Martineau was in his early life a preacher even more emphatically than a teacher.

Ma vraie vie à Rouen ( The True Story of My Life in Rouen ), is a 2002 movie by French directors Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, which tracks a year in the life of a teenage figure skater in a quasi-documentary, video diary style.

Martineau and Nelson received 13 stays of execution, but were spared the death penalty in 1972 when the United States Supreme Court ruled in Furman v. Georgia, that " unitary trial " procedure, in which the jury was asked to return a verdict of guilt or innocence and, simultaneously, determine whether the defendant would be punished by death or life imprisonment, was in violation of the eighth amendment to the United States Constitution.

In October 1836 after Charles returned from the voyage he stayed with his brother in a bustling London, where Erasmus enjoyed a life of literary leisure, his week revolving around intellectual dinner parties, spending his days with Miss Martineau.

It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

The hands and their bosses saw him as a lone knight of the range, waging a dedicated crusade against a lawless new society that was threatening a beloved way of life.

It would be literary license calculated to glamorize life to say that he, oh, dropped his napkin, so startled was he by Mary Jane's beauty.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??

Keith was on his feet because he didn't care at all about life any more: Penny on her feet, proudly, because she cared too much.

Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.

Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

The games were over, this was life.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

Bertha, blue-eyed like Mamma, was from the start her mother's daughter, destined for her mother's role in life.

but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

Since they were essentially itinerant, they confided to the care of some of the better educated and highly respected converts the fixed necessary functions relating to the daily life of the community.

In response to Haeckel ’ s evolutionary claim that all vertebrates are essentially identical in the first month of embryonic life as proof of common descent, His responds by insisting that a more skilled observer would recognize even sooner that early embryos can be distinguished.

Full length sizing of cartridges is often thought to greatly shorten case life by work hardening the full length of the case, which can cause the case neck to split, although some studies show that the number of reloads possible with a case is essentially the same for either full length sizing as for neck sizing only if the issue is one of neck hardening.

Consistent with his general ethical theory, Singer holds that the right to life is essentially tied to a being's capacity to hold preferences, which in turn is essentially tied to a being's capacity to feel pain and pleasure.

The rhizotron is essentially a single gallery containing a set of large bronze abstract castings which contain LCD screens that carry repeating loops of information about the life of trees.

" ( Marx, introduction ) This is a functional definition of religion, meaning that it explains what religion does in social life: essentially, it unites societies.

While the show is typically set in ancient times, its themes are essentially modern and it investigates the ideas of taking responsibility for past misdeeds, the value of human life, personal liberty and sacrifice, and friendship.

Because cheetahs rely on their speed to obtain their meals, any injury that slows them down could essentially be life threatening.

Forest monasteries often function like early Christian monasteries, with small groups of monks living an essentially hermit-like life gathered loosely around a respected elder teacher.

: The Rosary is essentially a contemplative prayer, which requires " tranquility of rhythm or even a mental lingering which encourages the faithful to meditate on the mysteries of the Lord's life.

Although not as complex as other measures, and now essentially replaced by the Human Development Index, the PQLI is notable for Morris's attempt to show a " less fatalistic pessimistic picture " by focussing on three areas where global quality of life was generally improving at the time, and ignoring Gross National Product and other possible indicators that were not improving.

Clean, white " ash for the purification ceremonies is regarded as the basis of ritual life ," which, " are essentially the rites proper to the tending of a domestic fire, for the temple fire is that of the hearth fire raised to a new solemnity.

It reconciles the " problem " of the Trinity ( or at least Jesus ) by holding that the Son was not co-eternal with the Father, and that Jesus Christ was essentially granted godhood ( adopted ) for the plans of God and for his own perfect life and works.

An Icelandic patronymic is essentially only a designation of fatherhood, and is therefore redundant in Icelandic social life except to differentiate people of the same first name — the phone directory, for example, lists people by their given name first, patronymic second.

The great cloister was surrounded by the buildings essentially connected with the daily life of the monks ,-- the church to the south, with the refectory placed as always on the side opposite, the dormitory, raised on a vaulted undercroft, and the chapter-house adjacent, and the lodgings of the cellarer, responsible for providing both monks and guests with food, to the west.

Since they were essentially itinerant, they confided to the care of some of the better educated and highly respected converts the fixed necessary functions relating to the daily life of the community.

Financially secure thanks to his family fortune, Morphy essentially spent the rest of his life in idleness.

Many of the lines are similar, however, and they can help to give the student a " flavor " for the sorts of things which Maat governed — essentially everything, from the most formal to the most mundane aspects of life.

The money for that very expensive court, then, since the 1730s came from wealthy Hesse, and this means that Frederick essentially behaved like an absentee landlord and drained Hessian resources to finance life in Sweden.

Although her humour appeared light and frilly on the surface, there was often a serious point to be made: the song " Three Brothers ", for example, appears to recount the happy, busy life of a spinster in lightweight terms, but it essentially describes her willing slavery to her male siblings and their families.

Eliade considers this return to the source of life essentially equivalent to the eternal return.

The History is much more than the vindication of a party ; it is an attempt to insinuate a view of politics, pragmatic, reverent, essentially Burkean, informed by a high, even tumid sense of the worth of public life, yet fully conscious of its interrelations with the wider progress of society ; it embodies what Hallam had merely asserted, a sense of the privileged possession by Englishmen of their history, as well as of the epic dignity of government by discussion.

This ability to return to life, even after suffering fatal injuries, essentially makes Scarlet " indestructible ".

By the state of pilgrimage is to be understood our earthly life ; death as a natural ( although not an essentially necessary ) limit, closes the time of meriting.