To appease her mother, who wanted Gaynor to have " something to fall back on ," she went to beauty school and took business courses.

Artemis was enraged with a sacrilegious act of the Greeks, and only the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter, Iphigenia, could appease her.

She came to Troy for two reasons: firstly, to prove to others that her people, the Amazons, are great warriors and can share the hardships of war and, secondly, to appease the Gods after she accidentally killed her sister, Hippolyta, while hunting.

This much is in Homer, who does not discuss the aspect of this episode in which other writers explain that the only way to appease Artemis was to sacrifice Iphigenia to her.

To free him, Medea impersonated a priestess and demanded he be given to her for sacrifice to appease the gods, as a plague was at the time being visited upon Colchis.

She considered combining Ethel with Gardner or Hunter, her grandmother's maiden name, but finally abbreviated Zimmermann to Merman to appease her father.

Stafford also did her best to tone down the character through her voice work, to appease Universal's complaints about Woody's raucousness.

Poseidon sent a beast to ravage the land, and Andromeda's parents fastened her to a rock in the sea to appease him.

She later voted to redeploy troops out of Iraq within 90 days and even to impeach President Bush over the war to appease her constituents.

Spirit Houses of Brassiere Beach were, according to legend, built to appease the spirit of a fisherman ’ s daughter who was once torn to pieces and her breasts fell into the sea.

Zeus did this to appease Lamia in her grief over the loss of her children.

After hearing the full story of her captivity from Paulina, Gerardo formulates a confession with Roberto to appease Paulina's madness and set her free from her past.

Defiantly, Bjartur refuses to add a stone to Gunnvör's cairn to appease her, and in his optimism also changes the name of the farm from Winterhouses to Summerhouses.

Yoshida questions Angel about her loyalty, and she attempts to appease Yoshida by offering her body to him.

Smiley is somewhat of a pushover, trying to appease all of Chantel's demands, even her most expensive wishes, as well as rolling over whenever one of his co-workers takes credit for his achievements.

She testified that they pretended to want to protect her, telling her the rebuttal video " would appease the killers ," but that " Michael, Ronald, Dieter, Frank, and Vinnie ... ended up being the killers.

* Likewise, " Die Stem van Suid-Afrika " (" The Voice of South Africa ") became South Africa's only national anthem and was also translated into English to appease the relevant population.

In June 2008, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (" RSF ") accused Eutelsat of closing down transmissions of NTD through its W5 satellite to appease the Chinese government, and appealed to Eutelsat CEO Giuliano Berretta to quickly reverse its decision to suspend NTD ’ s use of Eutelsat.

However, to appease the United States and the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union agreed at the February 1945 Yalta Conference to form a coalition government composed of the communist Polish Workers ' Party, members of the pro-Western Polish government in exile, and members of the Armia Krajowa (" Home Army ") resistance movement, as well as to allow for free elections to be held.

Lying and deception skills can help employees / employers know what information to give in what situations, in order to appease others while getting a particular way.

Jean fails to convince Marie he didn't mean what she overheard him say to his mother in an attempt to appease the older woman.

The two American men chosen to help appease the home audience, Jay Frank and Mike Johnson, were not impressed with what little they had seen of it, with Johnson relating that he channel-surfed past it, saying, " This is stupid.

However, Abhyankar and his fellow extremists had lost patience at what they deemed Mahatma Gandhi's unreasonable stand to appease Pakistan, who had already invaded Kashmir by that time.

The arrangement proved to do little to appease opposition.

Roosevelt attempted to cope with Stalin's onslaught of demands, but was able to do little except appease Stalin.

This Act was passed by the Conservatives as an attempt to appease the Home Rule Party, although it failed to do so.

He regarded with contempt the increasing involvement of John D. Rockefeller III in China Medical Board affairs and would do nothing to appease that young man's sensibilities.

Poe's best known fiction works are Gothic, a genre he followed to appease the public taste.

The league organizers for their part did their best to appease the Croatian public with statements such as the one delivered by Radovan Lorbek in Slobodna Dalmacija in September 2001:

" As a matter of fact, Cao Cao was in dire need of help from Zang and Sun Guan, who wielded enormous influence around the area, to hinder his archival Yuan Shao's eastern flank, so he tried his best to appease the former Taishan Bandits, and even formally assigned the two traitors Zang protected to be administrators as well.

Was not this dropped primarily in order to `` appease '' the Chinese -- especially after `` Khrushchev's `` humiliating '' surrender to the West in canceling the German peace-treaty deadline of December 31??

and frightening, as when a wife tells the police that it is funny, but her husband hasn't been home for two days and nights ''.

The music becomes ethereal as he calls up a vision of her own sainthood: it is she, he tells her, who can bring the truth to Russia and convert the heretics.

One veracious woman tells me she has used thin potato parings for both corns and calluses on her feet and they remove the pain or `` fire ''.

Here, in the most eagerly awaited novel of the season ( his first since The Catcher In The Rye, ) he tells of a college girl in flight from the life around her and the tart but sympathetic help she gets from her 25-year-old brother.

Bishop Asser tells the story of how as a child Alfred won a prize of a volume of poetry in English, offered by his mother to the first of her children able to memorise it.

Callimachus tells how Artemis spent her girlhood seeking out the things that she would need to be a huntress, how she obtained her bow and arrows from the isle of Lipara, where Hephaestus and the Cyclops worked.

Callimachus then tells how Artemis visited Pan, the god of the forest, who gave her seven bitches and six dogs.

Fredrika tells her grandmother that she has watched carefully, but still has not seen the night smile.

The scheming Comptroller Schub, tells her that he has a plan to save her administration, and the town, promising “ It's highly unethical .” He tells her to meet him at the rock on the edge of town.

Schub tells her that since Hapgood never said who is normal or not, they can arrest anyone at random until the quota is filled.

Fay tells the townspeople about the fake miracle, but the town refuses to believe her.

Nora tells Christine of her predicament.

Christine tells Krogstad that she only married her husband because she had no other means to support her sick mother and young siblings, and that she has returned to offer him her love again.