Whoever was out there hiding in the brushy cover was besieging the Antler house and, having spotted his approach, was determined to drive him off before he could get into the fight.

The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.

He was determined to spend an industrious summer.

Mary Jane might not be the most intelligent woman, but she was one of the most determined.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

He was a political maverick, a reformer with his own program, determined to bulldoze it through or to blazon the infamy of those who balked him.

To Pike, silence was tantamount to an admission of guilt, and he determined to get Robinson onto the dueling ground at all costs.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

Whether this, or overt action, was the cause of the crash must be promptly determined.

Claire was bitterly disappointed but determined not to let the rebuff daunt her purpose.

It was determined that the hours of sunrise and sunset, respectively, should be used for this purpose.

The lower limit was determined by the fact that for smaller flow rates the arc started to strike to the anode holder instead of to the porous graphite plug and that it became highly unstable.

The upper limit was determined by the difficulty of measuring the characteristic anode surface temperature ( see below ) since only a small region of the anode was struck by the arc.

By this method it was determined that the normal pressure exerted by a sample of polybutene ( molecular weight reported to be 770 ) was over half an atmosphere.

The actual pressure was not determined because the pressure was beyond the upper limit of the apparatus on hand.

In the liquid phase runs the amount of carbon tetrachloride in each reaction tube was determined by weighing the tube before opening and weighing the fragments after emptying.

The fraction of exchange was determined as the ratio of the counts / minute observed in the carbon tetrachloride to the counts / minute calculated for the carbon tetrachloride fractions for equilibrium distribution of the activity between the chlorine and carbon tetrachloride, empirically determined correction being made for the difference in counting efficiency of Af in Af and Af.

The Acropolis was unique in the world and if that imcomparable work flooded by moonlight wasn't enough for both natives and tourists, then they were quite simply barbarians and the hell with them.

While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.

It was then that Picasso and Braque were confronted with a unique dilemma: they had to choose between illusion and representation.

Even among the fast set in which she was moving, her method for keeping an escort from departing too early was unique.

A sense of self-certainty and the freedom to experiment with different roles, or confidence in one's own unique behavior as an alternative to peer-group conformity, is more easily developed during adolescence if, during early childhood, the individual was permitted to exercise initiative and encouraged to develop some autonomy.

Now, riding this hospital bus, feeling isolated and utterly alone, I knew that she was genuine and unique, quite unlike any girl I had known before.

Acting Administrator Andrew F. Juras said that because of Field's unique position and knowledge in the program, the agency now would be seriously handicapped if he was not continued for a period.

To both persons and ideas he brought the same delighted interest, the same open-minded relish for what was unique in each, the same discriminating sensibility and quicksilver intelligence, the same gallantry of judgment.

But he was looking forward to snow -- seeing for himself that each tiny crystal of the water of life was a unique individual, as he had read -- walking barefoot, rolling in it.

She compared the results with tape recordings of modern singers and was not unpleased although her own tapes had a peculiar quality about them, not at all unharmonious, merely unique.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

Although letting the Countess escape is morally questionable, that impulse to take the law into his own hands was far from unique.

* The School of " Minor-talks ", which was not a unique school of thought, but a philosophy constructed of all the thoughts which were discussed by and originated from normal people on the street.

Nevertheless, Antoninus was virtually unique among emperors in that he dealt with these crises without leaving Italy once during his reign, but instead dealt with provincial matters of war and peace through their governors or through imperial letters to the cities such as Ephesus ( of which some were publicly displayed ).

The cathedral was extended several times in later ages, turning it into a curious and unique mixture of building styles.

Her symbolic role in this unique mission to the Spanish Court was intended to emphasize the international links which were forged by her 16th-century ancestor, Ieyasu Tokugawa.

Allotment therefore was seen as a means to prevent the corrupt purchase of votes and it gave citizens a unique form of political equality as all had an equal chance of obtaining government office.

By a unique Papal dispensation, Absalon was allowed to simultaneously maintain his post as Bishop of Roskilde.

This was unique at the time, and a direct result of Baptists being denied entry into other schools that required religious tests of their students and staff.

This was followed by a unique artistic phase in which his statues of Isabel became stretched out ; her limbs elongated.

When the site was excavated by Soviet archaeologists during 1941-45, they realized that they had discovered a building absolutely unique for the area: a large ( 1500 square meters ) Chinese-style, likely Han Dynasty era ( 206 BCE – 220 CE ) palace.

This unique RF box was also where the power supply connected in a unique dual power / television signal setup similar to the RCA Studio II's.

At completion, the Great Pyramid was surfaced by white " casing stones " – slant-faced, but flat-topped, blocks of highly polished white limestone.

Some early Egyptologists have proposed that it was a stylised representation of the giraffe, due to the large flat-topped ' horns ' which correspond to a giraffe's ossicones.

It was named because it is dominated by the flat-topped Table Mountain.

The following year, the Les Paul was given a thinner, flat-topped mahogany body, and had a double cutaway which made the upper frets more accessible.

Olynthus (, named for the olunthos, the fruit of the wild fig tree ) was an ancient city of Chalcidice, built mostly on two flat-topped hills 30 – 40m in height, in a fertile plain at the head of the Gulf of Torone, near the neck of the peninsula of Pallene, about 2. 5 kilometers from the sea, and about 60 stadia ( c. 9 – 10 kilometers ) from Poteidaea.

In ancient Israel, the Kohen Gadol ( High Priest ) wore a headdress called the Mitznefet ( Hebrew: מצנפת, often translated into English as " mitre "), which was wound around the head so as to form a broad, flat-topped turban.

Cook ’ s first official mention of the lake was in the New Jersey Annual Report of the State Geologist for the Year 1880, in which he described flat-topped hills and drift-like deposits in the upper Passaic Valley that appeared to be created or modified by the waters of a lake.

Hippos was built on a flat-topped foothill 2 kilometers east of and 350 meters above the Sea of Galilee, 144 meters above sea level, near modern Kibbutz Ein Gev.

As with the 2CV, the engine was air-cooled, with a hemispherical combustion chamber and flat-topped pistons.

The traditional five-bolt pentagonal cylinder head pattern was replaced with a square four-bolt design, and the pistons are of the flat-topped variety ( in the LS1, LS2, LS3, LS6, LS7, LQ9 and L33 ), while all other variants, including the new LS9 received a dished version of the GM hypereutectic piston.

The Ozier Mound contains no burials and because of its shape, ramped and flat-topped, it was most likely used as a ceremonial platform.

The Oldsmobile engine was very similar to the Buick engine, but not identical: it had larger wedge ( rather than hemispherical )- shaped combustion chambers with flat-topped ( rather than domed ) pistons, six bolts rather than five per cylinder head, and slightly larger intake valves ; the valves were actuated by shaft-mounted rocker arms like the Buick and Pontiac versions, but the shafts and rockers were unique to Oldsmobile.

: It was real amba, flat-topped, covered with crevices and canyons and caves, impregnable on the north and north-east where the Tug Gabat ran round its flanks through precipitous ravines, falling steeply away in the rear to the spur of Antalo, behind which lay the broad plain of Mahera.

The Northern Pacific was careful to place at least one flat-topped car between each dome car to maximize passengers ’ view.

Prime Base is the tremendous military base that first grew from " The Hill ", a man-made, flat-topped, steel sheathed mountain that was the main base of first, the Triplanetary Service, and then of the new Galactic Patrol on Tellus.

No. 4 Column of the British invasion force, under Colonel Evelyn Wood, was to occupy the attention of those Zulus dwelling on the flat-topped mountains rising out of the plains of north-west Zululand.

On 17 January 1879, Wood advanced his column north-eastwards, and a laager ( a defensive wagon circle ) was established at Tinta ’ s Kraal, south of a chain of flat-topped mountains on the 20th.

The flat-topped peaked cap was replaced by a cloth field cap with a short leather or ( more usually ) cloth peak.

The motte or Motte Hill was a flat-topped mound with a probable broad defensive ditch situated on the north-west bank of the Linn Burn.

The flat-topped peaked cap was replaced by a cloth field cap with a short leather or ( more usually ) cloth peak.

It was either a reverse teardrop shape or later on, flat-topped.

However, unlike the Pennsylvania K4, the firebox was not of the flat-topped Belpaire variety, but a round-topped one that was in line with Great Northern tradition.