For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

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

It was here that the terror-stricken Dennis Moon played an unrehearsed role during the children's party.

Its climactic role was to pursue and demoralize a defeated enemy but this chance never came in the Atlanta campaign.

When McPherson pushed blindly through Snake Creek Gap in a potentially decisive movement, the only cavalry in his van was the Ninth Illinois Mounted Infantry, totally inadequate for its role.

Then why was he assuming the role -- the gesture and the suffering??

Or was he now taking the role -- the gesture and the suffering -- because it was the only way to affirm his history and identity in the torpid, befogged loneliness of this land.

She was hired and was found to be entirely satisfactory when she played the role eight hours a day.

They were stressed in the speeches of Si Mubarak Bekkai when the first Council of Ministers was formed and again when the Istiqlal took a leading role in the second Council.

With four younger children at home, Lucy stepped into her mother's role, and even after the brothers and sisters were grown, she was her father's comfort and stay until he died in 1879.

This was disclosed today by a responsible source amid intensified efforts by the Soviet Union to gain a greater role in the staff and operation of the United Nations.

Among stage performances was a starring role in `` Golden Arrow '' directed by Noel Coward.

All week long the President clearly was playing a larger personal role in foreign affairs ; ;

Then there is a matchmaker, one Mikeen Flynn, a role for which Eddie Foy was happily selected.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

He was also called Agyieus ( ; Ἀγυιεύς, Aguīeus, from ἄγυια, " street ") for his role in protecting roads and homes ; and as Nomius ( ; Νόμιος, Nomios, literally " pastoral ") and Nymphegetes ( ; Νυμφηγέτης, Numphēgetēs, from Νύμφη, " Nymph ", and ἡγέτης, " leader ") in his role as a protector of shepherds and pastoral life.

As such Anglicanism was, from the outset, a movement with an explicitly episcopal polity, a characteristic which has been vital in maintaining the unity of the Communion by conveying the episcopate's role in manifesting visible catholicity and ecumenism.

In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

Due to his close proximity with Jacques Doriot's fascist Parti Populaire Français ( PPF ) during the 1930s and his role in implementing eugenics policies during Vichy France, he was accused after the Liberation of collaborationism, but died before the trial.

Spalding was, however, known to aggrandise his role in the major moments in baseball's history.

Throughout ancient and medieval history, most architectural design and construction was carried out by artisans, such as stone masons and carpenters, rising to the role of master builder.

Still more different from Bachofen's perspective is the lack of role permanency in Freud's view: Freud held that time and differing cultures would mold Athena to stand for what was necessary to them.

Though initially unenthusiastic about acting, he returned from service, auditioned for a Broadway play, and was offered a role.

She was offered the role of Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives, but declined.

Barrymore's role in the costume drama Ever After ( 1998 ) offered a modern take on the classic fairy tale of Cinderella and served as a reminder, according to Roger Ebert, of how well Drew Barrymore " can hold the screen and involve us in her characters ".

Denis Leary was offered the role of Dignam in the 2006 film The Departed but turned it down due to scheduling conflicts with his television show, Rescue Me.

She claimed she was offered two highly sought-after movie roles: the part of possessed child Regan MacNeil in the 1973 film, The Exorcist, and the starring role in Louis Malle's 1978 film, Pretty Baby.

Exorcist author / screenwriter William Peter Blatty said in the book Former Child Stars: The Story of America's Least Wanted that he had " no such recollection " of Plato being offered the role.

Paul Newman was grateful to Lemmon for his support and offered him the role of the Sundance Kid, later played by Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but Lemmon turned it down.

Perhaps as a result of the pharaoh's role in Pompey's murder, Caesar sided with Cleopatra ; he is reported to have wept at the sight of Pompey's head, which was offered to him by the pharaoh as a gift.

He had recommended previous manager Barnes to the club and offered himself as a replacement manager should the young Barnes not succeed in the role.

Esther Marson-Smedley, a correspondent with the Daily Express who shared the train ride from Plymouth to London, then introduced him to Marjorie Maxse, who offered him a role in the War Office.

On December 3, 2001, Fidler offered to let Olson testify under oath about her role in the case.

Dunst was offered the role of Angela in the 1999 drama film American Beauty, but turned it down because she did not want to appear in the film's suggestive sexual scenes or kiss co-star Kevin Spacey.

Marvin was offered the role of Quint in Jaws ( 1975 ) but declined, stating " What would I tell my fishing friends who'd see me come off a hero against a dummy shark ?".

Music plays a large role in most PC ( USA ) worship services and ranges from chant to traditional Protestant hymns, to classical sacred music, to more modern music, depending on the preference of the individual church and is offered prayerfully and not " for entertainment or artistic display.

The 500 series was completely discontinued upon the introduction of its replacement the PPC-based PowerBook 5300, with the low-end ( but upgradable ) PowerBook 190 replacing the 500's role as the only 68LC040 PowerBook Apple offered.

In 2010, Qatar twice offered to restore trade relations with Israel and allow the reinstatement of the Israeli mission in Doha, on condition that Israel allow Qatar to send building materials and money to Gaza to help rehabilitate infrastructure, and that Israel make a public statement expressing appreciation for Qatar's role and acknowledging its standing in the Middle East.

Wright was offered the role of Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, but turned it down because she was pregnant.

Following the completion of Sonic 3 and Knuckles, Yuji Naka was offered the role of producer at Sega of Japan.

Goldwyn and the film's director, William Wyler, offered Leigh the secondary role of Isabella ; but she refused, preferring the role of Cathy, which went to Merle Oberon.

The first choice for Xena was the British actress Vanessa Angel, but an illness prevented her from travelling, and the role was offered to another four actresses before the relatively unknown Lawless.

The role of Phillip Green was first offered to Cary Grant, but he turned it down.

Lucille Ball was offered Gloria Grahame's role in the picture by DeMille, but dropped out when she discovered she was pregnant with her first child, Lucie Arnaz.

Joan Crawford and Gladys George were offered roles, but George lost her role when the director decided he wanted to cast the female roles against type while Crawford's demands to be filmed by her own cameraman led to the studio taking a chance on Deborah Kerr, also playing against type.

He also offered his opinions about the role of the U. S. as a world model for democracy: