Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

Realizing that the grammatical structures of Bantu languages are quite different from those of European languages, he was one of the first African linguists of his time to abandon the Euro-centric approach to language description for a more locally grounded one.

Realizing that iron was more difficult to pierce with breech-loaded cannon, Armstrong designed rifled muzzle-loading guns, which proved successful ; The Times reported: " even the fondest believers in the invulnerability of our present ironclads were obliged to confess that against such artillery, at such ranges, their plates and sides were almost as penetrable as wooden ships.

Realizing that the Adventure Prize was a marked vessel, he cached it in the Caribbean Sea and continued toward New York aboard a sloop.

Realizing the freighter was not fast enough with the egg attached, he runs down to the cables holding it.

Realizing that an uneducated lawyer was unlikely to build a lucrative practice, Landis enrolled at Cincinnati's YMCA Law School ( now part of the University of Cincinnati ) in 1889.

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 Hannibal's army was outrunning its supply lines quickly, Rome took countermeasures against Hannibal's home base in Africa by sea command and stopped the flow of supplies.

Realizing how untenable his position in Rome was growing, Innocent IV secretly and hurriedly withdrew to Genoa, his birthplace, in the summer of 1244.

Realizing that he was now racing the two men and not the clock, Nurmi tossed his stopwatch onto the grass.

Realizing he was unable to subdue the Assassins, he sought to align himself with them, consequently depriving the Crusaders of aligning themselves against him.

Realizing he would never leave Monticello again he was forced to decline an invitation to Washington to attend a fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Declaration.

Realizing this, Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn used the Stooges as leverage, as the demand for their films was so great that Columbia eventually refused to supply exhibitors with the trio's shorts unless they also agreed to book some of the studio's mediocre B movies.

Realizing close to the beginning of rehearsals that a performance score was not available, NCSA enlisted the help of musicologist Philip Gossett, who was able to put them in touch with Sbragia, and his version, which was based on the original 1836 performances in Venice, became the work's critical edition.

Realizing that this was a strategy touted by his opponents to keep the public from taking him seriously, Kennedy stated frankly, " I'm not running for vice president, I'm running for president.

Realizing the ramifications of counting Texas votes as their own, Salinger asked him whether he was considering a Kennedy-Johnson ticket, and Robert replied, yes.

Realizing that this situation was unsustainable, investors continued to flee Russia despite the IMF bailout.

Realizing that it was left with no capable security force, the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR created a secret political police, the Cheka, led by Felix Dzerzhinsky.

Realizing the ramifications of counting Texas votes as their own, Salinger asked him whether he was considering a Kennedy-Johnson ticket, and Robert replied, yes.

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 that repair was impractical, the Kriegsmarine sold the boat to Spain for 1. 5 million Reichsmark.

Realizing that Merrill tricked him and the Sun was not destroyed, he sets out to prevent Merrill from taking any more pictures for fear that the dog will " break through " into the real world.

Realizing that the conspirators are now in possession of the treaty, Tommy rushes to London to alert Mr. Carter.

Realizing what had happened, Carter was able to change history and prevent Olympius from pulling the trigger on the other Lightspeed Rangers.

Realizing that Turner inpregnated Seabreeze in revenge of losing the poker match, the angry and humiliated Carter calls Seabreeze a whore and abandons her on the spot.

Realizing that he could no longer be as active as he had been, he set up a " special commission " to help with the administration and oversight of the church.

Realizing his isolated position, More attempted to resign after being forced to take an oath declaring the king the Supreme Head of the English Church " as far as the law of Christ allows ".

Realizing the gravity of the situation, Prince Eugene attempted to force his way across the Scheldt at Prouvy to help Albemarle.

Realizing he was going to have to fight his way out, he attempted another winter blockade run back to Italy to lead his remaining forces to Greece.

Realizing that any strong emotion, such as fear before operation, produced shock, he attempted to allay dread by psychic suggestion, also endeavouring to prevent the subjective shock which affects the patient, even when under general anaesthesia, by first anaesthetizing the operative region with cocaine for several days, if necessary, before operating.

Realizing its mistake in leaving the arsenal undefended, the Chinese army attempted to dislodge Seymour, now well-armed, but were unsuccessful.

Realizing that Microsoft was making significant profit on the DOS operating system, SCP attempted to sell the operating system along with a stand-alone inexpensive CPU ( without any other circuitry ), which was allowed as per the license with Microsoft which allowed SCP to continue selling the operating system with their 8086-based computers ; this operating system was marketed as " Seattle DOS ", and the CPU was included in the box.

Realizing that the Democrats no longer needed to resort to the filibuster to block judicial nominees, President Bush attempted to reconcile with the Senate Democrats by not renominating Boyle, Myers and Haynes in January 2007.

Realizing that the airport could not be safely reached amid that worsening weather conditions, the pilot attempted an emergency landing.

Realizing that his forces had little chance of retaking the walls, Al-Musta ' sim attempted to open negotiations with Hulagu, who rebuffed the Caliph.

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 he cannot win with brute force, Neo baits Smith into assimilating him, which allows Neo to destroy all the Smith clones from the inside ( much the same way he defeated Smith in the first movie ), but it is too much for Neo and he dies.

Realizing he has no time to throw out the batter-runner at first base, the shortstop tosses the ball to the second baseman covering second base in an attempt to force out the runner coming from first.

Realizing that his force was almost surrounded by Japanese ships, Callaghan issued the confusing order: " Odd ships fire to starboard, even ships fire to port " ( save that no pre-battle planning had assigned any such identity numbers to reference, and the formation was already chaotic ).

Realizing he lied to them before, they again try to force him to reveal the location of the idol.

Realizing that he is taking the Test, and that the elves ( in actuality powerful dark-elf mages themselves ) will kill him for even speaking with Fistandantilus, the evil lich offers him a bargain: Raistlin's life force in exchange for the power to pass the Test and defeat the elves.

Realizing that this armor will protect him from Fistandantilus taking his life force, Raistlin reneges on his bargain.

Realizing a larger force is at work, Batman follows the trail of the chemical to Tokyo, where he finds the deranged criminal mastermind behind the creation of the infamous drug is none other than a heavily mutated fan.

Realizing how his whole ancestry was trapped into a spiral of hatred and death, he has himself sterilized, unwilling to raise a son to follow in his cursed footsteps, and wallows in self-pity until the Spirit of the Castaka family, embodied by the mark on his chest, appears to him in a vision, prompting Nameless to become a force for good, protecting life whenever he can.

Realizing she lacks the forces needed to defeat this enemy force in a straight fight, Laurana takes her army to Margaard Ford along the Vingaard River.

Realizing the limitations of the current stage of thinking is the driving force behind moral development, as each progressive stage is more adequate than the last.

Realizing that something awful had just happened, the coachman tried to force the locked door, but could not.

Realizing his force was outnumbered, he fell back to Salisbury.

Realizing there was no further likelihood of his force proceeding to capture Fort Duquesne, he decided to retreat.