When he sank on his knees, they had allowed him to char without administering the stroke of mercy.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

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.

John then allowed him to come.

When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

The doctor, since Scotty was no longer allowed to make his regular trips into town to see him, came often and informally to the house.

The men inside informed him that they had some wounded men among them but he would not be allowed to see them even though he offered medical aid.

Rambert informs Tarrou of his escape plan, but when Tarrou tells him that others in the city, including Dr. Rieux, also have loved ones outside the city whom they are not allowed to see, Rambert becomes sympathetic and changes his mind.

While drawing up the plans, he included a circular staircase leading directly from his office to the outside of the building which allowed him to escape the patronage-seekers waiting for him in his ante-chamber.

This allowed him to rewrite perturbation theory precisely in the form of diagrams.

Despite this, Ajax managed to hide in the altar of an unnamed deity where the Greeks, fearing divine retribution should they kill him and destroy the altar, allowed him to live.

Alaric exiled him for a year to Bordeaux in Aquitania, then allowed him to return unharmed when the crisis had passed.

He allowed Alexios II to be crowned, but was responsible for the death of most of the young emperor's actual or potential defenders, including his mother, his half-sister and the Caesar, and refused to allow him the smallest voice in public affairs.

* No foreigner, even if naturalised ( unless they were born of English parents ), shall be allowed to be a Privy Councillor or a member of either House of Parliament, or hold " any office or place of trust, either civil or military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements or hereditaments from the Crown, to himself or to any other or others in trust for him.

In 1982, after 10 years of stagnation under Clement Stone Jr., the elder Stone, then 79, resumed control until the completion of a merger with Ryan Insurance Co. allowed him to transfer control to Patrick Ryan.

His position and the missionary activity of the church of Bremen allowed him to gather information on the history and the geography of Northern Germany.

Lennon allowed him to stay however, but the conversation had soured considerably.

This purchase allowed him to stand for the county, which was " essential " if one was to lead the Conservative Party at the time.

This allowed him to estimate distances to galaxies whose redshifts had already been measured, mostly by Slipher.

However, Holly chafed under a restrictive atmosphere that allowed him little input.

More specifically in regards to the Mets, critics point out that with Selig's personal relationship with Wilpon has allowed him to stall any possible removal of Wilpon as that club's principal owner.

" The Court allowed the guilty plea only with a simultaneous protestation of innocence as there was enough evidence to show that the prosecution had a strong case for a conviction, and the defendant was entering such a plea to avoid this possible sentencing.

The slam allowed the Tigers to clinch the pennant and avoid a one-game playoff ( that would have been necessary without the win ) against the now-second-place Washington Senators.

Some claim that his confession was made to avoid the death penalty, but, according to at least one of his interrogators, he mistakenly believed that he would be allowed back to work at Harwell.

To avoid backtracking or guessing, the LR parser is allowed to peek ahead at k lookahead input symbols before deciding how to parse earlier symbols.

This also allowed the U. S. government ( among others ) to avoid having to pay the royalties that were being claimed by Tesla for use of his patents.

A pipe should be allowed to cool before removing the stem to avoid the possibility of warping it.

The meaning of " compelled testimony " under the Fifth Amendment — i. e., the conditions under which a defendant is allowed to " plead the Fifth " to avoid self-incrimination — is thus often interpreted via reference to the inquisitorial methods of the Star Chamber.

There is some debate within the Jewish community as to whether dairy products are allowed in kosher bread ; some authorities maintain that bread must be strictly pareve to avoid combining meat and dairy in the same meal, while others feel it is acceptable as long as a sign of some sort ( usually a different loaf shape, but others are known ) is baked into the loaf to distinguish it from pareve bread.

Suddenly finding herself walking toward a former owner in Dorchester County, she yanked the strings holding the birds ' legs, and their agitation allowed her to avoid eye contact.

* Tax deductions and tax credits are allowed to individual citizens in certain instances for income from foreign sources to avoid double taxation.

The resistance of the German Fourth army, unusually wet weather, the onset of winter and the diversion of British and French resources to Italy, following the Austro-German victory at the Battle of Caporetto, ( 24 October – 19 November ) allowed the Germans to avoid a general withdrawal, which had seemed inevitable to them in October.

To avoid having to set the same text twice, Byrd often resorted to a cross-reference or ‘ transfer ’ system which allowed a single setting to be slotted into a different place in the liturgy.

To avoid a civil war, Æthelwulf allowed Æthelbald to continue to rule Wessex itself ( or the western part of Wessex ) while he took Kent and the other eastern parts of the kingdom.

While this would still have resulted in Millikan's having measured the charge of e < sup >−</ sup > better than anyone else at the time, the slightly larger uncertainty might have allowed more disagreement with his results within the physics community, which Millikan likely tried to avoid.

They dug four large reservoirs in Shandong to regulate water levels, which allowed them to avoid pumping water from local sources and water tables.

This allowed heavy lorry traffic to avoid the town centre, significantly reducing noise levels and delays.

The denial of referendums in other cases was designed to avoid the kind of populism that allowed the rise of Hitler.

At the advice of Meese, Reagan allowed his campaign to secretly establish a transition office to avoid similar difficulties faced by the Nixon administration in their own transition.

This continued an important theme of Uncle Tom's Cabin – that the shadow of law brooded over the institution of slavery and allowed owners to mistreat slaves and then avoid punishment for their mistreatment.

Making change out of the pot is allowed in most games ; to avoid confusion, the player should announce his intentions first.

Flat thunks allowed 32 bit code to call into 16 bit libraries, and the scheme was used extensively inside Windows 95's libraries to avoid porting the whole OS to Win32 itself in one chunk.

Gardner claimed that these sections were genuinely historical in origin, and that witches had not been allowed to write anything down until recently, to avoid incrimination ; when at last Books of Shadows were allowed, the rituals and spells had to be written in a jumbled manner to prevent any non-initiate from using them.

The model tests identified critical stages of erection that allowed the construction schedule of the bridge to be tailored to avoid the typhoon season.