" To appease her, he tells her to wait (" that's what virgins do best, isn't it?

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.

To appease his mother, Bill relocated to St. Louis, Missouri, to work for another railroad company.

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.

Yoshimi realizes that Mitsuko won't let her go and with Ikuko looking on in tears, Yoshimi sacrifices herself by staying on in the elevator to appease Mitsuko's spirit and pretending to be Mitsuko's mother.

Troy doesn't want to stay, but she does it to appease her mother.

After the sowing of the crops, to appease the mother earth puja is performed for good crop at the village deity by the priest calls " Jakera ".

As a way to keep their European masters from interfering, and to appease the authorities who prevented them from practising their own religions, the African slaves in Haiti syncretised the Loa with the Roman Catholic saints-so Vodoun altars will frequently have images of Catholic figures displayed.

Congress removed Jefferson's assertion that Britain had forced slavery on the colonies, in order to moderate the document and appease persons in Britain who supported the Revolution.

It was he who established the House of Assembly in 1639, in an effort to appease the planters who might otherwise oppose his controversial appointment.

Even this change did not appease Stanhope and Sunderland who secured the dismissal of Townshend from the Lord-Lieutenancy in April 1717.

Sturges skewers the naiveté of wealthy entertainers who want to appease their class guilt by making " socially relevant drama ".

Their task is to steal a weapons shipment from a U. S. Army train so that Mapache can resupply his troops – and appease Mohr ( Fernando Wagner ), his German military adviser, who wishes to obtain samples of America's armament.

It was Calchas who prophesied that in order to gain a favourable wind to deploy the Greek ships mustered in Aulis on their way to Troy, Agamemnon would need to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigeneia, to appease Artemis, whom Agamemnon had offended ; the episode was related at length in the lost Cypria, of the Epic Cycle.

To try and appease him, the main chief agreed to sacrifice his daughter, who willingly threw herself into the lake and drowned.

It is “ the first legal recognition by the British Crown of Aboriginal rights .” The intent and promises made to the native in the Proclamation have been argued to be of a temporary nature, only meant to appease the Native peoples who were becoming increasingly resentful of “ settler encroachments on their lands ” and were capable of becoming a serious threat to British colonial settlement.

Festivals such as Reh are celebrated to appease the deities, who were traditionally believed to control the peace and prosperity of the people.

The nationalists look for news of people whom they considered to be traitors to China, such as the incident with Grace Wang from Duke University, a Chinese girl who allegedly tried to appease to both sides during the debate about Tibet before the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Palmer has argued that the introduction of new rites at this time was in part an effort to appease Ba ' al Hammon, the Carthaginian god who was regarded as the counterpart of the Roman Saturn and Greek Cronus.

This hatred transforms into ( unconscious ) transference and ( conscious ) identification with the hated parent who both exemplifies a model to appease sexual impulses and threatens to castrate the child's power to appease sexual impulses.

" Claudius believes this means that his secret memoirs will be one day found, and that he, having therein written the truth, will speak clearly, while his contemporaries, who had to distort their histories in order to appease the ruling family, will seem like stammerers.

Although the Freedom Fighter was judged to be a technical success in Vietnam, the Skoshi Tiger program was essentially a political project, designed to appease those few Air Force officers who believed in the aircraft.

For him who is appeased, there will be success ( in control ); for him who is not appeased, there will be no success ; therefore one should appease one's self.

Bond Head was recalled in late 1837 and replaced with Sir George Arthur who arrived in Toronto in March 1838 and sent Lord Durham, who was assigned to report on the grievances among the colonists and find a way to appease them.

It was later revealed by Stuart Proffitt, the editor who had worked on the book for HarperCollins, that this intervention was designed to appease the Chinese authorities-of whom the book was critical-as Murdoch intended to extend his business empire into China and did not wish to cause problems there by allowing the book to be published.

Bond Head was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada in 1835 in an attempt by the British government to appease the reformers in the colony, such as William Lyon Mackenzie, who wanted responsible government.

Louis XVIII chose many centrist cabinets, as he wanted to appease the populace.

The Swedish crown prince wanted to appease the Norwegians and avoid a bloody continuation of the war.

Historians have established that the president wanted to appease the United States, that the United States encouraged a crackdown on Chilean Communists, and that the United States government appreciated González Videla's actions and thereafter expanded the scope of its loans, investments, and technical missions to Chile.

" Cameron also wanted to appease anxious studio executives and " saw that a hit song from his movie could only be a positive factor in guaranteeing its completion.

In matters of religion, Svatopluk wanted to appease the German clergy who opposed the liturgy officiated in Old Church Slavonic ; therefore Methodius's disciples were expelled from Moravia in 886, after their teacher's death.

Konstantin did all he could to appease the Poles, but his well-meant reforms did not go far enough for the Polish nationalists who wanted nothing short of independence, by force if necessary.

The Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) wanted to join NATO because the then German chancellor Konrad Adenauer decided that it would appease the fears of its neighbors and it would gain Germany's trust and show willingness to cooperate.