At his father's suggestion as a teenager, Hayek read the genetic and evolutionary works of Hugo de Vries and the philosophical works of Ludwig Feuerbach.

At his father's expense, Gardner trained as a " creeper ", or trainee planter, learning all about the growing of tea ; although he disliked the " dreary endlessness " of the work, he enjoyed being outdoors and near to the forests.

At the Restoration the sequestration of his father's lands was annulled, and in 1665 he succeeded by the death of his elder brother as the 3rd Baronet Gordon, of Haddo and to the family estates.

At his father's deathbed, Bogart finally told Belmont how much he loved him.

At the time of his accession and the elimination of Abu ' l Fazl, his father's chief minister and architect of his eclectic religious stance, a powerful group of orthodox noblemen had gained increased power in the Mughal court.

At the age of 12, he learned to drive the family car and the trucks of his father's grocery business.

At that point Lemmy thought about changing his legal name to his stepfather's surname of Willis, but with his actual father's surname of Kilmister, he decided changing his birth certificate and passport would be too much hassle, so did not bother.

At the time of his father's death, Rajiv was away at a private boarding school for boys: initially at the Welham Boys ' School and later The Doon School, both located in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.

At Ramah, Samuel secretly anoints Saul, after having met him for the first time, while Saul was looking for his father's lost donkeys, and treated him to a meal.

At age thirteen, he transferred to a school in Barcelona run by his father's card-playing friend Father Mossen Josep, where he remained for three years.

At the magnificent banquet to celebrate her father's elevation, Anne took precedence over the Duchesses of Suffolk and Norfolk, seated in the place of honour beside the King which was usually occupied by the Queen.

At the outset of his reign, Commodus, age 18, inherited many of his father's senior advisers, notably Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus ( the second husband of Commodus's sister Lucilla ), his father-in-law Gaius Bruttius Praesens, Titus Fundanius Vitrasius Pollio, and Aufidius Victorinus, who was Prefect of the City of Rome.

At his father's death, he received León and Galicia, while his brother Sancho received Castile and Toledo.

Yet his succession was by no means assured: At his father's deathbed in the wilds of Cilicia far from Constantinople, he recognised that it was vital he should return to the capital as soon as possible.

At home he would listen to his father's records of the tango orchestras of Carlos Gardel and Julio de Caro, and was also exposed to jazz and classical music, including Bach, from an early age.

At his father's death in 1239, he inherited large estates from his father around the ancestral seat of Habsburg Castle in the Aargau region of present-day Switzerland as well as in Alsace.

At William's father's death, the provinces had suspended the office of stadtholder.

At the age of 21, he left his father's practice and went to London as a solicitor's clerk.

At the end of the novel, Eric's imminent return precipitates a series of events that result in Frank discovering male hormone drugs in his father's study.

At a battle in January 1079 Robert unhorsed King William in combat and succeeded in wounding him, stopping his attack only when he recognized his father's voice.

At the time of their father's death the two brothers made an agreement to be each other's heir.

At the time of his father's death, Casimir was in Germany at the court of his uncle Hermann II, Archbishop of Köln.

At first Magnus sought revenge against his father's enemies, but on Sigvat's advice he stopped doing so, which is why he became known as " good " or " noble ".

At his father's death in October 1637, he succeeded and his mother took power having been claimed regent.

At this time Miriam Noel appeared, urging on Constable Henry Pengally, whose name showed him to be a descendant of the Welsh settlers in the neighborhood.

At the request of the Huguenots at Metz, he pleaded its cause at the court of King Louis XIV, urging that it should be excepted in the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, but his efforts were unsuccessful, and he joined his father in Berlin.

At the urging of Congress, however, he ultimately accepted the payment, to avoid setting a precedent whereby the presidency would be perceived as limited only to independently wealthy individuals who could serve without any salary.

At the urging of Abraham Flexner, who had done pioneering studies of medical education, and University of Rochester President Rush Rhees, Whipple agreed in 1921 to become Dean of the newly funded and yet-to-be-built medical school in Rochester, New York.

At the urging of his professors, he applied to the University of Chicago and was admitted.

At Melanie's urging, Ashley takes the job at the mill.

At Kurtz's station Marlow sees a man on the river-bank waving his arm, urging them to land.

At the urging of Britain and King George, Greece adopted a much more democratic constitution in 1864.

At the urging of Herman Klein, Irving engaged Arthur Sullivan to write a suite of incidental music for the piece.

The new book, ‘ Who Was Adam ?’, is the silver bullet that puts the evolutionary model to death .” At the Tuskegee University's 79th Annual Scholarship Convocation / Parents ' Recognition Program he made the following statement regarding the subject of evolution while urging his audience to take seriously their role as the higher species on this planet.

At the urging of Leonard Chess at Chess Records, Chuck Berry had reworked a country fiddle tune with a long history, entitled " Ida Red ".

At her husband's urging, she finished her high school studies in 1933, at a time when less than 7 % of African Americans had a high school diploma.

* April 24 – At the urging of Yasser Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization drops its clause calling for the removal of Israel.

At the urging of General Creighton Abrams, the U. S. Commander of Military Forces in Vietnam at the time, the M551 was rushed into combat service in Vietnam in January 1969.

At the urging of his mistress Marcia, Commodus had Cleander beheaded and his son killed.

At Ginastera's urging, Piazzolla entered his classical composition Buenos Aires Symphony, in three movements, for the Fabian Sevitzky Award on 16 August 1953.

At the urging of his wife, Ponzi pleaded guilty on November 1, 1920 to a single count before Judge Clarence Hale, who declared before sentencing, " Here was a man with all the duties of seeking large money.

At their urging, the Lord Chancellor determines to make another effort to convince himself to award Phyllis to himself.

At Brunton's urging, Masson went to Harvard University to study Sanskrit.

At Savonarola ’ s urging the Frateschi government, after months of debate, passed a " Law of Appeal " to limit the longtime practice of using exile and capital punishment as factional weapons.

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 noon on December 9, the military dropped leaflets into the city, urging the surrender of Nanking within 24 hours, promising annihilation if refused.

At Palpatine's urging, Anakin kills the defenseless Count in cold blood, a violation of the Jedi Code.

At the urging of the UN, the Belgian government divided Rwanda-Urundi into two separate countries, Rwanda and Burundi.