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There is no more `` plot '' than that ; ;
The difference is that the masters took the bare frame of a plot and filled it with their own world ; ;
As you have doubtless guessed already, the plot is plastered with Freudian, Jungian, and Meinckian theory.
They might, for example, plot it exactly as is, or they might make ten day moving averages of it, or longer moving averages, or they might simply plot the ratio of odd-lot purchases to odd-lot sales.
In addition, it is an important link in the plot, giving us a revealing glimpse of the people's attitude toward Boris and the false Dimitri.
A straight line relationship is usually observed in a plot of Af against load L, having slope k, and Af.
You get back to the captain and tell him this: Somebody's going to take a shot at the prime minister, and Mahzeer is in on the plot.
that its presentation in this country is part of a capitalist plot to boobify the American people ; ;
I know nothing of any plot, if there is such a thing ''.
The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.
The remainder of the book is a collection of essays on the game, statistics for the new characters and an update of the older ones in light of their appearance in the second series, and ( perhaps most usefully for GMs ) plot summaries of each of the ten books.
Not much is known concerning this plot and the reasons behind it.
A long narrow strip of land is more efficient to plough than a square plot, since the plough does not have to be turned so often.
The grave site is located on the Arcadia Hebron plot of land at the corner of Summit Avenue and Dingle Road.
The ansible itself is a major plot element, nearly a MacGuffin in Moon's Vatta's War series.
the plot takes place only in a gigantic megastructure / arcology simply called the City, which is still being expanded by its automatic systems.
The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.
Dariush Mehrjui's film Sara ( 1993 ) is based on A Doll's House, with the plot transferred to Iran with Sara, played by Niki Karimi, is the Nora of Ibsen's play.
The second funeral is distinguished by themes contrasting with those of the first, as well as by a change in the direction of the plot which leads to Beowulf's fight against Grendel's Mother.
The setting and plot also suggest that the lament is funeral: the Last Survivor describes burial offerings similar to those in the funerals of Scyld Scefing, Hildeburg ’ s kin, and Beowulf.
First among them is the risk associated with portraying the king's ancestor as a murderer and conspirator in the plot to overthrow a rightful king, as well as the author's desire to flatter a powerful patron.

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She alerted Cortés to the danger and even pretended to be cooperating with her native informants while Cortés foiled their plot to trap his men.
Eutychius sent an emissary to Rome, with instructions to kill Gregory and the chief nobility in the city, but the plot was uncovered and foiled.
* November 5 – Gunpowder Plot: A plot by to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building and orders a search of the area ( records show 36 barrels of gunpowder were found, and Fawkes was arrested for trying to kill King James I of England and the members who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day ).
Opposition to Edward and the Despensers rule continued ; in 1324 there was a foiled assassination attempt on their lives, and in early 1325 John of Nottingham was placed on trial for involvement in a plot to kill them with magic.
Kenneth Von Gunden's 1990 novel Starspawn takes the same basic premise into a Medieval setting: England in the time of the Third Crusade is secretly invaded by parasites from space who attach themselves to knights and gain control of castles, and whose plot is eventually foiled by a wise and dedicated monk.
After an early assassination plot ( The Epiphany Rising ) was foiled in January 1400, Richard died in prison of starvation.
Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Pinkerton served as head of the Union Intelligence Service in 1861 – 1862 and foiled an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland, while guarding Abraham Lincoln on his way to his inauguration.
The building is considered to have been the intended target of a foiled terrorist attack, involving the hijacking of airplanes as part of the Bojinka plot, which was foiled in 1995.
Pinkerton had become famous when he foiled a plot to assassinate then President-Elect Abraham Lincoln.
Because of Mordecai's vigilance, the plot was foiled.
This theory of origin has support from the alleged fact that the label Huguenot was first applied in France to those conspirators ( all of them aristocratic members of the Reformed Church ) involved in the Amboise plot of 1560: a foiled attempt to wrest power in France from the influential House of Guise.
The power of the Hōjō remained unchallenged until 1324, when Emperor Go-Daigo orchestrated a plot to overthrow them, but the plot was discovered almost immediately and foiled.
JI ’ s terror plans in Southeast Asia were exposed when its plot to set off several bombs in Singapore was foiled by the local authorities.
During World War I, a plot to blast the tunnel was foiled.
Pinkerton became famous when he claimed to have foiled a plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln, who later hired Pinkerton agents for his personal security during the Civil War.
A plot to kidnap Douglas-Home in April 1964 was foiled by the Prime Minister himself.
Frontline cited sources as saying that " O ' Neill's removal from the scene in Yemen may have seriously limited the Cole investigation ," and some have speculated that if Bodine had not blocked O ' Neill's return, the September 11 plot might have been foiled.
The plot is foiled by a middle-aged tailor from the Twentieth Century, who possess powerful psychic abilities as a result of experiments performed upon him when he arrived in the future.
* In the novel Patriot Games and the eponymous film, terrorist Sean Miller is tried in the Old Bailey for the attempted kidnapping of the Prince & Princess of Wales ( which killed two guards ), and sentenced to life in prison after Jack Ryan's testimony ( Ryan foiled the plot by disabling Miller and killing another terrorist with Miller's gun ).
* The Marriage of Figaro ( 1778 ) by Beaumarchais and the 1786 opera of the same name by Mozart, whose plot centres on Count Almaviva's foiled attempt to exercise his right with Figaro's bride, Suzanne in the play, Susanna in the opera.
His plot was eventually foiled by Prince Alexander with help from Captain Saladin ( captain of the guard who was suspicious and helped after reading a letter showing the truth ) and the resurrected King and Queen in the long path's ending.
Another possibility for the model of M was William Melville, an Irishman who became head of the Secret Service Bureau, the forerunner to both MI5 and MI6: Melville was referred to within government circles as M. Melville recruited Sidney Reilly into government service and foiled an assassination plot against Queen Victoria on her 1887 Golden Jubilee.

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