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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 his father's urging, Coolidge moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, after graduating to take up the practice of law.
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 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.

At and Britain
At war's end leadership in Western Europe passed from Britain because the Labour Government devoted its attention to the creation of a welfare state.
It was recorded with musical accompaniment for the first time in 1930 by Fiddlin ' John Carson, although to another folk hymn named " At the Cross ", not to " New Britain ".
At the end of the story in Chapters 40 – 42, Vortigern hands over to Ambrosius " the fortress, with all of the kingdoms of the western part of Britain.
At a War Cabinet meeting, held on 31 October 1917, Balfour suggested that a declaration favorable to Zionist aspirations would allow Great Britain " to carry on extremely useful propaganda both in Russia and America "
At least two former Black and Tans were hanged for murder in Britain and another wanted for murder committed suicide before the police could arrest him.
At the heart of the Great Game lay the willingness of Britain and Russia to subdue, subvert, or subjugate the small independent states that lay between Russia and British India.
At the same time from 1938 to 1939, Italy was demanding territorial and colonial concessions from France and Britain.
At a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Britain, a team from University of Queensland described 40 unknown " dwarf " galaxies in this constellation ; follow-up observations with the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope revealed that ultra compact dwarfs are much smaller than previously known dwarf galaxies, about across.
At the time Gilbert began writing, theatre in Britain was in disrepute.
At the Yalta Conference during World War II, the Allies ( the U. S., Britain, and the Soviet Union ) agreed on dividing a defeated Germany into occupation zones, and on dividing Berlin, the German capital, among the Allied powers as well.
* Simon Schama, A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 BC – 1603 AD BBC / Miramax, 2000 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; TV series A History of Britain, Volume 2: The Wars of the British 1603 – 1776 BBC / Miramax, 2001 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; A History of Britain-The Complete Collection on DVD BBC 2002
At the beginning of the Industrial revolution in Britain, water was the main source of power for new inventions such as Richard Arkwright's water frame.
At the same time, Ribbentrop arranged for members of the Frontkämpferbund, the official German World War I veterans ' group, to visit Britain and France to meet veterans there.
At the end of the year, he fulfilled a desire to fly from Britain to Australia in a small twin-engined Beechcraft Queen Air.
At the outbreak of war, German citizens in Britain were interned.
At an early stage, Britain and France colonized the ‘ less civilized ’ regions of the world, and monopolized their exploitation.
At the height of the strikes, nearly 30, 000, 000 working days were lost in Britain during 1979, but that had fallen dramatically to some 5, 000, 000 during 1981 as a result of the Thatcher government's union reform policies.
At the end of the First World War, a class “ A ” Mandate for Palestine was entrusted to Great Britain by the League of Nations, pursuant to paragraph 4 of Article 22 of the Covenant ...
* 1957 – At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
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 beginning, there was ambivalence in Nova Scotia, " the 14th American Colony " as some called it, over whether the colony should join the Americans in the war against Britain and rebellion flared at the Battle of Fort Cumberland and the Siege of Saint John ( 1777 )).
At first William was seen as a moderate ruler, whose friendship with liberal Britain was symbolised by the recent marriage of his son ( the future Frederick III ) to Queen Victoria's eldest daughter ; their son ( the future William II ) was born in 1859.
At the same time, Spain was using most of its wealth from the New World to import manufactured goods from the more industrialized countries of Europe, notably Britain.

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