The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

Only George Santayana seemed to understand and appreciate the film when he wrote: `` Miss Poitrine has perpetrated the most eloquent argument for the Protestant faith yet unleashed by Hollywood ''.

By comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.

The D Minor Sonata, Op. 31 No. 2, introduced by dynamically shaped arpeggios, was most engaging in its moments of quasi-recitative -- single lines in which the fingers seemed to be feeling their way toward the idea to come.

The most unbelievable thing about the chance meeting was that he seemed interested in me, too.

They simply desired a reunion with something that could hardly be named but which seemed to them to be the most desirable thing on Earth.

Nevertheless most armies seemed to have retained it within firing batteries and some duplicated the technical fire control teams in a battery to give operational resilience and tactical flexibility.

After so many years in the ' stagnant backwaters ' of British politics, this seemed most appealing.

After previous failed attempts to bring the Major League Baseball to Colorado ( most notably the Pittsburgh Pirates nearly relocating to Denver following the Pittsburgh drug trials in 1985 ), by the late 1980s a team seemed to be a possibility in Denver.

)</ ref > In a September 2009 interview with Examiner. com, Strassman described the effects on participants in the study: " Subjectively, the most interesting results were that high doses of DMT seemed to allow the consciousness of our volunteers to enter into non-corporeal, free-standing, independent realms of existence inhabited by beings of light who oftentimes were expecting the volunteers, and with whom the volunteers interacted.

However, by 1913, and more explicitly by 1920, Kraepelin admitted that although there seemed to be a residual cognitive defect in most cases, the prognosis was not as uniformly dire as he had stated in the 1890s.

The books articulated ideas which would have seemed radical only months before ; however, most supported the monarchical system in general.

Despite the fact that Parsons only contributed two new songs to the album (" In My Hour of Darkness ", " Return of the Grievous Angel "), Parsons was highly enthused with his new sound and seemed to have finally adopted a serious, diligent mindset to his musical career, eschewing most drugs and alcohol during the sessions.

" Though Cristino resistance to the insurrection seemed to have been overcome by the end of 1833, Maria Cristina's forces suddenly drove the Carlist armies from most of the Basque country.

To the Orthodox Church and most princes, the fanatical Northern Crusaders seemed a greater threat to the Russian way of life than the Mongols.

Having discovered that most young soldiers in the city seemed to be called Demetrios, he gave up and went to the largest church in the city, to find his rescuer on the wall.

At 105 – 5, things looked a little worrying for them, but an Australian win still seemed the most likely result.

Godwin was a gradualist anarchist rather than a revolutionary anarchist ; he differed from most later anarchists in preferring above revolutionary action the gradual and, as it seemed to him, more natural process of discussion among men of good will, by which he hoped truth would eventually triumph through its own power.

Whilst this was dubious in terms of batting technique, it seemed the best way to cope with the barrage, and Bradman averaged 56. 57 in the series ( an excellent average for most, but well short of his career average of 99. 94 ), while being struck above the waist by the ball only once.

On the other side, I was sorry to find most of the Parliament men as stiff, in requiring an absolute submission to their authority as if no differences had happened among us, nor the privileges of Parliament ever been violated, peremptorily insisting upon the entire subjection of the army, and refusing to hearken to any terms of accommodation, though the necessity of affairs seemed to demand it, if we would preserve our cause from ruin.

At the end of the war, the most likely successor seemed to be Andrei Zhdanov, party leader in Leningrad during the war, who was in charge of all cultural matters by 1946.

Philosophers in ancient societies were interested in how humans acquired the ability to understand and produce language well before empirical methods for testing those theories were developed, but for the most part they seemed to regard language acquisition as a subset of man's ability to acquire knowledge and learn concepts.

However, in the 1930s Gödel's incompleteness theorems convinced many mathematicians that mathematics cannot be reduced to logic alone, and Karl Popper concluded that " most mathematical theories are, like those of physics and biology, hypothetico-deductive: pure mathematics therefore turns out to be much closer to the natural sciences whose hypotheses are conjectures, than it seemed even recently.

`` The gods seemed to think sex pretty important '', she rebutted.

It suddenly seemed very important to me that Mary Jane Brennan should know the truth about me -- that I was not the confused, sick, irresponsible person she believed me to be.

The difference seemed insignificant, but it was important enough to attract their attention for many months.

Modern aestheticians have asserted that will and desire were almost dormant in aesthetic experience, yet preference and choice have seemed important aesthetics to some 20th-century thinkers.

In 1966, Virginia Radley considered Wordsworth and his sister as an important influence to Coleridge writing a great poem: " Almost daily social intercourse with this remarkable brother and sister seemed to provide the catalyst to greatness, for it is during this period that Coleridge conceived his greatest poems, ' Christabel ,' ' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ,' and ' Kubla Khan ,' poems so distinctive and so different from his others that many generations of readers know Coleridge solely through them.

Many of these treaties involved years of negotiations, and seemed to result in important steps in arms reductions and reducing the risk of nuclear war.

Michigan and Ohio both wanted what seemed strategically and economically destined to become an important port and a prosperous region.

Brown was surprised to see Harris exiting his vehicle with a gym bag, commenting that he had been absent from an important class test that morning, but Harris seemed unconcerned, commenting " It doesn't matter anymore.

The doctrine seemed to succeed for a long time in isolating the GDR, at least from important Western or Third World states.

To further strengthen its force of proof it bore the signatures of the important historical figures Antonio Valeriano and Bernardino de Sahagún which seemed to date it unequivocally to the mid 16th century around the time of the apparition.

" My part was actually quite small in the script, but what seemed to be the important part to me was that I was the only one who wasn't swept along by Ferris ", recalls Jones.

The theater seemed to symbolize the return of hope to the city, and remained an important landmark for many years.

The position seemed even more important as the government's top priority at this time was economic recovery.

By 1995, however, some of these concerns ( which had been identified by the Congressional Research Service in 1987 ) seemed less important.

International rankings of banks by size also seemed less important when, as Alan Greenspan later noted, “ Federal Reserve research had been unable to find economies of scale in banking beyond a modest size .” Still, advocates of “ financial modernization ” continued to point to the combination of commercial and investment banking in nearly all other countries as an argument for “ modernization ”, including Glass-Steagall “ repeal .”

: I decided to give atomic secrets to the Russians because it seemed to me that it was important that there should be no monopoly, which could turn one nation into a menace and turn it loose on the world as ... as Nazi Germany developed.

Pinel's most important contribution may have been the observation and conviction that there could be sanity and rationality even in cases that seemed on the surface impossible to understand, and that this could appear for periods in response to surrounding events ( and not just because of such things as the phase of the moon, a still common assumption and the origin of the term lunatic ).

Temperature seemed to be the most important cause of body variation in the Alpine Chough.

This story takes the reader through Bean's experiences in Battle School and shows how he, a secondary character in Ender's Game, is much more important to the fate of Earth than it originally seemed.

The opera seemed to me much more important than the Reichstag.

It seemed that " society's willingness to share has created an environment where privacy concerns are less important to users of social networks today than they were when social networking began ".

William III had no intention of continuing the war or pressing for Leopold I's claims in the Rhineland or for the Spanish succession: it seemed more important for Dutch and British security to obtain Louis XIV's recognition of the 1688 revolution.

He told Socrates that it seemed to him now that nothing could be more important than becoming the best man he could be, and Socrates was better fit to help him reach that aim than anyone else ( 219c-d ).

He gave me a long memorandum, historical in character, on the past Irish story, which seemed to be somewhat one-sided, leaving out of view the important minority and the views and feelings of the Protestant and loyal portion of the people.