If the devotee wishes to please him, God induces him, with infallible justice and loving regard, to intentions and effort to perform good deeds by which the devotee will attain him; if not, God keeps him from that goal.
The power and prestige that Offa attained made him one of the most significant rulers in Early Medieval Britain, though no contemporary biography of him survives.
The individual comes to realise that no purely private object he wills and attains can ever make him truly happy.
Sir Richard C. Jebb concludes that "unique as an Athenian statesman, Pericles must have been in two respects unique also as an Athenian orator; first, because he occupied such a position of personal ascendancy as no man before or after him attained; secondly, because his thoughts and his moral force won him such renown for eloquence as no one else ever got from Athenians".
Berberian College, founded by him, attained high prestige.
The Mets read nifty predictions about center fielder Carlos Beltran in a Boras booklet a year ago and are waiting for him to attain them.
"They buoyed him up to heights and achievements he would never otherwise have attained — and they held him back, thwarting his political advancement".
Through his control of review board budgets and appointments, Mayor Giuliani attained what had eluded him in 1993: blocking meaningful oversight of the police.
He first heard it from the actor Ray Liotta, and over the past couple of years, in numerous retellings, it has attained such significance to him, such potent explanatory power about how the business works, that he has come to refer to it simply as the Joke.
HIGH: November - Finishes second in the UBS Hong Kong Open, helping him attain his highest world ranking position of 50, making him the youngest player ever to make the top 50.
