The Suns — defeated by the Spurs in three of the past four seasons of playoffs — were out for revenge and featured a new player in four-time NBA champion Shaquille O ' Neal.

On the other hand, supermassive black holes with the mass of millions or billions of Suns are assumed to reside in the cores of most galaxies, and they play a key role in current models of how galaxies have formed over the past billions of years.

Her glance swung past the trailer where the two drivers were standing.

Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.

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.

In the past, the duties of the state, as Sir Henry Maine noted long ago, were only two in number: internal order and external security.

From this point of view the `` militant mobs '' of the past, stirred into action by one ideology or another, were all composed of `` intellectuals '' -- and this is not the level on which the essence of mankind can be discovered.

In the past these same Southerners were inclined to look the other way.

A week later the sentence of the Council was carried out: Jake Camaret and the woman were marched naked through the streets past a mocking populace.

A fringe of housing and gardens bearded the top of the heights, and behind it were sandy roads leading past farms and hayfields.

The doctor stood about, waiting for Alex to dress, with a show of impatience, and soon they were moving, as quietly as could be, through the still-dark hallways, past the bedroom of the patronne, and so into the street.

During the past year, 10,517 government bid invitations were received and 4,427 procurement leads were mailed to Rhode Island manufacturers.

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.

Yet they were not so bound by past experience and constriction as to deny their immediate perceptions and to be dominated by their knowledge of what the experience should be.

They were able to experience at first, in terms of past conventionality.

It is probably more effective than the expanded scholarship programs of the past decade, because the scholarship programs mainly aided the students with the best academic records ( who were usually middle-class ), and these students tended to use the scholarship funds to go to more expensive colleges.

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 ninth century was in its artistic work `` the spiritually freest and most self-sufficient between past and future '', and the loving skill spent by its artists upon their products is a testimonial to their sense that what they were doing was important and was appreciated.

Many potters clung to the past the more determinedly as they were confronted with radically new ideas ; ;

But such cases were, in the past, unusual.

Fortunately we were alone in the building -- so few people nowadays are interested even in their own past or in the lovely craft of other days -- for they began to abuse each other in the foulest language.

The Troop is proud of its camping-out program -- on year-round schedule and was continued even when sub-zero temperatures were registered during the past winter.

30% of them worried about past happenings which were completely beyond their control ; ;

It was past midnight and we were in bed when the phone rang.

Brain ships were, of course, long past the experimental stages.

Several of the dialects have been influenced by contact with non-Germanic linguistic groups, such as the dialect of Carinthia, where in the past many speakers were bilingual with Slovene, and the dialect of Vienna, which has been influenced by immigration during the Austro-Hungarian period, particularly from what is today the Czech Republic.

Without one official teaching on the death penalty, Thai monks are typically divided on the issue with some favoring abolition of the death penalty while others see it as bad karma stemming from bad actions in the past.

Using the PDG as a tool to submerge the regional and tribal rivalries that divided Gabonese politics in the past, Bongo sought to forge a single national movement in support of the government's development policies.

Using the PDG as a tool to submerge the regional and tribal rivalries that have divided Gabonese politics in the past, Bongo sought to forge a single national movement in support of the government's development policies.

Israel was divided in accepting the money. The agreement was condemned by some Israelis as simply an expedient whereby Germany would buy off Jewish survivors to regain credibility on the international stage, and Adenauer was criticised for being too lenient towards politically compromised individuals whose past treatment of Jews was at best questionable.

Although the latter was the most common type used in the past, cooks tend to be divided on whether carbon steel or cast iron woks are superior.

Even the army itself became divided, and local military chiefs gained control of some provinces where they ruled like the feudal warlords of past eras.

Conventionally, time is divided into three distinct regions ; the " past ", the " present ", and the " future ".

In The Unreality of Time, J. M. E. McTaggart divided time into an A-series and a B-series, with the A-series describing events in absolute tensed terms ( past, present, and future ) and the B-series describing events in terms of untensed temporal relations ( before and after ).

A short distance past this intersection, the route becomes a four-lane divided highway that passes through commercial areas with some neighboring wooded residential areas.

It then narrows to a four-lane divided strip which lasts until it intersects St. Andrews Rd, just north of the Hyde Park / Poughkeepsie town line where it returns to two-lane status as it goes through Hyde Park and past its historic sites.

Millburn High School was ranked as Number 148 in Newsweek Magazine's listing of " America's Best High Schools " in the August 5, 2005 issue, a ranking based on the number of AP exams taken by the students at the school in the past year divided by the number of graduating seniors.

Belgian literature was more cohesive in the past but is now divided between a Flemish literature and a Belgian Francophone literature.

In the past, the family was often divided into two families, Betulaceae ( Alnus, Betula ) and Corylaceae ( the rest ); however, recent treatments, including the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, have renamed these two groups as subfamilies within the Betulaceae-Betuloideae and Coryloideae.

One can intuitively understand overfitting from the fact that information from all past experience can be divided into two groups: information that is relevant for the future and irrelevant information (“ noise ”).

Madden is well known in both Ireland and France where she has divided her time for the past forty years.

) And more than that – perhaps, better and happier than that – I have had evidence from every part of Ireland, from the North as well as from the South, of a desire on the part of men who in the past have been divided from us, to come in at this hour of danger and peril – this hour which may be fraught with the happiest consequences for our country.

Such steps follow the same pattern as Plato's metaphor of the sun, his allegory of the cave and his divided line ; progress brings one closer and closer to reality as each step explains the relative reality of the past.

For the past thirty years, there has been controversy over the appearance of the breed, which can now be divided into two camps.

US 46 remains a divided highway with jughandles past this point, continuing southeast into the Ledgewood area.

Digital logic circuits can be divided into two types: combinational logic, whose output signals are dependent only on its present input signals, and sequential logic, whose outputs are a function of both the current inputs and the past history of inputs.

The Pan-American Highway continues south on Mexican Federal Highway 85, which is a divided limited-access highway until just past the village of Hualahuises.

Though he finds being affectionate in public embarrassing and is divided on disliking Sybil's status as a noble, it is clear that Vimes loves his wife dearly ; indeed when he was trapped in the past alone in a world he no longer recognised, the History Monks gave him a silver cigar case his wife had bought him to inspire him to continue with his mission.

The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally, and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien government, which have divided a minority from the majority in the past.

The road is a six lane, divided highway and the original route can be seen to the north-west where it passes the legendary Ace Cafe and goes through the original arches of the main line from Euston to Scotland and past Stonebridge Park station.

In days past rule would be divided between the courts, the Seelie court ruling in the Summer months from Beltaine to Samhain, and the Unseelie court in Winter from Samhain to Beltaine, but now an uneasy truce exists and each court rules its own regions.