He was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War and political movements such as McCarthyism, and he helped pay for the successful defense of a soldier accused of " fragging " ( murdering ) another soldier during the war.

A grandchild of the Scudamores was Sir John Donne of Kidwelly, a successful Yorkist courtier, diplomat and soldier, who after 1485 made an accommodation with his fellow Welshman, Henry VII.

At this time, the prefect of Egypt was Tenagino Probus, described as an able soldier who not only defeated an invasion of Cyrenaica by the nomadic tribes to the south in 269, but also was successful in hunting down " Skythian " ships in the Mediterranean.

A battle against the latter turned out to be initially successful, until the young king was caught in a melee and killed by an Arab soldier.

In 1787 Robert Hamilton ( 1749-1830 ) described a case of a soldier suffering from nostalgia, who received sensitive and successful treatment:

This proved to be highly successful ; during the Korean War, a seriously wounded soldier who made it to a MASH unit alive had a greater than 97 % chance of survival once he received treatment.

In his eighth and ninth years, Ramesses extended his military successes ; this time, he proved more successful against his Hittite foes when he successfully captured the cities of Dapur and Tunip, where no Egyptian soldier had been seen since the time of Thutmose III almost 120 years previously.

* Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts ( 1832 – 1914 ), Anglo-Irish soldier and one of the most successful commanders of the Victorian era

Count Joseph Lagrange ( 10 January 1763 – 16 January 1836 ) was a French soldier who rose through the ranks and gained promotion to the rank of general officer during the French Revolutionary Wars, subsequently pursuing a successful career during the Napoleonic Wars and winning promotion to the top military rank of General of Division.

Major-General Anthony St Leger ( 1731 / 32 – 19 April 1786 ) was a successful soldier, a Member of Parliament for Grimsby, and the founder of the St. Leger Stakes horse race.

The grand duke was a prominent soldier, but not a tactician of note, and the successful outcome of the western campaign was largely due to his adviser, Count von Waldersee.

Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, ( 30 September 1832 – 14 November 1914 ) was a distinguished Indian born British soldier who regarded himself as Anglo-Irish and who was one of the most successful British commanders of the 19th century.

An Italian Army | Italian soldier surrenders to an Indian Jawan during the successful allied campaign of Operation Crusader.

Nick Stone Missions is a successful series based on an ex-SAS soldier working on deniable operations for British intelligence.

It is the birthplace of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, a soldier on the army of Felipe II, who explored Florida in the 16th century and founded in 1565 the first successful ( continuously populated ) European town in what is now the United States, San Augustín ( now St. Augustine, Florida ).

Gambino soldier Anthony Gaggi took notice of DeMeo and told him that he could make even more money with his successful business, if he came to work directly for the Gambino family.

The successful Chortkiv offensive halted primarily because of a lack of arms-there were only 5-10 bullets for each Ukrainian soldier.

He hated the military bureaucracy but, according to John Steinbeck, " was a successful soldier.

Since 1945, Horrocks has been regarded by some as one of the most successful British generals of the war, " a man who really led, a general who talked to everyone, down to the simplest private soldier ", and the " beau ideal of a corps commander ".

He was perhaps a soldier before beginning his distant journeys, which he undertook apparently from a passion for adventure, novelty and the fame which ( then especially ) attended successful exploration.

The Joseph Brown Collection at NGV Australia will forever tell the story of the immigrant who became an artist and soldier, a scholar and connoisseur, a successful businessman and an art dealer, a mentor to artists and an art patron ; a man who made a huge and enduring difference to the culture of this country.

Terry Thorne ( Russell Crowe ), an ex-Australian SASR soldier, who later served with the British SAS due to lack of action in Australia, arrives in Tecala, fresh from a successful hostage rescue in Chechnya ( Chechenskaya Respublika ).

A military diploma, or certificate of successful military service, granting citizenship to a retiring soldier and the dependents he had with him at the time.

So all-important are ideas, we are told, that persons successful in business and happy in social life usually fall into two classes: those who invent new ideas of their own, and those who borrow, beg, or steal from others.

Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.

Like the recent Scheherazade from London ( High Fidelity, Sept. 1961 ), it is successful because emphasis has been placed on good musical and engineering practices rather than on creating sensational effects.

The event was so successful that the Interior Secretary plans to serve as impresario for similar ones from time to time, hoping thereby to add to the cultural enrichment of the Administration.

I make no attempt to measure the enduring satisfaction and material well-being of a man who went to work on graduation from high school and was highly successful in the business which he entered.

Moreover, the most artistically successful of the nonfiction films have invariably borrowed the narrative form from the fiction feature.

Even English has general, albeit complex, rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time ; rules to predict spelling from the pronunciation have a higher failure rate.

In The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, it is mentioned that the son is now grown and successful and has a career.

When she made it, the results, starring Margaret Rutherford, were popular and successful light comedies, but were disappointing to Christie herself ; nevertheless, Agatha Christie dedicated the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side to Rutherford.

Mahayana Buddhism was far more successful in China than its rival Hinayana, and both Indian schools and local Chinese sects arose from the 5th century.

When Magnus Maximus usurped the supreme power in Gaul, and was meditating a descent upon Italy, Valentinian sent Ambrose to dissuade him from the undertaking, and the embassy was successful.

Anna was highly successful in three important aspects of the revolt: she bought time for her sons to steal imperial horses from the stables and escape the city, she distracted the emperor and gave her sons time to gather and arm their troops and she gave a false sense of security to Botaneiates that there was no real treasonous coup against him.

* 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

He was an immigrant from Scotland who came to America and became successful.

Six minutes after the successful burn of the S-IVB, the Command / Service Module, containing the crew, separated from the rocket and traveled for before turning around and retrieving the Lunar Module from inside the expended rocket stage.

After successful parachute deployment and less than fourteen minutes after reentry began, the Command Module splashed down in the Pacific Ocean southeast of Christmas Island 290 hours, 37 minutes, 6 seconds after liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center.

In his Critique of Pure Reason, German philosopher Immanuel Kant stated that no successful argument for God's existence arises from reason alone.

Parkinson challenges the argument from moral objectivity by arguing that, for the argument to be successful, it must be shown that morality is objective and commanded by God, rather than just a human invention.

Future suicide hijackers most likely will encounter greater resistance from passengers and flight crews, making another successful hijacking more unlikely.

Exactly-once mode was essential for operations which were not idempotent ; in this mode, the responder kept a copy of the response buffers in memory until successful receipt of a release packet from the requestor, or until a timeout elapsed.

* Eponymous city of Inganock from Seiken no Inganock: What a Beautiful People is stated to be the first and only successful arcology in its setting.

Salieri next turned to Giambattista Casti as a librettist, a more successful set of collaboration flowed from this pairing.