The god of the Achaemenian kings was the great Ahura Mazdā, from whom they understood they had received their empire and with whose aid they accomplished all deeds.
In the 1970s, feminists often turned to history for inspiring stories about great women who have triumphed over adversity and accomplished marvelous deeds.
No doubt, this growing political isolation helped the IRA see the light... "The IRA will have to prove that it has accomplished in deeds what it promised in words.
MACHIAVELLI -- One sees from the experience of our times that the princes who have accomplished great deeds are those who have cared little for keeping their promises...in the end they have surpassed those who laid their foundations upon loyalty.
Stirring tales of strong women who accomplished marvelous deeds against great odds may build self-esteem and confidence, but women's history, especially when viewed across many centuries, can also stimulate feminist outrage and revolutionary fervor.
This is accomplished by deeding an "undivided fractional interest" in the property to the charity.
Great men accomplishing great deeds by political scheming, force of arms and wild audacity — what's not to like?
It is not necessary, though I don't knock it, to change the whole world to accomplish worthwhile deeds.
At the same time, a more Nietzschean critique is advanced, finding that Christianity rejects humanity's most extreme passions, including those that drive people to accomplish heroic deeds.
The exhibition, "The Long Walk to Freedom: Portraits of Civil Rights Activists Then and Now" explores how "ordinary" people from varying racial and economic backgrounds came to accomplish extraordinary deeds through grass-roots organizing and sheer dedication.
It was believed that they employed demons to accomplish magical deeds, that they changed from human to animal form or from one human form to another, that animals acted as their "familiar spirits," and that they rode through the air at night to secret meetings and orgies.
