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Lured by the potential of high profits from another expedition, the Portuguese established a permanent base south of the Indian trade port of Calicut in the early 15th century.
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Lured by Austria-Hungary's promises for territorial gains from Bulgaria ( in return for concessions in the Western Balkans ), Milan IV declared war on Bulgaria on 14 November 1885.
Lured by a single light that they see shining in an otherwise darkened city, Bill and Josella discover a group of sighted survivors at a London university building.
Image: Millais ferdy. jpg | Ferdinand Lured by Ariel ( 1852 )
Lured by the opportunity to show their wares to the one million people who attend the Stampede, some vendors wait years before gaining admittance, and those that do consider it one of the prime events of the year.
Lured by Decca Records, he travelled to New York City in 1941 with other calypsonians such as Roaring Lion and Atilla the Hun to make records and promote calypso music.
Lured by high wartime wages, they took jobs and forgot about their education.
He joined their Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848, often modelling for them in pictures including Millais's Ferdinand Lured by Ariel ( 1849 ) and Ford Madox Brown's Jesus Washing Peter's Feet ( 1852 – 6 ).
Lured by numerous incentives such as food coupons, better housing and other benefits, they were often viewed with contempt by Armenians living in the Republic on their arrival.
Lured by native stories of the Western or Vermilion Sea ( likely the Great Salt Lake in Utah ), he reached the Mississippi River via the Saint Croix River in 1680 and then headed back to Fort de Buade, where he heard that jealous Quebec merchants and the intendant Jacques Duchesneau de la Doussinière et d ' Ambault were slandering him.
* Jimmy Altieri: Lured by Christopher to his death, a bullet to the back of the head courtesy of Silvio Dante.
Lured by businessmen to relocate several miles away to Goshen, Indiana, the Institute moved in September 1903 and added a junior college course list, renaming itself Goshen College.
Lured with his friend James Glass from a Heights evangelical rally by David Brooks to Corll's Yorktown apartment.
Lured by Cressida into a new world of progressive ideological debate and sex, Malcolm abandoned his dreams of becoming a future Tory Prime Minister and grew a beard.
Lured by a dwarf, Sveigðir disappeared into a stone and never came back.
Co-founder John Everett Millais produced a series of fairy paintings based on The Tempest, ending with his 1849 work Ferdinand Lured by Ariel.
Lured by Austria-Hungary's promises for territorial gains from Bulgaria ( in return for concessions in the Western Balkans ), Milan IV declared war on Bulgaria on 14 November 1885.
Lured by food scraps left by campers and hikers, with increased access aggravated by the patchwork forests created by industrial logging, corvids more frequently discover marbled murrelet nests in areas where these predator species were not previously found.
Lured by the presents and Li Su's words, Lü Bu was easily convinced to betray his master.
Lured by the promise of free land and potential wealth, many men from the United States joined expeditions to try to take Texas from Spain.
Lured by the Rings: Growth structures in Leedsichthys.
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Lured here for protection from storms, the " bowl " offered them protection.
Lured back to Pittsburgh for the newly-reformed Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, he was suspended from two teams for rough play.
Lured back to WEBR as station manager, Striker wrote material ranging from skits to half-hour mysteries and Western scripts.
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* The 1947 Lucille Ball film Lured is about a serial killer who kills a taxi dancer, and another taxi dancer who goes undercover to trap him.
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He wrote the story for The Dark Corner, a film noir starring Mark Stevens ; and Lured, the Douglas Sirk-directed period drama starring Charles Coburn ; both films featured Lucille Ball.
Lured with his friend into Brooks ' Corvette on the night of October 2.
* 6th, April or May, 2004 ( victim unknown ), Mapo-gu, Seoul: Lured an escort girl to his apartment, beat the victim unconscious with a hammer, decapitated the victim in a bathroom, smashed the victim's head, mutilated the body, then disposed of the body in a construction site near Bongwon Temple in Seodaemun-gu.
Book Two: Lured across the galactic barrier to investigate Magnia and the Nuyyad, Picard must take command of the Stargazer when its original captain, Daithan Ruhalter, is killed in battle.
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That society responds by condemning the private eye as a threat to the status quo, a potential criminal.
If Af is the change per unit volume in Gibbs function caused by the shear field at constant P and T, and **yr is the density of the fluid, then the total potential energy of the system above the reference height is Af.
The minimum total potential energy is found by taking the derivative with respect to H and equating to zero.
It is the exploitation of the inherent potential of infectious disease agents by scientific research and development, resulting in the production of BW weapons systems.
To establish an emotionally meaningful relationship the worker must demonstrate actual or potential helpfulness immediately, preferably within the first interview, by meeting the client's specific needs.
Beyond this, philosophy may urge the social sciences forward by asking the type of question that falls outside the present scope of social inquiry, but within its potential domain of relevance.
The cylindrical focusing electrode permits adjustment of the positive lens part by varying the focusing potential.
The luminous gain of a single stage with Af ( flux gain ) is, to a first approximation, given by the product of the photocathode sensitivity S ( amp / lumen ), the anode potential V ( volts ), and the phosphor conversion efficiency P ( lumen/watt ).
Perhaps this would be sufficient to justify an economic boycott of an entire national chain in order, by threatening potential injury to its entire economy, to effect an alteration of the policy of its local stores in the matter of segregation.
Yet adequate compensation -- and particularly merely adequate compensation is no substitute for those intangibles which cause a man to sacrifice part of his earning potential by taking up college teaching in the first place.
Then, if the middle number is activated to its greatest potential in terms of this square, through multiplying it by the highest number, 9 ( which is the square of the base number ), the result is 45 ; ;
Spencer's potential followers were openly sullen and morose, missing muster without excuse, expressing in ominous tones their displeasure at the prisoners being kept in irons, communicating with the three by glance and signal.
This was no man's land, disputed by the Haijac Union and the Israeli Republic, a potential source of war for the last two hundred years.
This has been used by charities that give small gifts to potential donors hoping thereby to induce reciprocity.
Some salamanders adopt defensive poses when faced by a potential predator such as the North American northern short-tailed shrew ( Blarina brevicauda ).
Put another way, Ford innovated its way to a lower price point and by doing so turned a huge potential market into a reality.
The alpha particle is trapped in a potential well by the nucleus.
The species Amaranthus palmeri ( Palmer amaranth ) causes the greatest reduction in soybean yields and has the potential to reduce yields by 17-68 % in field experiments.
Smiley later wrote to Johnson, saying he was ready to fight ; a potential duel was prevented by the intervention of Washington Burrow and Benjamin F. Cheatham.
Therefore, most antigens have the potential to be bound by several distinct antibodies, each of which is specific to a particular epitope.
This work is stored in the bow as elastic potential energy, and when the bowstring is released, this stored energy is imparted to the arrow much more quickly than can be delivered by the muscles, resulting in much higher velocity and, hence, greater distance.
The phone can then be used to make and receive calls by anyone, making it a potential tool in anonymous criminal activity such as narcotics trafficking.
The Diamondbacks were considered by some to be the favorite to win the division after spending on the aforementioned free agents ; however, injuries hurt the team's chances of reaching its expected potential.
It has been claimed by one study that abiotic stress causes the most crop loss of any other factor and that most major crops are reduced in their yield by more than 50 % from their potential yield.
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