When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

Dr. Isaacs was so pleased with the quality of her biographical study of Sara Sullam that he considered submitting it to the Century Magazine or Harper's but he decided that its Jewish subject probably would not interest them and published it in The Messenger, `` so our readers will be benefited instead ''.

He was right, and Peter Marshall could not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the subject, `` Well, it seemed as good a place as any to do the job ''.

Richard Peters, Secretary of the Board of War, thought Morgan was so extreme on the subject that he accused him of trying to pick a quarrel.

In summary, Brooks Adams felt that the nature of history was order and that the order so discovered was as much subject to historical laws as the forces of nature.

Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.

The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state -- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.

It was hardly possible to get any argument on the subject.

The wording of the question was quite general and may have been subject to different interpretations.

It was recognized that skywave signals, because of their reflected nature, are of great variability and subject to wide fluctuations in strength.

Alcohol ingestion succeeded in changing immobility to mobility quite strikingly in one pilot subject ( the only one with whom this technique was tried ).

There was evident delight on the part of the subject in response to her experience of the freedom of movement.

One subject spontaneously asked ( after her arm had finally risen ), `` Do you suppose I was unconsciously keeping it down before ''??

This subject was one who gave an arm-elevation on the second trial in the naive state but not in the first.

More time was spent in trying to marry these incompatibles than over any subject discussed at Yalta.

and as the aspect of the subject was transposed into those clusters of more or less interchangeable and contour-obliterating facet-planes by which plasticity was isolated under the Cubist method, the subject itself became largely unrecognizable.

With this seven-word sentence -- though the speaker undoubtedly thought he was dealing only with the subject of food -- he was telling things about himself and, in the last two examples, revealing that he had departed from the customs of his culture.

Hence, as longer time passes more of traces are subject to decay and as a result the information is forgotten.

The proposed amendment was ratified by Wyoming in 1978 as a protest to a Congressional pay raise, but the proposed amendment was largely forgotten before University of Texas at Austin undergraduate student Gregory Watson wrote a paper on the subject in 1982.

Several people were accused of the murder including his own wife after she admitted an affair with one of the accused, but after intense trails and no hard evidence the case was dropped, and no one ever admitted as the murderer. In later years the murder was almost forgotten asides memory from a handful of senior citizens, until Joe Towne one of the community leaders, grew interested in the subject and studied it and interviewed those who remembered the tragic situation and wrote it into a true story novel " Tongues on Fire ".

According to Lee, " The history of mankind was, from the earliest period of his life, a subject of the most indefatigable application ; and long lists of sovereigns, princes, and the driest chronological facts, once arranged in his memory, were never forgotten.

Philosopher George Santayana defines fanaticism as " redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim "; according to Winston Churchill, " A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject ".

The subject of his hallmark painting, Pierrot or Gilles, with his slowly fading smile, seems a confused actor who appears to have forgotten his lines ; he has materialized into the fearful reality of existence, sporting as his only armor the pathetic clown costume.

When they get home and Stan accidentally brings up the subject of the convention, however, it turns out Oliver's wife will not let him go as they had already arranged a mountain trip together ( which Oliver had forgotten about ).

Clark's choice of subject was strongly influenced by Lord Lee of Fareham, a family friend who had never forgotten what he saw as the shambles of the BEF.

White, which The New York Times declared " a small masterpiece which may well be read long after the writings of its subject have been forgotten.

Three separate black-and-white photographs of the subject were taken through carefully adjusted red, green and blue filters, a method of photographically recording color first suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1855 and imperfectly demonstrated in 1861, but subsequently forgotten and independently reinvented by others.

The former was one-tenth of all the learning material and was meant to be remembered, while the latter made up nine-tenths of the given subject and was intended from the start to be forgotten.

Many British sculptors famous the 1950s and 1960s, but since forgotten, have been the subject of solo exhibitions at YSP including Lynn Chadwick, Austin Wright, Phillip King, Eduardo Paolozzi and Kenneth Armitage.

Thus, numerous other wars in history are sometimes called " forgotten wars ", sometimes as a dramatic mechanism to garner attention to a particular book, article, or documentary on the subject.

Surviving African women of this war are the subject of the Documentary Les oubliées ( The forgotten ), made by Anne-Laure Folly twenty years later.

Cryptomnesia occurs when a forgotten memory returns without it being recognised as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original.

Abbots were originally subject to episcopal jurisdiction, and continued generally so, in fact, in the West till the 11th century.

In their day Heimatfilms were of little interest to more scholarly film critics, but in recent years they have been the subject of study in relation to what they say about the culture of West Germany in the years of the Wirtschaftswunder.

Cornwall ( Kernow ) was subject to West Saxon dominance, and the Welsh kingdoms recognised Alfred as their overlord.

One recent scholar, Robin Bush, even argued that the Jutes of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight became victims of a policy of ethnic cleansing by the West Saxons, although this has been the subject of debate amongst academics, with the counter-claim that only the aristocracy might have been wiped out.

All of them were subject to the Grand Master, appointed for life, who oversaw both the Order's military efforts in the East and their financial holdings in the West.

The Songhai had long been a major power in West Africa subject to the Mali Empire's rule.

Bother were subject states in French West Africa.

Although some subject – verb – object languages in West Africa, the best-known being Ewe, use postpositions in noun phrases, the vast majority have prepositions like English does.

Most subject – verb – object languages place genitives after the noun, though there is a significant minority, including the postpositional SVO languages of West Africa, the Hmong – Mien languages, some Sino-Tibetan languages, and such European languages as Swedish, Danish, Lithuanian and Latvian, that have prenominal genitives ( as would be expected in a SOV language ).

He is even the subject of a Saint Stephen's Day ( celebrated on December 26 in the West ) Carol, written in 1853 that remains popular to this day, Good King Wenceslas.

Wenceslaus is the subject of the popular Saint Stephen's Day ( celebrated on December 26 in the West ) Carol, " Good King Wenceslas ".

Sparta was the subject of fascination in its own day, as well as in the West following the revival of classical learning.

Côte d ' Ivoire, like the rest of West Africa, was subject to these influences, but the absence of sheltered harbors along its coastline prevented Europeans from establishing permanent trading posts.

While recognizing Jordanian administration over the West Bank, the United States, other Western powers and the United Nations maintained the position that ultimate sovereignty was subject to future agreement.

In 825 the South Saxons submitted to Ecgberht of Wessex, and from this time they remained subject to the West Saxon dynasty.

The present grant is by reason that the said Cockpit or the greater part thereof is since demolished ; but it is to be subject to the proviso that it be not built any nearer than 14 feet of the wall of the said Park at the West end thereof.

Official statements on the subject of foreign policy were mixed, particularly with respect to East Germany's relations with West Germany and the rest of Western Europe.

The novel takes as its subject the relationship between East and West, seen through the lens of India in the later days of the British Raj.

The OPLC announced on 11 February 2011 that West Ham had been selected as the preferred bidder for the Olympic Stadium, subject to final governmental ratification.

' In Roman times, this was situated in variously Celtic and Germanic territory, being West of the Rhine and subject under to various tribal groups often with mixed ethnic definitions.

Kemerovo Oblast (, Kemerovskaya oblast ), also known as Kuzbass () after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subject of Russia ( an oblast ), located in southwestern Siberia, where the West Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian mountains.

The traffic was subject to the Interzonal traffic regulations, that between West Germany and West Berlin followed the special regulations of the Transit Agreement ( 1972 ).

It has contributed many words to English vocabulary and has been a standard subject of study in educational institutions of the West, since the Renaissance.

Though East Coast hip hop was dominant throughout the late 1980s, N. W. A's Straight Outta Compton presented the toughened sound of West Coast hip hop, which was accompanied by gritty, street-level subject matter.