It was meant to insult him, and didn't quite succeed.

Boas had planned for Ruth Benedict to succeed him as chair of Columbia's anthropology department, but she was sidelined by Ralph Linton, and Mead was limited to her offices at the AMNH.

" Agathocles restored the Syracusan democracy on his death bed and did not want his sons to succeed him as king.

He was a younger son of Fath Ali Shah, but on account of his mother's royal birth was destined by his father to succeed him.

After George Frederick's death in 1603, the Polish king Zygmunt Waza appointed Joachim Frederick as regent in 1605, and permitted his son, John Sigismund, to succeed him in 1611.

Further themes are also present: the " sovereign freedom of Yahweh " ( God does not always do what is expected of him ); the " satirisation of foreign kings " ( who consistently underestimate Israel and Yahweh ); the concept of the " flawed agent " ( judges who are not adequate to the task before them ) and the disunity of the Israelite community ( which gathers pace as the stories succeed one another ).

In his book The Myth of the Robber Barons, Burton W. Folsom, Jr. distinguished those that engage in crony capitalism — designated by him " political entrepreneurs "— from those who compete in the marketplace without special aid from government, whom he calls " market entrepreneurs " who succeed " by producing a quality product at a competitive price "

) At one time, Attlee had favoured Aneurin Bevan to succeed him as leader, but this became problematic after Bevan split the party.

" Nepodařilo by se mi mu to dát " " I would not succeed in giving it to him ".

When Michael S. Swavely retired as president of Compaq's North American division on July 12, 1991, Eckhard Pfeiffer was named to succeed him.

Although Abdur Rahman had fathered many children, he groomed Habibullah to succeed him, and he made it difficult for his other sons to contest the succession by keeping power from them and sequestering them in Kabul under his control.

The Emperor could also pursue the election of his heir ( usually a son ) as King, who would then succeed him after his death.

It was reported that Kennedy would work alongside Lucas, who would remain chief executive and serve as co-chairman for at least one year, after which she would succeed him as the company's sole leader.

His underage son Frederick could only succeed him in Sicily and Malta, while in the Empire the struggle between the Hohenstaufen and the House of Welf erupted once again.

In 1980, Hoxha turned to Ramiz Alia to succeed him as Albania's communist patriarch, overlooking his long-standing comrade-in-arms, Mehmet Shehu.

Nehru nominated Gandhi to succeed him as Congress President during his absence in jail, but Gandhi declined, and Nehru then nominated his father as his successor.

Nehru, the man and politician made such a powerful imprint on India that his death on 27 May 1964, left India with no clear political heir to his leadership ( although his daughter was widely expected to succeed him before she turned it down in favour of Shastri ).

He therefore decided that the surviving son of his sister Elizabeth, Louis I of Hungary, should succeed him.

When Conradin was executed in Sicily in 1268, there was no other Hohenstaufen heir to succeed him, and Hugh III inherited the Kingdom of Jerusalem as well in 1269.

Chernenko was then elected to replace Andropov, despite concerns over his own ailing health, and against Andropov's wishes ( he stated he wanted Gorbachev to succeed him ).

Colonel Richard Ratsimandrava, appointed to succeed him, was assassinated six days into his tenure.

Moses appointed Joshua, son of Nun, to succeed him as the leader of the Israelites.

After the assassination of Aurelian, Tacitus was chosen by the Senate to succeed him, and the choice was cordially ratified by the army.

Bezprym was rather a commoner's name, which implied that Bolesław I did not wish Bezprym to succeed him ).

Chang was already regarded as the second-most powerful person in North Korea and his appointment strengthens the probability that Kim's third son, Kim Jong-un, will succeed him.

Current work on this model centers on whether it can succeed in stabilizing the size of the compactified dimensions and produce the correct spectrum of primordial density perturbations.

Calvin did not live to see the foundation of his work grow into an international movement ; but his death allowed his ideas to break out of their city of origin, to succeed far beyond their borders, and to establish their own distinct character.

In the simplest implementation, earning a " level " indicates that the teacher believes that a student has learned enough of the current material to be able to succeed in the next level of work.

Another method is to refrain from promoting a worker until they show the skills and work habits needed to succeed at the next higher job.

Additionally, it was becoming increasingly apparent that a situation in which the Vice President had been a defeated electoral opponent of the President would impede the ability of the two to effectively work together, and could provide motivation, at least in theory, for a coup d ' état ( since the Vice President would succeed to the office of the President upon the removal or death of the President ).

* The work of the scholar of political communication Murray Edelman ( 1919 – 2001 ), starting with his seminal book The Symbolic Uses of Politics ( 1964 ), continuing with Politics as symbolic action: mass arousal and quiescience ( 1971 ), Political Language: Words that succeed and policies that fail ( 1977 ), Constructing the Political Spectacle ( 1988 ) and ending with his last book The Politics of Misinformation ( 2001 ) can be viewed as an exploration of the deliberate manipulation and obfuscation of the map-territory distinction for political purposes.

Additionally, the work of voluntary restoration groups succeed in restoring some waterways to their former condition.

His sense of duty, hard work, and drive to succeed make these imagined negative characteristics undetectable by everyone but him, and being introspective, he obsesses over petty failures to reinforce his poor self-image.

Seeking escape from their addiction, Joe and Kirsten work together in Mr. Arnesen's business and succeed in staying sober for a while.

The British government does not publish an official list of all those in line to succeed, but the work of genealogical authors and amateur researchers suggests that there are several thousand people potentially in line.

In that work, she transcends any notoriety attached to her character by aiding Arthur and other knights to succeed in their endeavors.

The success of this great work, which has since become so famous, was very small at first, and not until 1622 did Drayton succeed in finding a publisher willing to undertake the risk of bringing out twelve more books in a second part.

John Adams, who would succeed George Washington to become the new nation's second president, in his Thoughts on Government wrote that Paine's ideal sketched in Common Sense was " so democratical, without any restraint or even an attempt at any equilibrium or counter poise, that it must produce confusion and every evil work ".

The title of the album is directly linked to chapter 69 of The Book of Lies, a written work of Aleister Crowley, where he uses the expression " The way to succeed and the way to suck eggs " as a pun for the 69 sex position (" suck seed " and " suck eggs ").

According to Forbes. com, the Web site is among the most trusted resources for senior business executives, providing them the real-time reporting, uncompromising commentary, concise analysis, relevant tools and community they need to succeed at work, profit from investing and have fun with the rewards of winning.

Dubos ' first work was L ' Histoire des quatre Gordiens prouvée et illustrée par des médailles ( Paris, 1695 ), which, in spite of its ingenuity, did not succeed in convincing most people.

The Dan Snyder Memorial Award is given each year to the player that " best embodies perseverance, dedication, and hard work without reward or recognition, so that his team and teammates might succeed.

St. John also argues that one reason that unusual comics can succeed in New York City is that they don't have to tour part time, as many of them also work as writers on local comedy television shows such as The Daily Show and the Late Show with David Letterman.

Tunku informed the official that cotton would not grow on the soil and furthermore he refused to force people in his district to work without pay on a project that could not possibly succeed.

" However, managers need to deal with the negative side of the overachiever personality: the overachiever employee may " set unrealistic expectations, work insane hours, and take risks to succeed at any cost ", which can lead the employee to " become obsessed, dysfunctional, and ultimately unable to perform.

" The morning papers, though kind, hinted that the show needed much work in order to succeed.

Guilford's stated aim is to graduate students who are “ ready on day one ” to contribute to their communities and to succeed at work, graduate or professional school, community service, and life in general.

Workers who exceeded their quotas, Stakhanovites, received many incentives for their work, although many such workers were in fact " arranged " to succeed by receiving extreme help in their work, and then their achievements were used for propaganda.