Woodruff wanted this political windfall very badly, and everyone assumed that he would get it because he was a close friend of the governor and his stanchest supporter.

Fulton was a very close friend of Jackson, and had been his private secretary for a number of years in the old days.

A close friend of hers in the Roman days described it this way:

Obviously Sloan's early years were influenced by his close friend Robert Henri.

it is when I meet someone who was a close friend of the family, and therefore of mine, and they nod to me so coolly and walk away, that it hurts.

Bronson gave it up after only a month and was self-educated from then on. He was not particularly social and his only close friend was his neighbor and second cousin William Alcott, with whom he shared books and ideas.

Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his ' uncle ', the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes assumed in his pictures.

Abu Bakr served as a trusted advisor and close friend to Muhammad.

He was the son of Marcius ( whose father, also named Marcius, had been a close friend of Numa Pompilius ) and Pompilia ( daughter of Numa Pompilius ).

A new opportunity arose in 1845, when he became assistant to Lyon Playfair at the new Museum of Economic Geology in London, where he became a close friend of Edward Frankland.

A close friend of Massoud, Jaan Mohammad, had been assassinated by Hekmatyar shortly before this incidence.

Although the press reported that he was engaged to vaudeville dancer and choreographer Rose Rolanda in 1924, Hopwood's close friend Carl Van Vechten confirmed in later years that it was all a publicity stunt.

Following his close friend Milton Caniff's lead ( with Steve Canyon ), Capp had recently fought a successful battle with the syndicate to gain complete ownership of his feature when the Shmoos debuted.

Many of these works have been translated into English by his close personal friend, now deceased, Yehuda Hanegbi.

Whorf published several articles on that topic in this period, some of them with G. L. Trager, who had become his close friend.

Fuller lectured at NC State University in Raleigh in 1949, where he met James Fitzgibbon, who would become a close friend and colleague.

Olson, who had also worked under Thomas at the EEOC and was a close friend of Thomas, spoke out on his behalf during his contentious Senate confirmation hearings.

Martha, Bill's widow, who was with him in these troubling times, denies he had a brain tumor as does his old, very close friend, Hugh McCallum.

Lancaster also often asked his close friend Nick Cravat to appear in his films.

In 1985, Lancaster, a longtime supporter of gay rights, joined the fight against AIDS after his close friend, Rock Hudson, contracted the disease.

Rose, along with his close friend and former teammate Mike Schmidt ( who is a strong supporter of Rose's reinstatement into baseball ), met with Selig in 2002, where Rose privately admitted to Selig ( two years before going public with his admission ) about betting on baseball.

Bud Selig was a close friend of the late Bart Giamatti, who was the commissioner when Rose was first banned from the sport in 1989.

Still unwilling to conform, Pasternak remained a close friend of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam.

Martov, until then a close friend of Lenin, agreed with him that the core of the party should consist of professional revolutionaries, but argued that party membership should be open to sympathizers, revolutionary workers and other fellow travelers.

Two individuals gave eulogies at his funeral: Gauss's son-in-law Heinrich Ewald and Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, who was Gauss's close friend and biographer.

Two of John ’ s close allies, Emperor Otto and Count Raymond VI of Toulouse, had already suffered the same punishment themselves, and the significance of excommunication had been somewhat devalued.

In the main, however, it was a faithful adaptation of the novel, Raymond Benson declaring that " Many fans consider it the best Bond film, simply because it is close to Fleming's original story ".

Pertwee's brother James Raymond " Jiggy " Pertwee was an RAF Whitley Bomber pilot who was killed in a crash on a hillside close to a disused quarry above Bank Foot, Ingleby Greenhow, following a leaflet drop over Dortmund, Germany in June 1941.

Although the Latins came close to capturing Ascalon, Godfrey's attempts to prevent Raymond of St. Gilles from securing the city for himself meant that the town remained in Muslim hands, destined to be a thorn in the new kingdom's side for years to come.

In his account of the “ First New Deal ” Raymond Moley stated Roosevelt was “ sympathetic ” to the 1933 Banking Act “ but had no active part in pressing for its passage .” Moley also wrote that most of “ the people who were close to the White House were so busy with their own legislative programs that Glass was left to his own devices .”

Since the letter will be received by both close and distant relatives, there is also the potential for the family members to object to how they are presented to others ; an entire episode of Everybody Loves Raymond was built around conflict over the content of just such a letter.

* November: Raymond Benson releases his final James Bond novel, a novelization of the film Die Another Day, bringing to a close an uninterrupted series of novels based upon Ian Fleming's character that started in 1981.

One of them, Major Bennett Marco, senses that not all is right, setting him on a collision course with his former comrade Sergeant Raymond Shaw, who is close to being activated as an assassin.

In later years Raymond and I became close friends.

In December 2005 he made waves in sovereigntist circles by supporting Liberal candidate and close, longtime friend Raymond Bachand in a provincial by-election in the Outremont riding.

Pell's former campaign manager and close friend Raymond Nels Nelson, himself an openly gay man, was brutally murdered in Washington D. C in 1981 in a still unsolved murder.

Orlando Bloom's character, Balian of Ibelin, was a close ally of Raymond ; however, he was a mature gentleman, just a year or two younger than Raymond, and one of the most important nobles in the kingdom, not a French blacksmith.

Rather than staying close to the stronghold, Raymond and ibn-Wafa camped with their forces in open country.

Count Raymond III, who reigned from 1152 to 1187, was an important figure in the history of the Kingdom to the south, due to his close relationship to its Kings ( his mother Hodierna was a daughter of Baldwin II of Jerusalem ) and to his own position as Prince of Galilee through his wife.

In 1976, Raymond relocated to Atlanta, Georgia to work for Jim Barnett in the National Wrestling Alliance along with his close friend Pierre Lefebvre.

A close contender to receive the rank of Fleet Admiral was Admiral Raymond A. Spruance.

Bim Tennant is buried in France at Guillemont Road Communal Cemetery close to his friend Raymond Asquith who was killed the week before.

The four sisters were close ; Hodierna may have asked Melisende to arrange for the assassination of Alphonse I of Toulouse, son of Raymond IV of Toulouse, in 1148, when Alphonse came to claim the County of Tripoli.

According to Roosevelt Brain Trust member Raymond Moley, Kieran coined the term, however Rosenman contended that Louis Howe, a close advisor to the President, first used the term but used it derisively in a conversation with Roosevelt.

Ai tried three partners in the next tournaments, before returning to Daniela in Zurich, where they reached the finals ( beating top seeds Lisa Raymond and Stosur en route ), losing a close match to Black and Rennae Stubbs, 6 – 7 ( 6 ) 7 – 6 ( 4 ) 6 – 3.

In June 1476, he was elected Grand Master of the Order, having been a very close associate of a previous Grand Master, Raymond Zacosta, and responsible for the repair and modernization of the fortifications of the city of Rhodes, the other castles of the Order on the islands of the Dodecanese, and the Château Saint Pierre ( formerly Halicarnasse, today Bodrum, Turkey ).

A small cyclone, its close distance to Hurricane Raymond hindered development.

He headed appliance manufacturing and design at Sears for Coldspot, working extensively with Raymond Loewy, who was a close family friend.