The frequently postulated antique worry that the daylight hours might dwindle to complete darkness apparently gave rise to a ritual and celebration which we still recognize.

This notion of the General Will gave rise to the Commune of Paris in the Revolution and later brought Napoleon to dictatorship.

The latter procedure gave rise to a small active protein peak ( Region 1a ) between Regions 1 and 2.

In virtually every case the transferor corporation is liquidated, and its former stockholders either own outright, or have a continuing stock interest in, the assets which gave rise to the tax.

The Aramaic gave rise to Hebrew.

The Greek alphabet, in its Euboean form, was carried over by Greek colonists to the Italian peninsula, where it gave rise to a variety of alphabets used to write the Italic languages.

Elder Futhark gave rise to a variety of alphabets known collectively as the Runic alphabets.

Also, an oversight in the small saucer's programming gave rise to a popular strategy known as " lurking " — because the saucer could only shoot directly at the player's position on the screen, the player could " hide " at the opposite end of the screen and shoot across the screen boundary, while remaining relatively safe.

The account, which explains how the snake crushes and devours tigers, is full of popular misconceptions, but was much read at the time, and so gave rise to the myth of the anaconda of Ceylon.

In the Middle East, Aramaic gave rise to the Hebrew and Nabataean abjads, which retained many of the Aramaic letter forms.

This brevity gave rise to an informal abbreviation scheme sometimes called Textese, with which 10 % or more of the words in a typical SMS message are abbreviated.

The foam from his genitals gave rise to Aphrodite ( for which reason she is called " foam-arisen "), while the Erinyes ( furies ) emerged from the drops of blood.

Germanicus ’ death in the year 19 caused much public grief in Rome, and gave rise to rumors that he had been murdered by Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso and Munatia Plancina on the orders of Tiberius, as his widow Agrippina the Elder returned to Rome with his ashes.

With increasing cold, the former gave rise to water, earth and stones.

Algoritmi, the translator's rendition of the author's name, gave rise to the word algorithm ( Latin algorithmus, " calculation method ").

This poem gave rise to the common phrase monarch of all I survey via the verse:

In Scandinavia the amber road probably gave rise to the thriving Nordic Bronze Age culture, bringing influences from the Mediterranean Sea to the northernmost countries of Europe.

The great extent of country which this race occupied, and the desire of each part of it to trace its origin to some descendant of Aeolus, probably gave rise to the varying accounts about the number of his children.

These developments gave rise to the Islamist and Islamic movement opposed to the increasing communist and Soviet influence over Afghanistan.

Winthrop's sermon gave rise to the common belief in American folklore that the United States of America has a special status in the world as God's Country.

This gave rise to the expression " Athanasius contra mundum " or " Athanasius against the world ".

Elite boards also spawned their own subculture and gave rise to the slang known today as leetspeak.

The legend of Archimedes gave rise to a considerable amount of research on burning glasses and lenses until the late 17th century.

Besides many pseudoscientific comparisons, the appearance of long-range linguistics gave rise to several attempts to connect Basque with geographically very distant language families.

The " angel " reading found an echo among the ancient Fathers of the Church and ecclesiastical writers, and even gave rise to the " strangest fancies ", especially among the disciples of Origen of Alexandria.

Rod gave her a warm pat on the shoulder before he replied.

`` Well, that's the only way to be '', Mrs. Forsythe said, and gave her brassy laugh.

Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.

He thought she gave him that look with the hidden something in it as he let her hand go.

By her eighteenth birthday her bent for writing was so evident that Papa and Mamma gave her a Life Of Dickens as a spur to her aspiration.

At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.

Captain Heard gave orders for the ship to be anchored in the Bay of Bengal until he could obtain the services of a reputable pilot to steer her through the shallow waters.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

Offer her a cup of tea and she would say, `` Why, these cups look just like a set I gave to the Salvation Army last year ''.

So Linda Kay gave up asking, and accepted her reprieve.

The events of the last quarter of an hour, mysterious to any bird accustomed only to the predictable life of coop and barnyard, had overcome the doctor's hen and she gave out a series of cackly wails, perhaps mourning her nest, but briefly enjoyed.

This gave her an opportunity to ring down the curtain with the petulant admonition that we should not presume to lecture her on Abstraction.

Circumstances gave her almost undisputed sway over child-rearing, money-handling and home maintenance.

The New York D.A. gave her another, The Golden Girl of cafe society.

Houston police gave her a third, less flamboyant, title, prostitute.

`` Our information is that she gave the proceeds of her acts to Jelke ''.

The Greek evidently fell for her, `` Monsieur X '' recounted, and to clinch what he thought was an affair in the making he gave her 100,000 francs ( about $300 ) and led her to the roulette tables.

The legend as it exists in Fall River today always includes the solemn assurance that Bridget returned to Ireland after the trial with a `` big bundle '' of cash which Lizzie gave her for keeping her mouth shut.