Offered the art chores for the launch of The New Teen Titans, written by Wolfman, Pérez ' real incentive was the opportunity to draw Justice League of America ( an ambition of Pérez ' which " seemed like a natural progress from the Avengers ").

Offered an opportunity in Hollywood, Tyler appeared in the film Bop Girl Goes Calypso then starred opposite Elvis Presley in Jailhouse Rock ( 1957 ).

Offered the opportunity of a commission he went to 166th Officer Cadet Training Unit in mid-1940.

Offered an opportunity to be a highly-paid cover girl, Rusty would faithfully remain with her nightclub act if only Danny would ask her.

Offered the song by Dylan, Sheryl Crow later recorded an up-tempo cover of " Mississippi " for her The Globe Sessions, released in 1998, before Dylan revisited it for Love and Theft.

Offered a role in film as a prize for winning a magazine beauty competition in 1921, she appeared in several silent films before being offered her first leading role in Das Spielzeug von Paris ( 1925 ) by Hungarian-born director Michael Curtiz, whom she married in 1925 ( they divorced a year later ).

Offered a world title try at the Middleweight division, Núñez immediately accepted and she went down in weight to face the WIBA world champion Leatitia Robinson, on February 11, 2005.

Offered the position of keeper at Ashmolean, he took it with a tremendous burst of enthusiasm and energy.

Offered ad hoc engagements at better pay by other managements, many of the players took full advantage of the deputy system.

Offered the role of Heathcliff in Samuel Goldwyn's production of Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ), he travelled to Hollywood, leaving Leigh in London.

In this role, Morris sought to save the famous Doric columns that adorned the main entrance to Penn Station ( see New York Times, 20 Feb 1962: " Plan to Save Columns Is Offered ").

Offered at $ 34 a ton, Chinese cement is pricing itself out of the market as Thailand is asking as little as $ 20 for the same quality.

Offered a professional contract as a ballplayer, he turned it down, stating that he preferred to play for the love of the game.

Offered to Oxford by James Murray and the Philological Society, the " New English Dictionary " was a grand academic and patriotic undertaking.

Offered only in 12-ounce bottles, the cola's sales were disappointing due largely to the inability of the RC bottling network to get distribution for the product in single-drink channels and it was quickly discontinued with the exceptions of Australia, New Zealand and France.

Offered a position ( and $ 10, 000 in gold ) as adjutant general of the army of Benito Juárez of Mexico, who was then in a struggle with the Mexican Emperor Maximilian I ( a satellite ruler of French Emperor Napoleon III ), Custer applied for a one-year leave of absence from the U. S. Army, which was endorsed by Grant and Secretary of War Stanton.

Offered a job by Tyrone Guthrie, he made his first professional appearance in London at the Old Vic on 14 September 1936, playing Ferdinand in Love's Labours Lost.

Offered a seat by 30 constituencies, Plimsoll was an unsuccessful candidate in Sheffield Central in 1885.

The London Interbank Offered Rate is the average interest rate estimated by leading banks in London that they would be charged if borrowing from other banks.

These instruments are often benchmarked to ( i. e. priced by reference to ) the London Interbank Offered Rate ( LIBOR ) for the appropriate term and currency.

Offered a scholarship to work on a Master of Arts degree, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to attend the George Peabody College for Teachers, but later dropped out.

Offered a reward at the top, Dorsaz asked for the mule on which Napoleon was riding.

* KAB Scouting ( Kabataang Alay sa Bayan or Children Offered to the Nation ) is for boys 5 to 7 years of age.

Offered as a retrofit option, sharklets are expected to result in a reduced fuel burn of at least 3. 5 percent over longer sectors, corresponding to an annual CO < sub > 2 </ sub > reduction of around 700 tonnes per aircraft.

Offered a fellowship to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Kertész studied with Fernando Previtali while his wife, Edith Kertész-Gabry sang at the Bremen Opera.

Offered the colonelcy of the 20th Maine Regiment, he declined, according to his biographer, John J. Pullen, preferring to " start a little lower and learn the business first.

Krim was able to get an advance for a novel, and time and opportunity to write at Yaddo, but it was no good.

However, his time at home in Vienna would be quickly brought to a close when an opportunity to write an opera for Paris arose, again through the patronage of Gluck Salieri traveled abroad to fulfill an important commission.

This would offer immigrants an opportunity to learn to read and write English, he said, the orthography of which is often less phonetically consistent than those of many other languages.

The grants allowed him to write a political non-fiction book that opened new doors of opportunity.

but I have only one ye now, and hardly that .’ I was really quite touched ". On 5 November Reynolds, fearing he may not have an opportunity to write a will, wrote a memorandum intended to be his last will and testament, with Edmund Burke, Edmond Malone and Philip Metcalfe named as executors.

Two justices in the same majority, given the opportunity, might write very different majority opinions ( as evidenced by many concurring opinions ); being assigned the opinion may also cement the vote of an Associate who is viewed as only marginally in the majority ( a tactic that was reportedly used to some effect by Earl Warren ).

Egan urged others to write to New Scientist and pressure the magazine to raise its standards, instead of " squandering the opportunity that the magazine's circulation and prestige provides ".

By the time he was twenty, Mozart was able to write concerto ritornelli that gave the orchestra admirable opportunity for asserting its character in an exposition with some five or six sharply contrasted themes, before the soloist enters to elaborate on the material.

Impressed by writer Roy Clarke's ability to inject comedy into the drama, Wood offered Clarke the opportunity to write a sitcom.

Most prisoners were illiterate and were offered the opportunity to learn to read and write in their native language and English.

" Brooks had offered Frum the opportunity to write for AEI on a nonsalaried basis, but Frum declined.

As St. John Nepomucene parishioners were significantly reduced after the Treaty of the Cedars, he used the trip as an opportunity to again write in De Tijd, advertising the mission, the land at La Petite Chute and employment opportunities associated with the Fox River Canal, which included free passage to America for workers.

Smetana saw this as an opportunity to write and stage opera that would reflect Czech national character, similar to the portrayals of Russian life in Mikhail Glinka's operas.

In 1963, the British Communist Party, which held the copyright to Ten Days that Shook the World in the United Kingdom, had offered Taylor the opportunity to write the introduction to a new edition.

Although not a grand opera, Yeomen provided Sullivan with the opportunity to write his most ambitious score to date.

All educated Bavarians and Austrians, however, can read, write and understand Standard German, but may have very little opportunity to speak it, especially in rural areas.

He took the opportunity to discover the American West, returning to France with a strong urge to write a western.

In 1992, he applied to the New York City Police Department and was on his way to the academy when former schoolmate Singer offered him the opportunity to write their first feature film, Public Access, winner of the 1993 Sundance Film Festival ’ s grand jury prize.

" Barbauld took this opportunity to write a sermon, Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation, on the moral responsibility of the individual ; for her, each individual is responsible for the actions of the nation because he or she constitutes part of the nation.

In 1713, the son and successor of Charles XI, Charles XII, issued a new working order for the Chancellery to enable him to conduct government from the battle-field, but his sudden death at the siege of Fredricshald in Norway in 1718 provided the opportunity for the parliament ( Riksdag of the Estates ) to write a new constitution in 1719 and 1721, that gave Sweden half a century of first renewed conciliatory, and then parliamentary government.

Two decades earlier, Ebb refused the opportunity to write the musical Rex with Rodgers.

The next two years provided an unparalleled opportunity for Green to read, write and discuss his scientific ideas.

He was also given the opportunity by Serge Diaghilev to write music to The Firebird after Lyadov had failed to do so.

As a consequence, Huineng had no opportunity to learn to read or write and is said to have remained illiterate his entire life.