:" To extirpate inveterate abuses ; to reform a court which thrived on corruption, and detested the very name of reform ; to hold in leash young and warlike princes, ready to bound at each other's throats ; to stem the rising torrent of revolt in Germany ; to save Christendom from the Turks, who from Belgrade now threatened Hungary, and if Rhodes fell would be masters of the Mediterranean -- these were herculean labours for one who was in his sixty-third year, had never seen Italy, and was sure to be despised by the Romans as a ' barbarian '.

The primary wall lacks lignin that would make it tough and rigid, so this cell type provides what could be called plastic support – support that can hold a young stem or petiole into the air, but in cells that can be stretched as the cells around them elongate.

This may stem from the other gender being constrained by providing greater parental investment, in terms of factors such as gamete production, gestation, lactation, or upbringing of young.

They mine under the thin periderm of young trees up to 10 years old, while the stem bark is still smooth.

Signs of millipede damage include the stripping of the outer layers of a young plant stem and irregular damage to leaves and plant apices, the very top of a plant.

Each stem is topped by a dense cluster of thin, bright green, thread-like stems around in length, resembling a feather duster when the plant is young.

The base of the leaf stalk ( petiole ) is enlarged and completely wraps around the young stem bud in its axil.

Therefore, healthy young women would need to be induced to sell eggs to be used in the creation of custom stem cell lines that could then be purchased by the medical industry and sold to patients.

According to the second century Yoga Kundalini Upanishad, " The divine power, Kundalini, shines like the stem of a young lotus ; like a snake, coiled round upon herself she holds her tail in her mouth and lies resting half asleep as the base of the body " ( 1. 82 ).

The hypocotyl is the primary organ of extension of the young plant and develops into the stem.

A structure called the coleoptile, essentially a part of the cotyledon, protects the young stem and plumule as growth pushes them up through the soil.

The young twigs as well as the distal portions of stem are flexible and often pendent.

Oca is cultivated primarily for its edible stem tuber, but the leaves and young shoots can be eaten as a green vegetable also.

A liana often has stiff young growths and older growth, at the base of the stem, which is more flexible.

: An energetic young girl with a red dress and red hair, and a stem on her head.

Trees in cultivation, like those in natural environments, tend to sucker from the base when young and become multi-stemmed at maturity ; pruning to maintain a single stem is not advised.

The gills are covered by a partial veil when young, which typically ruptures to leave a cuff-like ring ( sometimes ephemeral ) often with additional scaly remains on the stem.

On the other hand, Breton has enjoyed increasing support among intellectuals and professionals since the 1970s, and the relatively small, urban-based Diwan movement has sought to stem the loss of young Breton speakers through bilingual immersion schools.

When young it has a single stem.

These are leafy structures that cover and protect the young developing leaves, then fall off leaving scars on the stem.

As they begin to develop, the young bugs will live among the trichomes of the stem and hunt on the leaves of the plant.

He endowed him generously and paid for ( unavailing ) inquiries in Hungary to clarify the young man's origin, as the latter, in 1830, had claimed to remember some Hungarian and Slavic words which had led to speculations that he might stem from there.

Other symptoms include skeletal deformities and " whirling " behavior ( tail-chasing ) in young fish, which was thought to have been caused by a loss of equilibrium, but is actually caused by damage to the spinal cord and lower brain stem.

The stem is erect in young plants, but becomes creeping or trailing with age.

The patrolman said to no one in particular as he pushed between the fat man in the baseball cap and a young boy in levis.

and, as in the March home, any young man who called on the Szolds found himself confronted with a phalanx of femininity which made it rather difficult to direct his particular attention to any one of them.

The young banker looked at him with a certain surprise, and then he said flatly: `` I'm afraid I can't tell you anything in particular about Kent House.

In particular he canvassed the support of the young post-war university students and recent graduates, appealing to younger voters in a way that many of his recent predecessors had not, and asserting a new strand of Liberalism for the post-war world.

In particular, two young parties grew in importance – the Democrat Party, with roots among artisans and urban workers, and the Radical Party, representing urban middle sectors and provincial elites.

As a young adolescent, he had a particular love of theology and the Scriptures became the foundation of his spirituality.

Kits using smaller drums in both smaller and larger configurations are also produced for particular uses, such as boutique kits designed to reduce visual impact or space requirements, travelling kits to reduce luggage volume, and junior kits for very young players.

Christine Clay ( Pamela Carme ), a successful actress, argues passionately with her jealous ex-husband Guy ( George Curzon ), who makes particular reference to Robert Tisdall, a young man staying near her at her retreat on the English coast.

Transportation of young children, in particular, was made unlawful.

Mountbatten's qualification for offering advice to this particular heir to the throne was unique ; it was he who had arranged the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Dartmouth Royal Naval College on 22 July 1939, taking care to include the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in the invitation, but assigning his nephew, Cadet Prince Philip of Greece, to keep them amused while their parents toured the facility.

Gardner suffered with asthma from a young age, having particular difficulty in the cold Lancashire winters.

Hadrian was schooled in various subjects particular to young aristocrats of the day, and was so fond of learning Greek literature that he was nicknamed Graeculus (" Greekling ").

The mediating factors of violent acts, however, are most consistently found to be mainly socio-demographic and socio-economic factors such as being young, male, of lower socioeconomic status and, in particular, substance abuse ( including alcoholism ) to which some people may be particularly vulnerable.

None of these musicians, with the exception of Davis, had received a great deal of exposure before that time ; Chambers, in particular, was very young ( 19 at the time ), a Detroit player who had been on the New York scene for only about a year, working with the bands of Bennie Green, Paul Quinichette, George Wallington, J. J. Johnson, and Kai Winding.

Occitan activists ( called Occitanists ) have attempted, in particular with the advent of Occitan-language preschools ( the Calandretas ), to reintroduce the language to the young.

She and her son-in-law, Sir John Middleton, take an active interest in the romantic affairs of the young people around them and seek to encourage suitable matches, often to the particular chagrin of Elinor and Marianne.

Her maternal grandparents were of mixed European and Eastern Cherokee ancestry ; of particular importance to her as a child was her grandfather, Calvin Clinton Copeland, who was a great source of inspiration and guidance to her as a young child, offering a more pantheistic spiritual alternative to her father and paternal grandmother's traditional Christianity.

After Butt's death the Home Rule Movement, or the Irish Parliamentary Party as it had become known, was turned into a major political force under the guidance of William Shaw and in particular a radical young Protestant landowner, Charles Stewart Parnell.

Verlan is used by people to mark their membership in, or exclusion from, a particular group ( generally young people in the cities and banlieues ); it is a tool for marking and delineating group identity.

In particular, the consequences of the destruction of industry in the northern cities are drawn for the young working class.

The monotremes differ from other mammals in their methods of reproduction ; in particular, they lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young.

Klimt generously mentored younger artists, and he took a particular interest in the gifted young Schiele, buying his drawings, offering to exchange them for some of his own, arranging models for him and introducing him to potential patrons.

As the entries below tend to testify, Pierrot is most visible ( as in the 18th century ) in unapologetically popular genres — in circus acts and street-mime sketches, TV programs and Japanese anime, comic books and graphic novels, children's books and " young adult " fiction ( especially fantasy and, in particular, vampire fiction ), Hollywood films, and pop and rock music.

Suzuki notes that mothers, in particular, are portrayed badly, such as Takuto's mother from Zetsuai 1989, who killed her husband in front of her young son.