In the latter part of that decade, settlers attracted by plentiful water and timber and the promise of a railway line made their homes near a group of springs bubbling through a willow copse from the bank where the Burlington Northern depot now stands.

In 1980, the promise was changed from ' To do my duty to God ' to ' To love my God ', in order to accommodate different faiths, most groups allow changes to the promise, though some groups do not allow atheists and this has attracted criticism from the National Secular Society.

The early promise Guerrero showed attracted interest from, among others, Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Atlético Madrid, Juventus FC, S. S. Lazio and Manchester United.

Brought up within a family of skilled artisans ( his father was a draughtsman ) Painlevé showed early promise across the range of elementary studies and was initially attracted by either an engineering or political career.

Women were attracted by the promise of greater freedom as empowered and emancipated working women and city dwellers with lots of opportunities in leisure time.

He became increasingly politically active as a result witnessing both the working conditions of the labourers and the poor living conditions of the unemployed men and their families who were attracted to the area by the promise of work.

With a unique perspective on the eventful early life of Indiana Jones – including its cinematic qualities, an emphasis on storytelling and characters, and an enticing promise of new adventures each week – McCallum attracted a stellar list of writers and actors to the creative ranks of the series.

In September 2002, The Thrills signed with Virgin Records, attracted by the promise of artistic freedom and the label's decision to allow them to record their debut record in Hollywood with producer Tony Hoffer ( Beck, Air ).

He partnered with Seth Bullock in a hardware store, and in August 1876, the partners, attracted to Deadwood by the promise of a great deal of business stemming from the gold rush, purchased a lot there from Sam Schwartzwald and Henry Beaman, and opened the Office of Star and Bullock, Auctioneers and Commission Merchants.

Land scarcity, unemployment, underemployment, and the promise of higher wages attracted young Irishmen to Newfoundland.

Swearengen was one of the first Deadwood residents not to be a prospector or miner ; he represented the beginning of a second wave of residents, attracted there by the promise of riches to be stripped not from the earth, but from the prospectors and miners.

This promise of freedom attracted thousands of slaves to the city who escaped to British lines.

The failure of Greece to reach the imperial destiny that Periclean Athens had seemed to promise was almost directly attributable to her physical conformation.

The traditional Jewish understanding of the promise of salvation was that being rooted in " the seed of Abraham " referred to physical lineage from Abraham.

De Schutter told the Independent in March 2012: " What we are seeing now is that these financial markets have developed massively with the arrival of these new financial investors, who are purely interested in the short-term monetary gain and are not really interested in the physical thing – they never actually buy the ton of wheat or maize ; they only buy a promise to buy or to sell.

One of the things that commended his candidacy to certain cardinals may have been his physical vigour, which seemed to promise a long pontificate.

Ultimately, the plebeian tribune's veto was based in a promise of physical force.

For Missouri Synod Lutherans, sacraments are actions instituted by Jesus and combine a promise in God's Word with a physical element.

Confession and absolution is called a sacrament in the Apology of the Augsburg Confession and so is also considered by many Lutherans to be a sacrament, because it was instituted by Christ and has his promise of grace, even though it is not tied to a physical element.

With his boldly-made promise now fulfilled, Ramsey had proved that the 4 – 4 – 2 system could work and had assembled an England team that could compete on the highest level due to physical fitness and good tactics.

De Schutter told the Independent in March 2012: " What we are seeing now is that these financial markets have developed massively with the arrival of these new financial investors, who are purely interested in the short-term monetary gain and are not really interested in the physical thing – they never actually buy the ton of wheat or maize ; they only buy a promise to buy or to sell.

Selective admission is based relation to Jesuit on previous academic performances, recommendations of teachers, principal, and / or church parish pastor, promise of future development, and his desire to profit from the moral, spiritual, academic, and physical programs offered by the school.

At home in his New York City apartment, John Shaft is drugged with a tranquilizer dart, then kidnapped and persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor to travel to Africa ( much of the movie was filmed in Eritrea ), assuming the identity of a native-speaking itinerant worker.

A promise to make a gift in the future is unenforceable, and legally meaningless, even if the promise is accompanied by a present transfer of the physical property in question.

Parole is a promise by a prisoner of war to a captor to fulfill certain conditions such as agreeing not to escape nor to fight again once released — in return for such favors as relief from physical bondage, improved food and living conditions or repatriation ahead of the sick, injured or longer – held prisoners.

In the 1930s, Fleming ’ s trials occasionally showed more promise, and he continued, until 1940, to try to interest a chemist skilled enough to further refine usable penicillin.

Due to a promise he had made to his father, which Arthur refused to break even after Henrich Floris's death, he felt obliged to go on with his merchant apprenticeship.

Arthur struggles with his promise to marry Susan.

This is a common theme among epics, for in the tale of King Arthur, Arthur declares a similar promise before departing for Avalon.

To his friends, Arthur ’ s death came as ' a loud and terrible stroke from the reality of things upon the faery building of our youth ' They remembered him in vivid elegy: he had been ' the most charming and the most promising ' of his contemporaries ; ' his mind was more original & powerful than the minds of us his contemporaries '; ' he had a genius for metaphysical analysis ', ' a peculiar clearness of perception ', and an ' always active mind '; an ' angelic spirit ', ' he seemed to tread the earth as a spirit from some better world ; ' his mighty spirit ( beautiful and powerful as it had already grown ), yet bore all the marks of youth, and growth, and ripening promise.

One of the main platforms of Prime Minister Arthur for the 2003 elections was his promise to transform the country into a Parliamentary republic, replacing Queen Elizabeth II with a Barbadian President as Head of State.

King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, and his remaining knights promise to lead the Britons, united with the defeat of the Saxons and retreat of the Romans, against future invaders.

Arthur is late on his promise, however, and Claudas succeeds in his invasion, resulting in both kings ' deaths.

Born in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, Wilfred Josephs had his first musical studies in Newcastle with Arthur Milner, and showed early promise, but was persuaded by his parents to take up a ' sensible ' career.

As an example of how Hitler's power functioned in practice, Kershaw used Hitler's directive to the Gauleiters Albert Forster and Arthur Greiser to " Germanize " the part of north-western Poland annexed to Germany in 1939 within the next 10 years with his promise that " no questions would be asked " about how this would be done.

* The knights swear an oath of devotion to Arthur, which invites comparison to how Danny's friends promise to see that their benefactor will never go hungry.

He reappears at a tournament and explains the situation to Arthur, but refuses the king's promise of a truce.

And although these insights into the nature of art may be in themselves insufficient for a thoroughgoing philosophy of art, their peculiar authenticity in this day and age requires that they be taken seriously and gives promise that from their very substance, new and valid chapters in the philosophy of art may be written.

recommend to the Congress from time to time authorization for construction and operation, or for participation in the construction and operation, of a demonstration plant for any process which he determines, on the basis of subsections ( A ) and ( B ) above, has great promise of accomplishing the purposes of this Act, such recommendation to be accompanied by a report on the size, location, and cost of the proposed plant and the engineering and economic details with respect thereto ; ;

however the President, who would like to woo the former Chinese province away from both Peking and Moscow, would promise Chen nothing more than an abstention by the U.S. if Outer Mongolia's admission comes to a vote.

In the light from the bedside table his father looked so worried that the promise spilled out.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

The true and global revitalisation of interest in the concept dates from 1903, when Pelham Warner took a team to Australia with the promise that he would regain " the ashes ".

" At the end, he succeeded in obtaining from Theodosius a promise that the sentence should be completely revoked, with the very natural consequence that thereafter the prospect of immunity thus afforded occasioned spoliations of synagogues all over the Empire.

Under strong pressure from Stilicho, the Roman Senate consented to promise its payment.

The story of Ealdred being deposed comes from the Vita Edwardi, a life of Edward the Confessor, but the Vita Wulfstani, an account of the life of Ealdred's successor at Worcester, Wulfstan, says that Nicholas refused the pallium until a promise to find a replacement for Worcester was given by Ealdred.

John of Worcester also claims that at Wulfstan's consecration, Stigand, the archbishop of Canterbury extracted a promise from Ealdred that neither he nor his successors would lay claim to any jurisdiction over the diocese of Worcester.

Alexios used the opportunity of meeting the crusader leaders separately as they arrived and extracting from them oaths of homage and the promise to turn over conquered lands to the Byzantine Empire.

Bishop Asser claimed that the ' pagans ' agreed to vacate the realm and made good their promise ; and, indeed, the Viking army did withdraw from Reading in the autumn of 871 to take up winter quarters in Mercian London.

“ Acts, then is a continuation of the Lucan Gospel, not in the sense that it relates what Jesus continued to do, but how his followers carried out his commission under the guidance of his Spirit .” Thus, part of the answer to the purpose of Acts is that Luke is writing to Theophilus, who is also mentioned in Luke 1: 3, in order to explain to him the occurrences that take place in the church that fulfill Jesus ’ promise to his disciples that “ you will be baptized with, the Holy Spirit not many days from now ” ( Acts 1: 5 ).

Once, when his younger son Leonid fell seriously ill, Zinaida extracted a promise from her husband, as they stood by the boy's sickbed, that he would end his affair with Olga Ivinskaya.

He seizes power from his regent mother and allies with the Bene Gesserit, who promise to marry him to Ghanima and support his bid for coronation as Emperor.

In 2006, the company completed its promise, having paid a total of $ 180 million ( and an additional $ 17 million from a relief fund run by Lutnick's sister, Edie ).

Betrothal ( erusin ), which is merely a binding promise to get married, is distinct from marriage itself ( nissu ' in ), with the time between these events varying substantially.

Parliament reluctantly agreed to the marriage, with the promise from both James and Charles that the marriage would not entail a liberty of religion being accorded to any Roman Catholic not of the Princess ' own household.

On a breach of contract by a defendant, a court generally awards the sum that would restore the injured party to the economic position they expected from performance of the promise or promises ( known as an " expectation measure " or " benefit-of-the-bargain " measure of damages ).

Biblical scholars describe the Bible's theologically-motivated history writing as " salvation history ", meaning a history of God's saving actions that give identity to Israel-the promise of offspring and land to the ancestors, the exodus from Egypt ( in which God saves Israel from slavery ), the wilderness wandering, the revelation at Sinai, and the hope for the future life in the promised land.

All three promises are more richly fulfilled in each succeeding generation, until through Joseph " all the world " is saved from famine, and by bringing the children of Israel down to Egypt he becomes the means through which the promise can be fulfilled.

Although Haiti actively assisted the independence movements of many Latin American countries – and secured a promise from the great liberator, Simón Bolívar, that he would free their slaves after winning independence from Spain – the nation of former slaves was excluded from the hemisphere's first regional meeting of independent nations, held in Panama in 1826.