At Capitol's behest, the band's name was changed to Crowded House, which alluded to the lack of space at the West Hollywood apartment they shared during the recording of the album Crowded House.

At the behest of Charles and Buckingham, James assented to the impeachment of the Lord Treasurer, Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, by the House of Commons, who quickly fell in much the same manner as Bacon had.

At the behest of his court, Diocletian acceded to demands for universal persecution.

At the behest of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank, Honduras began a process of financial liberalization in 1990.

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At the behest of Mikhail Gorbachev, Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev headed a commission investigating the existence of such a protocol.

At the behest of the United States, the Organization of American States convened a meeting of foreign ministers but was unable to obtain Noriega's departure.

At the behest of the United States, the Colombian government began attacking many of the self-defense communities in the early 1960s, attempting to re-assimilate the territories under the control of the national government.

* At the behest of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Dr. Richard Vines, a physician, passes the winter of 1616 — 17 at Biddeford, Maine, at the mouth of the Saco River, that he calls Winter Harbor.

At his behest, the Mexican Congress passed a resolution stating:

At the behest of Lou Henry Hoover, Gilbreth joined the Girl Scouts as a consultant in 1929, later becoming a member of the board of directors, and remained active in the organization for more than twenty years.

At the behest of the Prussian king, Blücher was to discharge the soldiers who came from the annexed territories, but Frederick Augustus ’ men had not yet made their departure, and the Saxon soldiers rioted over it.

At the behest of Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, the Great Society included several new environmental laws to protect air and water.

At the behest of the MPAA, a line was inserted into the film ; when Helen asks Klaatu whether Gort has unlimited power over life and death, Klaatu explains that he has only been revived temporarily and " that power is reserved to the Almighty Spirit.

At Diocletian's behest, Maximian abdicated on May 1, 305, gave the Augustan office to Constantius, and retired to southern Italy.

At the behest of Oedipus, he tells it all.

At the behest of Quality publisher Everett " Busy " Arnold, Cole later created his own satiric, Spirit-style hero, Midnight, for Smash Comics # 18 ( Jan. 1941 ).

At the behest of the Sibylline oracle, the senate sent the quindecimviri to Ceres ' ancient cult centre at Henna in Sicily, the goddess ' supposed place of origin and earthly home.

At the behest of terrified settlers, the reservation was abandoned that year.

At the behest of all the Buddhas, Vajrapani reassembles Rahu who eventually becomes a protector of Buddhism ( according to the Tibetan " Nyingma " tradition ).

" At the behest of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gustaf V appealed to Hitler for peace negotiations in 1938, " in the interest of peace ".

At the western edge of Europe and of Islamic expansion, the Reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula was well underway by the 11th century ; it was intermittently ideological, as evidenced by the Epitome Ovetense written at the behest of Rodrick McManigal in 881, but it was not a proto-crusade.

At her behest, he travelled to Prague in 1866 to arrange the production of Glinka's operas there.

At the behest of the Steinway & Sons piano company, Rubinstein toured the United States during the 1872-3 season.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

At one point, his Spanish pursuers urinated at the bottom of a tree he was hiding in, but did not discover him.

At the turn of the 19th century, immigrants from Naples and Genoa opened the first pizza bars, though Spanish residents subsequently owned most of the pizza businesses.

At the time he was the leader of growing national Dutch resistance against Spanish occupation of the country, which struggle is known as the Eighty Years ' War.

At various times in his life, he has studied ( in descending order of level of fluency reached ) German, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Mandarin, Dutch, Polish, and Hindi.

At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War the colony remained loyal to the Republican government.

At the very end of the inter-war period in Europe came the Spanish Civil War.

At the end of the year, concerned by Francisco Franco's Falangist uprising, ( supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ), Orwell decided to go to Spain to take part in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side.

At one time Ghent was a Calvinist republic, but eventually the Spanish army reinstated Catholicism.

At the Spanish Synod of Elvira ( c. 305 ) bishops concluded, " Pictures are not to be placed in churches, so that they do not become objects of worship and adoration ".

At the very end of the show, in " Court Charades ", the Inquisitors are caught by surprise when a defendant ( who is also a judge from another court ) in session at the Old Bailey says: " Blimey, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!

At the end of 1931, Beauchamp, Barth, Rickenbacker and with several other individuals banded together and formed the Ro-Pat-In Corporation ( elektRO-PATent-INstruments ) in order to manufacture and distribute electrically amplified musical instruments, with an emphasis upon their newly-developed A-25 Hawaiian Guitar, often referred to as the " Frying Pan " lap-steel electric guitar as well as an Electric Spanish ( standard ) model and companion amplifiers.

At this time, it is considered a noble dog, and kept mainly by aristocracy, both in the Christian and the Muslim Kingdoms in which the Spanish territory was still divided at the time.

At the beginning of the Eighty Years ' War, the absence of city walls proved disastrous, as it allowed Spanish troops easily to occupy the town.

At that time, forces under Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases, the Genoese commander of the Spanish army, would be able to pass through friendly territories to reach the Dutch Republic ; the only hostile state that stood in his way was the Electorate of the Palatinate.

At their first concert, They Might Be Giants performed under the name El Grupo De Rock and Roll, because the show was a Sandinista rally in Central Park, and all of the audience members spoke Spanish Soon discarding this title, the band assumed the name of a 1971 film They Might Be Giants ( starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward ), which is in turn taken from a Don Quixote passage about how Quixote mistook windmills for evil giants.

At that point, a decisive victory for Austria, uniting the Holy Roman Empire with the Spanish crown, would have upset the balance of power just as much as a victory for France.

At the end of the 1940s Gombrowicz was trying to gain a position among Argentine literary circles by publishing articles, giving lectures in Fray Mocho café, and finally, by publishing in 1947 a Spanish translation of Ferdydurke written with the help of his friends, among them Virgilio Piñera.

* November 30 – At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat ( just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase ).

* May 11 – At the Battle of Djerba, the Ottoman fleet, commanded by under Piyale Pasha, overwhelms a large joint European ( mainly Spanish ) fleet, sinking about half its ships.

At this time, the principal cavalry schools of Europe at Pinerolo and Tor-di-Quinto in Italy, the French school in Saumur, and the Spanish school in Vienna all preferred to use a very deep seat with long stirrups when jumping.

At the death of the fourth duke, Charles the Bold, Artois was inherited by the Habsburgs and passed to the dynasty's Spanish line.

At the same time, Austria was becoming more involved in competition with France in Western Europe, with Austria fighting the French in the Third Dutch War ( 1672 – 1679 ), the War of the League of Augsburg ( 1688 – 1697 ) and finally the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), in which the French and Austrians ( along with their British, Dutch and Catalonian allies ) fought over the inheritance of the vast territories of the Spanish Habsburgs.

At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War he joined the Republican forces in Spain, serving in and helping to organize the small Spanish Republican Air Force.