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Anna and tried
Straboromanos tried to give her his cross, but for Anna this was not sufficiently large enough so that all bystanders could witness the oath.
In Perth, Anna, at this time going by her middle name, Harriett, tried to start a school for young ladies.
The emperor tried to stop Santa Anna by inviting him to Mexico City.
Anna did, however, act as a mediator between her husband and her father-in-law and tried to ease the tension between them during political conflicts.
When Santa Anna and Victoria were defeated, Santa Anna tried to flee to the United States and Victoria said to him :"
President Santa Anna first tried blocking their way at Cerro Gordo in the Veracruz highlands.
Sheridan's trip to Z ' ha ' dum, during which time Anna and Morden fruitlessly tried to convince Sheridan to join the Shadows and Sheridan detonated his Whitestar containing thermonuclear weapons above the Shadow city, the Shadows were temporarily thrown into disarray.
The charges faced were that he, as a minister, and Andrei Fedorovich Khrushchev ( 1691 — 1740 ), as an assistant minister, tried to dethrone Queen Anna for Peter the Great's daughter, Elizabeth.
Anna tried one more time to get Sheridan to cooperate with the Shadows.
In an editorial in the Seattle Union Record, a union newspaper, activist Anna Louise Strong tried to describe the general strike's power and potential:
Hirth's stirring speech is rejected by Peter ( Walbrook ), the colony's leader, and even by one of their own ( MacGinnis ) who comes to the aid of Anna ( Johns ) and is summarily tried and executed for the greater crime of trying to break away from the group.
Towards the end of his sports career, Cikatić tried his hand at acting, playing a villain in a 1997 B-movie Skyscraper, starring Anna Nicole Smith.
The new Mexican government led by Manuel de la Peña y Peña first tried its power when it asked Santa Anna to turn over command of the army to General José Joaquín de Herrera.
The IHMS doctor again tried to assess Anna on 31 January, but he could not get her to cooperate, and, on 2 February, the doctor contacted a psychiatrist at Glenside, who said that Anna should be assessed under the South Australian Mental Health Act 1993 for possible committal.
" Perowne earnestly tried to appreciate fiction, under instruction from his daughter he read both Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary, but could not accept their artificiality, even though they dwelt on detail and ordinariness.
Director Dario Argento tried at first to get Bridget Fonda and then Jennifer Jason Leigh to play the role of Anna.
Leif and attorney detective Anna arrives too late, as the gang has " accidentally " shot Ove, who remarkably tried to defend himself by shooting Leif in the chest upon discovering that the latter had emptied his rifle.
Matthew tried to kiss Anna after the two closed a successful business deal, but she pushed him away.
Pained to see his fiancee so upset, Matthew tried to calm Anna by telling her that all that now mattered was them, and Donald would not split them because they were too strong together.
He tried to run Carl down but at the last minute noticed that Anna was also in his path, swerved to avoid her, crashed into a wall and was catapulted through the windscreen.

Anna and negotiate
Santa Anna, in his distrust of civil government, had requested that he be allowed to negotiate a treaty with Houston.
That evening, a local woman, likely Bowie's cousin-in-law Juana Navarro Alsbury, approached Santa Anna to negotiate a surrender for the Alamo defenders.
Crusade chronicler Albert of Aix says that he acted as an envoy between the Turks and the crusaders, but according to the more reliable Anna Comnena, he was working with Boutoumites to negotiate the surrender of the city without the Crusaders ' knowledge.
Mexico's position was that Santa Anna had no legal standing in the Mexican government to agree to those terms or negotiate a treaty ; Santa Anna's position was that he had signed the documents under coercion as a prisoner, not as a surrendering general in accordance with the laws of war.
The popular politician Juan de Dios Cañedo was murdered, and the followers of Santa Anna blamed Herrera, claiming that Dios Cañedo had been in possession of secret documents showing that he had been sent to the United States in 1844 to negotiate a cash settlement for the loss of Texas.
In 1622, Sir Walter Aston was employed by the crown to negotiate a marriage between Charles, the Prince of Wales, and the Infanta Maria Anna of Spain.
In 1853, President Franklin Pierce sent James Gadsden to Mexico City to negotiate with Santa Anna, and the United States bought the remaining southern strip area of Arizona and New Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase.

Anna and Andronikos
Andronikos III married as his second wife, in 1326, with Anna of Savoy.
On 8 November 1273 Andronikos II married as his first wife Anna of Hungary, daughter of Stephen V of Hungary and Elizabeth the Cuman, with whom he had two sons:
After Anna died in 1281, in 1284 Andronikos II then married Yolanda ( renamed Irene ), a daughter of Marquis William VII of Montferrat, with whom he had:
# Anna of Savoy, d. 1359, married to Byzantine Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos
John V was the son of Emperor Andronikos III and his wife Anna, the daughter of Count Amadeus V of Savoy by his second wife Maria of Brabant.
* Anna ( c. 1260 – c. 1281 ), wife of the Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos
Andronikos III married Anna of Savoy.
Andronikos II Palaiologos married Anna of Hungary, daughter of Stephen V of Hungary and Elizabeth the Cuman.
Andronikos III married firstly Irene of Brunswick, who died without surviving issue, and secondly Anna of Savoy who was descended from Baldwin I of Constantinople.
Anna was now 12, and the approximately 65-year-old Andronikos married her.
Anna was Empress consort for two years, until the deposition of Andronikos in September 1185.
In an attempt to escape the popular uprising that ended his rule, Andronikos fled from Constantinople with Anna and his mistress ( known only as Maraptike ).
Anna survived Andronikos ' fall and is next heard of in 1193, when she is said by a Western chronicler to have become the lover of Theodore Branas, a military leader who fought on the Empire's northern frontier.
In 1318 the Serbian King Stefan Uroš II Milutin visited Tărnovo, in spite of his earlier alliance with Andronikos II and his divorce from Theodore Svetoslav's sister Anna.
Michael IX was the eldest son of Andronikos II Palaiologos and Anna of Hungary ( 1260-1281 ), daughter of Stephen V of Hungary.
The leader of the all-powerful aristocratic class was John Kantakouzenos, who after the death of Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos was the effective regent for the latter's infant son, John V. A faction in Constantinople, formed around the powerful megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, plotted against him, and managed to enlist the support of dowager empress Anna of Savoy and the Patriarch John Kalekas.

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