I could not cling to my past nor did I wish to.

Because his mind had been otherwise occupied for the past couple of hours, he did not think to look and see if Jerry Burton's car was still there.

Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past.

Although this shift was an important one, it did not represent a radical break from the past so much as a small step in a broader, more gradual socio-economic movement that had been going on at least since 1907 when van de Velde had argued for a craft basis for design while Hermann Muthesius had begun implementing industrial prototypes.

This time, Cleveland did not make it past the first round, losing the Division Series to the Red Sox, despite taking a 2-0 lead in the series.

While the agency is currently funding the use of DDT in some African countries, in the past it did not.

In lay terms, there is a very large — perhaps infinite — number of universes, and everything that could possibly have happened in our past, but did not, has occurred in the past of some other universe or universes.

As a result, they did not compete in a World Cup until 1950, in which they were beaten in a 1 – 0 defeat by the United States, failing to get past the first round in one of the most embarrassing defeats in team history.

By substituting these three verbs, even without clarifying morality ( ought, shall, should, must ) or the actor ( s ) who do or did something, becomes / remains / equals makes clear what time frame of relationship is asserted, and disallows assuming one stable past / present / future timeline-known as single scenario planning or blind linearity and considered a grave error in risk analysis.

Callet attributes this difference in embouchure technique as the reason the great players of the past were able to play at the level of technical virtuosity which they did, although the increased difficulty of contemporary compositions for brass seem to indicate that the level of brass technique achieved by today's performers equals or even exceeds that of most performers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The move benefited United as they received a two-week break and won the 1999-2000 league title by an 18-point margin, although they did not progress past the group stages of the Club World Cup.

The most notable examples are found in the work of Greek historians of the 6th century BC: their intention was to connect notable families of their own day to a distant and heroic past, and in doing so they did not distinguish between myth, legend, and facts.

As Honduras entered the 1990s, it did have some factors working in its favor — relative peace and a stronger civilian government with less military interference in the politics and economy of the country than in past years.

The marketing team revisited the Jello recipes that had been published in past cookbooks and rediscovered Jigglers, although the original recipe did not use that name.

Shaikh Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah insisted that Kuwait was in full control of all territory out to a radius of 140 km from the capital ; however, the ruler of Najd, Abdul Aziz ibn Abdul Rahman ibn Saud, argued, in September 1920, that the borders of Kuwait did not extend past the walls of the capital.

The labor theory of value, as presented by Adam Smith, however, did not require the quantification of all past labor, nor did it deal with the labor needed to create the tools ( capital ) that might be employed in the production of a commodity.

Frigg, a major goddess and Odin's wife, says that what Loki and Odin did in the ancient past should not be spoken of in front of others, and that ancient matters should always remain hidden.

He concluded that, in the relatively recent past, Switzerland had been another Greenland ; that instead of a few glaciers stretching across the areas referred to, one vast sheet of ice, originating in the higher Alps, had extended over the entire valley of northwestern Switzerland until it reached the southern slopes of the Jura, which, though they checked and deflected its further extension, did not prevent the ice from reaching in many places the summit of the range.

Further, there is no reason to be surprised when discussions such as those about the " death of God " – a concept drawn from Nietzsche – stir popular excitement as they did in the recent past, and could do so again today.

The series depicted very little of the past described by Edison, though he did meet a female televangelist ( whom he once dated when his reporting put him at odds with the Vu Age Church that she now headed ) and a former colleague / rival who later died ( and whose death sent Edison off on close to a rampage to avenge that death ).

The valley of Neva is formed by glacial and post-glacial sediments and it did not change much over the past 2500 years.

Morgan found many of the most interesting changes in living things have been largely discontinuous with past evolution, and therefore did not necessarily take place through a gradual process of natural selection.

Although rare now, in the past there were bowlers who used the off-break action who deliberately did not impart any considerable spin on the ball but relied on line and length to frustrate batsmen.

Another important break with the past was the radical overhaul of opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, who cut away a great deal of the layering and improvisational ornament and focused on the points of modulation and transition.

Universal Primary Education is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals and great improvements have been achieved in the past decade, yet a great deal remains to be done.

The somewhat confusing terminology seems to be due to attempts to deal with the comparatively fine subdivisions of time possible in the relatively recent geologic past, when more information is preserved.

The film stemmed from Tarantino's desire to produce a spaghetti western set in America's Deep South ; Tarantino has called the proposed style " a southern ", stating that he wanted " to do movies that deal with America's horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies.

Secretariat's owner entered into a syndication deal that precluded the horse racing past age three.

As the decade wore on, Pickett began to keep the money from the team's cable deal rather than reinvest it in the team as he had done in years past.

Instead of analysing past floods and building protection sufficient to deal with those, the Delta Works commission pioneered a conceptual framework to use as norm for investment in flood defences.

Miami rounded out its 2001 – 02 season roster with players well past their prime such as Rod Strickland, Chris Gatling, Jim Jackson, LaPhonso Ellis and Kendall Gill along with Mourning, Jones, Grant and Carter, whom the Heat signed to a controversial three-year deal that many said was far too much for the young guard.

In the offseason, the Bulls lost B. J. Armstrong in the expansion draft, but Krause pulled off a masterful deal by trading Will Perdue to the San Antonio Spurs for the aggressive and often controversial rebounding specialist Dennis Rodman, who had won the past four rebounding titles, and who had also been a member of the Detroit Pistons ' " Bad Boys " squad that served as the Bulls ' chief nemesis in the late 1980s.

The series follows a tragic course in which Dream, having learned a great deal from his imprisonment, tries to correct the things he has done wrong in the past.

The remaining issues deal with Dream's funeral, Hob Gadling choosing to remain immortal in spite of Dream's passing, and two stories from the past.

Most of the storylines take place in modern times, but many short stories are set in the past, taking advantage of the immortal nature of many of the characters, and deal with historical individuals and events such as in the short story " Men of Good Fortune.

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.

Fonzie's rough past earns him a great deal of respect and fear from more antagonistic characters.

" After a good deal of variety and contradiction ," wrote Cumberland's secretary, " our advices for two or three days past agree that the enemy's army is before Toumai ".

A new clause will let companies like Novell distribute GPLv3 software even if they have made such patent partnerships in the past, as long as the partnership deal was made before March 28, 2007 ( GPLv3 Section 11 paragraph 7 ).

A great deal of the work of the English School concerns the examination of traditions of past international theory, casting it, as Martin Wight did in his 1950s-era lectures at the London School of Economics, into three divisions: 1.

Lai apologises to his father, and resolves to return to Hong Kong and deal with his past actions.

Cooper ’ s book also spends a great deal of time criticizing white Canadians for what she sees as trying to downplay or deny the reality of slavery in Canada ’ s past.

Exceptions to the eligibility rules have been granted to deal with special circumstances in past years ; however, as they are controversial when they occur, they do not occur often.

In the past there has been a great deal of confusion as to the species limits, with discrete populations of all black oystercatchers being afforded specific status but pied oystercatchers being considered one single species.

Lost, which deals with the survivors of a plane crash, sees the castaways on the island forced to deal with a monstrous being that appears as a cloud of black smoke, a conspiracy of " Others " who have kidnapped or killed their fellow castaways at various points, a shadowy past of the island itself that they are trying to understand, polar bears, and the fight against these and other elements as they struggle simply to stay alive and get out of the island.

Past resentments bubble to the surface as they're forced to deal with assorted relatives and past relationships while coping with the latest incident that has disrupted their lives.