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 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 the same time, it was unlikely that any businessmen would spend a day in a Christian mission out of mere curiosity.

At that time the second half of the Christian Youth Crusade against Communism will be staged.

At a closed-door session on Capitol Hill last week, Secretary of State Christian Herter made his final report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on U.S. affairs abroad.

At Alba Augusta ( Alba-la-Romaine ) the devastation was so complete, that the Christian bishop retired to Viviers, but in Gregory's account at Mende in Lozère, also deep in the heart of Gaul, bishop Privatus was forced to sacrifice to idols in the very cave where he was later venerated.

At the coastal side of the city there are indications of an Early Christian basilica with mosaic floors decorated with semi-precious stones.

At the request of Christian II of Denmark, Dürer went to Brussels to paint the King's portrait.

At those times, the expressions were all used interchangeably with " Christian Era ", and " vulgar " meant " not regal " rather than " crudely indecent ".

At this time the Piast duke Konrad I of Masovia with the consent of Pope Innocent III had started the first of several unsuccessful Prussian Crusades into the adjacent Chełmno Land and Christian acted as a missionary among the Prussians east of the Vistula River.

At least Christian was able to establish the Diocese of Chełmno east of the Vistula, adopting the episcopal rights from the Masovian Bishop of Płock, confirmed by both Duke Konrad and the Pope.

At best, creeds have a penultimacy about them and, of themselves, could never be the basis of Christian fellowship ".

At age 20, following his 1922 trip to Peking, China, for an international Christian conference, he started to doubt his religious convictions.

At the General Church level, the Council on Christian Unity coordinates the ecumenical activities of the church.

At the First Council of Nicaea in 325 it was decided that all Christian churches would celebrate Easter on the same day, which would be computed independently of any Jewish calculations to determine the date of Passover.

At its foundational level, Christian thought holds that "... in Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, man nor woman ", defining all as equal in the sight of God.

At one time or another they have characterized him as a political propagandist, a good courtier, the shrewd and worldly adviser of the Emperor Constantine, the great publicist of the first Christian emperor, the first in a long succession of ecclesiastical politicians, the herald of Byzantinism, a political theologian, a political metaphysician, and a caesaropapist.

At least one early Christian writer, Basil of Caesarea ( 329 – 379 ), believed the matter to be theologically irrelevant.

At the end of the year he visited Rome, and was welcomed in the house of Christian Karl Josias, Freiherr von Bunsen.

At the same time, other men laid the foundations of Christian Latin literature during the 300s and 400s.

At one time in his life, to say the least, he was an elevated Pantheist, doubting the immortality of the soul as the Christian world understands that term.

At the end of Errors, the world of the play is returned to normal when a Christian abbess interferes with the feuding.

[...] At this time atheism was regarded as the Christian Gospel that should be preached to the world.

At Göttingen at almost the same moment, the Classical historian Christian Gottlob Heyne, working from one of these prints, made a new Latin translation of the Greek text that was more reliable than Ameilhon's.

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 this time Severus came under the powerful influence of Saint Martin, bishop of Tours, by whom he was led to devote his wealth to the Christian poor, and his own powers to a life of good works and meditation.

At the time of the North American merger, the theological significance of these terms had expanded beyond the traditional Christian understanding.