Realizing from the vote to stall that the act faced an uphill struggle, the Pierce administration made it clear to all Democrats that passage of the bill was essential to the party and would dictate how federal patronage would be handled.

Realizing that this would bring solidarity to the region and an obstacle to conquest, the Senate took steps to turn these species against each other.

Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian ( whimsically ) expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would age rather than he.

Realizing he would have trouble finding a composer, however, he turned to other pursuits.

Realizing that another rejection would be politically vascular, opponents of reform decided to use amendments to change the bill's essential character, voting, for example, to delay consideration of clauses in the bill that disfranchised the rotten boroughs.

Realizing that the colonies would require a literate population base that the mother country could not supply, the government ( with the cooperation of the Church ) established a network of missions with the goal of converting the natives to Christianity ; the aim was to make converts and tax paying citizens of the indigenous peoples they conquered.

Realizing the ships would be crushed before reaching the surface, the Soviets launched Venera 5 and Venera 6 as atmospheric probes.

Realizing that it would be impossible to proceed in such hostile territory with so limited a force, Valdivia wisely elected to return to Santiago shortly thereafter, after finding a site for a new city at what is now Penco and would become the first site of Concepción.

Realizing the potential profit in the sale of pop culture autographs, many dealers also would wait for hours for a celebrity to emerge from a location, present several photos for the celebrity to sign and then sell most of them.

Realizing that he would have to interview survivors of the disaster to give him a full understanding of the sinking Lord, who was on a tight buget, began writing letters to the editors of various newspapers asking survivors to get in touch with him.

Realizing that NBC executives exhibited very little desire to micromanage various aspects of the show, the staff felt confident they would be allowed to push outside of the mainstream talk-show boundaries and thus set about putting together a quirky, absurdist, and odd program.

Realizing that a forced union with himself as ruler of a conquered and hostile country would be very uneasy, he accepted the Norwegian proposition.

Realizing that the railroad would be coming through the area, land promoters began lobbying for it to run through their property.

Realizing that its decision would result in the loss of many jobs, and after Pryce received much support from the acting community ( both Charlton Heston and John Malkovich threatened to leave the union if Pryce was not allowed to perform ) the AEA decided to make a deal with Mackintosh, allowing Pryce to appear in the production.

Realizing they were not policemen, Mesrine submitted to a search of the car, but on finding loaded guns in the rear, the rangers informed them that they would have to follow their car back to Plessisville.

Realizing that the area's politics might soon put an end to their research there, in spring of 1948 Jocelyn made a side trip to Trinidad and Tobago in hope of finding a site for a research station where the politics would be more secure.

According to Ervand Abrahamian: " Realizing that the opposition would take the vast majority of the provincial seats, Mosaddegh stopped the voting as soon as 79 deputies – just enough to form a parliamentary quorum — had been elected.

Realizing that a war between them would greatly benefit the Crusaders, Aibek and an-Nasir Yusuf accepted mediation by Najm ad-Din al-Badhirai on behalf of the Abbasids.

Realizing that the company would go out of business if it did not receive a significant amount of money for a turnaround, Iacocca approached the United States Congress in 1979 and asked for a loan guarantee.

By the end of 1930 they had sold 300, 000 records in the U. S. Realizing that he would benefit financially with each new song he collected and copyrighted, A. P.

Realizing that this would cause serious attendance problems once the college football season started, Williams persuaded the league to let the ' Cudas play their September and October home games on Sundays so as not to compete directly against Alabama or Auburn.

Realizing that she cannot cheat fate, Peggy Sue kisses Charlie and they begin to make love, which would again lead to Peggy getting pregnant and marrying him.

Realizing that they had in fact never left Earth and that he had killed his partners for nothing, Corey breaks down weeping.

Realizing he could never bring Bennett ’ s vision to fruition, Nunn applied his realistic style to the show instead, although the basics of the mammoth set design were still present in the final production.

Realizing that the Parliament of Paris would never agree to reform, Calonne handpicked an Assembly of Notables in 1787 to approve new taxes.

Realizing that Jing-Mei has been humiliated, Suyuan gives Jing-Mei a special jade pendant called " life's importance ," which Jing-Mei rues that she never learned the meaning of the pendant's name.

Realizing that Juan never did and never will want a child, Yerma strangles him, thus killing her only hope of ever bearing a child.

Realizing that he never admitted to it, and Amun may not be lying, she dives into the water to save Jade, but he has already escaped.

Realizing they aren ’ t in heaven or hell because they ’ ve never been responsible enough to do good deeds or bad ones, they decide that freeing their old friend Cosmo Topper from his regimented lifestyle will be their ticket into heaven.

Realizing that Krug will never give freedom to androids, Thor despairs, loses his faith and announces Krug's true nature to androids worldwide.

Realizing his mistake, Homer attempts to save face by claiming he fought Botz and she escaped, then warning her on camera never to show her face to him again.

Realizing that Veronica would never stop her investigations and that she is starting to resent him for being overprotective, Logan promptly tells Veronica that he wants to end the relationship.

Realizing he'll never be free without starting over, Frank pulls out all of his dead brother's teeth, as well as all of his own.

Realizing that Chloe may never return, Susan considers giving Susie up for adoption.

Realizing that they and their supporters would never be able to agree on a specific editorial outlook for the magazine, the co-founders decided that the position of editor would be a rotating one.

Realizing that WGMP would never be able to compete against WIP, CBS began phasing out the sports talk shows in the summer of 1996.

Realizing all too late that he could create a diversion with a copy of Green Arrow's green signal arrows, despite never crafting one, he was apprehended.

Realizing that the Somoza dictatorship was unsustainable, the Carter administration attempted to force him to leave Nicaragua.

Realizing that their leader was the son of a mutant, the Friends of Humanity leave him behind for the authorities.

Realizing that he could not advance his career without a PhD, he took a leave of absence from the NIH in 1954 to attend George Washington University Medical School.

Realizing that 40, 000 of Russia's most industrious farmers were preparing to leave for North America, the Russian government sent Eduard Totleben to the colonies in May 1874.

Realizing they were wrong, the Turners leave in search of Timmy, who gradually begins to miss his family.

Realizing that she could not leave the child with him, and having to return to the heavenly realms, Menakā left the newborn Shakuntalā in the forest.

Realizing that they have overreacted over the relationship, the residents peacefully leave, believing that no one can pretend to be a 44-year-old virgin.