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Adams and accepted
" Regardless, The Thin Blue Line, as Morris's film would be called, was popularly accepted as the main force behind getting its subject, Randall Adams, out of prison.
Disowned by the Federalists and not fully accepted by the Republicans, Adams used his Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard as a new base.
" Monroe accepted Adams ' advice.
Initially it was claimed by David Cameron that Adams had accepted the title but Downing Street has since apologised for this and Adams has publicly rejected the title stating, " I have had no truck whatsoever with these antiquated and quite bizarre aspects of the British parliamentary system ".
Adams accepted Secretary of the Treasury Richard Rush of Pennsylvania as his vice-presidential running mate.
In July 2005, Adams accepted a trainee coaching role with Dutch side Feyenoord with special responsibility for its Jong team, which is a reserve / junior side.
Later in 1990, Roe R. Adams ( who worked on the Wizardry series ) wrote in Computer Gaming World that the game was " the big shot in the arm for Sega ," stating that it is " accepted wisdom that the tremendous response to this game propped up Sega long enough for it to introduce the Genesis 16-bit machine last Christmas.
However, in the introduction, Adams describes God's Debris as a thought experiment, challenging readers to differentiate its scientifically accepted theories from " creative baloney designed to sound true ," and to " Try to figure out what's wrong with the simplest explanation.
" Although David Cameron said during Prime Minister's Questions that Adams had " accepted an office for profit under the Crown ", Adams denied this ; the Prime Minister's Office stood over the claim but apologised to Adams for the public announcement, while Adams continued to simply reject the title.
Adams later stated the reports that he had " accepted " the appointment were untrue.
When Sellars approached Adams with the idea for the opera in 1985, Adams was initially reluctant, but eventually decided that the work could be a study in how myths come to be, and accepted the project.
Some of the proposed deity names are more readily accepted among scholars than others .< ref > In order to present a consistent notation, the reconstructed forms used here are cited from Mallory & Adams ( 2006 ).
Adams was pressured to resign in 1958, when a House subcommittee revealed Adams had accepted an expensive vicuña overcoat and oriental rug from Bernard Goldfine, a Boston textile manufacturer who was being investigated for Federal Trade Commission violations.
Adams, however, immediately nominated him for the post of 8th Secretary of the Treasury, which he accepted.
The various Basque provinces generally regarded their fueros as tantamount to a constitution, a view that was accepted by some others, including President of the United States John Adams.
After the broadcast of March 31, 1940 — a reprise of Jane Eyre, after Welles's suggestion of Alice Adams was not accepted — Welles and Campbell parted amicably.
This was later denied and Adams stated the Prime Minister's private secretary had apologised to him for making the announcement that Adams had ' accepted ' the position, when in fact Adams resignation letter was taken to be a request to be so appointed, whatever his own wishes.

Adams and Greek
His " Cœliac Affection " ( coeliac from Greek κοιλιακός koiliakos, " abdominal ") gained the attention of Western medicine when Francis Adams presented a translation of Aretaeus's work at the Sydenham Society in 1856.
He built a Greek Revival mansion in 1833 at 215 Adams Street on Milton Hill.
* * Peh < sub > 2 </ sub > uson is reconstructed ( Mallory & Adams 2006, p. 434 ) as a pastoral god, based on the Greek god Pan, the Roman god Faunus and the Fauns, and Vedic Pashupati, and Pushan.
Spanish phoneticians normally describe the difference as ( for the northern Iberian sound ) vs. ( for the more common sound ), but Ladefoged and Maddieson claim that English / s / can be pronounced apical, which is evidently not the same as the apical sibilant of Iberian Spanish and Basque, In addition, Adams asserts that many dialects of Modern Greek have a laminal sibilant with a sound quality similar to the " apico-alveolar " sibilant of northern Iberia.
Adams is a collector of rare antiques, including Egyptian, Roman and Greek sculptures and artifacts.
) date back before the Christian era ,< ref > Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture By J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams Edition: illustrated Published by Taylor & Francis, 1997 ISBN 1-884964-98-2, ISBN 978-1-884964-98-5 ( page 11 ) borrowed words from Greek and Latin date back to before Christian era see also ( page 9 ) Even very common words such as mik " friend "(< Lat.
The school was immediately popular among Catholic families and was well enough known in its early years to attract the attention of President John Quincy Adams, who visited the school to test the boys ' Latin and Greek.
* Aretaeus ' complete works in Greek and English ( edition of Francis Adams, 1856 ) at the Digital Hippocrates project
Many famous people are buried in the graveyard: Elizabeth Barrett Browning ( in a tomb designed by Frederic, Lord Leighton ), Walter Savage Landor, Arthur Hugh Clough, Fanny Trollope and her daughter-in-law Theodosia Garrow Trollope and three other family members, Isa Blagden, Southwood Smith, Hiram Powers, Joel Tanner Hart, Theodore Parker, Fanny, the wife of William Holman Hunt in a tomb he himself sculpted, Mary, the daughter of John Roddam Spencer Stanhope in a tomb he himself sculpted, Louise, sister to Henry Adams, whose dying he describes in his ' Chaos ' chapter in The Education of Henry Adams, two children of the Greek painter George Mignaty, whom Robert had paint Casa Guidi as it was when Elizabeth Barrett Browning died there, and Nadezhda De Santis, a black Nubian slave brought to Florence at fourteen from Jean-François Champollion's 1827 expedition to Egypt and Nubia, while the French Royalist exile Félicie de Fauveau sculpted two tombs here.

Adams and fight
A longtime opponent of slavery, Adams used his new role in Congress to fight it.
Henry Clay, unsuccessful candidate and Speaker of the House, despised Jackson, in part due to their fight for Western votes during the election, and he chose to support Adams, which led to him being elected President.
Along with Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he is regarded as one of the most influential champions of Republicanism and an invested promoter of the American Revolution and its fight for independence.
In fact, Howe fought so often in his rookie season that coach Jack Adams told him, " I know you can fight.
James Searle, a close friend of John Adams, and a delegate, began a cane fight on the floor of Congress against Thomson over a claim that he was misquoted in the " Minutes " that resulted in both men being slashed in the face.
Lee Adams testified that he had seen the fight, later admitting that he was a quarter mile from the tracks.
Jeff Jarrett, who was feuding with Embry over the World Class light heavyweight title, joined Embry's side and helped out fight off Akbar's Army, with Brickhouse Brown and later Gentleman Chris Adams ( returning to World Class after a six-month hiatus ) getting involved.
As referee Tony Falk came in to stop the fight, Adams hits him, and another brawl between Embry and Adams ensued, with wrestlers again coming out to separate the two.
Minor damage occurred with the vehicles, and the ensuing fight continued until Chris Adams, Jeff Jarrett, and others broke up the brawl.
Adams, who was helping Williams and DiBiase fight off Akbar and his army, wanted the match to continue, but Parsons wanted the win.
When Batman, Aquaman, and Martian Manhunter try to fight them, Major Force manages to knock them down causing Nathaniel Adams to take action and crashes a jet into him.
Additionally, in the first season " Dan Hogan Story ", we are told that, around 1859-perhaps before setting up the lumber business in Galena, Adams and Hawkes were prize fight promoters in New York City, generally setting up matches and taking bets on their boxer, known as " the Tinsmith ".
Taylor lost weight to fight Adams for the South African Featherweight title, and he avenged his first defeat, conquering his third regional title along the way, by knocking Adams out in round eight, exactly twelve days after conquering the Lightweight title.
This bout was to air on the Never Surrender boxing pay-per-view, but during his training for the bout, Adams injured his shoulder and was unable to fight.
Hart was also despondent over the death of Adams ( the victim of a shooting incident during a drunken fight with a former roommate ) for a short time as he revealed during the Heroes of World Class DVD that Hart didn't return one of Adams ' calls days prior to his death.
" In early 2000, UFC approached Ian to fight at UFC 24, where he lost to Scott Adams.

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