Charles, Bob, and Stephen barely escape safely to shore.

Stephen King discusses Cujo in On Writing, referring to it as a novel he " barely remembers writing at all ".

Prometheus is neutralized when Batman sabotages his helmet based on the month he spent studying it after the last battle, loading it with the physical skills and coordination of Professor Stephen Hawking, who due to a motor neuron disease can barely move.

Vytautas barely escaped alive, but many princes of his kin ( including his cousins Demetrius I Starszy and Andrei of Polotsk ) and allies ( as for example, Stephen I of Moldavia and two of his brothers ) died in the battle.

Redskins running back Stephen Davis rushed for 119 yards and two touchdowns in the first half as Washington dominated the Lions, who had barely made the playoffs with an 8-8 record and had lost their last four games of the season.

When a creditor comes to claim the Orlacs ' piano, Stephen throws a fountain pen that barely misses his head.

A young man named Stephen emerges from the box, barely alive, having been put there the day before for stealing a candle.

England " played barely the part of a pawn " in the diplomatic battle between the great European powers ( France opposed the match ) and the marriage was widely unpopular in England, even with Mary's own supporters such as Stephen Gardiner, who opposed reducing England to " a Spanish colony ".

Stephen narrowly escaped drowning with Henry I's son, William Adelin, in the sinking of the White Ship in 1120 ; William's death left the succession of the English throne open to challenge.

Abandoning the deal he had just made, Stephen gathered his army again and sped north, but not quite fast enough — Ranulf escaped Lincoln and declared his support for the Empress, and Stephen was forced to place the castle under siege.

By November, Stephen was free ( exchanged for the captured Robert of Gloucester ) and a year later, the tables were turned when Matilda was besieged at Oxford but escaped to Wallingford, supposedly by fleeing across snow-covered land in a white cape.

Stephen almost seized Matilda in 1142 during the siege of Oxford, but the Empress escaped from Oxford Castle across the frozen River Thames to safety.

Abandoning the deal he had just made, Stephen gathered his army again and sped north, but not quite fast enough — Ranulf escaped Lincoln and declared his support for the Empress, and Stephen was forced to place the castle under siege.

The Ecsed branch commonly sided with the Habsburgs: Stephen VII, who had escaped the battle, fled with Louis ' widow to Pozsony ( now Bratislava ), where he organized the election of Ferdinand of Austria as King of Hungary.

This time the Egyptians were victorious ; Baldwin lost most of his army including Stephen of Blois, but he himself escaped back to Arsuf on his horse ( unusual for this period, especially considering the high death rate of horses during the First Crusade and afterwards, the name of the horse has survived: she was called Gazala ).

After his father's death ( 3 May 1270 ), Stephen inherited the whole Kingdom of Hungary, although the deceased senior king had entrusted his daughter, Anna and his followers to King Ottokar II of Bohemia in his last will, and they had escaped to Prague before Stephen arrived to Esztergom.

Although " honorably acquitted " at his trial, he was still thought to be guilty by many and with assistance from his fellow Freemasons escaped to St. Stephen, in Charlotte County, New Brunswick where he was one of the earliest British settlers.

The first printing was the third product of the Stephen Day ( sometimes spelled Daye ) press, and consisted of a hundred and forty-eight small quarto leaves, including a twelve-page preface, " The Psalmes in Metre ," " An Admonition to the Reader ," and an extensive list of errata headed " Faults escaped in printing.

About the year 1143, Mleh ’ s brother, Thoros escaped from Constantinople and recaptured the family stronghold of Vahka ; Mleh and his brother, Stephen joined him.

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, having escaped from the Americans in Boston aboard, start their return journey to England aboard a packet ship.

Some survivors, such as George Middleton, escaped, but others, including Stephen Hempstead, were taken prisoner.

Robert Knox eventually escaped with one companion, Stephen Rutland, after nineteen years of captivity.

Stephen III of Hungary escaped from his enemies to the castle almost 100 years later.

In October 1536 the rebels marched on his house at Kirkby Stephen to force Wharton to join them, but he had escaped and joined the Duke of Norfolk, under whom he served during the troubles ; he was one of the king's representatives at the conference at York on 24 November, with Robert Aske and his followers.

50 years before the construction of the Paladian mansion and just after the Gunpowder plot was discovered, two of the miscreants, Robert Wintour and Stephen Littleton escaped arrest at Holbeche House and travelled south to ask Humphrey Littleton for his assistance.

According to Długosz, Corvinus escaped the Moldavians due to the assistance of another Vlach ( Romanian ), whom Stephen found and had executed because of treachery.

The Lowrie gang consisted of Henry Lowrie, his brothers Stephen and Thomas, two cousins ( Calvin and Henderson Oxendine ), two of his brothers-in-law, two black men who were escaped slaves, a white man, and two other men of unknown relation.

Stephen Waldorf was a 26-year-old film editor who was shot and severely injured by Metropolitan Police officers in London, England on 14 January 1983, when he was mis-identified as an escaped prisoner, David Martin.

He partnered with Stephen T. Logan from 1841 until 1844, when he began his practice with William Herndon, whom Lincoln thought " a studious young man ".

In 1256, the castrum of Abensprech was first mentioned, and on 12 June 1348, Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg, and his brother, Stephen, Duke of Bavaria, raised Abensberg to the status of a city, giving it the right to operate lower courts, enclose itself with a wall and hold markets.

The ancient Greeks used baskets of stones, large sacks filled with sand, and wooden logs filled with lead, which, according to Apollonius Rhodius and Stephen of Byzantium, were formed of stone ; and Athenaeus states that they were sometimes made of wood.

This episode is also found in Clement of Alexandria, in Stephen of Byzantium ( Kopai and Argunnos ), and in Propertius, III with minor variations.

In Stephen R. Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle, Aurelianus ( most often referred to as " Aurelius ") figures prominently, along with his brother Uther, in the second book of the series, Merlin.

On 8 November 1273 Andronikos II married as his first wife Anna of Hungary, daughter of Stephen V of Hungary and Elizabeth the Cuman, with whom he had two sons:

In a lecture in 2001, Stephen Hawking stated " The reason most scientists don't believe in astrology is because it is not consistent with our theories that have been tested by experiment.

In the 2007 regular season, the Diamondbacks enjoyed success with a young team including Brandon Webb, Conor Jackson, Stephen Drew, Carlos Quentin, Chad Tracy, Chris Young, Miguel Montero, Mark Reynolds ( called up from Double-A in May ) and Justin Upton ( called up from Double-A in August ).

A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler.

It was directed by Sean Mathias, with set design by Stephen Brimson Lewis, costumes by Nicky Gillibrand, lighting by Mark Henderson and choreography by Wayne McGregor.

Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Most biographers blame Lerner's professional decline on the lack of a strong director with whom Lerner could collaborate, as Neil Simon did with Mike Nichols or Stephen Sondheim with Harold Prince ( Moss Hart, who had directed My Fair Lady, died shortly after Camelot opened ).

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.

She sought to discuss the issue with Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, but her request for a meeting was reportedly denied.

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen ( his wife from 1979 to 1983 ), Gary Sinise, John Lithgow, William Finley, Charles Durning, Gerrit Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond ( see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations ), set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and Pino Donaggio.

He commonly works with cinematographers Vilmos Zsigmond ( Obsession, Blow Out, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Black Dahlia ) and Stephen H. Burum ( Body Double, The Untouchables, Casualties of War, Raising Cain, Carlito's Way, Mission: Impossible, Snake Eyes, Mission to Mars ).

During the series, he often comes into contact with the Queen, her obsequious Lord Chamberlain Lord Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) with whom he has a rivalry, and the Queen's demented former nanny Nursie ( Patsy Byrne ).

The series features rotten boroughs ( or " robber buttons "), Dr. Samuel Johnson ( played by Robbie Coltrane ), William Pitt the Younger ( Simon Osborne ), the French Revolution ( featuring Chris Barrie, Nigel Planer and Tim McInnerny as the Scarlet Pimpernel ), over-the-top theatrical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington ( played by Stephen Fry ).

Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England ( played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales ).

It is set on the turn of the millennium, and features Lord Blackadder placing a bet with his friends – modern versions of Queenie ( Miranda Richardson ), Melchett ( Stephen Fry ), George ( Hugh Laurie ) and Darling ( Tim McInnerny ) – that he has built a working time machine.