He initially came to Springfield an eager, idealistic, guitar-playing, Volkswagen Karmann Ghia-driving young man in the seventies, only to become cynical and disillusioned about his flock and ministry, mostly due to Ned Flanders, who constantly pesters him with religious non-emergencies such as " coveting his own wife " or sometimes non-religious non-emergencies such as thinking he " swallowed a toothpick.

He paints realistic yet deeply sympathetic portraits of a score of very different men: cowards and heroes, the initially naive, eventually brave upper-class idealist Kariluoto, the down-to-earth Koskela, the hardened and cynical working-class grunt Lehto, the platoon comedian Vanhala and the preternaturally strong-nerved Rokka, the politically indifferent Hietanen and the communist Lahtinen.

Although initially perceived as cynical and conniving in the beginning, the viewer's sympathy for McGee increases as the series progresses, as McGee gradually comes to realize the Hulk may not be as dangerous as he initially thought, particularly following several instances in episodes such as " The Hulk Breaks Las Vegas " in which he has his own life saved by the creature.

He is initially cynical towards Halloween, but is persuaded by his sister, Dani, to go out.

The Lansingburgh Academy was a seminary in Lansingburgh in the U. S. state of New York just north of the city of Troy from the late 18th century to 1900, when the building was leased, and later sold, to the local public school district, used initially as a high school.

She initially expected to get married and settle down in the United States after seminary, but in 1890 she went back to India to help her father when her mother was ailing at the mission bungalow at Tindivanam.

Founded in 1839, the seminary initially resided in Perry County, Missouri.

Born to John Jekyll, he initially attended a seminary before joining the Middle Temple in 1680.

Sarge had initially studied for the priesthood prior to his police career, but his seminary studies were interrupted by military service during World War II.

Though initially against the Christians, Arima Harunobu eventually became a Christian himself and allowed Portuguese missionaries to build a seminary in 1580.

Finestra was born to Italian immigrants in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and initially attended a seminary college for two years to become a Catholic priest before transferring to Pennsylvania State, where he earned his BA in 1971.

Although founders initially called the institution a Baptist seminary for women, it has never been affiliated with or governed by any religious organization.

As those first students progressed through the seminary program, the institution initially provided six years of primary education (" minor seminary ," four years of high school and two years of college / pre-theology ) and six years of secondary seminary education (" major seminary ," another two years of college / pre-theology and four years of theology / seminary ).

Allis was independently wealthy and it was his property in Philadelphia which initially served as the home of the new seminary.

The seminary was initially conceived of as the evangelical Caltech, where excellence in scholarship would dovetail with faithfulness to orthodox Protestant beliefs, and yield a renovation of western culture from secular unbelief.

He was not Paramount's first choice to direct the movie ; Italian director Sergio Leone was initially offered the job, but declined in order to direct his own gangster opus, Once Upon a Time in America.

These competitions have contributed to local interest in the sport and the first professional local team, the Fuerteventura-Canarias, was formed, initially run by Óscar Guerrero, director of Kaiku, although they have not competed for the past few seasons.

Both Paul Muni and George Raft turned down the lead role, giving Bogart the opportunity to play a character of some depth, although legendary director Walsh initially fought the casting of supporting player Bogart as a leading man, much preferring Raft for the part.

He initially worked as an assistant director at Northampton repertory theatre ( now known as Royal & Derngate ), but in the early 1960s moved into television direction and was credited in this role on early episodes of Z-Cars in 1964.

Scott was not initially considered an actors ' director, but has become more receptive to ideas from his cast as his career has progressed.

In 1902, Prokofiev's mother met Sergei Taneyev, director of the Moscow Conservatory, who initially suggested that Prokofiev should start lessons in piano and composition with Alexander Goldenweiser.

Smith had initially been asked to audition for the role of Lisa's brother Bart, but casting director Bonita Pietila thought her voice was too high.

Many dissenters, including astronauts, asked NASA management to reconsider allowing the mission, but initially the director stood firm.

At this time the king also created the position of Astronomer Royal ( initially filled by John Flamsteed ), to serve as the director of the observatory and to " apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying of the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting of the art of navigation.

After initially turning down the role, he was convinced to accept it by actor Eli Wallach and director Sergio Leone, who flew from Italy to the United States to persuade him to take the part.

Stone initially wanted Richard Gere but the actor passed, so the director went with Douglas despite having been advised by others in Hollywood not to cast him.

In classic motion pictures such as Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, the director created storyboards that were initially thought by cinematographers as to be impossible to film.

Mattei was initially its president, then also the administrator and the general director.

Briatore sold his ( 62 %) shares to Ecclestone in December 2010 ( with the Italian possibly retaining a right of first-refusal should Ecclestone sell ) and initially stepped back from the day-to-day running of the business in favour of Amit Bhatia and Ishan Saksena ( company chairman and managing director ).

The actors constantly mispronounce the location " Ninus ' Tomb " as " Ninny's Tomb ," though they are corrected initially, and in vain, by " director " Peter Quince.

He was made director of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1936, initially for 3 years but the intervention of World War II meant he held the post until 1948.

The V & A has its origins in the Great Exhibition of 1851, with which Henry Cole, the museum's first director, was involved in planning ; initially it was known as the Museum of Manufactures, first opening in May 1852 at Marlborough House, but by September had been transferred to Somerset House.

According to STI director Roger Hector, Michael Jackson was initially brought in during development to compose music for the game, even though no mention of his involvement was included in any of the game's credits.

Cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth was initially hired as the film's director of photography but halfway through production producers replaced him with Fred J. Koenekamp.

The film, Raging Bull, was initially only a minor box office success, but eventually became a huge critical success both for director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro, who gained about 60 pounds during the shooting of the film to play the older LaMotta in later scenes.

Writer and director Jim Jarmusch had initially shot his first feature, Permanent Vacation ( 1980 ) as his final thesis while at New York University's film school, and spent the following four years making Stranger than Paradise.

His application was initially rejected as he had made many political enemies including the powerful director Laurence Sulivan.

She initially didn't want to do the film but after producer and director Gregory Ratoff pleaded with her and claimed he would go bankrupt if she didn't, West relented.

Grove worked initially as the company's director of engineering, and helped get its early manufacturing operations started.

In this case, the parent company was the Associated British Picture Corporation ( ABPC ), which initially did not wish to become involved with the new broadcasting system, but were persuaded to do so by the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) and the manager of their Pathé News subsidiary Howard Thomas, who became the new company's managing director.

The faction that initially contacts the humans, led by a Tine known as Steel, kills the adults and destroys many of the coldsleep boxes.

In 1991 the DFLP split, with a minority faction led by Yasser Abd Rabbo ( who had become increasingly close to Yasser Arafat ) favouring the Madrid negotiations that led initially to limited Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Trotsky was initially a supporter of the Menshevik Internationalists faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

Director Scorsese initially struggled selling his idea of realizing the film until DiCaprio became interested in playing protagonist Amsterdam Vallon, a young leader of the Irish faction, and thus, Miramax Films got involved with financing the project.

This was a public faction which initially included, in addition to the SWP, Gerry Healy's British section The Club, the Internationalist Communist Party in France ( then led by Lambert who had expelled Bleibtreu and his grouping ), Nahuel Moreno's party in Argentina and the Austrian and Chinese sections of the FI.

Although Molotov's faction initially won a vote in the Presidium, 7-4, to remove Khrushchev, the latter refused to resign unless a Central Committee plenum decided so.

His determination to preserve the independence of the Queen's administration from control of party faction initially enjoyed full support, but once royal favour turned elsewhere, the Duke, like his key ally Godolphin, found himself isolated ; first becoming little more than a servant of the Whigs, then a victim of the Tories.

The painting was initially displayed in the antechapel but a significant faction of the fellowship – including Michael Jaffé and Provost Noel Annan – were determined for the painting to become the focal point of an entirely redesigned east end.

The largest political group in the anti-treaty faction, who opposed the treaty initially by force of arms, had boycotted the institutions of the new Irish Free State until 1926.

On December 5, 1793, journalist Camille Desmoulins began publishing Le Vieux Cordelier, a newspaper initially aimed – with the approval of Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety – at the ultra-revolutionary Hébertist faction, whose extremist demands, anti-religious fervor, and propensity for sudden insurrections was problematic for the Committee.

On his arrival in Sweden he initially tried to gain time by confirming what had been done ; but the aggressiveness of the Protestant faction and the persistence of Duke Charles made civil war inevitable.

The opposition NF Flag Group contained the traditionalists such as Andrew Brons, Ian Anderson, Martin Wingfield, Tina Wingfield, Joe Pearce ( initially associated with the Political Soldiers ' faction ) and Steve Brady, who ran candidates under the NF banner in the 1987 general election.

The most famous of these are the war in the 40s BC between Julius Caesar and the optimate faction of the senatorial elite initially led by Pompey and the subsequent war between Caesar's successors, Octavian and Mark Antony in the 30s BC.

The story initially leads the informed viewer to identify the figure speaking to Ratcliffe and commanding the renegade faction as Davros, and to identify the imperial faction with the Daleks who captured Davros at the end of Revelation of the Daleks, with the stated intention of taking him to Skaro for trial.

The most popular faction was initially the local Socialist-Revolutionary that composed the local government together with Federalists and Mensheviks.

The CPGB was initially divided whether to embrace the organisation, the PCC initially sided with the pro-affiliation faction led by Ian Donovan.

Lovestone had initially called his faction the " Communist Party ( Majority Group )" in the expectation that the majority of the CPUSA's members would join him, but only a few hundred people joined his new organization.

Also in that faction was Bob Satiacum, initially a rival to Whitebear for the leadership role.

Even Karl Liebknecht, who became one of the most outspoken opponents of the war, initially followed the party line: he abstained from voting to not defy his own faction.

Ligachev supported reform of the Soviet Union and initially supported Gorbachev ; however, as Gorbachev ’ s policies of perestroika and glasnost began to resemble social democratic policies he distanced himself from Gorbachev, and by 1988 he was recognized as the leader of the more conservative, anti-Gorbachev faction of Soviet politicians.

It was composed by Ogino Tomoichi ( 1732 – 1801 ), initially a disciple in the Hatano-ryu faction, before acquiring the post of Kengyo in the Kyoto branch of the Maeda-ryu school.