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 Nazarbayev's insistence, Moscow surrendered control of the republic's mineral resources in June 1991.

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 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 the Mongol camp near Kars Andrew had met a certain David, who in December 1248 appeared at the court of King Louis IX of France in Cyprus.

At the 1955 St. Louis convention in Missouri, Wilson relinquished stewardship of AA to the General Service Conference, as AA grew to millions of members internationally.

" Louis XIV was more forgiving to his old friend – " At our age, Marshal, we must no longer expect good fortune.

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 COCU's 18th plenary meeting in St. Louis, Missouri ( January 1999 ), CUIC was proposed as a new relationship among the nine member communions.

* 1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human ( 53-year-old Louis Washkansky ).

At Versailles she was incorporated into the Olympian iconography with which Louis XIV, the Apollo-like " Sun King " liked to surround himself.

At 15, he was reading the original papers of Joseph Louis Lagrange, such as the landmark Réflexions sur la résolution algébrique des équations which likely motivated his later work on equation theory, and Leçons sur le calcul des fonctions, work intended for professional mathematicians, yet his classwork remained uninspired, and his teachers accused him of affecting ambition and originality in a negative way.

At about the same time, in Lyon, France, Auguste and Louis Lumière invented the cinematograph, a portable camera, printer, and projector.

At the time, the city of Fenton was at the then-rural southwest rim of St. Louis county.

At Worms in 829, Louis gave Charles Alemannia with the title of king or duke ( historians differ on this ), thus enraging his son and co-emperor Lothair, whose promised share was thereby diminished.

At Verberie, Louis the German joined him.

At Jonac, he declared Charles king of Aquitaine and deprived Pepin ( he was less harsh with the younger Louis ), restoring the whole rest of the empire to Lothair, not yet involved in the civil war.

At first, Charles II opposed the alliance with the Dutch ruler — he preferred that Mary marry the heir to the French Throne, the Dauphin Louis, thus allying his realms with Catholic France and strengthening the odds of a Catholic successor in Britain ; but later, under pressure from Parliament and with a coalition with the Catholic French no longer politically favourable, he approved the union.

At the same time, Louis also had in his sights Henri Sanglier, the Archbishop of Sens, who had also joined the reformers.

At the same time he was appointed treasurer of the church of St. Martin in Tours by King Louis IX of France, an office he held until he was elected pope in 1281.

At Mass on Sunday, 5 October 816, Stephen consecrated and anointed Louis as emperor, placing a crown on his head that was claimed to belong to Constantine the Great.

At the same time he also crowned Louis ’ wife Ermengarde of Hesbaye, and saluted her as Augusta.

At this point Henry II made an offer of peace to his sons ; on the advice of Louis the offer was refused.

At the death of Louis XIII, in 1643, the village had 1, 000 inhabitants.

* May 21 – At the Los Alamos Laboratory, Dr. Louis Slotin saves his coworkers but receives a fatal dose of ionizing radiation ( the incident is initially classified ).

* November 27 – At the Battle of Roosebeke, a French army under Louis II of Flanders defeats the Flemings led by Philip van Artevelde.

At the time of King Louis XVI's trial, the Girondists had, however, lost their majority in the Convention.

At the very time of Leo's accession Louis XII of France, in alliance with Venice, was making a determined effort to regain the duchy of Milan, and Leo, after fruitless endeavours to maintain peace, joined the league of Mechlin, on 5 April 1513, with the emperor Maximilian I, Ferdinand II of Aragon, and Henry VIII of England.

At issue was the right of Philip, the grandson of King Louis XIV of France, to succeed to the Spanish throne under the terms of King Charles II of Spain's will.