Her foremast, already in bad shape before the battle, was struck by several French cannonballs, and her pumps, already overtaxed in an attempt to keep her afloat, were badly damaged by shots " between wind and water ".

Her policies, therefore, may be seen as desperate measures to keep the Valois monarchy on the throne at all costs, and her patronage of the arts as an attempt to glorify a monarchy whose prestige was in steep decline.

Her role is to keep watch over the bones of the dead.

Her father, Shu, was to keep them apart.

Her two most famous sons were the rebirths of Vishnu's gatekeepers Jaya and Vijaya who failed to keep their dharma.

Her inextinguishable fire is a means for men ( as individuals and as a community ) to keep in touch with the realm of gods.

Her own injuries keep her from opening in the show, which fails.

Her stories describe their efforts to keep their children acquainted with Indian culture and traditions and to keep them close even after they have grown up in order to hang on to the Indian tradition of a joint family, in which the parents, their children and the children's families live under the same roof.

Her journey to finding her self and making the hardest choices of her life begins when her mother says she can ’ t afford to keep her and sends Sybylla to her rich grandmother's house where she learns to love.

Her independent attitude, ability and willingness to take risks ensure that she is an artist and performer to keep an eye on …

Her minor telepathic abilities are able to keep him in check since most telepaths in his native reality had been killed and he had not developed psychic defenses.

Ellen feels badly for Kim, but is determined to keep Chris (" Her or Me "/" Now That I've Seen Her ").

Her goal was to preserve Iraqi culture and history which included the important relics of Mesopotamian civilizations, and keep them in their country of origin.

Her family's poverty did not keep her from developing a love for nature and her country, as noted in her first work Río Grande de Loíza.

Her assumption is that the " hard ones " keep the " soft ones " as pets and toys, as a replacement for the children they do not have.

Her real name is Aldonza Lorenzo, and Sancho describes her as follows: "… I can tell you that she pitches a bar as well as the strongest lad in the whole village … She's a brawny girl, well built and tall and sturdy, and she will know how to keep her chin out of the mud with any knight errant who ever has her for his mistress.

In Northern Ireland only, members of Her Majesty's Armed Forces have powers to stop people or vehicles, arrest and detain people for three hours and enter buildings to keep the peace or search for people who have been kidnapped.

Her physical beauty is sometimes distracting, but not enough to keep the audience awed by her acting.

Her sympathetic portrayal of the plight of working animals led to a vast outpouring of concern for animal welfare and is said to have been instrumental in abolishing the cruel practice of using the checkrein ( or " bearing rein ", a strap used to keep horses ' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to a horse's neck ).

Her performance earned her the Best Actress ( Silver Hugo ) award at the 2008 Chicago International Film Festival, for " her strong yet subtle performance as a woman struggling to keep her dreams despite brutal realities.

Her mother later tells her that " if Leslie West's son asked you to keep your lips for him, I think you may consider yourself engaged to him.

Her leadership of the white women of Little Rock was a major obstacle to the efforts of Governor Orval Faubus to keep the schools from integrating.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

Oddly, one of the column's greatest opponents was the Express newspaper's owner, Lord Beaverbrook, who had to keep being assured the column was indeed funny.

Speaking at 30th anniversary celebrations on 26 July 2006, Commander Bradley Bower said that the greatest challenge facing the navy of a maritime country like Fiji was to maintain sovereignty and the maritime environment, to acquire, restore, and replace equipment, and to train officers to keep pace with changing situations.

The greatest playwrights of the day had quality facilities in which to present their work and, in a general sense, there was always enough public support to keep the theater running and successful.

Patience will evidently have to be exercised – and patience is the greatest of the political virtues -– by those of us who want to keep Britain independent and self-governed ".

Bryers regarded Lawson as Australia's greatest living poet, and hoped to sustain him well enough to keep him writing.

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations ; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

One of Newcastle's greatest personal achievements in this period was his use of diplomacy to keep Spain out of the war until 1762, by which time it was too late to significantly alter the balance of power.

The label enjoyed its greatest commercial success in the 1940s, until over-ambitious expansion and an inability to keep distributors supplied with pressings of discs resulted in financial problems, and the label folded in 1948.

These five are dubbed the Planeteers and are tasked with defending the Earth from the greatest of disasters and making efforts to educate mankind to keep others from happening.

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They realize that his greatest desire is another Whangdoodle to keep him company.

Because rational producers will keep producing and selling, and buyers will keep buying up to the last marginal unit of possible output – or alternatively rational producers will be reduce their output to the margin at which buyers will buy the same amount as produced – there is no waste, the greatest number wants of the greatest number of people become satisfied and utility is perfected because resources can no longer be reallocated to make anyone better off without making someone else worse off ; society has achieved allocative efficiency.

Crowley himself claimed, in a footnote to the account in Liber 418, that "( t ) he greatest precautions were taken at the time, and have since been yet further fortified, to keep silence concerning the rite of evocation.

Yet Charles, still trusting to intrigue and diplomacy to keep Scotland in check, deliberately rejected the advice of Earl of Montrose, his greatest and most faithful Scottish lieutenant, who wished to give the Scots employment for their army at home.

The greatest cost of the campaign on land came in the need to keep most of the invasion troops in Norway for occupation duties away from the fronts.

Its battlemented keep is a prominent landmark on the Celbridge to Clane road, at its greatest height with walls four and a half feet thick, two small towers, a 53 step staircase and some evidence of damage in the war of 1641.

Dahlgren guns were designed with a smooth curved shape, equalizing strain and concentrating more weight of metal in the gun breech where the greatest pressure of expanding propellant gases needed to be met to keep the gun from bursting.

" Ronald Reagan is one of the greatest American Presidents of all time, and I want to keep him on the job ," he explained in 1986, in a fundraising letter to raise funds for such a campaign.

Dros Delnoch is the greatest fortress in the world, a narrow pass guarded by six high walls and a great keep, but under Abalayn its complement of defenders has been reduced to less than 10, 000 men under the leadership of an unfit General.