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.

He was a strong supporter of evangelicalism in the Church of England, and remained a friend of Dissenters as well as Anglicans.

He owed his elevation partly to the fact that no one was eager to accept an office the duties of which were at the time so difficult and dangerous, but chiefly to his being the friend and pupil of Bernard of Clairvaux, the most influential ecclesiastic of the Western Church and a strong assertor of the pope's temporal authority.

Due to the show's strong themes of female empowerment, the most powerful members of the team are often female ( Buffy and Willow ), while the men play passive roles such as that of father-figure ( Giles ) and supportive best friend ( Xander ).

Mozart also made a strong impression on the manager of the theater, Count Franz Xaver Rosenberg-Orsini, when in the home of Mozart's friend and patroness Maria Wilhelmine Thun the Count heard him play excerpts from his opera Idomeneo, premiered with great success the previous year in Munich.

The king attributed his son ’ s preferences to his strong attachment to Piers Gaveston, a Gascon knight, and Edward I exiled Gaveston from court after Prince Edward attempted to bestow on his friend a title reserved for royalty.

What other reason could there be, Bury asks, then answers his own rhetorical question, " the facts that Anthemius was Leo's chosen candidate, his filius, and that Olybrius was the friend of his foe Genseric, are a strong counter-argument.

Obi-Wan wishes to fight Sidious to avoid having to kill his best friend, but Yoda insists that Obi-Wan is not strong enough to fight the new Emperor of the galaxy, and would have to accept that the Anakin he knows no longer exists, having been " consumed by Darth Vader.

" Several prominent Atlanta Jews subsequently signed a letter to The Huffington Post rejecting the vilification of Fonda, who they described as " a strong supporter and friend of Israel ".

In 1819, through a mutual friend ( John Rickman ), Southey met the leading civil engineer Thomas Telford and struck up a strong friendship.

Although acquainted with all the Italian schools and a friend of the foremost painters of his day, he was strong enough to withstand external influences and work out for himself the development of his own nature and his own principles of art.

He was a strong friend of the English and campaigned against the French.

Avitus had a good relationship with the Visigoths, in particular with their king Theodoric II, who was a friend of his and who acclaimed Avitus Emperor, but the possibility of a strong and useful alliance between Visigoths and Romans ended when Theodoric invaded Roman Hispania and then refused to help Avitus against the rebel Roman generals who deposed him.

The Lord Lieutenant had a strong personal liking for Swift, who was also a friend of Lady Carteret's family.

In nearly 25 years as a congressman, Fish would become known as a strong anti-communist and a bitter opponent of his erstwhile friend Franklin D. Roosevelt, which raised his profile and made him an ally of the anti-Roosevelt members of Congress.

He was also prominent as an advocate of the right of free judgment in religion, and at the time when some members of the Romantic school were being converted to the Roman Catholic Church, he produced a strong impression by a powerful article, in Sophronizon, on his friend Friedrich von Stolberg's repudiation of Protestantism ( 1819 ).

Presenting himself as the friend of ordinary white farmers, " Pitchfork Ben " Tillman became the champion of these small farmers and the upcountry became his strong base of support in the State of South Carolina.

He was for some time a close friend of Edmund Burke, but his strong championship of Warren Hastings caused a breach.

In December 1940, he met Georges Bataille, who had written strong anti-fascist articles in the thirties, and who would remain a close friend until his death in 1962.

The March Hare has a strong Scottish accent in this movie, while his friend the Mad Hatter ( played by Johnny Depp ) switches into a Scottish accent as well whenever his emotions are strained.

Emperor Theodosius II convened the Second Council of Ephesus, and in remembrance of Cyril's role during the council of 431, the emperor, under strong influence of the eunuch Chrysaphius, a senior advisor and a close friend of Eutyches, asked Dioscorus, also a friend of Eutyches, to preside over the meetings.

Rudolf's close friend, Professor Udel, further explained his master's " strange choice ": He said that Vetsera shared a certain " mystic temperament " with the Archduke, who could be " the most mystical of men " in that he displayed a " strong vein of superstition ".

He was a strong supporter and personal friend of President James K. Polk.

The elements of elegance and color in Jannequin are strong French characteristics.

In the past, a defendant who refused to plead ( or " stood mute ") was subject to peine forte et dure ( Law French for " strong and hard punishment ").

After the fame surrounding the event, Carrel could not obtain a hospital appointment because of the strong and pervasive anticlericalism in the French University at the time.

French poet Paul Verlaine's " Chanson d ' automne " (" Autumn Song ") is likewise characterised by strong, painful feelings of sorrow.

Nevertheless, the Duke could think of no circumstances why the French would leave their strong positions and attack his army, even if Villeroi was first reinforced by substantial transfers from Marsin ’ s command.

During the pontificate of Pius IX a strong Ultramontane movement arose against the French Breviaries of 1680 and 1736.

In the latter, the battle was instrumental in forming the strong central monarchy that would characterize France until the first French Revolution.

From summer 2011, Operation Licorne, the French force, previously over 5, 000 strong, is roughly 700, and consists of Licorne headquarters, Battalion Licorne ( BATLIC ), seemingly made up of elements of the 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment and the Régiment d ' infanterie-chars de marine, and a helicopter detachment.

Influential French critic M. Henri Rochefort commented, " I am compelled to admit, not without some chagrin, that not one of our female artists … is strong enough to compete with the lady who has given us this year the portrait of Dr. Grier.

The language appeared to be in serious decline when the French government reversed its unsupportive stand and began some strong measures to save it.

Déjà vu, from French, literally " already seen ", is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has been experienced in the past.

A recent study suggests that a strong El-Niño effect between 1789 – 93 caused poor crop yields in Europe, which in turn helped touch off the French Revolution.

* Métis fiddling, of central and western Canada featuring strong French Canadian influence, but with even more " crooked " tunes.

It is noted for having a particularly strong film industry, due in part to protections afforded by the French government.

Washington, warning and mistrustful of the influence of Illuminism that had been so strong in the French Revolution and its Reign of Terror, demanded the French government recall Genêt, and denounced the societies.

' Stoverij ' is a classic Flemish meat stew, preferably made with a generous adittion of brown ' Trappist ' ( strong abbey beer ) and served with French fries.

However, there was a strong faction at the English court, headed by Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, proposing that Mary and William, because of their anti-Catholic position, should be replaced by some Catholic French heir.

Now the French faced an increasingly strong Prussia.

The settlement of Yacanagua was burnt to the ground three times in its just over a century long existence as a Spanish settlement, first by French pirates in 1543, again on 27 May 1592 by a 110 strong landing party from a 4 ship English naval squadron led by Christopher Newport in his flagship Golden Dragon, who destroyed all 150 houses in the settlement, and finally by the Spanish themselves in 1605, for reasons set out below.

African culture thus remained strong among slaves to the end of French rule, in particular the folk-religion of Vodou, which commingled Catholic liturgy and ritual with the beliefs and practices of Guinea, Congo, and Dahomey.

The reformist but moderate document, accused by detractors of French Revolution sympathies, soon generated strong opposition coming from the Commonwealth's upper nobility conservative circles and Catherine II, determined to prevent a rebirth of the strong Commonwealth.

On the other hand, he was aware of the potential threat that France could be in that region and was prepared to go to war to prevent a strong French presence there.