In contrast, historian Ben Rubin argues that because the American Revolution was a conflict that as often pitted neighbor against neighbor — Whigs ( advocates of Revolution ) against Tories ( loyalists to Britain )— as it pitted nascent Americans against the British, many people stayed neutral until goaded into taking a stand in reaction to military atrocities, such as those attributed to Tarleton, or individual atrocities, such as the death of Thomas Young's brother, or the burning of Thomas Sumter's house and the abuse of his wife, or the interrogation at knife point of William Bratton's wife, the beating of their young son, and the family's imprisonment in their own attic -- individual atrocities similar to those depicted in The Patriot.

The Gold Coast Bulletins Ryan Ellem commented in 2005 that the Simpson family's dilemma with the cost of the veterinary procedure is a realistic dilemma faced by many families who own dogs.

Eirik Bloodaxe soon found himself deserted on all sides, and saved his own and his family's lives by fleeing from the country.

He is entrusted by his father with the family's financial resources in a mission of hope to the Turkish capital Constantinople Istanbul in 1930, where he would work in the carpet business of his father's cousin ( Harry Davis ), although his own dream is to reach the faraway land of opportunity, America.

Anthony Trollope suffered much misery in his boyhood owing to the disparity between his family's social background and his own comparative poverty.

Her romance with a black doctor eventually leads to revelations about her family's past and her own mixed-race, European ancestry.

As the book is passed down from generation to generation, each generation appears to write their own spells or notes, as indicated by Cassie's recognition of her mother's handwriting in her own family's Book of Shadows.

The East block was a self-contained country house in its own right, containing all the rooms for the family's private use, and the identical West block contained the kitchens and all other domestic rooms and staff accommodation.

Firing the imagination of struggling families, many with low-paying inner city jobs and an aimless future, the book described a way to seek out a good agrarian lifestyle and graphically detailed his own family's experiences and accomplishments at homesteading in Suffern.

There Harry and Owen were locked in an attic room and fed leftovers while the money and clothing that came with them went to the family's own children.

Not only does the will name Boyes as the principal heir, but in Urquhart's office, Miss Murchison finds evidence that, misusing his position as his own family's solicitor, Urquhart embezzled the majority of the great aunt's holdings and subsequently lost them on the stock market.

The climax of the story occurs on the anniversary of Sol's family's death and forces him to confront his own emotions, including his guilt over having survived and his desire to die.

The episode storylines focus on the family's efforts to survive and find a way back to their own world, but the exploration of the exotic inhabitants of the Land of the Lost is also an ongoing part of the story.

Just as Sophie is left conflicted by her father's attitudes towards Poland's Jews, Stingo analyzes his own culpability derived from his family's slave-holding past, eventually deciding to write a book about Nat Turner – an obvious parallel to Styron's own controversial novel The Confessions of Nat Turner.

Conceptions of honour vary widely between cultures ; some cultures regard honour killings of ( mostly female ) members of one's own family as justified if the individuals have " defiled the family's honour " by marrying against the family's wishes, or even by being the victims of rape.

During her family's bickering Susie begins to have flashbacks of her own humble beginnings ; she was a chambermaid at her mother's modest guesthouse.

Ultimately he destroys his own family's reputation by killing the evil and corrupt — but perceived as a holy martyr by the masses — Grand Patriarch Iblis Ginjo.

In two generations during the latter half of the 15th century, the nine Thott brothers, also known as " Axelssöner ", and additionally some sons of Aage, a senior in the brotherly brood, held high and mighty positions just when Denmark and Sweden were opposing nations, however trying to preserve their own family's position and often act in concert.

Zionist narratives pinpointed al-Husseini's works on, and publicity about, the site and threats to it, as attempts to restore his own family's waning prestige.

Sixteen Tons album coverFord scored an unexpected hit on the pop charts in 1955 with his rendition of Merle Travis ' " Sixteen Tons ", a sparsely arranged coal-miner's lament that Travis wrote in 1946, based on his own family's experience in the mines of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.

As the Boleyn family's wealth and influence increased, the couple were given Beaulieu Palace as their chief residence, which George and Jane decorated with a lavish chapel, a tennis court, a bathroom with hot-and-cold running water, imported carpets, mahogany furniture and their own large collection of silverware.

Realizing that Colleen's final words meant something after all, and that they saved his family's life, Graham's faith is restored.

Upon facing his family's death, Phil breaks, says a few short words and returns to Gloria.

In return, Telma Hopkins portrayed Yvonne's mother, Paulette Williams ; opposite Hopkins, Sherman Hemsley portrayed Yvonne's father, Mr. Williams – who did not get along with Darryl, because in Darryl's own words, thought of him as a " jackass ", including Patricia Belcher as the family's Aunt Jessie Mae Hughley.

In the end, he spends a month or two in Maria's family's house, where he learns many new words that he had not known the meaning of.

The family's chauffeur, Tom Branson, is an Irish republican and socialist whose cousin was killed by British soldiers during the Easter Rising under the suspicion that he was " probably a rebel.

After he died in 1624, his son Anton took over the family business ; Anton oversaw a gunsmithing operation during the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 48 ), which was the first instance of the family's long association with arms manufacturing.

Mirroring the mood in the United Kingdom, the family's lowest approval was during the mid-1980s to 1990s, when the children of the monarch were enduring their divorces and were the targets of negative tabloid reporting.

Grand Duchess Tatiana in 1910 during the family's summer cruise aboard the Standart.

The Seymour family's power grew during Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn, to whom Jane Seymour was a lady in waiting.

It was during the family's six-year stay at the Black Bear Inn that Lawrence senior began to make use of his son's precocious talents for drawing and reciting poetry.

Set in Glendale, California, in the 1930s, the book is the story of middle-class housewife Mildred Pierce's attempts to maintain her family's social position during the Great Depression.

Once, during a snowball fight at the family's Polish estate, Anastasia rolled a rock into a snowball and threw it at her older sister Tatiana, knocking her to the ground.

* David Vetter ( 1971 – 1984 ), the " Boy in the Bubble " ( known only as " David " during his lifetime, to protect his family's privacy )

In 1963, the Ngô family's grip on power became unstuck during the Buddhist crisis, during which the nation's Buddhist majority rose up against the pro-Catholic regime.

* Pretty Boy Floyd, a 1930s outlaw, was born in Adairsville during his Oklahoma family's brief stay in the town.

He tries often to keep his family's perceptions of each other positive or " happy " by defending each of them during their many arguments, but still has the most turbulent relationship with Linda, who looks down on him for his lifestyle and apparent cheapness, despite him giving them money.

Although he came from a peasant farming background, during his childhood Ryti hardly participated in work on the family's large farm, being a bookish and academically inclined boy.

The family's power reached its peak under his son William during the reigns of King Richard I and King John.

USA vs. Al-Arian is an award-winning 2007 documentary film by Norwegian director Line Halvorsen about Al-Arian and his family during and after his trial from his family's point of view, and a commentary on the U. S. justice system under the Patriot Act.

taught to children at their family's place of worship, either in conjunction with worship services or some other time during the week, after weekday school classes.

During the Anarchy Gilbert de Lacy, Sybil's cousin, laid claim to the family's estates and during the course of the civil war control of the castle change hands several times.

During the period of anti-German feelings in England during World War I, many German names and titles were changed and given more English-sounding names, including the royal family's from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.

In one instance during the wake of a Genovese member, Gigante pulled aside Victor Amuso, the acting boss of the Lucchese crime family, to discuss the Lucchese family's encroachment on his families " Windows Racket ".

Musician Gram Parsons kept an ocelot as a pet in the back yard swimming pool area of his family's Winter Haven, Florida, home during his teens, in the mid-1960s.

Later given to the family's Vienna branch, where a family servant kept them hidden during the Holocaust when the Nazis confiscated the family's other possessions, the Netsuke were in 1947 taken back to Japan by a surviving family member who came to live in Tokyo.