A nation may go to war on some trifling pretext, when in reality it may have been guided by an unconscious instinct that its very life was at stake.

You could not stand on dignity when you were soaked and muddied and your life was at stake.

The boy stood off a few feet and he had the stake again and he was racing innocently in circles, making the buzzing tractor sound with his lips.

Because the series was at stake, the match was to be " timeless ", i. e., played to a finish.

It resulted in a conviction and she was burnt at the stake in 1576.

The years were marked by persecution of the followers of the Paulician and Bogomil heresies — one of his last acts was to publicly burn at the stake Basil, a Bogomil leader, with whom he had engaged in a theological dispute.

In a public suit the litigants each had three hours to speak, much less in private suits ( though here it was in proportion to the amount of money at stake ).

His body was exhumed and burnt at the stake in 1559 after it was discovered that he was the Anabaptist David Joris.

Cranmer was punished for his work in the English Reformation by being burned at the stake on 21 March 1556.

Finally, in 2005, McMorris was forced to sell his stake in the team to Charlie and Dick Monfort.

Jan Hus, summoned to Constance under a letter of indemnity, was condemned by council and burned at the stake notwithstanding on 6 July 1415.

Wagoner and Parton were both frustrated by her lack of solo success, because he had a significant financial stake in her future: as of 1969, he was her co-producer and owned nearly half of Owepar, the publishing company Parton had founded with Bill Owens.

Cotton field, Usulután DepartmentThe ultimate goal was to develop a rural middle class with a stake in a peaceful and prosperous future for El Salvador.

He was burned at the stake by the Roman Inquisition in 1600, though his views on astronomy were not the main reason for his condemnation.

He was convicted as a heretic and burned at the stake on the Piazza della Signoria on 23 May 1498.

" According to historian Piers Brendon, " Orwell was the saint of common decency who would in earlier days, said his BBC boss Rushbrook Williams, ' have been either canonised – or burnt at the stake '".

After the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy for his pantheism, he was burned at the stake.

The execution of a number of Protestant preachers, most notably the Lutheran influenced Patrick Hamilton in 1528 and later the proto-Calvinist George Wishart in 1546 who was burnt at the stake in St. Andrews by Cardinal Beaton for heresy, did nothing to stem the growth of these ideas.

This was increased to 50. 9 percent in 2005, but when GM further increased its stake to 70. 1 percent around the time of its 2009 Chapter 11 reorganisation, Holden's interest was relinquished and transferred to another ( undisclosed ) part of GM.

Eldol states that he is the sole survivor of the Britons who met there, having escaped by defending himself a stake that he claims was thrown to him by God.

To protect the suspect's due-process rights in felony cases ( where the suspect's interest in liberty is at stake ), there is usually a preliminary hearing, at which a judge determines whether there was probable cause to arrest the suspect who is in custody.

Under the administration of Alan Mulally, Ford gradually divested its stake in Mazda from 2008 to 2010, with Ford currently holding 3 % of Mazda stock and severing production as well as development ties.

Irving Trust acquired a majority stake in 1973, but when Irving Trust merged with Bank of New York in 1988, the latter gradually started to sell down its stake in Wing Hang.

Bank of China ( Hong Kong ) gradually accumulated a 70 % stake in Chiyu in the 1970s ; the rest of the bank is held by the Jimei University foundation, the government of Xiamen Municipality City and minority shareholders.

In 1986, Sabena acquired a 49 percent stake in DAT, and an increasing number of flights were operated on behalf of the Belgian national airline henceforth ( also adopting the airline codes of Sabena ), using a fleet of British Aerospace 146 aircraft, in favor of which other airliners were gradually phased out.

Since 1 November 2007 Air Berlin in terms of a strategic partnership with a 49 % stake in the company, which entered into force gradually.

Deutsche Post acquired a 22. 5 % stake in 1998, gradually increasing it to 100 % in 2001-2002.

On November 1, 2006, the Armenian government handed de facto control of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline to Russian company Gazprom and increased Gazprom's stake in the Russian-Armenian company ArmRosGazprom from 45 % to 58 % by approving an additional issue of shares worth $ 119 million.

The first decade of the new millennium saw Jardine Cycle & Carriage acquire an initial 31 % stake in Astra International, which has since been increased to just over 50 % and a 20 % shareholding in Rothschilds Continuation Holdings, which rekindled a relationship that began in 1838.

Effective from 26 October 2005, Telenor increased its economic stake in Total Access Communication ( DTAC ) in Thailand to 56. 9 per cent.

In March 2011, DirecTV ( which by this point had taken over Liberty Media's stake in the network, which had increased to 65 %) sold a 5 % stake in the network back to Sony Pictures Entertainment ; although DirecTV nominally remains the majority owner, it has ceded control of the network to Sony, and has the right to force Sony to increase its stake in GSN to 58 %.

In 1996, Martinair bought a 40 % stake in Colombian cargo carrier TAMPA Cargo, based in Medellín, which it increased to 58 % in 2003.

In April 2012 MAN SE announced that Volkswagen had increased its interest to a 73. 0 % voting stake and 71. 08 % of the share capital.

That stake later increased to 76. 9 %.

However, in 1963 Chrysler increased their stake to a controlling 64 % by purchasing stock from Fiat, and they subsequently extended that holding further to 77 %.

In 2008 it increased its stake in BLS Cargo AG to 40 percent.

In 1968, EMI increased its stake in Capitol Records to 98 %; However that same year, Capitol merged with Audio Devices, Inc. A manufacturer of computer tape and recording to form a new holding company called Capitol Industries, Inc., reducing EMI's stake of the company to 68 %.

Renault, having increased their stake in the company several times to keep it solvent, eventually owned 49 % in 1983.

In 1973, the bank increased the stake to full 100 % ownership only to withdraw by 1999 with ownership of the refinery changing to Hereaus & Management.

Subsequent purchases increased NASDAQ's stake to 25. 1 %, holding off competing bids for several months.

On 20 November 2006, within a month or two of the expiration of this period, NASDAQ increased its stake to 28. 75 % and launched a hostile offer at the minimum permitted bid of £ 12. 43 per share, which was the highest NASDAQ had paid on the open market for its existing shares.

With great wealth at stake, tensions between the companies increased to the point where several minor armed skirmishes broke out, and the two companies were forced to merge.

In March 2001 it increased its stake to 37. 3 percent when it acquired Volvo's stake in MMC's truck-making operations, further boosting Mercedes ' share of a market it already dominated.

Then in 1997 Walmart increased its stake by acquiring 51 % of Cifra stock.

Once the acquisition was completed Cifra was renamed, the new company became Wal-Mart de Mexico, S. A. de C. V. Walmart again increased its stake in Wal-Mart de Mexico to 60 % in April 2000.

Less than a year later in 2006, Walmart increased its stake to 51 % and changed the name to Walmart Centroamérica.