At the insistence of his own supervisor -- the president of the firm -- he enrolled in a course designed to develop leaders.

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.

At the emperor's further insistence, and for their own protection they took refuge at the convent of Petrion, where eventually they were joined by Irene Doukaina's mother, Maria of Bulgaria.

At Sarah's insistence Ishmael and his mother Hagar are driven out into the wilderness, but God saves them and promises to make Ishmael a great nation.

At the insistence of their superiors in the UK, EMI Australia signed The Saints.

At the insistence of Charles, Martin IV excommunicated the Roman Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus, who stood in the way of Charles's plans to restore the Latin Empire of the East that had been established in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade.

At the insistence of Gebhard, Bishop of Ratisbon, the 24-year-old Gebhard was appointed Bishop of Eichstätt.

At the insistence of the Ottoman leader Talat Pasha, all lands Russia had captured from the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 ), specifically Ardahan, Kars, and Batumi, were to be returned.

At the insistence of Republican Representative Richard Armey, the Act had a number of sunset provisions built in, which were originally set to expire on December 31, 2005.

At Maecenas ' insistence ( according to the tradition ) Virgil spent the ensuing years ( perhaps 37 – 29 BC ) on the longer didactic hexameter poem called the Georgics ( from Greek, " On Working the Earth ") which he dedicated to Maecenas.

At the insistence of Cato the Younger, then quaestor, all men who had profited during the proscriptions were brought to trial.

At the insistence of Johnston and of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Sherman conditionally agreed to generous terms that dealt with both political and military issues.

At his repeated insistence, new laws were passed against ‘ sodomy ’ ( which included male and female same sex relations ), adultery, public drunkenness, and other moral transgressions, while his lieutenant fra Silvestro Maruffi organized boys and young men to patrol the streets to curb immodest dress and behavior.

At the urging of several bishops, and at the personal insistence of King Louis XIV, Pope Alexander VII sent to France the apostolic constitution Regiminis Apostolici ( dated February 15, 1664 ) which required all French Catholics to subscribe to the following formulary:

At the insistence of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Charles and his family left France three days later, on 17 July, along with several other courtiers, including Madame de Polignac, the Queen ’ s favourite.

At Hitchcock's insistence, the film was made in Paramount's VistaVision widescreen process, making it one of the few VistaVision films made at MGM.

At Brian's insistence, Capitol agreed to let The Beach Boys pay for their own outside recording sessions, to which Capitol would own all the rights, and in return the band would receive a higher royalty rate on their record sales.

At Yu Suzuki's insistence, the game's environment and culture adhere closely to this period.

At Shaw's insistence, she starred as Eliza Doolittle in the film Pygmalion ( 1938 ) with Leslie Howard as Professor Higgins.

At the insistence of William Few, the county was partitioned.

At her insistence, Jimmy wishes the dying girl out of existence.

At the insistence of the film company, Wise agreed to direct a " fill-in " project, The Sound of Music, a film that became one of the most popular and acclaimed films of the 1960s.

At one point the plant's smoke was removed from the city seal at the insistence of some residents due to environmental concerns.

At Stephen F. Austin ’ s insistence, the petition of the citizens to be attached to his colony was finally approved in August, 1828.

At Moscow, Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls ; and, in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

At all points West Germany was much larger and richer that East Germany, which became a dictatorship under the control of the Communist Party and was closely monitored by Moscow.

* 1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U. S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a " Kitchen Debate ".

) At the end of 1987, the police radio code used by law enforcement officers in Moscow was allegedly updated to include a code for an aircraft landing.

At the same time, British, French and Soviet negotiators scheduled three-party talks on military matters to occur in Moscow in August 1939, aiming to define what the agreement would specify should be the reaction of the three powers to a German attack.

At the news of Russian Revolution of February 1917, Bukharin returned to Russia by way of Japan and at once became one of the leading Bolsheviks in Moscow, being elected to the Central Committee.

* At the orders of Vladimir Putin, Russia observes a moment's silence at noontime ( Moscow time ) with flags placed at half-staff throughout Russia " in memory of terrorist acts ' victims ".

At 10 am ( Moscow Time ), Gagarin and Titov were given a final review of the flight plan.

At 5: 30 am Moscow time, on the morning of April 12, 1961, both Gagarin and his backup Titov were woken.

* July 24 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, United States Vice President Richard Nixon and USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev engage ine the " Kitchen Debate ".

At the meeting, Dubček tried to reassure the Soviets and the Warsaw Pact leaders that he was still friendly to Moscow, arguing that the reforms were an internal matter.

At the Sixth Congress in Moscow, Zhou had given figures indicating that, by 1928, fewer than 32, 000 union members remained who were loyal to the Communists, and that only ten percent of Party members were proletarians.

At the BIE's May 5, 1960 meeting in Paris, Moscow was awarded the fair after five rounds of voting that eliminated Austria's and then Canada's bids.

At the Ronald Reagan / Mikhail Gorbachev summit in Moscow ( 29 May – 1 June 1988 ) between leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union, it was decided that Cuban troops would be withdrawn from Angola, and Soviet military aid would cease, as soon as South Africa withdrew from Namibia.

" At Moscow State University, Jews were required to take their entrance exams in different rooms from non-Jewish applicants, which were nicknamed " gas chambers ", and they were marked on a harsher scale.

At the age of fifteen in 1942, Komarov entered the " 1st Moscow Special Air Force School " to pursue his dream of becoming an aviator.

At the start of the 1980 season, Wells won the AAA's 100 metres, then went to the Côte d ' Azur to finish preparing for the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.

At the Moscow State University, Kolmogorov occupied different positions, including the heads of several departments: probability, statistics, and random processes ; mathematical logic ; and he also served as the Dean of the Moscow State University Department of Mechanics and Mathematics.

At the age of ten he moved with his family to Moscow.

At first Uzbeg did not want to empower Moscow.

At Moscow University, Chebysheve was a graduate student of Nikolai Brashman.

At the same time the party became increasingly polarised between those who sought to maintain close relations with the Soviet Union and those who sought to convert the party into a force independent of Moscow.

At a 1935 conference in Moscow, Andrey Kolmogorov and Alexander both introduced cohomology and tried to construct a cohomology product structure.