Whatever he thought or did was always based on this one agonizing wish for self-exaltation, and this same object was served by the murder of his children ...

Critic W. S. Di Piero noted " Whatever the occasion, childhood, farm life, politics and culture in Northern Ireland, other poets past and present, Heaney strikes time and again at the taproot of language, examining its genetic structures, trying to discover how it has served, in all its changes, as a culture bearer, a world to contain imaginations, at once a rhetorical weapon and nutriment of spirit.

Whatever the case, Patricius served early in the new reign as the Magister Officiorum.

Whatever function they served is unknown, for they're only mentioned in Baum's short story Nelebel's Fairyland, in which the gigans reshape the land in their boredom.

) She also served as host for Whatever Turns You On, the short-lived spinoff of YCDTOTV which aired on Canada's CTV network in the fall of 1979.

Whatever the influence of American music on the quartet, the quartet itself has served as a model for later American composers.

Whatever the truth, in the late 1930s, Eugene Backes, who served as sexton to St. Louis Cemetery # 1 until 1924, discovered an old cracked, copper plate in Alley 4 of the cemetery.

In the imaginary story, Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow ?, which served as an ending to Silver Age Superman continuity, Bizarro # 1 ( the original Bizarro and the world's leader / greatest hero ), was influenced to bad ends by the now evil Mr. Mxyzptlk.

Whatever the original plan might have been, the larger, historical account is often merely a background to a broad range of inquiries and, as Herodotus himself observes, " Digressions are part of my plan.

Whatever the case may be, the defeat encouraged the Crusaders and inspired a notion of deliverance from the East, and it is possible Otto recorded Hugh's confused report to prevent complacency in the Crusade's European backers ; according to his account no help could be expected from a powerful Eastern king.

Whatever the case, Hackworth was probably the first of the very few engineers throughout history to fully take into account the role of the blast in automatically realising the " perfect equilibrium between steam production and usage " in a locomotive when fitted with a firetube boiler, and to consider the blastpipe as a distinct device, paying close attention to its proportions, nozzle size, positioning and precise alignment.

Whatever the truth of the account, Connecticut records show that its government formally surrendered its seals and ceased operation that day.

Whatever the biblical account of creation is, it's not a theory alongside theories ... My worry is creationism can end up reducing the doctrine of creation rather than enhancing it.

Whatever might be the truth behind the Theravādin account, it was around the time of Aśoka that further divisions began to occur within the Buddhist movement and a number of additional schools emerged, including the Sarvāstivāda and the Sammitīya.

Whatever the truth of the account, Connecticut records show that its government formally surrendered its seals and ceased operation that day.

Whatever route is chosen, it is important to take account of the overall state of the labour market and how it is changing, to take account of any dead-weight effect and assess true additionality.

Whatever the case, Thucydides's account of the Macedonian state describes its accumulated territorial extent by the rule of Perdiccas II, Alexander I ’ s son.

Whatever was the science in the high school course for the time being, that was my favorite study.

Whatever professionalism there was tended to disguise itself ; it was possible to pay for the services of a speechwriter ( logographos ) but this was not advertised in court ( except as something your opponent had to resort to ), and even politically prominent litigants made some show of disowning special expertise.

Whatever difference which might part us, something hovers over them, it is the great images of national unity, which we all desire, for which we would all stand, willing to die if necessary.

" The contention is that this is a syllogistic inference, for it appears to require the extra premise: " Whatever has the property of thinking, exists ", a premise Descartes did not justify.

Whatever the true motive, the idea of a contract between King and people was advanced to the Pope as an excuse for Bruce's coronation whilst John de Balliol still lived in Papal custody.

She sang only two songs in the film, " Que Sera, Sera ( Whatever Will Be, Will Be )" which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and " We'll Love Again ".

Whatever the nature of their relationship, Domitian seems to have displayed little sympathy when his brother lay dying, instead making for the Praetorian camp where he was proclaimed emperor.

Whatever the truth Olympia, rather than face trial, subsequently fled France for Brussels in January 1680, leaving Eugene in the care of his father's mother, Marie de Bourbon, and her daughter, Hereditary Princess of Baden, mother of Prince Louis of Baden.

We are, indeed, a nation at risk, and nothing but radical reform of our schools can save us from impending disaster ... Whatever the price ... the price we will pay for not doing it will be much greater.

Throughout his career he introduced a number of memorable songs in films, including " Hooray for Captain Spaulding " and " Hello, I Must Be Going ", in Animal Crackers, " Whatever It Is, I'm Against It ", " Everyone Says I Love You " and " Lydia the Tattooed Lady ".

Whatever the mechanism, blood meant for the pulmonary system is not ventilated and so no gas exchange occurs ( the ventilation / perfusion ratio is decreased ).

Whatever the exact dating, for the next 300 years Rome had some presence along the southern border.

Whatever language may have been spoken on the peninsula soon gave way to Latin, except for Basque, protected by the Pyrenees

Whatever his religion, however, he was still intensely loyal to the Queen, though he seems to have had something of a grudge against her for her remark that he, Dowland, " was a man to serve any prince in the world, but was an obstinate Papist.

Whatever the reason for the failure, the French and German armies returned home, and a few years later Damascus was firmly under Nur ad-Din's control.

Whatever the results, they are mailed back to the player to be studied and used as the basis for the next turn ( often along with a new blank turn card ).

Whatever other vicissitudes his views went through, he firmly retained his belief in the direct and inextricable connection between human liberty and expansion into space — for which reason he strongly cried out against any idea of space exploration being " a waste of money " or " unnecessary luxury ".

Whatever the casualty figures, for the second time in eight years, the " busiest and most famous square in Europe " had been transformed into a bloody battleground.

Whatever crime is committed, whatever punishment is prescribed for that crime in this world, one must ultimately answer to God on the Day of Judgement.

Whatever Glaspie did or did not say in her interview with Saddam, the Iraqis assumed that the United States had invested too much in building relations with Iraq over the 1980s to sacrifice them for Kuwait.

Whatever criticisms may be made of Grace for making money for himself out of cricket, he was " punctilious in his aid when ( professional players ) were the beneficiaries ".

Whatever the psychological truth in the Oedipus myth, an Oedipus who is drawn to his fate by irresistible external forces can carry the symbol of humanity and its archaic crime, and the incest that is unknowing renews the mystery of the eternal dream of childhood and absorbs us in the secret.

Whatever the public outcry over the electoral inequalities, Hall's political bravery in introducing legislation to reform the House of Assembly to a more equitable system of representation should not be underestimated.

Whatever the situation may have been, Gongshan was considered an upright man who continued to defend the state of Lu, even after he was forced to flee.

Whatever can occur with human beings is what Jesus suffered as God and man.

" power we allow infinite: Whatever he wills is executed: But neither man nor any other animal are happy: Therefore he does not will their happiness.

The very citadel of spoils politics, the hitherto impregnable fortress that had existed unshaken since it was erected on the foundation laid by Andrew Jackson, was tottering to its fall under the assaults of this audacious and irrepressible young man .... Whatever may have been the feelings of the ( fellow Republican party ) President ( Harrison ) — and there is little doubt that he had no idea when he appointed Roosevelt that he would prove to be so veritable a bull in a china shop — he refused to remove him and stood by him firmly till the end of his term.

In Brief Lives, she persuades a man to give the dancer Tiffany money, when Tiffany would later be the only mortal to survive the explosion of the building in which she was dancing ; in The Kindly Ones, she knows full well that her brother is in trouble and unsuccessfully tries to persuade him to help her find Barnabas ; also, when read the quote ' Quoth the Raven ', from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, " The Raven ", she says ' Whatever ', which, down to the pronounced ' ev ' had been and would be said by Matthew the Raven throughout the book.

" Whatever in the nature of Jones had a tendency to vice, has been corrected by continual conversation with this good man, and by his union with the lovely and virtuous Sophia.

Ivan Turgenev wrote in prayer, one of his Poems in Prose " Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle.

Whatever the truth, Tango voluntarily replaced the " slapping " advert with an almost-identical new version where the orange-clad person kisses the man instead of hitting him.

Whatever truth the pagan authors contain he regards as borrowed from Moses and the prophets, who alone declare God's revelation to man.

Whatever may be the conclusion to which our scientific inquiries may lead us, we should always remember, that by whatever means the Negro, for instance, acquired his present physical, mental and moral character, whether he has risen from an ape or descended from a perfect man, we still know that the Races of Europe have now much in their mental and moral nature which the races of Africa have not got.

" Whatever his accomplishments ," Drukman writes, " Neuberger was to Morse a man flawed in character " while Neuberger " could not forgive Morse either for propelling him out of law school ... or for having had to protect him in the honor proceedings.

Xunzi states that " every man who desires to do good does so precisely because his nature is evil ... Whatever a man lacks in himself he will seek outside " as the sage kings did when they referenced their personal experiments and ideas to create a means toward morality.

Whatever a man may tell thee, do not listen to him: For every royal race and

Because man cannot know God's purposes, he cannot complain about his position in the Great Chain of Being ( ll. 33-34 ) and must accept that " Whatever IS, is RIGHT " ( l. 292 ), a theme that would be satirized by Voltaire in Candide ( 1759 ).

... Whatever happens I never can forget, my dearest Fitz, that you are the friend in the world whom I most esteem, for whom I would sacrifice every thing that one man ought to sacrifice to another.

Whatever its shortcomings as a consideration of globalization and its discontents, The Edukators succeeds brilliantly in telling the story of a man who falls in love with his best buddy's girlfriend and doesn't know what to do about it.

She asserts that " men and women were CREATED EQUAL .... Whatever is right for a man to do, is right for woman .... I seek no favors for my sex.

Wolf Wondratschek's poem " Nighthawks: After Edward Hopper's Painting " imagines the man and woman sitting together in the diner as an estranged couple: " I bet she wrote him a letter / Whatever it said, he's no longer the man / Who'd read her letters twice.

Whatever its origin, the name and also the word " jack " were long used as a term to refer to any man, especially of the common classes.