Because of conservative eminent domain law in Japan, several past residents of the site that would be Roppongi Hills have been given residential units in the complex in return for their agreement to vacate their prior homes, so that their prior homes would be demolished and the land use for the development of Roppongi Hills.

That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

Three days previously, we had steamed past barren Rennell Island in the distance.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

One girl describes her past, her succession of broken marriages, the abortions she has had and finally confesses that she loves sex and sees no reason why she must justify her passion.

Isn't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A & M colleges??

Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.

Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

John's thoughts raced painfully into the past as he read the letter he had just received from his sister Mary.

Kate had walked past the school on her morning chores and had seen the whole incident, had seen Joel's burning humiliation before Miss Snow's cold, bespectacled wrath.

Rector had never been able to find out much about Hino's past.

He was in his mid-fifties at this time, long past the establishment of his name and the wish to be lionized yet once again, and it was almost a decade since he had sworn off lecturing.

To the stump of a tree as he passed it, the same stump which had impaled the car of many a guest in the past thirty years and which he refused to have removed.

But when I saw that it was already ten past seven, I began to wonder if something had gone wrong.

Whereas the maintenance rotary fund had in the past sustained losses considerably beyond expectations, the introduction of the cost-billing system plus other control refinements has resulted in keeping the fund on a proper working basis.

For example, the interest of past members of the Foundation's Advisory Board remains such that they place their knowledge and judgments at our disposal much as they had done when they were, formally, members of that Board.

This past year the pattern has been different: The organizing program had the full support of the AFL-CIO, which supplied staff and money to the AWOC, as well as moral support.

The suggestion that in saying something evil had occurred we were after all making no mistake, because we had never meant anyhow to say anything about the past suffering, seems to me merely frivolous.

The storms of the past had died away, and the great upheaval which was to mark the following century had not yet begun to disturb men's minds.

The state had elected Republican candidates in the past two years.

But this fluent, enchanting utterance had, compared with important artists of the past, relatively little content.

They have been criticised for exploiting the massive catalogue of African American music, but it has also been noted that they both popularised that music, bringing it to British, world and in some cases American audiences, and helping to build the reputation of existing and past rhythm and blues artists.

After the release of Pornography ( 1982 ), the band's future was uncertain and Smith was keen to move past the gloomy reputation his band had acquired.

The rise of viticulture has had a profound impact on the agricultural and tourism industries over the past two decades, and has in many ways reshaped the reputation of the region.

The Katherina of the past ( her reputation ) is changed as well as the Katherina of the present ( her actual self ).

He began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with Hiroshima mon amour ( 1959 ), L ' Année dernière à Marienbad ( Last Year in Marienbad ) ( 1961 ), and Muriel ( 1963 ), all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past.

As a result of the prison's past troubles and reputation for violence, the state decided to make this change to improve the prisons status in the state.

C & S has in the past had a reputation of " complex " gaming, primarily as it relates to 1st and 2nd editions.

The album did not sell nearly as well as the past four Suicidal records ( although it did sell decently on the band's reputation alone ) and the only major single, " Love Vs. Loneliness ", featured a gloomy music video that hurt the song's airplay.

* IV Corps: 28, 000 men, 86 guns, under the command of 51-year-old Maréchal d ' Empire André Masséna, a general who had fought against the Austrians many times in the past and who had a reputation for exceptional military talent and cunning ;

However, Aspasia was reluctant ; he was considered very handsome by his contemporaries but the reputation he had earned from his numerous past liaisons did not persuade her.

They have been criticised for exploiting the massive catalogue of African American music, but it has also been noted that they both popularised that music, bringing it to British, world and in some cases American audiences, and helping to build the reputation of existing and past rhythm and blues artists.

From the Old Dungeon Ghyll hotel, the route proceeds up alongside Rossett Gill ( which perhaps has a more fearsome reputation than it deserves ), past Angle Tarn, and then onto Esk Hause before joining a rocky path to the summit.

An old lawyer friend ( Harry Carey ) vows to fight for her freedom, but Carrie decides to plead guilty, because she doesn't want Lady to know about her past ( her life as a prostitute would be dragged out in court if her case went to trial ) and also because she fears that this damage to her reputation would also be bad for the reputation of the children.

Stoke have had problems in the past with football hooliganism in the 1970s, 80s, 90s and early 2000s which gave the club a bad reputation, this was to the actions by the " Naughty Forty " firm which associated itself with the club and was formed by supporter Mark Chester.

The reason reputation recovery has risen in importance is that the " stumble rate " among companies has risen exponentially over the past five years.

Like Blair, Straw believed Labour's electoral chances had been damaged in the past by the party appearing to be " soft on crime " and he developed a reputation as being even more authoritarian than the Conservative Home Secretary Michael Howard.

As the local spas attract tourists mainly from the middle east as well as from other parts of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Teplice has in the past been called Czech Republic's " Little Paris ", although rising crime and unemployment rates in the region have damaged that reputation.

Also, note that under rational expectations, it is not necessary for the policymaker to have established its reputation through past policy actions ; as an example, the reputation of the head of the central bank might be derived entirely from his or her ideology, professional background, public statements, etc.

Hence the reputation of a particular central bank is not necessarily tied to past performance, but rather to particular institutional arrangements that the markets can use to form inflation expectations.

With its long-standing reputation of excellence, the university looks both to the past, to maintain its historic academic and cultural heritage, and to the future, developing new methods and opportunities to meet the needs of a changing world.

" The press release also indicated that Sarah Lawrence " plans not to participate in the peer reputational survey or data collection for U. S. News and World Report ’ s rankings " as, according to Myers, " by submitting data and the peer reputation survey we have tacitly been endorsing these rankings all the information we have provided to U. S. News in the past will be available to the public through other channels.

Geoff Baker of The Seattle Times said the votes for the Gold Gloves rely largely on a player's past reputation.