In the original story found in the Iliad, female characters receive little attention; although they are often crucial to progressing events, they have no developed identities of their own, and are instead defined by motherhood, wifehood, and sisterhood.
Yesterday, when the negotiators appeared to be making progress, dramatic events intervened.
Though the tempo moves, the progress of events is slow, with the music shifting from brassy bursts to sudden silences.
She had some news for him that would distract him from his writing and set in progress the events that would lead ultimately to his incarceration.
He writes, "We hastened home; and fancying we foresaw in the swift progress of events, its entire abolition, resolved from that day forward to vent our speculations on our next-door neighbours in person".
In the progress of events at these islands, the two classes are receding from each other: the chiefs are daily becoming more luxurious and extravagant in their style of living, and the common people more and more destitute of the necessaries and decencies of life.
Uncanny, because the progress of events, in each city, is the same: a summertime provocation the raid on the blind pig, in Detroit, and the police shooting of an unarmed African-American, Michael Brown, in Ferguson triggers complaint, conflagration, looting, and a fearsome response from the authorities.
But repositioning the US for the 21st Century is a work in progress, and events always overtake plans and strategies.
And writing in Syria's al-Ba'th newspaper, Khalaf al-Miftah says: "Given the progress of events in Montreux and Geneva, there is, so far, no indication of a real breakthrough in the Syrian crisis.
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