In disposition Alexander bore little resemblance to his soft-hearted, liberal father, and still less to his refined, philosophic, sentimental, chivalrous, yet cunning granduncle, emperor Alexander I of Russia, who could have been given the title of " the first gentleman of Europe ".

I am neither of a melancholy nor a cynical disposition, and am as willing and as apt to be pleased as anybody ; but I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason nobody has ever heard me laugh.

* Nord, a sailor of surly look and melancholy disposition ; when White-Jacket first encounters him, the only friend Nord has on board is Lemsford

A melancholy figure, Carter is a quiet contemplative dreamer with a sensitive disposition, prone to fainting during times of emotional stress.

Gautrek consented as he believed that Ingjald had inherited his father's disposition.

His daughter had inherited her father's psychopathic disposition.

Himself shrinking from the imposition on these communities of the franchise for the coloured people, his unyielding disposition in regard to matters involving no vital principle did much to bring it about.

The disposition of Essex, held by West Saxon kings since the days of Egbert, is unclear from the treaty, though, given Alfred ’ s political and military superiority, it would have been surprising if he had conceded any disputed territory to his new godson.

Pseudolus, an excellent liar, uses Philia's cheery disposition to convince Lycus that she has picked up a plague from Crete, which causes its victims to smile endlessly in its terminal stages.

Until the 1911 reform, the psalms were arranged according to a disposition dating from the 8th century, as follows: Psalms i .– cviii., with some omissions, were recited at Matins, twelve each day from Monday to Saturday, and eighteen on Sunday.

At the core of SFA is a contact management system for tracking and recording every stage in the sales process for each prospective client, from initial contact to final disposition.

Allen wrote of the voyage that he " was put under the power of an English Merchant from London, whose name was Brook Watson: a man of malicious and cruel disposition ".

Of a strictly religious, although not narrow, disposition, he sought at any cost to keep his subjects from falling away from the Church, but his methods of attaining his object were not always free from reproach.

He said that their aspect was mild, disposition peaceful, and strength so great that in combat the Mastiff or Bulldog was far from being an equal to them.

Pliny, another physician from this time, valued nobility and a quiet and inconspicuous disposition in a midwife.

According to Hippocrates, melancholia was caused by an excess of black bile, hence the name, which means ' black bile ', from Ancient Greek μέλας ( melas ), " dark, black ", + χολή ( kholé ), " bile "; a person whose constitution tended to have a preponderance of black bile had a melancholic disposition.

The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, or " essential qualities, innate disposition ", and in ancient times, literally meant " birth ".

Peace of mind, serenity, and calmness are descriptions of a disposition free from the effects of stress.

This, however, poses a number of questions involving genetics: if evil is merely a consequence of our choosing to deviate from God's desired goodness, then genetic disposition of ' evil ' ( currently fictitious ) must surely be in God's plan and desire and thus cannot be blamed on Man.

The new terminal is intended for the service of one million passengers and the space liberated from low-cost airlines would pass into the disposition of Estonian Air and other traditional airlines, such as Lufthansa, SAS, LOT and CSA.

There is no single unifying belief that all Unitarian Universalists ( UUs ) hold, aside from complete and responsible freedom of speech, thought, belief, faith, and disposition.

Hazardous wastes must be tracked from the time they are generated until their final disposition.

# The sequence of operations performed by a switching system from the acceptance of an incoming call through the final disposition of the call.

The expenses of conducting the services of the church were to be provided from the proceeds, but there was no disposition made as to what should be done to secure the funds for that purpose.

The schooner may be distinguished from both the yawl and the ketch by the disposition of the masts, and thus the placement of the mainsail.

Males over two years become solitary due to behavioural disposition and collective aggression from the females, and will join the female groups only during the breeding season.

This was enacted via a special constitutional " temporary disposition ", in force from 1948.

According to Cespedes's son, his father " imagined a new flag that bore the same colors as that of the Carreras and O ' Higgins and that would differentiate itself from the disposition of those colors.

He states in his work, Gynecology, that “ a suitable person will be literate, with her wits about her, possessed of a good memory, loving work, respectable and generally not unduly handicapped as regards her senses sight, smell, hearing, sound of limb, robust, and, according to some people, endowed with long slim fingers and short nails at her fingertips .” Soranus also recommends that the midwife be of sympathetic disposition ( although she need not have borne a child herself ) and that she keep her hands soft for the comfort of both mother and child.

His mother seems to have brought him up in as carefree a condition as possible, sparing for him from her scanty meals, and allowing him the greatest possible liberty in the disposition of his time, the choice of a calling, etc.

Because Williams may have left no will, the disposition of the other fifty percent was considered uncertain ; those involved included the second Mrs. Williams and her daughter and Hank Williams's mother and sister.

He has been described as having " a gentle disposition, girlish modesty and personal beauty ", and is said to have lived a life of exemplary devotion towards his mother Fulvia Sisenna, his sister and his aunt.

Although his initial fondness for her was said to have inspired the trio in the first act of opera A Life for the Tsar ( 1836 ), his naturally sweet disposition coarsened under the constant nagging of his wife and her mother.

Louis Holland arrives in Boston to find that a minor earthquake in Ipswich has killed his eccentric grandmother, triggering a struggle between him, his sister Eileen, and his mother Melanie over the disposition of a $ 22 million inheritance.

Consequently Monica's married life was far from being a happy one, more especially as Patritius's mother seems to have been of a like disposition with himself.

His aunt tries to be a mother to Philip, but she is herself childish and unsure of how to behave, whereas his uncle takes a cold disposition towards him.

According to ESPN TV, his nickname Sunny was given to him by his mother, due to his cheerful disposition as an infant.

The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.

When Dr. Adenauer was approached by a world citizen delegation to find out his disposition of my case, he gave them his personal approval of my entry, saying that all men advocating peace should be welcomed into Germany.

The only man alive who seems qualified by his learning, his disposition and his addiction to a baroque luxuriance of language to inherit the literary mantle of Sacheverell Sitwell, Mr. Sansom writes of foreign parts with a dedication to decoration worthy of a pastry chef creating a wedding cake for the marriage of a Hungarian beauty ( her third ) and an American multimillionaire ( his fourth ).

Benevolent and sympathetic in disposition, he won the affection of his people by fearlessly visiting districts ravaged by cholera or devastated by earthquake in 1885.

The power of testamentary disposition is basically limited to one-third of the net estate ( i. e. the assets remaining after the payment of funeral expenses and debts ), providing for every member of the family by allotting fixed shares not only to wives and children, but also to fathers and mothers.

The battle over disposition of People's Park resulted in a month-long occupation of Berkeley by the National Guard on orders of then-Governor Ronald Reagan.

Musical instruments disposition, however, was changed, being made by a single berimbau and two pandeiros.

These include scouting, skirmishing with enemy reconnaissance elements to deny them knowledge of own disposition of troops, forward security, offensive reconnaissance by combat, defensive screening of friendly forces during retrograde movement, retreat, restoration of command and control, deception, battle handover and passage of lines, relief in place, linkup, breakout operations, and raiding.

Furthermore, it is said that Jesus Christ instituted a virtue ethic, whereby the worth of one's action is to be adjudged by one's interior disposition.

In it, Hume presented political person as a creature of habit, with a disposition to submit quietly to established government unless confronted by uncertain circumstances.

Emotion is often associated and considered reciprocally influential with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, and motivation, as well as influenced by hormones and neurotransmitters such as dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin, oxytocin and cortisol.

A more analogous case is that of the screwball comedy, widely accepted by film historians as constituting a " genre ": the screwball is defined not by a fundamental attribute, but by a general disposition and a group of elements, some — but rarely and perhaps never all — of which are found in each of the genre's films.

The United States accepted the role of Trustee of this, the only United Nations Trusteeship to be designated as a " Security Trusteeship ", whose ultimate disposition was to be determined by the UN Security Council.

Consequently Heinrich, who was of a rather inert disposition, relinquished his claims to the governorship, and in 1505 an agreement was made between the brothers by which Friesland was transferred to George, while Heinrich received an annuity and the districts of Freiberg and Wolkenstein.

To promote this disposition to exchange lands, which they have to spare and we want, for necessaries, which we have to spare and they want, we shall push our trading uses, and be glad to see the good and influential individuals among them run in debt, because we observe that when these debts get beyond what the individuals can pay, they become willing to lop them off by a cession of lands.

Initially the division of the Arabic-speaking areas of the Ottoman Empire were to be divided by the Sykes-Picot Agreement ; however, the final disposition was at the San Remo conference of 1920, whose determinations on the mandates, their boundaries, purposes and organization was ratified by the League in 1921 and put into effect in 1922.

It is argued that one was to be born and rise within the dispensation of Muhammad, who by virtue of his similarity and affinity with Jesus, and the similarity in nature, temperament and disposition of the people of Jesus ' time and the people of the time of the promised one ( the Mahdi ) is called by the same name.