More likely though, the alteration in the story of Hariti and her successful conversion to Buddhism seems to be an early strategy with which to convert the predominantly Iranic Gandharans from Zoroastrianism, and Animism to Buddhism.

One review noted that Generals was the first ever Command & Conquer real-time strategy game that did not include full-motion video cutscenes to tell the story and that it departed from the unique interface and base-building mechanics that had characterized all of the previous C & C RTS titles.

Dennis Danvers explained the use of science fiction as a narrative strategy: cience fiction, in effect, has become a narrative strategy, a way of approaching story, in which not only characters must be invented, but the world and its ways as well, without resorting to magic or the supernatural, where the fantasy folks work.

IGN described the story as " so deep and intuitive that it'll likely please fans ", and said the battle system maintains " a needed element of strategy and balance ".

The Orc campaign is separate from the other three being a stand-alone story and using more role playing game mechanics over real time strategy game mechanics.

Shortly thereafter, prompted by the murder of HIV-positive activist Gugu Dlamini, HIV-positive and HIV-negative members of the new group began wearing the group's now-famous T-shirts with the words " HIV Positive " printed boldly in front, a strategy inspired by the apocryphal story of the Danish king wearing the yellow star marking Jews under Nazi occupation.

A sequel entitled Ground Control II: Operation Exodus was released four years later with an updated graphical engine and story, but with a faster-paced game mechanics that are more in line with contemporary real-time strategy games.

Clan War was a miniature based model strategy game produced by AEG, whose story line is derived from the Legend of the Five Rings setting.

Fitchett in How England Saved Europe: The story of the Great War, Vol. III, The war in the Peninsula: "... it is also a dramatic justification of Moore's strategy that he had drawn a hostile force so formidable into a hilly corner of Spain, thus staying its southward rush.

Though Roberts claims to take a distance from studies of canonical fiction, he justifies his ( implicit ) decision to impose canonical models on popular fiction as follows: " If people who read Goethe and Alessandro Manzoni and Pushkin with pleasure are also reading detective fiction with pleasure, there is more in the detective story than its critics have recognized, perhaps more than even its writers and readers have recognized ", This illustrates a frequent strategy: the legitimation of popular fiction on the basis of its use of canonized literary fiction, and of the legitimized public's response to it.

" Lockhart called Burkett on September 6 at the number provided by Mapes, and both men stated they discussed Burkett's view of Kerry's Presidential campaign strategy, not the existence of the documents or the related story.

It tells the story of old-guard fascists ' strategy for survival and the revival of fascism.

Tymiński's adversaries adopted a similar strategy ; the daily Gazeta Wyborcza ( which supported Mazowiecki ) reported that Tymiński had had contact with the secret police, a story that was not withdrawn until after the elections.

* ASA has turned the tide of media bias and indifference with a professional, proactive media strategy, making medical cannabis a major story nationwide and has generally worked to frame the national discourse on medical cannabis issues.

Tymiński's adversaries took to a similar strategy ; the renowned daily Gazeta Wyborcza, which supported Mazowiecki, reported that Tymiński had had contact with the secret police apparatus himself, a story that was not withdrawn until after the elections.

Referring to mnemonic methods, Verlee Williams mentions, " One such strategy is the ' loci ' method, which was developed by Simonides, a Greek poet of the fifth and sixth centuries BC " Loftus cites the foundation story of Simonides ( more or less taken from Frances Yates ) and describes some of the most basic aspects of the use of space in the art of memory.

Any accompanying story or benefit tale is assumed to be fake as well, and a mere marketing strategy for the lucrative feng shui item market.

The race was a story of pit strategy, as the only passing on the circuit was of lapped traffic.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

I am sure that none of the effects of this story were consciously employed by Lawrence to describe an oedipal fantasy in childhood.

But the Garibaldi volumes were more than a romantic story.

If I could call in, they could check the story while we were on our way.

There were thousands of Republican speakers who focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, emphasizing his childhood poverty.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

Thus we have the story of his riding across a stick ( horse made of stick ) with his children and upon being discovered by a friend desiring that he not mention till he himself were the father of children ; and because of the affection of his son Archidamus ' for Cleonymus, he saved Sphodrias, Cleonymus ' father, from execution for his incursion into the Piraeus, and dishonorable retreat, in 378 BC.

Sophocles and Euripides ( and in more modern times, Corneille ) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art.

In the biography, Paul Allen wrote, regarding a suggestion in Cosmopolitan that his plays were becoming autobiographical: " If we take that to mean that his plays tell his own life story, he still hasn't started.

A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual.

The story goes that the Fairies of Doon Hill were angry with the Rev.

The gods were afraid of them, except for Artemis who captured a fine deer ( or in another version of the story, she changed herself into a doe ) and jumped out between them.

The Old Testament story of Judith illustrates how a woman frees the Israelites by tricking and assassinating Holofernes, a warlord of the rival Assyrians, with whom the Israelites were at war.

According to Capp, who loved to relate the story, Kelly's two perfectly logical reasons for doing so were: a. to cement diplomatic relations between Argentina and the United States, and b. " Because you can't play the piano, anyway!

A 1950 cover story in Time even included photos of two of his employees, whose roles in the production were detailed by Capp.

It is impossible to make a blanket generalization about how the blind were treated in literature beyond that point – they were marvelous, gifted, evil, malicious, ignorant, wise, helpless, innocent, or burdensome depending upon who wrote the story – except to say that blindness is perceived to be such a loss that it leaves an indelible mark on a person ’ s character.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

She had run out of things to say to Noel and so she told him a story about " four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter.

Banshees were said to appear for particular Irish families, though which families made it onto this list varied depending on who was telling the story.

The next few years, continuing this story in a fairy-tale manner, were hard and poverty stricken, but cramful of useful experience.

In those days poems often told a story in verse and those boys had some corkers to tell ; ;

But at the coroner's inquest Delphine told a forthright story.

He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.

The Hetman told me to take the story over the phone and to write it.

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.

Right now, however, he was still too worried about Jerry Burton, and the gun that had no bullets, and the story Burton had told him, to care too much about Tony Calenda.

The story of a quarter of a century of Soviet-Western relations is vitally important, and it is told with the fire of a first-rate historical narrator.

If she'd kept on as she'd been going, the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been true by now, anyhow

But his mother told the story over and over, till her `` Martin said he was sorry '' was as much a part of her as the shape of her thin, pallid ears.

The story is told in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.

Using what became one of van Vogt's recurring themes, it told the story of a 9-year-old superman living in a world in which his kind are slain by Homo sapiens.

This story is told through the character Rieux.