It could never happen as long as God was alert and the Drew steeple stood guard with its peaked lance.

He found tepid water in a pitcher and a last bit of soap, and he lathered his face and stood stropping the razor on his broad leather belt, its buckle held firm by a knob of the bedpost.

One denomination had a membership of 1,419,833 at the beginning of the period under study, and twenty years later its membership stood at 1,541,991 -- a net growth of only 122,158.

Another major church body had 4,499,608 members and twenty years later its membership stood at 4,622,444.

The coffin stood on trestles in a corner of the long low dimly lit funeral parlor, on its dark shining surface the sheaf of white roses I had ordered.

And, shoving her against a spruce, her back to him, he retreated with the whip and made it whine and crack in the damp air, shortening its arc until it narrowed to her flesh and the sound of it snarled and cracked, settling its own cruel demons on her shoulders while she stood as unchanged, as dark and motionless as ever, her eyes open and staring at the pale delineaments of the bark so close to her face.

When the car, with Susan's hands waving wildly from the rear window, disappeared down the driveway, Lucy stood looking after its pale dust.

This peculiar thing, called Mind ( Nous ), was no less illimitable than the chaotic mass, but, unlike the logos of Heraclitus, it stood pure and independent ( mounos ef eoutou ), a thing of finer texture, alike in all its manifestations and everywhere the same.

The League's modern name derives from its official meeting place, the island of Delos, where congresses were held in the temple and where the treasury stood until, in a symbolic gesture, Pericles moved it to Athens in 454 BC.

It stood as the world's tallest building for 40 years, from its completion in 1931.

As of September 2011, Canada's national unemployment rate stood at 7. 1 %, as the economy continues its recovery from the effects of the 2007-2010 global financial crisis.

Pressure from the U. S. government and critical sectors of Colombian society was met with further violence, as the Medellín Cartel and its hitmen, bribed or murdered numerous public officials, politicians and others who stood in its way by supporting the implementation of extradition of Colombian nationals to the U. S. Victims of cartel violence included Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara, assassinated in 1984, an event which made the Betancur administration begin to directly oppose the drug lords.

Like its model, Phoenician waw, it represented the voiced labial-velar approximant and stood in the 6th position in the alphabet, between epsilon and zeta.

Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Orisi Rabukawaqa responded the next day by saying that the Military was not an ethnic Fijian body, that it stood to serve the entire nation, and that there was no colour bar in its recruitment or promotion.

He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us ; he took it away, nailing it to the cross.

The press release also condemned the use of graffiti images in advertising and in music videos, arguing that real-world experience of graffiti stood far removed from its often-portrayed ' cool ' or ' edgy ' image.

Germany stood behind its ally Austria in a confrontation with Serbia, but Serbia was under the protection of Russia, which was allied to France.

According to Michel Samaha, Lebanon ’ s minister of information, Hezbollah is seen as a legitimate resistance organization that has defended its land against an Israeli occupying force and has consistently stood up to the Israeli army.

When he arrived in 1331, Mogadishu stood at the zenith of its prosperity.

The trade turnover between the two countries stood at US $ 1. 785 billion in 2008 i. e. Jordan ’ s imports from India stood at about US $ 503 million in 2008 while its exports to India reached at US $ 1. 283 billion in 2008.

When appearing on Governor Mike Huckabee's Fox News talk show, Voight said Obama was arrogant, caused civil unrest and stood for all that this country was against during its past.

We don't know his original name, but it seems that he was absorbed by the more powerful Apollo, who stood by the " Mistress of the animals ", becoming her brother.

By May 1984, Ken Barlow stood as the only original cast member, after the departures of Ena Sharples ( in 1980 ), Annie Walker ( in 1983 ), Elsie Tanner ( in 1984 ) and Albert Tatlock ( also 1984 ).

They conclude that it lacks certain features of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and has others consistent with the Pileated ( Sibley at al., 2006 ) The original Cornell research team stood by their original findings in a response article in the same issue of Science, stating:

' in his name stood for in the original live action series.

The race that would become known as the " Madison " was developed at the second Madison Square Garden, which stood on the site of the original Garden.

Also designed by Walter, the new dome stood three times the height of the original dome and in diameter, yet had to be supported on the existing masonry piers.

Psyche experienced a return to Paris where a performance was made at La Locomotive, 13 years after the original Psyche duo of Darrin and his brother Stephen stood on the same stage.

In their original Greek version, Doric columns stood directly on the flat pavement ( the stylobate ) of a temple without a base ; their vertical shafts were fluted with 20 parallel concave grooves ; and they were topped by a smooth capital that flared from the column to meet a square abacus at the intersection with the horizontal beam ( entablature ) that they carried.

The original skeleton, a female, stood at just 1 metre ( 3. 3 feet ) tall, weighed about 25 kilograms ( 55 pounds ), and was around 30 years old at the time of her death.

Biblical scholars have often identified it with two biblical mountains of uncertain location: Mount Moriah where the binding of Isaac took place, and Mount Zion where the original Jebusite fortress stood ; however, both interpretations are disputed.

Significant changes to the cathedral were made by the architect James Wyatt in 1790, including replacement of the original rood screen and demolition of the bell tower which stood about 320 feet ( 100 m ) north west of the main building.

For many years the original statues stood at Cheshunt Public Library ; but they were removed, possibly in the 1980s, to the Victoria & Albert Museum.

The original cross stood at the top of Whitehall on the south side of Trafalgar Square, but was destroyed on the orders of Parliament in 1647 during the Civil War, and was replaced by an equestrian statue of Charles I in 1675 following the Restoration.

We know that the Roman colony was divided into regions and possessed a capitolium, with a temple of Jupiter, within the town, and that the market-place, for unguents especially, was called Seplasia ; we also hear of an aedes alba, probably the original senate house, which stood in an open space known as albana.

The Electric Picture Palace cinema was opened in 2002, a pastiche of the original 1912 cinema that stood nearby in York Road.

Brockley Hall ( demolished 1931 ) stood nearby and this area formed the original small hamlet of Brockley.

It is still often referred to on maps by the original canal crossing name of Windmill Bridge and is very close to the spot where the eponymous windmill once stood ; attracting the attention of a local Brentford artist named Joseph Mallard William Turner.

However, there was also a windmill on the grounds where the Hanwell asylum once stood and the original name was Watermill Lane.

The cannon in Heathrow was removed, as it would have stood close to one of the main runways, though it was later returned to the original spot with the plaque placed separately.

The largest original mission stood on Hale Street, but the current mission stands on the north side of East India Dock Road.

Part of the original Middlesex County Council office building which stood on site was incorporated into the new Civic Centre.

Bust of the Hellenistic-Egyptian god Serapis, Roman copy of an original by Bryaxis which stood at the Serapeion of Alexandria, Vatican Museums.

The northern end of Amelia Island is the location of the original town of Fernandina historic site, where Fort San Carlos stood by the Amelia River.