Monroe thought that Spain could have endangered the US retention of its Southwest and caused the dominance of the Northeast.

Meconium had been thought to be sterile until the team of researchers from the University of Valencia in Spain found bacterial communities in it so developed that they seemed to fall into two categories.

* Juan de Agramonte, a sailor from Spain, is thought possibly to have travelled to Newfoundland.

Since hotel records are sparse during some of that time, it is thought that they may have spent considerable time in and around safe houses related to the al-Qaeda leader in Spain, Imad Yarkas.

He landed on September 28 at San Diego Bay, claiming what he thought was the Island of California for Spain.

It is protected by law in all countries where it occurs, and is thought to be extremely rare to endangered in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg and vulnerable in Spain and Poland but common elsewhere.

Chile was at war with Spain and perhaps Whistler thought it a heroic struggle of a small nation against a larger one, but no evidence supports that theory.

Velázquez took a copy of the portrait — which Sir Joshua Reynolds thought was the finest picture in Rome — with him to Spain.

The drink began to acquire consumers in the sailors that transported products between the colonies and Spain as well as sailors of other nationalities, who began to call it pisco, naming it after the port of Pisco, founded 1640, where it was thought to originate from.

However, it is thought that it also may be a reaction to the rapid acceptance of Greco-Arabic philosophy among the Jews of Spain and Provence ; this occurred soon after the appearance of Maimonides ' Guide for the Perplexed.

A passage in George Orwell's book Homage to Catalonia refers to the author finding what he thought was a primitive harrow in a farm hut in 1930s Spain, but it was in fact a threshing board.

An active school of philosophers in Spain, including the noted commentator Averroes ( 1126-1198 AD ) explicitly rejected the thought of al-Ghazali and turned to an extensive evaluation of the thought of Aristotle.

While in February 2012, paintings in Spain were discovered which are thought to be over 42, 000 years old based on carbon dating.

" Thus, " after much thought, my wife and I decided to leave Spain.

Over half of the European population is thought to be in France, Spain and Germany, with substantial numbers also in Portugal, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Russia, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria.

The flavour and texture of milk-fed lamb when grilled ( such as the tiny lamb chops known as chuletillas in Spain ) or roasted ( lechazo asado or cordero lechal asado ) is generally thought to be finer than that of older lamb.

Against tyrannicide, Bodin's thought was out of step of conventional thinking in Spain at the time.

The only breeding populations are in Spain, and were thought to be only living in the Doñana National Park and in the Sierra de Andújar, Jaén.

Although the result of a peculiar historical development in Spain, it converged with the concept of subsidiarity in Catholic social thought.

Douai was thought of as a suitable place for Allen's new College because of the recent foundation there of the University of Douai by Pope Paul IV, under the patronage of King Philip II of Spain, in whose dominions Douai was then part of.

Columbus ' discovery of what they thought at that time was India, and the constant competition of Portugal and Spain led to a desire for secrecy about every trade route and every colony.

* Guggenheim Museum, ( Bilbao, Spain ): A huge sculpture of a West Highland White Terrier designed by the artist Jeff Koons, which is thought by experts and scientists to be the world's biggest topiary dog.

One subvariation, frequently played by Karpov, including four games of his 1987 world championship match against Kasparov in Seville, Spain, is the Seville Variation, after 6 ... Bg7 7. Bc4 c5 8. Ne2 Nc6 9. Be3 0-0 10. 0-0 Bg4 11. f3 Na5 12. Bxf7 +, long thought a poor move by theory, as the resultant light-square weakness had been believed to give Black more than enough compensation for the pawn.

It could be some kind of trick Budd had thought up.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

Given the conceptual context within which ancient thought thrived, how could anyone have questioned this principle??

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

He was Julius Kahn for whom the Chief of Staff thought no honor could be too great.

Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

He thought that if once, only once, he could talk with Simms Purdew, something about his own life, and all life, would be clear and simple.

How far could it be, Watson thought bleakly, how far can a blind man crawl??

She thought again of her children, those two who had died young, before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies.

he had found his style quite early in his career and he thought it quite wonderful that the world admired it, and he could not imagine why he should alter it.

No one could dislike them, I thought.

Since strong nociceptive stimuli produce an experimental neurosis during which the animals fail to eat in the experimental situation, Wolpe thought that he could utilize the feeding-pain antagonism to inhibit the neurotic symptoms through feeding.

She thought she had great possibilities in the ballet and wanted to show the eminent producer how well she could dance.

Giffen extracted one concession from William: the house servants could be free at any time Gorham thought expedient.

I suddenly thought of Mary Jane Brennan, the way her pretty eyes could flash with anger, her quiet competence, the gentleness and sweetness that lay just beneath the surface of her defenses.

Also, he thought, I doubt if she could hit the side of a barn with a shotgun.

He thought: Where the hell could he have gone??

He thought of other possibilities, none of them satisfactory, and finally he began to think, to wonder if there was some way he could reach Burton.

`` This year, coach Royal told me if I'd work on my place-kicking he thought he could use me '', said Moritz.

They knew what they could do and it was often a little more than I thought they could do.

The teacher thought it was so successful that she asks: `` Wouldn't it be helpful to all age groups if they could participate in a similar confessional of their fears and worries ''??

This is well evidenced by the Quietist doctrines carried over in Zen: the idea of the inward turning of thought, the enjoinder to put aside desires and perturbations so that a return to purity, peace, and stillness -- a union with the Infinite, with the Tao -- could be effected.

Just because she had a part on the stage in the old country, she thought she could carry her head higher than ours ''.