Though the code of chivalry crucial to later continental romances dealing with the Round Table is mostly absent from the earlier Welsh material, some passages of Culhwch and Olwen seem to prefigure it, for instance when Arthur explains the ethos of his court, saying " e are nobles as long as we are sought out: the greater the bounty we may give, the greater our nobility, fame and honour.

He later ran for mayor and governor and even sought the presidential nomination, but lost much of his personal prestige when outrage exploded in 1901 after columnist Ambrose Bierce and editor Arthur Brisbane published separate columns months apart that suggested the assassination of William McKinley.

The translator Arthur Waley noted that, " A certain idealization of the ' noble savage ' is to be found fairly often in early Chinese literature ", citing the Zuozhuan maxim, " When the Emperor no longer functions, learning must be sought among the ' Four Barbarians ,' north, west, east, and south.

Instances of compulsory acquisition in literature and films include The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where first Arthur Dent's home is acquired for the building of a bypass road and then the Earth is acquired ( demolished ) to make way for a hyperspace bypass ; and The Castle, an Australian film, where the Kerrigans ' home is sought to be acquired to allow for an airport extension.

In 1942, new Conservative Party leader Arthur Meighen sought to enter the Canadian House of Commons through a by-election in York South.

Having conferred the Order of the Bath upon Alexander, Arthur asked to meet Aspasia, and declared subsequently that, if he were younger, he would have sought to marry the young girl himself.

In 1884, Hanna sought election as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in support of the presidential bid of Senator Sherman ( as he was by then )— President Chester A. Arthur, Garfield's successor, was seeking re-nomination, but was opposed by a number of other Republicans Hanna supported Sherman as the candidate favored the gold standard and worked to solve the problems of business, and because he was from Ohio.

Beyond that, he sought de Braose's wife, Maud de St. Valery, who, the story goes, had made no secret of her belief that King John had murdered Arthur of Brittany.

The first time Catherine publicly claimed that her marriage to Arthur had not been consummated was when Henry sought the annulment ; the subject had not been mentioned earlier, and it is possible that Catherine lied to protect her reputation, her marriage to Henry, and the rights of her daughter, Mary.

In a particular irony, Sinn Féin, which as a republican party fought for Irish independence during the Anglo-Irish War, was founded by a man, Arthur Griffith, who sought to restore the King, Lords and Commons of Ireland and the 1782 constitution to the centre of Irish governance, and the College Green Houses of Parliament to its position as the home of an Irish parliament.

Stewart sought federal backing of the bonds, but Prime Minister Arthur Meighen declined.

In protest at the ratification, Éamon de Valera resigned the presidency of the Dáil then sought re-election from among its members ( to clarify his mandate ), but Arthur Griffith defeated him in the vote and assumed the presidency.

The Wild brothers sought acting roles to supplement their parents ' income, and both were cast in a West End theatre production of Lionel Bart's Oliver !, Arthur in the title role, and Jack as a member of Fagin's gang.

As her younger brother Arthur was the heir presumptive to England, she was one of the most sought after princesses at that time.

This story has analogues in two other important Welsh texts: the Mabinogion tale Culhwch and Olwen, in which King Arthur's men must travel to Ireland to retrieve a magical cauldron, and the obscure poem The Spoils of Annwn, which speaks of a similar mystical cauldron sought by Arthur in the otherworldly land of Annwn.

Arthur sought to form a hardcore band and asked Civ to act as vocalist.

However when he sought a third term in 1961 Wagner broke with Carmine DeSapio and won the Democratic primary anyway, despite a challenge from Tammany's candidate Arthur Levitt Sr. A Democratic Mayor not aligned with Tammany was a new development and marked a milestone in the decline of traditional clubhouse or machine politics in New York City.

Producer Arthur Hammerstein, attempting to create popular new Broadway shows in the operetta tradition, sought exotic, unusual settings for his new productions.

A supporter of the Conservative Party while they were in power, he sought the Liberal nomination for Port Arthur riding for the June 1934 provincial election, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario with 58. 9 % of the votes cast.

While the British governor Arthur Phillip sought to establish good relationships with the local people and even befriended Bennelong, a prominent Wangal person, the differences between the groups led to tensions with both sides killing and injuring members of the other.

Birrell suffered further embarrassment when he sought to discontinue the use of the Irish Crimes Act 1887, a coercive measure introduced by Arthur Balfour to deal with agrarian crime, only to be faced with an increase in cattle-driving.

After three years of contentious litigation in the federal and New York courts in a case receiving national attention, Lincoln finally agreed in April, 2011 to dismiss its lawsuit that sought to avoid paying a $ 10 million death benefit on a life insurance policy insuring the life of New York attorney Arthur Kramer, one of the founding partners of the New York City law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel.

Unlike his predecessors, Makorov sought engagements with the Japanese, and kept his vessels in an order of battle in the roadstead of Port Arthur.

When Secor sought copyright on the song to release on an album in 2003, he discovered Dylan credited the phrase “ Rock me, mama ” to bluesman Arthur “ Big Boy ” Crudup, who likely got it from a Big Bill Broonzy recording.

In Robert de Boron's Merlin, Arthur obtained the throne by pulling a sword from a stone.

The first land patents in the Rockville area were obtained by Arthur Nelson between 1717 and 1735.

Arthur Berry in 1913 patented a print-and-etch method in Britain, and in the United States Max Schoop obtained a patent to flame-spray metal onto a board through a patterned mask.

When the de-facto governance of Port Arthur and the Liaodong peninsula was granted de jure to Russia by China along with an increase in other rights she had obtained in Manchuria ( especially those in Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces ) the construction of the 550 mile Southern spurline of the Manchurian Railway was redoubled.

He was also introduced to Gustav Holst, Arthur Bliss and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Vaughan Williams obtained for him a teaching post ( 1930 – 1933 ) at the Royal Academy of Music.

Arthur Rosinger of Newark, New Jersey, U. S. A. obtained US Patent 2, 350, 534, titled Magnetic Stirrer on 6 June 1944, having filed an application therefor on 5 October 1942.

In 1898 Russia obtained access to Dairen and Port Arthur and the right to build a railroad across Manchuria, thereby achieving complete domination over a large portion of northeast China.

Arthur Liberty married first Martha Cottam in 1865, from whom he obtained a divorce in 1869 on the grounds of her adultery and second, Emma Louise Blackmore in 1875.

Majority control of the company was obtained in the late 1930s by Arthur J. Nesbitt and his partner Peter A. T. Thomson through their holding company, Power Corporation of Canada.

In the Peshwa court he obtained his first opportunity of distinction, being attached in the capacity of diplomatist to the mission of Sir Arthur Wellesley to the Marathas.

Espionage historian Chapman Pincher obtained a copy of the letter, and used former MI5 officers Peter Wright and Arthur Martin as his main additional secret sources, to write the sensational book Their Trade is Treachery in 1981.

Temporal logic is sometimes also used to refer to tense logic, a particular modal logic-based system of temporal logic introduced by Arthur Prior in the late 1950s, and important results obtained were by Hans Kamp.

Here he obtained lessons from some of the greatest and most well-known composers of the times: Arthur Honegger and Heitor Villa-Lobos both agreed to see Tveitt.

He obtained a job at Arthur Andersen, where he rose within the ranks and eventually became the head of the Enron audit team.

In 1953, Arthur Schwartz and Alan Jay Lerner obtained the rights to the show from Al Capp ; the three were to co-produce the show, with Schwartz writing the music and Lerner writing the book and lyrics for an opening during the 1954 – 55 season.

When Richard left office in 1715, Arthur obtained a place as receiver general of the Post Office.

* The fine structure constant, a dimensionless physical constant, approximates 1 / 137, and the astronomer Arthur Eddington conjectured in 1929 that its reciprocal was in fact precisely the integer 137, which he claimed could be " obtained by pure deduction ".

With the assistance of one of his mentors, he obtained a fellowship to study at King's College London under the supervision of Arthur John Allmand, the chair of the chemistry department, who specialized in the field of applied electrochemistry and photochemistry.

In 1951, the Board decided that the outstanding instance of National Reporting done in 1950 was the exclusive interview with President Truman obtained by Arthur Krock of The New York Times, while Mr. Krock was a Board member.

He therefore proceeded to Göttingen where he taught Arthur Schopenhauer and afterwards to Munich, where he died of apoplexy at the very moment when the influence of Franz von Baader had at last obtained a position for him.

Further honours came Elphinstone's way when Prince Arthur obtained his majority in 1871, firstly in May he was appointed Comptroller of the Household to Prince Arthur, the same month he was made a Companion of the Military Division of Order of the Bath, and finally in July was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Civil Division of the Order of the Bath.

Weihai was not developed in the way that Hong Kong, the other British colony in the region, was developed, because Shandong Province of which Weihaiwei was part of, was inside Germany's sphere of influence and had only been obtained as a counterbalance to the Russian presence at Port Arthur 130 kilometres across the sea in Manchuria.

After Russia leased Port Arthur ( on the opposite coast ) from China for 25 years during March 1898, the United Kingdom obtained a lease for Wei Hai Wei which was to exist for as long as the Russians leased Port Arthur.