In 1566, through the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Guillaume de Grandchamp de Grantrie and because of a long-standing Franco-Ottoman alliance, Charles IX of France and Catherine de Medicis proposed to the Ottoman Court a plan to resettle French Huguenots and French and German Lutherans in Ottoman-controlled Moldavia, in order to create a military colony and a buffer against the Hapsburg.

Stevens was a long-standing proponent of logging and championed a plan that would allow of roadless old growth forest to be clear-cut.

Winslet and Keitel are both interesting in the film, and indeed Winslet seems to be following Keitel's long-standing career plan, which is to go with intriguing screenplays and directors and let stardom take care of itself.

CNI representatives have signed on to joint initiatives, as Eugene Bird did to the 2004 letter by 60 former U. S. diplomats who distributed a letter critical of then-United States President George W. Bush's " endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's unilateral plan to reject the rights of three million Palestinians, to deny the right of refugees to return to their homeland, and to retain five large illegal settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank ,” reversing “ long-standing American policy in the Middle East.

It was Mugar's plan to create, once again, a second major television / radio duopoly, primarily in news, to compete with the long-standing combo of WBZ radio and television.

Haye has had a long-standing plan to retire early.

A long-standing plan to break out of the Anzac bridgehead was adopted ; it had first been proposed on 30 May by the commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, Lieutenant-General William Birdwood.

He is notable for switching from the right faction to the left faction in 2005 and causing the Government to back down on a proposal to resurrect the long-standing plan to build the Southern Freeway through his electorate.

Most long-standing spectra include a right wing and left wing, which originally referred to seating arrangements in the 18th century French parliament.

It left long-standing scars in both French and Algerian societies and continues to affect some segments of society in both countries.

Right up until the Franco-Prussian War, the French had maintained a long-standing desire to establish their entire eastern frontier on the Rhine, and thus they were viewed by most 19th century Germans as an aggressive people.

The Russo – Swedish War of 1741 – 1743, known as the Hats ' Russian War in Sweden and the Hats ' War in Finland, which resulted in the Lesser Wrath ( Finnish: Pikkuviha, Swedish: Lilla ofreden ), or the occupation of Finland, was instigated by the Hats, a Swedish political party that aspired to regain the territories lost to Russia during the Great Northern War, and by French diplomacy, which sought to divert Russia's attention from supporting its long-standing ally, the Habsburg monarchy, in the War of the Austrian Succession.

Most were born in Canada, the United States, or in Spanish-governed Mexican territories, although some European immigrants also moved west in search of financial opportunity, and the French and British both had long-standing active fur-trading industries in Canada.

After the collapse of his marriage, Cohl moved to London to work for Pick Me Up, a humor magazine that specialized in French artists ( he left his long-standing second job as a philatelist at this time ).

Rochford ’ s first successes as Southern Secretary were to persuade the new French foreign minister the duc d ’ Aiguillon to settle the long-standing Canada Bills dispute, and to forestall a French attempt to reinforce their depleted possessions in India.

While Umar Tall's political empire soon gave way to French colonialism, the more long-standing result was to spread Islam and the Tijānī Order through much of what is now Senegal, Guinea, and Mali ( see Robinson, 1985 ).

The practice of putting into laws remarks or wishes with no clear legal consequences has been a long-standing concern of French jurists.

Reflecting Lebanon's long-standing place in the international francophone orbit, the lyrics of the country's proposed first Eurovision entry were in French, a language in which Aline is fluent.

Japan, even though a defeated power by the summer of 1945, exploited long-standing Vietnamese resentment of French colonialism.

By utilizing Armide, Gluck challenged the long-standing and apparently inviolable ideals of French practice, and in the process he revealed these values capable of renewal through " modern " compositional sensitivities.

In September 2002 it was revealed that, prior to his promotion to the cabinet, Major had himself had a long-standing extramarital affair with a fellow MP, Edwina Currie.

Bahá ' u ' lláh's son-in-law was, thus, a long-standing enemy of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá ( who had declared him a Covenant-breaker.

Hayek had a long-standing and close friendship with philosopher of science Karl Popper, also from Vienna.

There had been a long-standing general Christian prohibition on contraception and abortion, with such Church Fathers as Clement of Alexandria and Saint Augustine condemning the practices.

The festival's chief executive, Richard Moore, compared Loach's tactics to blackmail, stating that " we will not participate in a boycott against the State of Israel, just as we would not contemplate boycotting films from China or other nations involved in difficult long-standing historical disputes .” Australian lawmaker Michael Danby also criticised Loach ’ s tactics stating that “ Israelis and Australians have always had a lot in common, including contempt for the irritating British penchant for claiming cultural superiority.

American support for the long rule of the Somoza family had soured relations, and the FSLN government was committed to a Marxist ideology, with many of the leading Sandinista continuing long-standing relationships with the Soviet Union and Cuba.

However it has had long-standing close relations with its other neighbors Afghanistan, Iran and China, extensive security and economic interests in the Persian Gulf and wide-ranging bilateral relations with the United States and other Western countries.

Honorius had a long-standing dislike of Oderisio going back to the time when Honorius was cardinal-bishop of Ostia.

A complaint of 1492, brought to the Star Chamber, accuses men of acting riotously by coming to a fair as Robin Hood and his men ; the accused defended themselves on the grounds that the practice was a long-standing custom to raise money for churches, and they had not acted riotously but peaceably.

Meanwhile, in the south of Egypt, there was a long-standing revolt that had begun during the reign of Ptolemy IV, led by Horwennefer and by his successor Ankhwennefer.

Joplin had long-standing ambitions for the synthesizing for the worlds of ragtime and opera, to which end the opera Treemonisha was written.

The remaining members recruited John Ellis, who had had a long-standing association with the band.

King had a long-standing concern with city planning and the development of the national capital, since he had been trained in the settlement house movement and envisioned town planning and garden cities as a component of his broader program of social reform.

However, Yamato Japan and Baekje had been long-standing and very close allies.

The matter of trade tariffs had been a long-standing source of conflict between the various political units of Southern Africa.

The core of the army was made up of full-time professional soldiers called housecarls who had a long-standing dedication to the King.

However, at Court the match was not so popular among the elder members of court due to the long-standing tensions between Austria and France, which had only recently been mollified.

By the time he married Deborah Hitchborn, a member of a long-standing Boston family that owned a small shipping wharf, in 1729, Rivoire had anglicized his name to Paul Revere.

Several had long-standing diasporas that did not conform to 20th century European nationalism and state creation.

This was a significant change from the local law making at the regional assemblies () had been the long-standing tradition.

The airline's long-standing policy of stimulating the market by continuously reducing fares had resulted in uneconomic yields in the absence of a corresponding reduction in costs.

In 1992, the Moscow daily Izvestia claimed that the CPUSA had received over $ 40 million in payments from the Soviet Union, contradicting Hall's long-standing claims of financial independence.