He dropped down to five hundred feet, swinging a little north of the city of Tacloban, and punched into the opening that showed against the mountain.

She showed no interest at all in the life he had led back home, and it hurt him a little.

Cuneiform sources suggest that the Gutians ' administration showed little concern for maintaining agriculture, written records, or public safety ; they reputedly released all farm animals to roam about Mesopotamia freely, and soon brought about famine and rocketing grain prices.

Arcadius showed little interest in ruling, leaving most of the actual power to his Praetorian Prefect Rufinus.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá himself had showed little inkling to marriage until meeting Fátimih ; who was entitled Munírih by Bahá ’ u ’ lláh.

He later recalled the moving map of the " America of Tomorrow " exhibit: " It showed beautiful highways and cloverleaves and little General Motors cars all carrying people to skyscrapers, buildings with lovely spires, flying buttresses — and it looked great!

Levellers saw the Rump as little better than the monarchy it had replaced, and they showed their displeasure in demonstrations, pamphlets and mutinies.

Like the other middle colonies, the Lower Counties on the Delaware initially showed little enthusiasm for a break with Britain.

Tin Machine resumed work the same month, but their audience and critics, ultimately left disappointed by the first album, showed little interest in a second.

However, Sapir often showed little understanding for Benedicts private thoughts and feelings, and particularly his conservative gender ideology jarred with Benedict's struggles as a female professional academic.

( Earley's original algorithm included a look-ahead in the state ; later research showed this to have little practical effect on the parsing efficiency, and it has subsequently been dropped from most implementations.

In contrast to the Stoics, Epicureans showed little interest in participating in the politics of the day, since doing so leads to trouble.

The 1952 film Umberto D. showed a poor old man with his little dog, who must beg for alms against his dignity in the loneliness of the new society.

He also made explicit the turn away from socialism, but this did little to alleviate poverty and the country showed no immediate signs of moving towards democracy.

Initially Eiffel showed little enthusiasm, although he did sanction further study of the project, and the two engineers then asked Stephen Sauvestre to add architectural embellishments.

Unlike Toussaint, Dessalines showed little equanimity with regard to the whites.

Despite his all-out effort to reduce the public-sector deficit, the overall ratio of fiscal deficit to the GDP in 1990 showed little change from that in 1989.

The agricultural sector's output showed little or no growth between 1970 and 1985.

The Chinese architectural community at the time also showed little interest in the building, as they tended to celebrate postmodern architects from the US like Michael Graves.

Both works showed little originality of thought ; they achieved wide popularity at the time of their publication, but have long been superseded.

Successive governments showed little inclination to move seriously against pressing economic and social issues.

Despite the subjects ' own expectations of consensus, interpretations of the commandments showed wide ranges of variation, with little evidence of consensus.

Maria Eleonore showed little affection for her daughter and was not allowed any influence in Christina's upbringing.

Perhaps on account of his prominent role in Wilhelm's upbringing, Bismarck believed that he could dominate the young Kaiser and showed little respect for his policies in the late 1880s.

In time, and two drinks later, he was complaining bitterly about his wife, He was on the subject for ten minutes or so when he noticed the renewed interest in his listener -- it showed in the alert face and the suddenly bright eyes.

After the death of her first husband, Agrippina tried to make shameless advances to the future emperor Galba, who showed no interest in her and was devoted to his wife Aemilia Lepida.

In the 1930s, Fleming ’ s trials occasionally showed more promise, and he continued, until 1940, to try to interest a chemist skilled enough to further refine usable penicillin.

After about 40 years, however, Capp's interest in Abner waned, and this showed in the strip itself ," according to Don Markstein's Toonopedia.

Bartók's large-scale orchestral works were still in the style of Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss, but he wrote a number of small piano pieces which showed his growing interest in folk music.

Until that time, neutron stars, like black holes, were regarded as just theoretical curiosities ; but the discovery of pulsars showed their physical relevance and spurred a further interest in all types of compact objects that might be formed by gravitational collapse.

Accordingly, most of these anthropologists showed less interest in comparing cultures, generalizing about human nature, or discovering universal laws of cultural development, than in understanding particular cultures in those cultures ' own terms.

After two FBI agents showed up at his home, he understood that " their interest lay not in the letters but in me.

Armstrong showed an interest in electrical and mechanical devices, particularly trains, from an early age.

With a new ballpark and increased revenue stream, the team showed rare interest in the top free agents on the market which included slugger Albert Pujols, pitchers C. J. Wilson and Ryan Madson.

Early in his life, Lessing showed interest in the theatre.

Grammarians of the Greek and Latin languages also showed an interest in aspect, but the idea did not enter into the modern Western grammatical tradition until the 19th century via the study of Slavic grammar.

Many of the city-states of Germany were run by bishops, who in reality were from powerful noble families and showed scant interest in religion.

He was an indifferent, sullen student who showed no interest in after-school activities.

He showed more zeal and interest in the ascetic ideal than in abstract speculation.

He showed interest in natural science and mathematics, but applied himself to studying theology, ecclesiastical law, and philosophy.

France showed a strong interest in Morocco as early as 1830.

The young artist, however, showed no interest in his schooling, preferring to copy paintings from churches and seek the company of painters.

For historical reasons palaeontology is part of the geology departments of many universities, because in the 19th century and early 20th century geology departments found palaeontological evidence important for estimating the ages of rocks while biology departments showed little interest.