Only afterwards did an act like that become meaningless, so that he would puzzle over it for days, whereas at the time it had seemed quite real.

Sometimes, though, they did not seem quite human.

Even though we did not see many of your faces, it appears now quite evident that a considerable number of your profession heard, from those whom we had the fortune to encounter, that we had been in your midst.

He did seem hasty on his second and third shots, but then there was an agonizing wait of several minutes while Coe graciously putted out, giving Palmer a chance to recover his composure, which he had quite visibly lost.

In comparison to the northern colonies, the southern colonies were quite diverse in their agricultural diet and did not have a central region of culture.

After March it began to pass northwards, a motion quite apparent by the middle of April ; in June it passed at the same distance from the zenith as it did in December ; and in September it passed through its most northerly position, the extreme range from north to south, i. e. the angle between the March and September positions, being 40 ″.

Cuyp was one of the first Dutch painters to appreciate this new leap forward in style and while his own Both-inspired phase was quite short ( limited to the mid 1640s ) he did, more than any other contemporary Dutch artist, maximize the full chromatic scale for sunsets and sunrises.

The Roman Catholic Church likewise treats it as any other act of renunciation of the Catholic faith, although for a few years, from 2006 to 2009, it did note in the baptismal register any formal act of defection from the Catholic Church, a concept quite distinct from that of presentation of such a certificate.

" The British did not know quite what to make of President Woodrow Wilson and his conviction ( before America's entrance into the war ) that the way to end hostilities was for both sides to accept " peace without victory.

( The Open Group had wished to make it open source, but did not quite succeed in achieving this.

The club was expected to be quite active at the trading deadline ( July 31 ), as Burnett was slated to be a free agent after the season and had already declared his desire to test the market like Pavano did.

The rashness of Varro did not surprise Fabius, but when Fabius learned of the size of the army ( eighty-eight thousand soldiers ) that Varro had raised, he became quite concerned.

Applicants were vetted for Nordic qualities — in Himmler's words, " like a nursery gardener trying to reproduce a good old strain which has been adulterated and debased ; we started from the principles of plant selection and then proceeded quite unashamedly to weed out the men whom we did not think we could use for the build-up of the SS.

Nevertheless, industrialisation remained quite traditional in the sense that it did not lead to the growth of modern and large urban centres, but to a conurbation of industrial villages and towns developed around a coal-mine or a factory.

Following 1987, the Colts did not see any real success for quite some time, with the team missing the postseason for seven consecutive seasons.

While Irenaeus did propose some solutions of this numerical riddle, his interpretation was quite reserved.

Though conquest was one of Jahangir's many goals, he was a naturalist and lover of the arts and did not have quite the same warrior ambition of the Persian king.

The " I " in the lyrics was usually only implied, mainly because it did not quite fit the rhythm of the song, like the version on First Two 7 " s on a 12 ".

" They appeared to be attracted to one another, but Atta regretfully explained to Hauth that, " she had a quite different orientation and that the emancipation of the young lady did not fit.

saw no improvement ; Coppuck's M28 design was described by Mayer as " ghastly, a disaster " and " quite diabolical " and the M29 did little to change the situation.

While Pedersen's Nostratic hypothesis did not make much headway in the West, it became quite popular in what was then the Soviet Union.

While many presidents did not formally join a church until quite late in life, there is a genre of tales of deathbed conversions.

Not until the beginning of the 19th century did it become clear that reptiles and amphibians are in fact quite different animals, and Pierre André Latreille erected the class Batracia ( 1825 ) for the latter, dividing the tetrapods into the four familiar classes of reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals.

Through the decade, with Mickey Redmond having two 50 – goal seasons and Marcel Dionne starting to reach his prime ( which he did not attain until he was traded to the Los Angeles Kings ), a lack of defensive and goaltending ability continually hampered the Wings.

He did not, however, proclaim full independence for the country, nor did he seek reprisals against the country's former white slaveholders, convinced that the French would not restore slavery and " that a population of slaves recently landed from Africa could not attain to civilization by ' going it alone.

Van Buren won a simple majority on the convention's first ballot but did not attain the two-thirds supermajority required for nomination.

He brought strong recommendations from the emperor Frederick and Ladislaus V of Hungary ( also King of Bohemia ) for his nomination to the cardinalate, but delays arose from the Pope's resolution to promote his own nephews first, and he did not attain the object of his ambition until December of the following year.

I do not hesitate to affirm that an effort should now be made to attain this advantage, nor to declare that, according to my judgment, it is in present circumstances practicable ... we ought not to aid the rates, and remove the Income Tax, without giving to the general consumer, and giving him simultaneously, some marked relief in the class of articles of popular consumption ... I for one could not belong to a Government which did not on every occasion seek to enlarge its resources by a wise economy.

Unable to attain funding, Dread did not open on Broadway.

The discovery was little utilized at first, however, and the manufacture of sugar from beets did not attain commercial importance for over half a century.

Although Haley's " Shake, Rattle and Roll " never achieved the same level of historical importance as " Rock Around the Clock ", it actually predated it as the first major international rock and roll hit, although it did not attain the Number 1 position in the American charts, but became his first gold record.

These shortcomings, coupled with the great success of Half-Life, resulted in SiN not achieving as much success as the developers had hoped, although it did attain a moderate amount of sales during the 1998 Christmas period.

To such a degree of splendor did these festivities and other conventions in Sura attain that Rav Ashi expressed his surprise that some of the Gentile residents of Sura were not tempted to accept Judaism.

Meg is the complacent daughter who did not “ attain Alcott ’ s ideal womanhood ” of equality.

The Liberators did not wish to engage in a decisive battle, but rather to attain a good defensive position and then use their naval superiority to block the triumvirs ’ communications with their supply base in Italy.

In Belgium a general strike movement, broken off in one instance without damage to the organizing forces, eventually led to universal suffrage ; in Holland a general strike collapsed with disastrous consequences ; in Sweden, a general strike was conducted and terminated with disciplined order but did not attain the desired results.

Despite these successes, the House of Orange did not attain great respect among European Royalty, as the Stadtholdership was not inheritable.

In other words, not only were the criminals killed in the physical world ; they did not attain an afterlife.

The largest kauri trees did not attain as much height or girth at ground level but contain more timber in their cylindrical trunks than comparable Sequoias with their tapering stems.

Caress of Steel did not attain gold certification in the United States until December 1993, nearly two decades after its release.

Studies in halakha ( Jewish law ) did not appeal to him, but apparently he did attain proficiency in the Talmud.

In addition, most people who did attain old age were likely to die quickly from the above-mentioned untreatable health problems.

However, the Boswell Sisters did not attain national attention until they moved to New York City in 1930 and started making national radio broadcasts.

However, it turned out that the Habilitation is held in great esteem in the academia, and that former junior professors are eager to call themselves Privatdozent or ( außerplanmäßiger ) Professor in case they did not attain a regular chair.