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* Would-be assassin Vladimir Arutinian, who attempted to kill US President George W. Bush during his 2005 visit to the country of Georgia, was an obsessive reader of the novel and kept an annotated version of it during his planning for the assassination.
" Would-be plaintiffs cannot deliver unordered goods or services and demand payment for the benefit .... A corollary is that one who does have an enforceable contract is bound by the contract's terms: subject to a few controversial exceptions, she cannot sue for restitution of the value of benefits conferred ..." < ref name = Laycock > Douglas Laycock, < i > Modern American Remedies < i >, 3rd edition ( 2002 ) pg.
Would-be coypu farmers find that the markets for their products disappear after the promoter has dropped out of the picture.
Would-be purchasers were invited to " Look for the Oldest Settler from the train and at the pictures.

Would-be and had
* May 8 – Would-be " Saudi Princess " " Antoinette Millard " surfaces in New York City, claiming that muggers had stolen jewels worth of $ 262, 000 from her ( she later proves to be an impostor ).

Would-be and because
Would-be public servants reluctant to enter the political race because they are honest and poor are inspired by her performance ( what she lacked in financing, she got from volunteers ).

Would-be and order
The comedy-ballet play Le Bourgeois gentilhomme ( The Would-be Gentleman, 1670 ) by Molière ( Jean-Baptiste Poquelin ) satirized the nouveau riche businessman who buys his way up the social-class scale, in order to realise his aspirations of becoming a gentleman, someone who, in 17th-century France, was a man born to the social-class role, not a self-made social climber.

Would-be and .
* January 15 – Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life in prison.
Would-be perfect crimes are a popular subject in crime fiction and movies.
Would-be rulers come from all directions to wage war through the planet's history.
: Would-be master of an equally wealthy rival house to the Hanaukyos, annoyed with the condition she would become master of her house if she married the head of the Hanaukyo family.
William Gifford hypothesized that Alexander Cooke may have played Lady Would-be.
Michael Mohun played Volpone to Hart's Mosca ; Katherine Corey played Celia, and Rebecca Marshall played Lady Would-be.
Would-be toastmasters were typically counseled to use light humor, and to have anecdotes and epigrams handily memorized.

renegade and could
As the embodiment of compassion, Proselyte, began to free the Flash from Parallax's control by reigniting his emotion for compassion over his fear, the embodiment of hope, Adara, began fighting the cloaked villain, who reveals that all this is actually a ruse so that he could capture them all — which he does — revealing himself to be the renegade guardian Krona.

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One very notable social renegade was an aristocratic descendant of the Gracchi, infamous for his marriage ( as a bride ) to a male horn player.
He is acquitted on all counts when Luthor claims to have been kidnapped by renegade scientists from Cadmus Labs, who replaced him with a violent clone that is allegedly responsible for all the crimes with which Luthor is charged.
Manetho for instance in a distorted account reported in Josephus, states that Moses was originally Osarseph a renegade priest, who led a band of lepers out of Avaris ( referred to as Raamses in the Bible ).
The first five games in the series concern the renegade guardian of the planet Terra (" Earth " in Latin ), named Sheltem, who becomes irrevocably corrupted, developing a penchant for throwing planets into their suns.
The Sontaran Empire has ostracised him for his failures and the failures of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet, and he is forced to work as a mercenary for the alien Bane and later colludes with their renegade Mrs Wormwood to unleash the ancient entity Horath.
Benjamin Wilson was also a well known Indian fighter who served as justice of the peace for the Mexican authorities and it was while hunting down renegade Indians that he discovered what is present day Big Bear, California which received that name because Wilson and his posse lassoed and killed over thirty grizzly bears while passing through.
Government authorities blamed a renegade commander of the MILF for Bossi's kidnapping, but it denied any involvement.
The Communist Party of China considered the Republic of China to have been made defunct by the newly-established People's Republic of China and thus regarded the ROC a renegade entity to be eliminated for the sake of reunification.
His apprentices include Ventress, Tol Skorr and, most notably, renegade Jedi Quinlan Vos, who initially intends to infiltrate the Separatists as a spy for the Jedi Council, but instead nearly falls to the dark side.
Originally they were described as a powerful and wise race from the planet Gallifrey, from which the Doctor was a renegade ; details beyond this were very limited for the first decade of the series.
Mao seems to have had an exceptional hatred for him, and he was denounced as " China's Khrushchev " and " a traitor, renegade, and scab ".
The county is named for the Stanislaus River, first discovered by a European, Gabriel Moraga, in 1806, and later renamed Rio Estanislao in honor of Estanislao, a mission-educated renegade Native American chief who led a band of Indians in a series of battles against Mexican troops until finally being defeated by General Mariano Vallejo in 1826.
However, after Zadkiel is unable to truly control Creation and the ultimate power that sparked it, the one true God returns in wrath and condemns the renegade Archangel to Hell for all eternity, to be forever tortured by a pleased Lucifer.
The game takes place on three different islands: The island-states of Everon and Malden ( the latter is a home of American military forces ), and later in the game, on the barren Russian island of Kolgujev which is the staging point for the renegade Russian forces invading Everon and Malden.
A large feline ( mentioned to be a cheetah in " Dragonsdawn ") was engineered by a renegade settler for the purpose of being an intelligent helper, but they turned on the settler and went wild on the Southern Continent.
The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.
The word " Rani " means " queen " in the Hindi language, and " The Rani " follows the naming convention for other renegade timelords, such as " The Doctor ," " The Monk ," " The War Chief ," and " The Master.
The Rani is a renegade Time Lady, an evil scientific genius whose villainy comes not from the usual variety of lust for power and suchlike, but from a mindset that treats everything ( including morality ) as secondary to her research ; she has been known to enslave entire planets such as Miasimia Goria in order to have a ready supply of experimental subjects and a place to carry out her experiments uninterrupted.
Accordingly, most legislative votes in the United States can be considered free votes, although in rare circumstances a legislator may be disciplined by his or her party for a renegade vote.
In the book, Biography of Titus Labienus, Caesar ’ s Lieutenant in Gaul, Tyrrell notes that modern historians describe Labienus ' actions as defection from Caesar, and do not hesitate to call him a “ deserter ” or “ renegade ”, possibly due to their liking for Caesar.
Fisher then meets with a Chinese informant and learns that Feirong is in command of a renegade faction of the Chinese military and does not represent China in his actions, stabilizing American and Chinese relations and avoiding war for the time being.

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Solid Snake destroys Metal Gear REX and kills each of the renegade FOXHOUND members with the exception of Revolver Ocelot.
Ten golden crosses, each followed by 10, 000 men, swept devastation and captivity along the Muslim shores ; while, on the other hand, a Muslim fleet under a renegade Greek, and manned by Africans, ravaged the coast opposite Byzantium.
With each passing minute Tomar knew that the worst had happened ; the greatest Green Lantern had turned renegade and was destroying the very corps he helped create.

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" Nevertheless while the members of the cabinet and the international community condemned the attempted coup and talked about the PM's release, reports still indicated that " renegade soldiers " had the PM " under guard.
After subduing and executing nearly 2000 members of the rebellion, and blinding his renegade son Khusraw, Jahangir had Arjun Dev executed, causing a permanent deterioration of relations between the imperium and the Sikhs.
The Giants already had their share of stars during its brief history at this point, such as Smiling Mickey Welch, Roger Connor, Tim Keefe, Jim O ' Rourke and John Montgomery Ward, the player-lawyer who formed the renegade Players League in 1890 to protest unfair player contracts.
Eastwood had a small part as an aviator in the French picture Lafayette Escadrille and took on a featured role as an ex-Confederate renegade in Ambush at Cimarron Pass, a film which Eastwood viewed as disastrous and the lowest point of his career.
A few Barbary corsairs, such as the Dutch Jan Janszoon and the English John Ward ( Muslim name Yusuf Reis ), were renegade European privateers who had converted to Islam.
It was later discovered that the Manhunters had not suffered a flaw in their logic, as had previously been assumed, but that the renegade Guardian Krona had reprogrammed them in an attempt to show the other Guardians the necessity in embracing emotions.
But since most of the Persian empire had been conquered and Bessus only ruled over a loose alliance of renegade provinces, historians do not generally regard him as an official Persian king.
The Red Skull was assassinated by the mysterious Winter Soldier, under orders from the renegade former Soviet general Aleksander Lukin, who wanted to possess the new Cosmic Cube the Skull had manufactured.
At the time of their accession, the Huns were bargaining with Byzantine emperor Theodosius II's envoys over the return of several renegade tribes who had taken refuge within the Byzantine Empire.
During his imprisonments he was engaged in written controversy with Robert Browne ( down to 1588 ), who had yielded a partial submission to the established order, and whom he therefore counted as a renegade.
In fact, some scholars suggest that the Essenes began as a group of renegade Zadokites, which would suggest that the group itself had priestly, and thus Sadducean origins.
The Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999 – 2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson establishes that Salusa Secundus had been devastated by atomics by a renegade House which is subsequently exterminated, their name erased from history.
Although by the late 17th century disorder declined, reiving persisted with the growth of cateran bands of up to 50 bandits, usually led by a renegade of the gentry, who had thrown off the constraints of the clan system.
As Enterprise's mission progressed, T ' Pol grew very close to Captain Jonathan Archer whose abilities she had come to respect and to whom she had developed a sense of loyalty after he assisted her in bringing to justice a renegade Vulcan Security agent.
Francis's precipitate advance, however, had not only masked the fire of the French artillery, but also pulled him away from the mass of French infantry, commanded by Richard de la Pole, and by Francois de Lorraine, who led the Black Band of renegade Landsknecht pikemen ( not to be confused with the Italian mercenary company of arquebusiers by the same name ), which was 4, 000 to 5, 000 men strong.
* During the 2006 Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah declared in a speech aired on Al-Manar TV and Al-Jazeera TV that: " If there had been a Muslim to carry out Imam Khomeini's fatwā against the renegade Salman Rushdie, this rabble who insult our Prophet Mohammed in Denmark, Norway and France would not have dared to do so.
In late 401, apprehensive of the growing power of Huan Xuan ( who had in late 399 defeated and killed Yin Zhongkan and Yang Quanqi, seizing their domains and now controlled more than two thirds of Jin territory ), Sima Yuanxian declared Huan a renegade and ordered an attack against Huan.
The renegade Klingon general Chang ( Christopher Plummer ), assisted by traitors aboard the Enterprise, makes it appear that the Enterprise had fired on the chancellor's vessel.

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