There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

All we wanted to do was to stand very quietly and look and look and look.

He then draped him over the rough stand, explained that he was supposed to be recently dead, and was being held on his mother's lap.

I knew that both these cynics were waiting with impatience for the dramatic moment when Viola was called to the stand.

No detectable reaction was found at room temperature for reaction mixtures allowed to stand up to 5 hours.

And if he did stand on the margins of modernity, it was not in dying a martyr for such unity as Papal supremacy might be able to force on Western Christendom.

You could not stand on dignity when you were soaked and muddied and your life was at stake.

He said no matter what stand he takes it would be misconstrued that he was sympathetic to one or the other of the Republicans.

The Portland school board was asked Monday to take a positive stand towards developing and coordinating with Portland's civil defense more plans for the city's schools in event of attack.

A few drops of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners didn't care whether they got wet.

Mousie said it was because he was too proud to stand pity.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

Australia went 2 – 0 up after three Tests, but England won the Fourth Test by 3 runs ( after a 70-run last wicket stand ) to set up the final decider, which was drawn.

Still more different from Bachofen's perspective is the lack of role permanency in Freud's view: Freud held that time and differing cultures would mold Athena to stand for what was necessary to them.

' " His biographer Trefousse concludes that, while his courageous stand for the Union paid handsome political dividends, Johnson did not succeed in the White House because of his failure to outgrow his Jeffersonian-Jacksonian background ; put in other words, " Johnson was a child of his time, but he failed to grow with it.

They also had a flag carrier at the front who guided the forces behind him ; when the flag was upright the combatants behind would stand and when turned down, they would sit.

That influence was based on his relation with the assembly, a relation that in the first instance lay simply in the right of any citizen to stand and speak before the people.

After being informed that the call was indeed from Virginia Thomas, Hill told the media that she did not believe the message was meant to be conciliatory and said, " I testified truthfully about my experience and I stand by that testimony.

From the extinction in 1254 of the Hohenstaufen dynasty until 1415, the area was ruled by the Habsburgs, and many castles from that time still stand ( examples include Habsburg, Lenzburg, Tegerfelden, Bobikon, Stin and Wildegg ).

This change was disparaged by critics as an end to the ' right to silence ', though in fact an accused still has the right to remain silent and cannot be compelled to take the stand.

He worked for various newspapers in the Rocky Mountain area ; at one of those, the spelling of his last name was changed from " Runyan " to " Runyon ," a change he let stand.

Some treat CM as being similar to a librarian activity, and break out change control or change management as a separate or stand alone discipline.

When watching a film that exceeds 74 minutes, which is the maximum video capacity of one disc, a viewer would have to stand up and change the disc upon reaching half-way ( unless the discs are played on a VCD changer that could hold multiple discs as well as playing them automatically in succession ), whereas a single VHS can hold 3½ hours of continuous video.

A more prosaic explanation may simply be that Holst wrote the movements in the order they stand, with one exception, and that the only structural change was to place " Mercury " third.

The gunfight and its aftermath stand for the change overcoming American as the Western frontier ceased to exist, between a modern nation that was rapidly industrializing, pushing out what had been a largely agrarian economy.

After Prussia's betrayal of her Polish ally, the Army of Lithuania under the traitorous Duke Louis of Württemberg did not oppose the advancing Russians and only after a change of the commander tried to stand and fight the Russians while withdrawing towards Brześć.

Typically, change ringers using handbells sit or stand in a circle ( like tower ringers ).

There is, however, a second school of change ringing on handbells, which uses a technique called ' lapping ', or ' cross and stretch ': the ringers stand or sit in a straight line at a single convenient table, from which they pick up a bell each time they ring it ; and to which they thereupon return it.

The plurality emphasized the need to stand by prior decisions even if they were unpopular, unless there had been a change in the fundamental reasoning underpinning the previous decision.

This change was not deemed a success, as the attacking team could pack the penalty area for any free-kick ( or even have several players stand in front of the opposition goalkeeper ) and the rule change was not introduced at a higher level.

It is unclear whether or not they become good or stay bad, as Charles mentions that some people don't change, but they stand in front of a S. H. I. E. L. D sign.

The Sutra of the Innumerable Meanings tell people that time is running out and there will be disasters if people do not stand for a change.

They stand for the principles of constant change and impulsive action.

Efforts to remove her from the political arena, orchestrated through failed rebellions at times prompted by the father of King Gojong, Heungseon Daewongun ( the powerful regent who opposed any change in Korea's isolation and was at times accused of working with the Japanese ), compelled the Empress to take a strong stand against Japanese influence.

However, while the number of certificates in England and Wales rose each year after 2002 to stand at 126, 400 at 31 March 2005 ( due to a change in reporting period ), those in Scotland remained relatively static, standing at 26, 538 at 31 December 2005.

Those who are not very well-versed in investments also stand to benefit, because it no longer becomes necessary to monitor every single change in the economy that have a detrimental effect to the expected return of the bond.

The term may have been derived after NHL President Frank Calder, alluding to the 1918 rules change that permitted goalies to leave their feet to make a save, remarked, " As far as I am concerned, they can stand on their head ( s ).

He took a strong public stand against sponsorship of sports events by cigarette companies, lobbying politicians directly for legislative change, and also encouraged airlines to increase the number of non-smoking seats.

SA maintain the position that parliamentary elections are not the key to social change and do not stand candidates at their current size and influence.

If the same candidates stand under the same policies then the electorate simply vote NOTA until the candidates change their policies to something that the electorate can vote for.

Photographer Bernardo had a one night stand with model Azure C. He went to the corner to get some orange juice when he saw a picture of Azure C. before the sex change operation.