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choice and was
This third choice was in fact made.
A major consideration in the choice of the Warwick site, four miles from Cranston, was the fact that it permits retention of our present trained and highly skilled work force.
They had been kind to us and we were indebted to them for one or two pleasant dinners, and for information as to where to shop, which dentist, doctor, plumber, and sitter to call ( not that there was much of a choice, since Catatonia was just a village ; ;
The choice of the single member district was dictated to a certain extent by problems of communication and understanding in the more remote areas of the country, but it also served to minimize the national political value of the elections.
The fact seems to be that very many large branch stores are uneconomical, that the choice of location in the suburbs is as important as it was downtown, and that even highly suburbanized cities will support only so many big branches.
So with all this experience, Bob Fogg was a natural choice to receive the first Emergency Air Mail Star Route contract.
`` There had been a threesome at the party in the suite's bedroom: Miss Harrington ( this was Diane's choice for a Roman name ), another woman who has figured in other very interesting events and one of your well-known American actors.
Insuring that the countries have a freedom of choice, he said, was the biggest detriment to the Soviet Union.
Skorich was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm Van Brocklin permission to seek the head coaching job with the Minnesota Vikings, the newest National Football League entry.
She was finally at rest in truth, of her own proud free choice.
The axiom of choice was formulated in 1904 by Ernst Zermelo in order to formalize his proof of the well-ordering theorem.
Until the late 19th century, the axiom of choice was often used implicitly, although it had not yet been formally stated.
Errett Bishop argued that the axiom of choice was constructively acceptable, saying
Science fiction set in what was the future but is now the past, like Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey or Nineteen Eighty-Four, are not alternate history because the author has not made the conscious choice to change the past.
For instance, in 51, Agrippina ordered the execution of Britannicus ’ tutor Sosibius because he had confronted her and was outraged by Claudius ’ adoption of Nero and his choice of Nero as successor, instead of choosing his own son Britannicus.
Johnson's " unwavering commitment to the Union " was a significant factor in making him Lincoln's choice as vice president on the Union Party's premier ticket that year.
The 13th-century Moroccan biographer Ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili and Qadi Ayyad before him in the 12th-century, note that Waggag's learning center was called Dar al-Murabitin ( The house of the Almoravids ), and that might have inspired Ibn Yasin's choice of name for the movement.
The choice was unfortunate, for Theodahad fostered the disaffection of the Goths, and either by his orders or with his permission, Amalasuntha was imprisoned in the island of Martana in the Tuscan lake of Bolsena, where on 30 April in the spring of 534 / 535 she was murdered in her bath.
Afonso IV was displeased with his son's choice of lovers, and hoped that the relationship would be a futile one.
As both a foreigner and a woman, the queen was not a popular choice for regent.
Selkirk judged correctly that his craft, the Cinque Ports, was unseaworthy, and was given the choice of being left ashore on his own.

choice and left
For example for any ( even infinite ) collection of pairs of shoes, one can pick out the left shoe from each pair to obtain an appropriate selection, but for an infinite collection of pairs of socks ( assumed to have no distinguishing features ), such a selection can be obtained only by invoking the axiom of choice.
The choice of The Marriage of Figaro was considered improper for a new bride by many observers, and the couple left the opera theater early without seeing the entire work performed.
A player completes a turn batting when: he strikes out or is declared out before reaching first base ; or he reaches first base safely or is awarded first base ( by a base on balls, hit by pitch, or catcher's interference ); or he hits a fair ball which causes a preceding runner to be put out for the third out before he himself is put out or reaches first base safely ( see also left on base, fielder's choice, force play )
In 1973, the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards voted, without adopting an explanatory responsum, to permit synagogues to count women toward a minyan, but left the choice to individual congregations.
An enraged Baron is left with no choice but to order a duplicate from the Bene Tleilax: the Mentat De Vries featured in Herbert's original novel Dune.
Still without a son and in danger of being left with no male heir, facing substantial opposition to Eleanor from many of his barons and her own desire for divorce, Louis had no choice but to bow to the inevitable.
In a letter to Moore ( dated 15 November 1932 ), he left the choice of pseudonym to him and to Gollancz.
Faced with the choice of death, conversion, or emigration, many Jews and Christians left.
By the terms of the Honduran constitution, this stalemate left the final choice of president up to the legislature, but that body was unable to obtain a quorum and reach a decision.
Some writers see a conflict between Godwin's advocacy of " private judgement " and utilitarianism, as he says that ethics requires that individuals give their surplus property to each other resulting in an egalitarian society, but, at the same time, he insists that all things be left to individual choice.
Ciano said that it was absurd to believe that the Reich could attack Poland without triggering a wider war and that now the Italians were left with the choice of either going to war when they needed three more years to rearm or being forced into the humiliation of having to violate the terms of the Pact of Steel by declaring neutrality ( which would make the Italians appear cowardly ).
Many castles, especially royal castles were left to decay in the 15th century ; Kenilworth, however, continued to be used as a centre of choice, forming a late medieval " palace fortress ".
Amyraut had left the choice to the synod.
This left them with no choice but to adopt more youthful formats, though the Standards format ( also known as the Great American Songbook from the series of albums produced by rocker Rod Stewart ) has undergone something of an off-air revival, with artists such as Stewart, Tony Bennett and Queen Latifah putting their own interpretation on the music.
Constructions can be defined as broadly as free choice sequences, which is the intuitionistic view, or as narrowly as algorithms ( or more technically, the computable functions ), or even left unspecified.
Gregory VI, seeing that little choice was left to him, complied of his own accord and laid down his office.
With no carrots left, Vladimir offers Estragon the choice between a turnip and a radish.
Clive Bell published an appeasement pamphlet ( he later supported the war ), and E. M. Forster wrote an early version of his famous essay “ What I Believe ” with its choice, still shocking for some, of personal relations over patriotism: his quiet assertion in the face of the increasingly totalitarian claims of both left and right that " personal relations ... love and loyalty to an individual can run counter to the claims of the State ".
The experience of the failure to contain the British attacks at Ypres and the drastic reduction in areas of the western front which could be considered ' quiet ', after the tank and artillery surprise at Cambrai, left the German Oberste Heeresleitung with little choice but to return to a strategy of decisive victory in 1918.
The Lord Chancellor is amazed to see her alive, but Iolanthe has again broken fairy law, and the Fairy Queen is now left with no choice but to punish Iolanthe with death.
Louis XV decided he was left with no choice but to enter the war.
The choice of the design of the coins was left to the Italian public by means of a television broadcast where alternative designs were presented, letting the people vote by calling a certain telephone number.
Giving the band a choice to continue with either him or the manager, the band sided with the manager and Fish left for a solo career.
The final choice of first name was left up to actor John Astin.

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