When consciousness deserts the sleeping body and the wakeful world, it continues in the myriad progressions of the ever-present past and future, in a life as vibrant and real as the one left when the body tired and required sleep.

At first, people indulge in fantasies, imagining the missing person's return, but then they start to feel like prisoners, drifting through life with nothing left but the past, since they do not know how long into the future their ordeal may last.

In the play, Nora left Torvald with head held high, though facing an uncertain future given the limitations women faced in the society of the time.

He left his family in 2000 to complete the Hajj, but later went to Afghanistan bound for an al-Qaeda training camp where he befriended other future hijackers and would soon be chosen to participate in the attacks.

The lands given St. Bruno in 1003 were in the region shown on left bank of the Oder, Hither Pomerania along the coast, or the future Margraviate of Brandenburg to its south.

After Pinochet left power in the 1988, saying this country was ready to keep going along with a plebiscite, the Constitution was amended to ease provisions for future amendments to the Constitution.

In 1732, to avoid an unwanted marriage, he left the town for Milan and then for Verona where the theatre manager Giuseppe Imer helped him on his way to becoming a comical poet as well as introducing him to his future wife, Nicoletta Conio.

Chiang Kai-shek ( right ) with future Prime Minister of Japan | Japanese Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai ( center ), Pan-Asianism | Pan-Asianist leader Tōyama Mitsuru ( left ) in Japan ( 1929 )

The plurality decision left open a future " as-applied " Constitutional challenge, however.

Upon his death, he left a country doubled in size ( mostly through the addition of land in today's Ukraine, then the Duchy of Halicz ), prosperous, wealthy and with great prospects for the future.

Curry had decided for himself that Carson City would someday serve as the capital city and left a plot open in the center of town for a future capitol building.

Now it was left to the remaining Commodore management to salvage the company's fortunes and plan for the future.

Several of his researchers became alienated from him and left his organization for Xerox PARC, in part due to frustration, and in part due to differing views of the future of computing.

For all his cocky predictions to the press about his future plans, Davy fell into a directionless heap when left to his own devices.

Sometimes, the bottom of the diagram is the past and the top the future ; other times, the past is to the left and the future to the right.

Washington contracted smallpox during the trip, which left his face slightly scarred, but immunized him against future exposures to the dreaded disease.

It was deliberately left unopened in the hope that future excavation techniques will allow more information to be recovered.

In the beginning of 1997 the future of the label was uncertain, sales were drooping in the wake of rising commercial trance labels, and Sven Vaeth had left the label in January, causing further confusion.

The future of Constantinople was left to be determined.

However, the fall of the Prodi government a few days after the publication of this article has left the future of Italy-Pacific Islands relations potentially uncertain.

Even after an accused has left office, it is possible to impeach to disqualify the person from future office or from certain emoluments of his prior office ( such as a pension ).

Frustrated and unhappy, he left his homeland reluctantly in 1937 as he saw his opportunity for any future building commissions vanish, accepting a residential commission in Wyoming and then an offer to head the department of architecture of the newly established Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

In 1984 Hennessy was convinced of the future commercial potential of the design, and left Stanford to form MIPS Computer Systems.

The respect of these spirits was deemed so important that prehistoric Chinese ancestors had left their instructions on bamboo, plates and stones to ensure the continual obedience of their future descendants to the dictates of heaven.

RCA's momentous victory in the courts left Armstrong unable to claim royalties on any FM receivers, including televisions, which were sold in the United States.

Today, the authoritative application of Jewish law is left to the local rabbi, and the local rabbinical courts, with only local applicability.

Each of the courts was designed to be used for different purposes: the base court was considered a relatively public area, with the left and right courts used for more private occasions.

The legislation increased the amount that could be paid of surviving spouses if a will hadn ’ t been left, and also expanded upon the jurisdiction of county courts, which were given the jurisdiction of high courts under certain circumstances when handling matters of estate.

This principle of Roman law became a principle of later European law: Non curat minima praetor, that is, the details do not need to be legislated, they can be left up to the courts.

Dutch courts have however been very reluctant to do so, limiting this to cases where government has been left no freedom of policy at all by the treaty, or to severe formal and procedural defects.

He says that if he left it to the courts to punish the perpetrator, some clever lawyer would surely achieve an acquittal and the murderer would get away with his crime.

The language of the statute was left deliberately vague in order to allow the courts flexibility in determining what writs are necessary " in aid of their jurisdiction ".

View of Alken-centre with tennis courts ( left ), the brewery ( center ) and the St. Aldegondischurch ( right )

Facing suspicions about his " Irish " roots and his association with New Licht theologian John Simson ( then under investigation by Scottish ecclesiastical courts ), a ministry in Scotland was unlikely to be a success, so he left the church, returning to Ireland to pursue a career in academia.

These cases were rejected by the courts, but the Australian High Court left the door open for a reassessment of whether the continent should be considered " settled " or " conquered ".

The act stated " Nothing in this act shall permit the Crown to act in a manner that is inconsistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi ", but what those principles might be was left to the courts to decide.

Capital sentences of the assize courts were generally executed when the assize was concluded and as the circuit judge left town, so there was a limited time to apply to the judge or ( for well-connected convicts ) to the government for a pardon.

In most cases those who are not prisoners of war are tried under their own judicial system if they are suspected of committing war crimes – as happened at the end of the concurrent Continuation War, where Allied Control Commission provided a list of occurrences of war crimes and crimes against peace and the investigation and judgment of these cases were left to Finnish courts according to Finnish law.

To achieve maximum flexibility in meeting the needs of each court, however, it left the actual determination of which duties to assign to magistrate judges to the individual courts.

The Spanish tongue, enforced in the courts and principal public offices, never superseded the French in the mouths of the people, and left but a few words naturalized in the corrupt French of the slaves.

When he was finally brought to the stake his courage left him, and as the fires were lit he is said to have quickly cried out to recant and was pulled from the fire, although by then he had been “ well scorched .” Two or three weeks later he was again brought before the courts and, no longer fearing the searing flames, refused and “ blasphemed more audaciously than before .” The King quickly ordered his final execution, and on 11 April 1612, he was once more led to the stake.

In 1930, Lansdowne LTC left the ground to move across the Dodder river to Londonbridge Road, taking the turf from the tennis courts with them.

When Arthur Gordon, a well-respected advocate in the Edinburgh courts, died in 1680, he left his twelve-year-old son the sum of 20, 000 merks ( about £ 1, 100 then and considerably more in modern currency ).

The scope of the terms " worker ", " employee ", and others, are more or less left to the courts to construe according to the context of its use in a statute.

Debtors who are skilled, well-educated, and have time left until retirement are usually afforded little protection under the California statute as the courts presume that such debtors will be able to provide for retirement.

But the case left unanswered some questions, including whether tribal courts could use criminal contempt powers against non-Indians to maintain decorum in the courtroom, or whether tribal courts could subpoena non-Indians.