separated, as they were destined to be for the rest of the weekend, by about half an hour -- they could see on the numerous scoreboards spotted around the course that Rosburg, who ended with a 73, was not having a good day.
Over the years, enlivened chiefly by disputes about the relative merits of Maine and Idaho potatoes, the menu has pursued its drab all-American course.
Equally penetrating in its fashion is the following remark by a lady in the course of a literary conversation: `` So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it ''.
He assembled quantities of facts about the nature of American politics in general, as well as about the day-to-day course of the closest Presidential election in American history.
`` We could put up cribs on the second floor sleeping porch and turn the front bedroom into a playroom where it's nice and sunny, but of course it would entail quite a bit of running up and down stairs and Chris said you were to be careful about that ''.
Once on course towards the Moon, the crew put the spacecraft into a rotisserie " barbecue " mode in which the craft rotated along its long axis three times per hour to ensure even heat distribution about the spacecraft from the Sun.
This instrument had the advantage of a larger field of view and he was able to obtain precise positions of a large number of stars that transited close to the zenith over the course of about two years.
The course of the rays in the meridional section is no longer symmetrical to the principal ray of the pencil ; and on an intercepting plane there appears, instead of a luminous point, a patch of light, not symmetrical about a point, and often exhibiting a resemblance to a comet having its tail directed towards or away from the axis.
There is here given the whole service for every Sunday and week-day, the proper antiphons, responsories, hymns, and especially the course of daily Scripture-reading, averaging about twenty verses a day, and ( roughly ) arranged thus: for Advent, Isaiah ; Epiphany to Septuagesima, Pauline Epistles ; Lent, patristic homilies ( Genesis on Sundays ); Passion-tide, Jeremiah ; Easter to Whitsun, Acts, Catholic epistles and Apocalypse ; Whitsun to August, Samuel and Kings ; August to Advent, Wisdom books, Maccabees, Prophets.
Separation between the formation of aircraft and their maneuver altitude is gradually reduced over the course of about two months in January and February.
" Nathan Dane, the primary author of the Northwest Ordinance, viewed this provision as a default mechanism in the event that federal or territorial statutes were silent about a particular matter ; he wrote that if " a statute makes an offence, and is silent as to the mode of trial, it shall be by jury, according to the course of the common law.
As a result, it could be argued that there is a moral imperative for an agent to inform himself as much as possible about a situation before judging the appropriate course of action.

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