His parents were dedicated to their family, and his mother was especially protective of her children ; it was through her that Fox developed his stubborn dedication to whatever task he committed to do.

His position had been achieved through intellectual ability and dedication to each task set before him, yet he was looked down upon as his background was certainly not that of a ' gentleman ,' lacking the familial connections of this contemporaries.

Gold Color Foreground-Loyalty to the nation, devotion to duty and dedication to the task set before us

Gaillard brought dedication and quiet, clear-sighted leadership to his difficult, complex task.

Following the dedication of the school in 1957, the task of developing and improving its educational work continued.

This is not an easy task, nor one that can be accomplished over night, but with the help of the international community and dedication of the Iraqi people, it is possible.

Their dedication to the status quo has been affirmed at the expense of the fascinating but dangerous individualism of a Sherlock Holmes.

Until that first dedication service, he and Lois felt their children were too young to take part in any religious life at home.

The Gettysburg Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers ' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863.

Alexander's dedication of On Fate to Septimius Severus and Caracalla, in gratitude for his position at Athens, indicates a date between 198 and 209.

It was consecrated in 1197 with a dedication to the deceased Saint Thomas Becket, whom the king had met at the English court.

She hung it in a sacred grove at Tegea as a dedication to Artemis.

Told largely in the form of a first-person memoir, it concerns the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem by Nehemiah, a Jew who is a high official at the Persian court, and the dedication of the city and its people to God's laws ( Torah ).

The " Deuteronomic " perspective ( that of the book of Deuteronomy ) is particularly evident in prayers and speeches spoken by key figures at major transition points: Solomon's speech at the dedication of the Temple is a key example.

Claudius was born on 1 August 10 BC in Lugdunum to Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia on the day of the dedication of the altar to Augustus at the Sanctuary of the Three Gauls.

He was videotaped when he spoke at the dedication of WRC-TV's new studios in Washington, D. C., on May 21, 1958.

Composer John Farmer, who was in Oxford's service at the time, dedicated The First Set of Divers & Sundry Ways of Two Parts in One to him in 1591, noting in the dedication his patron's love of music.

Former First Ladies ( from left to right ) Rosalynn Carter, Hillary Rodham Clinton | Hillary Clinton, Barbara Bush and Laura Bush at the dedication of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in 2004.

First Ladies Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush ( standing, left to right ), Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Rosalynn Carter, and Betty Ford ( seated, left to right ) at the dedication of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, November 1991

At the 1836 dedication of the Kirtland Temple the dedicatory prayer asks that God grant them the gift of tongues and at the end of the service Brigham Young speaks in tongues, another elder interprets it and then gives his own exhortation in tongues.

It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers ' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Before constructing a temple in dedication to Elagabal, Elagabalus placed the meteorite of Elagabal next to the throne of Jupiter at the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus.

It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.

In 1675, Jacob addressed the community at the dedication of the new synagogue in Amsterdam.

Laura Bush with husband Governor George W. ( right ) and father-in-law George H. W. ( left ) at the dedication of the George Bush Presidential Library, 1997

Mrs. Bush and her mother, Jenna Welch, at the dedication of the Jenna Welch Women's Center, 2010

This was a strategy to inculcate discipline and dedication to weeding out the unwilling and ambitious and to include women in the movement at a time when many thought that such activities were not respectable activities for women.

* 1863 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

In recognition of its fictional namesake, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and most of the principal cast of the original series of Star Trek were on hand at the dedication ceremony.

This decision was one among many in Taft's career which demonstrated a compulsive dedication to the job at hand, without regard to his self-interest.

On the other hand, dedication to non-interference has been shown to go beyond this.

The Pope declined the dedication of George's work, and Regiomontanus's translation had the upper hand for over 100 years.

b ) The Tigillum Sororium would be related to a cult of wood of the Horatii, as shown by the episodes of the pons sublicius defended by Horatius Cocles and of the posts of the main entrance of the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, on which Marcus Horatius Pulvillus lay his hand during the dedication rite.

VIPs Roy Patrick Disney, executives Bob Iger and Don Hahn, and Mickey Mouse were on hand for the dedication.

Sculptor Clark Mills said in his speech at the statue's dedication ceremony on February 22, 1860, " The incident selected for representation of this statue was at the battle of Princeton where Washington, after several ineffectual attempts to rally his troops, advanced so near the enemy ’ s lines that his horse refused to go further, but stood and trembled while the brave rider sat undaunted with reins in hand.

A dedication to his patron's widow in 1604 suggests some personal acquaintance with the Brydges family ; on the other hand, a reference in another work suggests he may have spent some time, like Kempe, as a solo performer.

The script of the dedication page differs slightly from that of the main text, but is by the same hand and in the same " elaborated text uncial " style as some pages at Durham ( MS A II 17, part ii, ff 103-11 ).

On the other hand, there is a dedication on the Temple of Edfu from 57 BC that inscribes Cleopatra Tryphaena's name alongside Ptolemy XII's, which would have meant the king's wife rather than daughter and would be unlikely had Ptolemy XII's wife really died already twelve years earlier.

A subsequent, lazy consensus in mainstream Hispanism has deemed Ramón ’ s reputation to have been overrated, but the comparison with Proust and Joyce seems justified, whilst recognizing that what differentiates him from their modernist cult of large-scale structures and formal perfection is precisely his avant-garde experimentation with a fragmentary, anarchic formlessness on the one hand, and on the other, his dedication to a kind of untranscendental meditation in a present usually severed from Joyce ’ s classical archetypes and Proust ’ s memories of the past.

Hervey is said to have denied the authorship of both the pamphlet and its dedication, but a note on the manuscript at Ickworth, apparently in his own hand, states that he wrote the latter.

The MS M. 383, on the other hand, lacks a dedication and claims to have been laid out according to his own intelligence.

Kissinger, hoping to both reassure the communists of America's sincerity and convince Thieu of the administration's dedication to a compromise, held a televised press conference at the White House during which he announced " We believe that peace is at hand.

The new building, completed at a cost of $ 2, 000, 000, was opened with major fanfare on April 30, 1938, with motion picture people from the silent and sound eras on hand for the dedication ceremonies.

On the other hand, the March 1836 issue specifies the tune Hosanna when it was sung for the dedication service of the Kirtland Temple.

First edition title page with hand written dedication from the author

Rain washed out the planned events and the opening was moved back to April 23 with Mayor Hague throwing out the first pitch and Sen. Moore and owner Horace Stoneham on hand for the ballpark's dedication.