Instead, he constantly became lost in parts and components of them, confused some of their details with those of neighboring objects, and so on, unless he allowed time to `` trace '' the object in question through minute movements of the head and hands and in this way to discover its contours.

About the 4th century BCE, the paean became merely a formula of adulation ; its object was either to implore protection against disease and misfortune, or to offer thanks after such protection had been rendered.

He came at an early age to the court of Philip II of Macedon, and after the Grecian fashion became the object of his attachment.

Fellow reporter Lois Lane became the object of Clark's / Superman's romantic affection.

A recorded legend from Trøndelag tells how a corpse lying on a beach became the object of a quarrel between the two types of draugr.

Emperor Jimmu became the object of national commemoration in February 1940.

Unable to survive a predatory environment without a foreign protector, Albania became the object of tensions between Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which both sought to dominate the country.

He resolved to abolish idolatry from his kingdom, and among other things that he did to this end, he destroyed the high places ( or bamot ) and " bronze serpent " ( or " Nehushtan "), recorded as being made by Moses according to the command of Yahweh (), which became an object of idolatrous worship (.

He devised experiments in which a barely visible object was illuminated by these N-rays, and thus became " more visible ".

This theory became the dominant paradigm in American linguistics from the 1960s through the 1980s and the notion of linguistic relativity fell out of favor and became even the object of ridicule.

The tools developed by GST for the QL would later be used on the Atari ST, where GST object format became standard.

The first steps of putting a man-made object into space were taken by German scientists during World War II while testing the V-2 rocket, which became the first human-made object in space on 3 October 1942 with the launching of V-4.

Mass was identified as a fundamental property of objects connected to their inertia, while weight became identified with the force of gravity on an object and therefore dependent on the context of the object.

While visiting wounded service men and women, Nicks became determined to find an object she could leave with each soldier that would raise their spirits, motivate, and give them something to look forward to each day.

It soon became the one absorbing object of Henry's desires to annul his marriage to Queen Catherine so he would be free to marry Anne.

It soon became the one absorbing object of Henry's desires to secure an annulment from Catherine.

In the 1880s, Bechuanaland ( modern Botswana, located north of the Orange River ) became the object of a dispute between the Germans to the west, the Boers to the east, and the British Cape Colony to the south.

Finally, anti-realism became a fashionable term for any view which held that the existence of some object depends upon the mind or cultural artifacts.

When he saw Mira brighten again in 1609, however, it became clear that a new kind of object had been discovered in the sky.

With the rise of the Norman kingdom in Sicily and the Italian naval powers, it again became a frequent object of attack.

Margaret, in association with de Brézé, became the object of scurrilous rumours and vulgar ballads.

Law became a conscious process, something more than simply doing justice and looking to local customs and a common morality for applicable norms.

As the material at the command of the potters grew and the volume of their production increased, the local variations within a common style became more evident.

For the Hellenes, high on the cliff a temple was built, which became a worship site devoted to Aphrodite, in her particular local presence as Aphrodite Amathusia along with a bearded male Aphrodite called Aphroditos.

The local Abadan police had taken notice, and became suspicious of Hossein Takbali-zadeh and his accomplices, and had started following the arsonists as they were entering Cinema Rex.

The municipality Abdera was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal units:

In 1974 the area became part of the borough of Torfaen, in the new local government county of Gwent.

His early work in scrutinizing the use of local, exchange and trunk telephone line usage in a small community, to understand the theoretical requirements of an efficient network led to the creation of the Erlang formula, which became a foundational element of present day telecommunication network studies.

Taking these words quite literally, Anthony gave away some of the family estate to his neighbors, sold the remaining property, donated the funds thus raised to the poor, placed his sister with a group of Christian virgins, a sort of proto-monastery of nuns, and himself became the disciple of a local hermit.

It was during this period that Victoria began to depend on her servant John Brown, a local ghillie from Crathie who became one of her closest companions during her long mourning.

" After South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond switched his allegiance to the Republican Party in 1964, BJU faculty members became increasingly influential in the new state Republican party, and BJU alumni were elected to local political and party offices.

They, therefore, often contained pre-existing municipal boroughs, which thereafter became part of the second tier of local government, below the administrative counties and county boroughs.

He joined the Independent Labour Party in 1908, and became active in London local politics.

Into the late 1960s, nationally televised, multi-cultural concerts held in Ottawa were added, and the fête became known as Festival Canada ; after 1980 the Canadian government began to promote the celebrating of Dominion Day beyond the national capital, giving grants and aid to cities across the country to help fund local activities.

Between 1985 an 1987 the relationship of the PG with the local Comorians became worse.

In medieval Europe, churches became incorporated, as did local governments, such as the Pope and the City of London Corporation.

From a local disease, cholera became one of the most widespread and deadly diseases of the 19th century, killing an estimated tens of millions of people.

Furthermore, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church similarly became independent of the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church in 1994, when four bishops were consecrated by Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria to form the basis of a local Holy Synod of the Eritrean Church.

The municipality Delphi was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 8 former municipalities, that became municipal units:

The island became infamous for its activity of smuggling illegal Chinese immigrants for local labor.

He worked as a solicitor for much of that decade and became a reporter on children's panels and was involved with the Lanarkshire local authority.

In American law, particularly after Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ), the difference between de facto segregation ( segregation that existed because of the voluntary associations and neighborhoods ) and de jure segregation ( segregation that existed because of local laws that mandated the segregation ), became important distinctions for court-mandated remedial purposes.

By this date there were finally enough films several minutes long available to fill a programme running for at least half an hour, and which could be changed weekly when the local audience became bored with it.

He became acquainted with many local people, including Brenda Salkeld, the clergyman's daughter who worked as a gym-teacher at St Felix Girls ' School, Southwold.

While at the school he became friendly with the curate of the local parish church and became involved with activities there.