When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

Dr. Isaacs was so pleased with the quality of her biographical study of Sara Sullam that he considered submitting it to the Century Magazine or Harper's but he decided that its Jewish subject probably would not interest them and published it in The Messenger, `` so our readers will be benefited instead ''.

He was right, and Peter Marshall could not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the subject, `` Well, it seemed as good a place as any to do the job ''.

Richard Peters, Secretary of the Board of War, thought Morgan was so extreme on the subject that he accused him of trying to pick a quarrel.

In summary, Brooks Adams felt that the nature of history was order and that the order so discovered was as much subject to historical laws as the forces of nature.

Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.

The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state -- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.

It was hardly possible to get any argument on the subject.

The wording of the question was quite general and may have been subject to different interpretations.

It was recognized that skywave signals, because of their reflected nature, are of great variability and subject to wide fluctuations in strength.

Alcohol ingestion succeeded in changing immobility to mobility quite strikingly in one pilot subject ( the only one with whom this technique was tried ).

There was evident delight on the part of the subject in response to her experience of the freedom of movement.

One subject spontaneously asked ( after her arm had finally risen ), `` Do you suppose I was unconsciously keeping it down before ''??

This subject was one who gave an arm-elevation on the second trial in the naive state but not in the first.

More time was spent in trying to marry these incompatibles than over any subject discussed at Yalta.

and as the aspect of the subject was transposed into those clusters of more or less interchangeable and contour-obliterating facet-planes by which plasticity was isolated under the Cubist method, the subject itself became largely unrecognizable.

With this seven-word sentence -- though the speaker undoubtedly thought he was dealing only with the subject of food -- he was telling things about himself and, in the last two examples, revealing that he had departed from the customs of his culture.

Abbots were originally subject to episcopal jurisdiction, and continued generally so, in fact, in the West till the 11th century.

Aegina, according to Herodotus, was a colony of Epidaurus, to which state it was originally subject.

Their power was originally neither arbitrary nor unaccountable, being subject to law and requiring retrospective justification.

The general scholarly view is that while the Testimonium Flavianum is most likely not authentic in its entirety, it is broadly agreed upon that it originally consisted of an authentic nucleus with a reference to the execution of Jesus by Pilate which was then subject to Christian interpolation.

The general scholarly view is that while the Testimonium Flavianum is most likely not authentic in its entirety, it originally consisted of an authentic nucleus with a reference to the execution of Jesus by Pilate which was then subject to interpolation.

A kill file ( also killfile, bozo bin or twit list ) is a per-user file used by some Usenet reading programs ( originally Larry Wall's rn ) to discard summarily ( without presenting for reading ) articles matching some unwanted patterns of subject, author, or other header lines.

During this time, Nobunaga's subject and tea master Sen no Rikyu established the Japanese tea ceremony which Nobunaga popularized and used originally as a way to talk politics and business.

The subject of music within the quadrivium was originally the classical subject of harmonics, in particular the study of the proportions between the music intervals created by the division of a monochord.

She originally pursued her master's degree at Columbia University, where she was exposed to the subject of psychology through courses under Edward Thorndike.

Stieltjes originally wrote to Hermite concerning celestial mechanics, but the subject quickly turned to mathematics and he began to devote his spare time to mathematical research.

* The subject was also featured on an episode of Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World entitled " Strange Skies ", originally broadcast on November 18, 1980.

The rhyme does not explicitly state that the subject is an egg, possibly because it may have been originally posed as a riddle.

In the late 1970s, the river was the subject of a successful ecological campaign ( called " Save the River "), originally responding to planned development by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

In 2001, Condit became the subject of international news coverage after the disappearance of Chandra Levy, a young woman working as a Washington, D. C. intern, originally from Condit's district.

: Mr. Lindsay's attention was originally riveted on philological studies, owing to doubts which he entertained as to the authenticity of Scripture history-more especially as regarded the origin of the human race from one primal pair: but the more he studied the different languages dead and extant, the more his doubts gave way, and the stronger did his convictions of the truth of the literal exactness of the Scripture statements on this subject become.

Sheets-Johnstone compares Rank's thought to that of three major Western philosophers — René Descartes, Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida: " Because immortality ideologies were originally recognized and in fact so named by Rank, a close examination of his writings on the subject is not only apposite but is itself philosophically rewarding ... Rank was a Freudian dissident who, in introducing the concept of immortality ideologies, traced out historical and psychological roots of ' soul-belief ' ( Seelenglaube )... chapter points up the extraordinary cogency of Rank's distinction between the rational and the irrational to the question of the human need for immortality ideologies " ( Sheets-Johnstone, 2008, p. 64 ).

Slavs in both the Eastern Alps and the Pannonian region were originally subject to Avar rulers ( kagans ).

Although that phrase, itself depicted in a type of still life, vanitas, originally referred not to obsession with one's appearance, but to the ultimate fruitlessness of man's efforts in this world, the phrase summarizes the complete preoccupation of the subject of the picture.

Battleground was originally an RKO property, which was called " Prelude to Love " to hide its subject matter, but was shelved when production head Dore Schary resigned, despite $ 100, 000 having been put into the property to that point.

If it was originally part of a marriage chest, or cassone, it was perhaps an uneasy subject for a festive wedding commemoration.

Adamawa subject pronouns ( Boyd 1989 ) seem to have originally been along the lines of:

Charles William Siemens ( originally Carl Wilhelm Siemens and later Sir William Siemens ) ( 4 April 1823 – 19 November 1883 ) was a German-born engineer who for most of his life worked in Britain and later became a British subject.

Morris had originally intended to document on the " Nub City " aspect of the town, but re-focused his subject after claiming to receive death threats from residents.

A stopover in the town is the subject of Fred Leebron's prize-winning short story “ Lovelock ”, originally published in Ploughshares magazine in 1993.