in the eyes of

• “It was enough of an academic challenge to be open to the possibility of life after death and test the survival-of-consciousness hypothesis in the laboratory; I reasoned that were I to add spirit guides to the list of spiritual possibilities and begin a research program around this hypothesis, I would probably lose all scientific credibility, even in the eyes of parapsychologists!”

  Simon & Schuster: The Sacred Promise

• “Certain I am that unless adequate powers are given to Congress for the general purposes of the Federal Union that we shall soon moulder into dust and become contemptible in the eyes of Europe, if we are not made the sport of her politics. . .”

  Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

• “Even though Glind and his accomplices left their homeworld more than a century ago, they are still criminals in the eyes of the Hegemony.”

  Simon & Schuster: Creative Couplings

• “The prodigy who had won tens of millions of dollars was, in the eyes of University Medical emergency room, no different from a homeless man who had been wheeled in off the streets.”

  Simon & Schuster: One of a Kind

• “The status of diffusion research has improved considerably in the eyes of academic scholars since the Fliegel and Kivlin assessment.”

  Simon & Schuster: Diffusion of Innovations

• “When the soldiers came for him, Dimnus fought back and was killed, confirming his guilt in the eyes of Alexander.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

• “The chief prize in the eyes of Alexander was Barsine, widow of his rival Memnon of Rhodes.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

• “The court of France has made a glorious effort for our deliverance, and if we disappoint its intentions by our supineness, we must become contemptible in the eyes of all mankind, nor can we after that venture to confide that our allies will persist.”

  Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

• “Your marriage to Wade Barton will exalt you in the eyes of the Lord.”

  Simon & Schuster: Keep Sweet

• “In addition, she would formally adopt Alexander as her own son, thus giving him legitimacy as overlord in the eyes of the Carians.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

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