At Emerson's request, Alcott helped arrange Thoreau's funeral, which was held at First Parish Sanctuary in Concord, despite Thoreau having disavowed membership in the church when he was in his early twenties.

At the request of Young and Duke, the moonwalk was extended by ten minutes.

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

At his own request Nehemiah is sent to Jerusalem as governor of Yehud, the official Persian name for Judah.

At the same time, Athens's greatest runner, Pheidippides ( or Philippides in some accounts ) had been sent to Sparta to request that the Spartan army march to the aid of Athens.

At the request of his Poznań University professor, Zdzisław Krygowski, on arriving at Göttingen Rejewski laid flowers on Gauss's grave.

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 request of the government of Southern Rhodesia, Doke investigated the range of dialect diversity among the languages of the country and made recommendations for Unified Shona.

At the request of the king, he wrote a letter to Pope Boniface on the debated subject of " The Three Chapters ".

At Chiang's request Yan visited Li in order to convince Li not to withdraw from public life.

At the request of then Lt .- Gov.

At the request of the U. S. Air Force he began formalizing his Process Maturity Framework to aid the U. S. Department of Defense in evaluating the capability of software contractors as part of awarding contracts.

At the request of Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris invented the Domain Name System in 1983 and wrote the first implementation.

At Atchison's request, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which embodied this idea, in November 1853.

[...] At my request the publishers are removing what they believe would be considered objectionable, and are placing asterisks to show where omissions have been made.

At the request of Giulietta Masina, trumpeter Mauro Maur played the " Improvviso dell ' Angelo " by Nino Rota during the funeral ceremony.

At North's request, the board disbanded the ICE in 2001.

At the request of Michèle, Papa Doc's widow Simone was expelled from Haiti.

At GM headquarters ’ request, Holden was then reorganised and recapitalised, separating the engine and car manufacturing divisions in the process.

At the request of Azam, Paul Broca, and others, the French Academy of Science, who had examined Mesmerism in 1784, examined Braid's writings shortly after his demise.

At Jackson's request, the United States Congress opened a fierce debate on an Indian Removal Bill.

At his request he was billed as " J. B. Wilkes ", a pseudonym meant to avoid comparison with other members of his famous thespian family.

At the request of Madame d ' Epinay, who was anxious to protect her privacy, however, the police ordered him to stop, and the Confessions was only partially published in 1782, four years after his death.

At the request of his father, Adolf Lorenz, he began a premedical curriculum in 1922 at Columbia University, but he returned to Vienna in 1923 to continue his studies at the University of Vienna.

At dinner, Tiberius offered Agrippina an apple as a test of Agrippina ’ s feelings for the emperor.

At that point the deposed emperor was ransomed by Michael I of Epirus, who sent him to Asia Minor, where Alexios ' son-in-law Theodore I Laskaris of the Empire of Nicaea was holding his own against the Latins.

At the Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon in 451, Constantinople was given jurisdiction over three dioceses for the reason that the city was " the residence of the emperor and senate ".

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 a time when imperial succession was generally determined by clan leaders, rather than the emperor, Suiko left only vague indications of succession to two candidates while on her deathbed.

At this point, Oka wanted his elder brother to become emperor ; but Ōke refused.

At sunrise on 16 May 218, Publius Valerius Comazon Eutychianus, commander of the legion, declared him emperor.

At that time, the duchy and castle were held by the Bohemian princess Elisabeth of Gorlitz, Duchess of Luxembourg, a cadet granddaughter of emperor Charles IV.

At that time, the emperor returned from another campaign in Brittany to find his empire at war with itself.

At the end of the 10th century, much of what is now Republic of Macedonia became the political and cultural center of the First Bulgarian Empire under Tsar Samuil ; while the Byzantine emperor Basil II came to rule the eastern part of the empire ( what is now Bulgaria ), including the then capital Preslav, in 972.

At the same time, the self described “ duke ” Exhilaratus and his son Hadrian rebelled in Naples, sided with the emperor and marched on Rome in order to kill Gregory, but were overthrown by the people and killed.

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 end of the Persian era in 351 BCE, it was invaded by the emperor Artaxerxes III and then by Alexander the Great in 333 BCE when the Hellenistic era of Sidon began.

At the request of Byzantine emperor Zeno, he allows the election of a Catholic bishop, named Eugenius.

At the end of the 10th century, the Hokke family of the Fujiwara clan held political power in Japan through the Sesshō and Kampaku regency system, and the emperor was more of a figurehead.

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 the time, Jobst of Moravia ruled Brandenburg and thus was one of the prince-electors who had the right to vote for the new emperor.

At Augsburg he was charged by the emperor to draw up, in concert with twenty other theologians, a refutation of the Lutheran Augsburg Confession, which had been delivered to the emperor on 25 June 1530, but he had to rewrite it five times before it suited the emperor.

At the time he appears to have believed that the new emperor, Michael II ( r. 820 – 829 ), would adopt a pro-icons policy, and he expressed this hope in two letters to Michael.

At the center was the political node of the Imperial City, and at the center of this was the Forbidden City, the palatial residence of the emperor and his family.

At the end of the 18th century, the Bohemian lands underwent a considerable change-the Habsburg emperor Josef II put an end to the feudal system and supported a new religious and ideological tolerance.

At the same time the emperor Frederick I ( 1152 – 1190 ) in the east was making good the imperial claims on Arles.