Deciding to become a painter, he entered the studio of Gerome in Paris, where he enjoyed the life of the artists, but soon found that whatever talent he might have did not lie in that direction.

America did not become great through softness and self-indulgence.

No load of sin had been laid on my shoulders, nor did earnest effort enable me to become conscious of one.

Only afterwards did an act like that become meaningless, so that he would puzzle over it for days, whereas at the time it had seemed quite real.

This, however, did not bar finding that Du Pont had become pre-eminent as a supplier of automotive fabrics and finishes to General Motors ; ;

Now did Welch truly become the man of the hour, and everything that followed in the procedure of Justice was a new triumph for him.

Though it did not become known to the writer for some time, a nucleus group had sprung up within the class.

Only when the collage had been exhaustively translated into oil, and transformed by this translation, did Cubism become an affair of positive color and flat, interlocking silhouettes whose legibility and placement created allusions to, if not the illusion of, unmistakable three-dimensional identities.

So hostile did these factions become that, among the Choctaws, civil war broke out.

but if he did not, he would become mortal, melting into earth, whence his frame had been taken ''.

so also did Mary, having a man betrothed ( to her ), and being nevertheless a virgin, by yielding obedience, become the cause of salvation, both to herself and the whole human race ''.

After landing at Lupiae near Brundisium, he learned the contents of Caesar's will, and only then did he decide to become Caesar's political heir as well as heir to two-thirds of his estate.

Stylistic evidence suggests that the poem ( with most of Plato's other alleged epigrams ) was actually written some time after Plato had died: its form is that of the Hellenistic erotic epigram, which did not become popular until after 300 BC.

While he was heir-apparent — 1865 to 1881 — Alexander did not play a prominent part in public affairs, but allowed it to become known that he had ideas which did not coincide with the principles of the existing government.

Those who did not become part of this extended family were deprived of power and prestige.

Florey and Chain succeeded in purifying the first penicillin, penicillin G procaine in 1942, but it did not become widely available outside Allied military before 1945.

He did become interested in French politics, and at the age of 26 he obtained a position as a tax collector in the Ferme Générale, a tax farming company, where he attempted to introduce reforms in the French monetary and taxation system to help the peasants.

This provision has been dormant since Queen Victoria ascended the throne, because she did not inherit Hanover under the Salic Laws of the German states, but in principle it could again become relevant in the future.

Early versions had problems and did not become stable for some time.

Plate armour became cheaper than mail by the 15th century as it required much less labour and labour had become much more expensive after the Black Death, though it did require larger furnaces to produce larger blooms.

Peter Lombard ( died 1160 ) is the first writer known to have used the term, which did not become the usual name in the West till towards the end of the twelfth century, and never became current in the East.

One franchise that did not share in this newfound success of the league was the Chicago Cardinals, owned by the Bidwill family, who had become overshadowed by the more popular Chicago Bears.

The poem fell into obscurity for decades, and its existence did not become widely known again until it was printed in 1815 in an edition prepared by the Icelandic-Danish scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin.

In 1927 a short nine-game series took place in Argentina, with the Lions winning all nine encounters ; the tour did however become a financial success for Argentine rugby.

The only difference between them was that the Tropical Chocolate Bar was made to taste better than the Ration D Bar did and still be as durable as the Ration D Bar was.

Hours later, it intensified into Tropical Storm Isabel, though operationally the National Hurricane Center did not begin issuing advisories until 13 hours after it first developed.

However, the National Hurricane Center did not declare the system as Tropical Depression Fourteen until September 11, while the system was centered southeast of Bermuda.

Several other tropical cyclones – Tropical Depression Two, Tropical Depression Four, Chris, Ernesto, Nadine, and an unnamed subtropical storm – did not impact land.

Only two storms, Hurricane Belle and Tropical Storm Dottie, made landfall, both of which did so on the United States.

The system became interoperable with the E-ZPass toll collection system on October 27, 2004, although Richmond Metropolitan Authority owned toll roads — Boulevard Bridge, the Downtown Expressway, and the Powhite Parkway ( excluding the extension )— did not begin accepting E-ZPass until August 3, 2005 ; E-ZPass integration had been delayed due to damages from Tropical Storm Gaston.

Tropical cyclones that did not approach populated areas or shipping lanes, especially if they were relatively weak and of short duration, may have remained undetected.

In 1917, Dr. Elkington, Director of the Division of Tropical Hygiene, Commonwealth Department of Health, was concerned about health and hygiene of its growing population, contemplated conducting a statistical and social survey of the town, which did not eventuate.

* 1957's Tropical Storm Bertha: A moderate Tropical Storm that threatened areas devastated by Hurricane Audrey two months earlier, but did not become a hurricane and caused only minor damage.

* 1974's Tropical Storm Dolly-Weak storm that did not strike land.

* 2002's Tropical Storm Edouard-crossed west over Florida but did not cause significant damage.

* Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle-Weak category 1 ( Australian scale ) cyclone that did not affect land

* Tropical Storm Alberto ( 2012 ) – a short-lived tropical storm which did not affect land.

* Tropical Storm Ernesto, a storm of the 1988 season, which formed east of Bermuda and did not cause any damage or casualties

* Tropical Storm Ernesto, a storm of the 2000 season which lasted two days and did not threaten land

* Tropical Storm Joyce ( 2012 )-A weak, short-lived tropical storm that did not affect land.

* 1981's Tropical Storm Jose-short-lived and weak storm that did not impact land.

* Tropical Storm Anita ( 2010 ), the second tropical cyclone in the Southern Atlantic Ocean on record ; did not make landfall, but brought gusty winds to Brazil

* Tropical Storm Anita ( 2006 ), passed between Madagascar and the African mainland, but did not make landfall

By 1200 UTC on August 13, the National Hurricane Center began classifying the system as Tropical Depression Nine-E. Due easterly wind shear, the depression did not further intensify as it moved on a generally west-northwesterly track.

Although Tropical Depression Diana entered the eastern Pacific, the National Hurricane Center did not re-classify the system.

Tropical Storm Sonia was a weak storm that did not affect any land.