The Portuguese conversos worked to forestall such actions, and spent immense sums to win over the Curia and most influential cardinals.

Embezzlement may range from the very minor in nature, involving only small amounts, to the immense, involving large sums and sophisticated schemes.

Immediately, the option was backed by notable conservative figures such as Henri Rochefort, Count Arthur Dillon, Alfred Joseph Naquet, Anne de Mortemart-Rochechouart ( Duchess of Uzès, who financed him with immense sums ), Arthur Meyer, Paul Déroulède ( and his Ligue des Patriotes ).

Today, works such as The Resurrection, Cookham ( 1923 – 27 ), clearly set in the village and with actual residents taking part, rarely come up for auction, but when they do, they sell for immense sums.

" The beautiful shops, full of valuable goods ; the stores behind, containing thousands of barrels of flour and provisions of all kinds ; the fish stores ; the wharves, which it had cost immense sums to erect, -- disappeared one by one into the maw of the destroyer … the whole of Water Street, on both sides, was ' swept with the besom of destruction.

Batman was even considered as a possible candidate for the Sinestro Corps ( due to his ability to inspire great fear in his enemies, which seems to be the primary requirement for induction into the Corps ), but due to his immense willpower along his previous exposure to the Green Lantern ring's energy, he rejected the ring that was sent to him.

" Orchid specimens from all over the world were sent to him for identification, and these, together with his copious notes and drawings, forms an immense herbarium which rivaled that of Lindley at Kew " ( Reinikka, ' A history of the orchid ', p. 215 ).

This process continued until the planetesimals interacted with Jupiter, whose immense gravity sent them into highly elliptical orbits or even ejected them outright from the Solar System.

In this capacity he was sent to Europe but he returned home only to find his immense property interests destroyed by the invader and himself under arrest.

He's sent for three elderly men, expert canoe-builders, from the southern side of the immense island ; but the ladies who took his message return without them, saying they don't acknowledge Taori ( Dick ) as their leader.

Like other armor oversouls, the power of Kurobina is immense as shown when Hao personally destroyed a fleet of battle ships sent from Manta Oyamada's father.

The immense amount of interest that the new jazz had for the younger generation must have impressed him, and he began working toward the merger of jazz and poetry, as he had previously attempted the union of graphic art and poetry.

As the world began to take on the guise of an immense air raid or gas oven, I believe his art became meaningless to him.

Draugr also exhibit an immense and nearly insatiable appetite, as shown in the encounter of Aran and Asmund, sword brothers who made an oath that if one should die, the other would sit vigil with him for three days inside the burial mound.

Brooks ' integration of rock elements into his recordings and live performances has earned him immense popularity.

Pope Boniface VIII his extraordinary shortness of stature led the pope to believe he was kneeling, and to ask him three times to rise, to the immense merriment of the cardinals ; and that he had a daughter, Novella, so accomplished in law as to be able to read her father's lectures in his absence, and so beautiful, that she had to read behind a curtain lest her face should distract the attention of the students.

Ribbentrop's habit of summoning tailors from the best British firms, making them wait for hours and then sending them away without seeing him with instructions to return the next day, only to repeat the process, did immense damage to his reputation in British high society.

* Honoré Mirabeau, Des Lettres de Cachet et des prisons d ' état ( Hamburg, 1782 ), written in the dungeon at Vincennes into which his father had thrown him by a lettre de cachet, one of the ablest and most eloquent of his works, which had an immense circulation and was translated into English in 1788.

His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.

Outside, the garden chairs take on such an immense intensity that he fears being overwhelmed ; this gives him an insight into madness.

Insecure about his upbringing, and stubborn because of immense confidence in his own talent, Williams made up his mind that the " knights of the Press Box " were against him.

In chapter 29, Víðarr is introduced by the enthroned figure of High as " the silent god " with a thick shoe, that he is nearly as strong as the god Thor, and that the gods rely on him in times of immense difficulties.

Abraham told his father that he had indeed received revelations from God, knowledge which his father did not possess, and told him that belief in God would grant him immense rewards in both this life and the hereafter.

The people everywhere en route greeted him with immense enthusiasm.

When she learns that he is a writer, she invites him in and asks for his opinion on an immense script she has written for a film about Salome that she hopes will revive her faded acting career.

In the story " Phood Phobia ", Archie and Dilton Doiley discover another reason for Jughead's immense appetite: girls make him nervous, and he turns to food for comfort.

It is also Vasuki who bestowed him the immense strength of a thousand elephants.

Of immense interest is the text, recently attributed to him, called Laterculus Malalianus.

In November of the same year the Church excommunicated him ; but his fleet won a victory over that of Charles ; and in July 1268, Conradin himself entered with immense enthusiasm in Rome.

Despite Ataru's lack of interest in Lum ( due of immense shame that the tag game brought to him ) and attempts to rekindle his relationship with Shinobu, Lum frequently interferes and eventually Shinobu loses interest in Ataru.

Abraham told his father that he had indeed received revelations from God, knowledge which his father did not possess, and told him that belief in God would grant him immense rewards in both this life and the hereafter.

Conversions outside Judaism, coerced or otherwise, had a strong impact upon young Isaac, later compelling him to forfeit his immense wealth in an attempt to redeem Iberian Jewry from coercion of the Alhambra Decree.

His immense learning served him rather as a storehouse of illustrations, or as an armoury out of which he could choose the fittest weapon for discomfiting on opponent, than as a quarry furnishing him with material for building up a completely designed and enduring edifice of systematized truth.

In the imagination of the nineteenth century the Greek tragedians and Shakespeare stand side by side, their affinity transcending all the immense contrarieties of historical circumstance, religious belief, and poetic form.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

First of all, and this has been calculated by observation, the universe is expanding -- that is, the galaxies are receding from each other at immense speeds.

They rode on mules with gilded bridles, rich saddles and housings, carrying hawks on their wrist, followed by an immense train of attendants.

A publisher named Edwin Othello Excell gave the version of " Amazing Grace " set to " New Britain " immense popularity by publishing it in a series of hymnals that were used in urban churches.

Thence Barbarossa sailed to Naxos, whence he carried off an immense booty, compelling the Duke of Naxos to purchase his further independence by a tribute of 5000 ducats.

It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.

The battlefield of Ramillies is very similar to that of Blenheim, for here too there is an immense area of arable land unimpeded by woods or hedges.

All were licensed by Frederick Warne & Co. and earned Potter an independent income as well as immense profits for her publisher.

Franks, was followed by an immense bequest of 3, 300 finger rings, 153 drinking vessels, 512 pieces of continental porcelain, 1, 500 netsuke, 850 inro, over 30, 000 bookplates and miscellaneous items of jewellery and plate, among them the Oxus Treasure.

The immense influence on the identity of Cambodia to come was wrought by the Khmer Kingdom of Bhavapura, in the modern day Cambodian city of Kompong Thom.

The immense size of the Union army ( the largest on the planet toward the end of the Civil War ), however, was viewed with increasing concern by Maritimers throughout the early 1860s.

After the gods gathered their wits from the immense shock and grief of Baldr's death, Frigg asked the Æsir who amongst them wished " to gain all of her love and favor " by riding the road to Hel.

At the largest scale, these associations are generally arranged into sheets and filaments, which are surrounded by immense voids.

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky — seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

Few then were surprised when Major's Conservatives lost the 1 May 1997 general election to Tony Blair's " New Labour ", although the immense scale of the defeat was not as widely predicted: in 1987 and 1992 the Conservatives had polled better than had been suggested by the opinion polls, but in 1997 this was no longer the case.

As he reported to John Taylor two weeks afterwards, " Each day he would look up in the doctors face to discover how long he should live -- he would say -- " how long will this posthumous life of mine last " -- that look was more than we could ever bear — the extreme brightness of his eyes — with his poor pallid face — were not earthly --" Severn's ordeal was recognized by Keats himself, who, a month before his death, said, " Severn I can see under your quiet look -- immense twisting and contending -- you dont know what you are reading -- you are induring for me more than I'd have you -- O!

Between 1906 and 1912, more than a half-million Russian farms were started as part of the reforms of Russian minister of the interior Petr Stolypin, putting immense pressure on the traditional Kazakh way of life by occupying grazing land and using scarce water resources.

Consequently, an immense social gap developed between the cities, cosmopolitan and peopled largely by foreigners, and the desert hinterland, where tribal chieftains ruled in isolation and where social change was minimal.

Thus, Nauru was left to handle the immense and expensive task of restoring large chunks of land which were destroyed by the mining.

This whole extensive space is now one immense area of ruins overlaid in parts by new suburbs of the city of Mosul.

The effect of the invention of valves for the brass was felt almost immediately: instrument-makers throughout Europe strove together to foster the use of these newly refined instruments and continuing their perfection ; and the orchestra was before long enriched by a new family of valved instruments, variously known as tubas, or euphoniums and bombardons, having a chromatic scale and a full sonorous tone of great beauty and immense volume, forming a magnificent bass.

Oil had been discovered there by Standard Oil Company in the 1920s, and people wondered whether an immense pool of oil was lying beneath the entire area.