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suggestion and trained
A teacher's suggestion that the two children might have a stage career if trained for it prompted the family to move from Omaha to New York, though the father returned to Omaha to work.
He was afterwards made a cornet in the Royal Horse Guards by the influence of his uncle the duke of Richmond, and for the first time did actual military duty in this regiment, but he soon fell in with Sir John Moore's suggestion that he should exchange into the 52nd, which was about to be trained in the famous camp of Shorncliffe.
Droom had powers of telepathy and hypnotic suggestion taught him by a Tibetan lama who had requested that someone travel from the U. S. to give him medical attention ( later retconned as the Ancient One, the same sorcerer who trained Doctor Strange ).
There is some suggestion that he may have been trained of a member of MI6, but this was never confirmed during the series.

suggestion and at
Greville proposed Quiney as the fittest man `` for the following of the cause and to attend him in the matter '', and at his suggestion the corporation allowed Quiney two shillings a day.
Thus, his estimate lies between Oliver's suggestion of at least 37 feet and the 50-foot `` monstrous freaks '' intimated by Heuvelmans.
Marina rebels at this suggestion.
William A. Martinelli, chairman of the Citizens Group of Johnston, transferred the petitions from his left hand to his right hand after the council voted to accept them at the suggestion of Council President Raymond Fortin Sr..
Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.
Welsh coal miners, Communist-led, are up in arms at the suggestion that the steel company bring in American coal.
With de Broglie's suggestion of the existence of electron matter waves in 1924, and for a short time before the full 1926 Schrödinger equation treatment of hydrogen like atom, a Bohr electron " wavelength " could be seen to be a function of its momentum, and thus a Bohr orbiting electron was seen to orbit in a circle at a multiple of its half-wavelength ( this historically incorrect Bohr model is still occasionally taught to students ).
One was intended to be a show house, but on being completed in 1904 was put up for sale, and as no buyers came forward, Gaudí, at Güell's suggestion, bought it with his savings and moved in with his family and his father in 1906.
" When the final payment on the farm was owed, Sam May refused to cover his brother-in-law's debts, as he often did, possibly at Abby May's suggestion.
Luther for his part did not stop at the suggestion, but in order to facilitate the change made special efforts to spread his teaching among the Prussians, while Albert's brother, Margrave George of Brandenburg-Ansbach, laid the scheme before their uncle, Sigismund I the Old of Poland.
In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.
The term archaeoastronomy was first used by Elizabeth Chesley Baity ( at the suggestion of Euan MacKie ) in 1973, but as a topic of study it may be much older, depending on how archaeoastronomy is defined.
A suggestion made by John Mitchell Kemble ( 1849 ) and defended by Jäching ( 1976 ) puts a terminus post quem of the early 9th century on the Finnesburg episode at least.
Bonaparte had ordered the fleet to anchor in Aboukir Bay, a shallow and exposed anchorage, but had supplemented the orders with the suggestion that if Aboukir Bay was too dangerous Brueys could sail north to Corfu, leaving only the transports and a handful of lighter warships at Alexandria.
A band of Fremen outlaws capture Leto and force him to undergo the spice trance at the suggestion of one of Alia's agents, who has infiltrated the group.
The suggestion that life could even occur within the plasma of a star has been picked up by other science fiction writers, as in David Brin's Uplift Saga or Frederik Pohl's novel The World at the End of Time.
This correlation, together with the differences in colour, support further the suggestion that the currently observed classical objects belong to at least two different overlapping populations, with different physical properties and orbital history.
psychiatrist and gives Carter a hypnotic suggestion to surreptitiously shoot Rogers at close range during the chaos surrounding the sniper shot.
The following year, at Childress ' suggestion, Earnhardt joined car owner Bud Moore for the 1982 and 1983 seasons driving the No. 15 Wrangler Jeans Ford Thunderbird ( Earnhardt's only full-time Ford ride in his career ).
( In Hubbard's earliest publications on the subject, engrams were variously referred to as " Norns ", " Impediments ," and " comanomes " before " engram " was adapted from its existing usage at the suggestion of Joseph Winter.
Professor Richard J. Ofshe, a leading expert on false memories, suggests that the feeling of well-being reported by preclears at the end of an auditing session may be induced by post-hypnotic suggestion.
A suggestion to " do six shots for SEAL Team 6 " following every mention of Osama bin Laden at the 2012 Democratic National Convention necessitated a prominent disclaimer on the satire site that posted it, as the quantity of alcohol ingested would have been lethal.
It was while working for Rapp in 1939 that she adopted the stage name " Day " as an alternative to " Kappelhoff ," at his suggestion.
Initially named " Digital European Cordless Telephone " at its launch by CEPT in November 1987, following a suggestion by Enrico Tosato of Italy, its name was soon changed to " Digital European Cordless Telecommunications " to reflect its broader range of application, including data services.

suggestion and bar
The original four-finger bar was developed after a worker at Rowntree's York Factory put a suggestion in a recommendation box for a snack that " a man could take to work in his pack ".
* gratis dictum: an assertion that a person makes without being obligated to do so, or also a court's discussion of points or questions not raised by the record or its suggestion of rules not applicable in the case at bar.
Therefore, the erotic aspect of bar dancing is mostly achieved through suggestion.

suggestion and seems
From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.
A suggestion Hypothesis also seems inadequate as an explanation for those who shifted their reactions after they were informed of the possibilities of `` normal '' reactions different from those which they gave.
The suggestion that in saying something evil had occurred we were after all making no mistake, because we had never meant anyhow to say anything about the past suffering, seems to me merely frivolous.
During the latter days of November to the day of Brown's execution, it seems that most Rhode Islanders did not concur in `` E. B.'s '' suggestion.
This suggestion has been recently repeated by Jerome Murphy-O ' Connor: " It is difficult to imagine that an Alexandrian Jew ... could have escaped the influence of Philo, the great intellectual leader ... particularly since the latter seems to have been especially concerned with education and preaching.
The suggestion that Boudica is buried beneath platform 9 or 10 at King's Cross Station seems to have arisen as urban folklore since the end of World War II.
" In verse, Dwight wrote an ambitious epic in eleven books, The Conquest of Canaan, finished in 1774 but not published until 1785, a somewhat ponderous and solemn satire, The Triumph of Infidelity ( 1788 ), directed against David Hume, Voltaire and others ; Greenfield Hill ( 1794 ), the suggestion for which seems to have been derived from John Denham's Coopers Hill ; and a number of minor poems and hymns, the best known of which is that beginning " I love thy kingdom, Lord ".
It seems that neither man had much experience of such projects, as there was a suggestion in 1826 that a " properly qualified " engineer should be asked to assess the work done so far, and whether the two men should be allowed to proceed without further assistance, but the motion did not have general support, and so work continued.
Under cover of night he was reputed to have been brought to the Franciscan abbey in Cavan town for burial, however some local tradition still suggest that it may have been at Trinity abbey located upon an island in Lough Oughter which seems a far more plausible suggestion given the logistics of his removal.
This time-matching seems to support the suggestion of a significant influence of the day-night ionosphere asymmetry on Schumann resonance amplitudes.
Wilson seems from his diary not to have particularly welcomed the suggestion that he become CIGS.
Since there is no other evidence for Nakhtmin as a Viceroy -- with another man I attested in office at this period as well -- the latter suggestion seems the most likely.
On the other hand, the suggestion that self-deceivers typically successfully execute their self-deceptive strategies without knowing what they are up to may seem absurd ; for an agent's effective execution of his plans seems generally to depend on his cognizance of them and their goals.
:# Often used ironically by the intended victim when a suggestion for a program is made which seems easy to the suggester, but is obviously ( to the victim ) a lot of work.
It is also the principle behind what seems to be the very first variable cam suggestion appearing in the USPTO patent files in 1925 ( 1527456 ).
An alternative suggestion that the name derives from ' Watling Town ', because it lies on Watling Street, a Roman road that linked London with the town of Viroconium Cornoviorum ( of which Wroxeter is believed to be a small village set within its boundaries ), seems to be unlikely, due to several factors, including the earliest written names of the town.
The suggestion of a hollow needle seems somewhat unlikely.
The Roach story contained a number of inconsistencies: some of it seems to be directly sourced from Wikipedia, such as the suggestion of Cyberyogi's involvement, which was the product of extensive searching through Usenet archives on the part of a Wikipedia editor.
We are instantly fascinated by the suggestion of conspiracies and cover-ups ; this has become so much the stuff of our imagination these days that it is only natural, it seems, to expect it when we turn to ancient texts, especially biblical texts.
If a conclusion seems to fit the available facts, other possibilities are not considered or are disregarded, producing the suggestion that humans conserve cognitive energy whenever they can and avoid thinking.
It seems a more likely suggestion either that Andrew of Wyntoun's poet, Huchoun, was not Scottish ( and therefore not Sir Hugh ), or that the poems he mentions were in fact other works now lost, rather than the great alliterative poems Neilson claimed they referred to.
Earlier, Lockyer warned the legislative conference committee that private lenders would be leery of any more " smoke-and-mirrors accounting tricks " and that lawmakers would have to rely heavily on spending cuts to balance the budget: " It seems to me that the kind of budget we will require before the end of June is almost entirely cuts ... My suggestion to you is don't delay the pain.

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