Bret W. Davis writes, for example, " The first philosophical development of the idea of nihilism is generally ascribed to Friedrich Jacobi, who in a famous letter criticized Fichte's idealism as falling into nihilism.

As Paul K. Davis writes, " William's victory placed a foreign ruler on the throne of England, introducing European rather than Scandinavian society onto the isolated island " in " the last successful invasion of England.

Paul Davis, another modern historian who addresses both sides in the debate over whether or not this Battle truly determined the direction of history, as Watson claims, or merely was a relatively minor raid, as Cardini writes, says " whether Charles Martel saved Europe for Christianity is a matter of some debate.

Paul K. Davis writes, " Constantine ’ s victory gave him total control of the Western Roman Empire paving the way for Christianity to become the dominant religion for the Roman Empire and ultimately for Europe.

Critics argue Napoleon's true legacy must reflect the loss of status for France and needless deaths brought by his rule: historian Victor Davis Hanson writes, " After all, the military record is unquestioned — 17 years of wars, perhaps six million Europeans dead, France bankrupt, her overseas colonies lost.

Paul K. Davis writes that " Pydna marked the final destruction of Alexander ’ s empire and introduced Roman authority over the Near East.

William Stearns Davis writes in Life on a Medieval Barony:

As Paul K. Davis writes, " The defeat and consequent destruction of the Lombard monarchy rid Rome of its most persistent threat to papal security, laying the groundwork for the Holy Roman Empire.

Paul K. Davis writes, " With this victory, the Byzantines regained control of North Africa for the Eastern Roman Empire.

C. Peter Magrath, who discovered the exchange while researching Morrison R. Waite: The Triumph of Character, writes " In other words, to the Reporter fell the decision which enshrined the declaration in the United States Reports ... had Davis left it out, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pac R Co. would have been lost to history among thousands of uninteresting tax cases.

As author William C. Davis writes in his book A Way Through the Wilderness, it was " a victim of its own success " by encouraging development in the frontier area.

Charles Henry Davis writes,

Michael Davis, a translator and commentator of Aristotle writes:

Paul K. Davis writes that " Caesar ’ s victory over the combined Gallic forces established Roman dominance in Gaul for the next 500 years.

Author Lee Davis in his book, " Scandals and Follies ," writes that: “ By 1911, was insanely in love with Lillian Lorraine and would remain so, to one degree or another, for the rest of his life, despite her erratic, irresponsible, often senseless behavior, her multiple marriages to other men, his own two marriages and his need for all his adult life to sleep with the best of the beauties he hired .”

Davis regularly writes for the German / Dutch Zoo Magazine.

Davis writes in his memoir, " And so, in the fall of 1985, we hitched our second hand boat to our second hand car and drove across the country ".

In 1971 he writes Angela, a song for Angela Davis, afroamerican communist leader, innocent in prison at this time.

The Harvard ethnobotanist and Anthropologist, Wade Davis, writes about Francois Macandal in his novel " The Serpent and the Rainbow.

Young has been a caregiver for both his parents since 2008 and writes an eldercare column for the Davis Enterprise that is syndicated by Yahoo News.

Vought writes that Davis believed that Americans had, thanks to the eugenics movement, learned to discern between " bad stock and good stock, weak blood and strong blood, sound heredity and sickly human stuff.

Many of Ben is Deads writers have continued their writing careers ( Vaginal Davis writes for LA Weekly, Lisa Crystal Carver and Mikki Halpin have each written several books, etc.

After this Confederate defeat at the Battle of Mill Springs, Davis sent Johnston a brigade and a few other scattered reinforcements, and he sent Gen. P. G. T.

* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).

* August 8 – American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( Davis refuses the request upon receipt ).

* A holodeck simulation of Professor Moriarty, played by actor Daniel Davis, appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes " Elementary, Dear Data " and " Ship in a Bottle ", accidentally achieving sentience when Geordi LaForge asks the holodeck to create an opponent able to defeat Data ( rather than Sherlock Holmes ).

Davis blamed his campaign managers for the defeat and vowed not to let major decisions in future campaigns be decided by his campaign staff.

Many Democrats came to believe that Davis ' political career was over after his defeat in his run for the Senate but Davis created a new campaign team.

Polls even showed that Riordan would defeat Davis.

Davis ' negative ads against Riordan and a variety of other equally important factors explained on the 2002 election page, led to Riordan's defeat in the Republican primary by the more staunchly conservative candidate Bill Simon.

Headlines of Gray Davis ' defeat in UC Berkeley | UC Berkeley's newspaper, the Daily Californian.

On the night of the recall, Davis conceded defeat and thanked California for having elected him in 5 statewide elections.

During these years, Beauregard and Davis published a series of bitter accusations and counter-accusations retrospectively blaming each other for the Confederate defeat.

After this defeat, Secretary Davis and southern senators pressed Pierce to add more provisions to the treaty including:

However, Wilander's most memorable Davis Cup match came in defeat.

The defeat at Chattanooga was the last straw and Bragg was recalled in early 1864 to Richmond, where he became the military adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

The Jersey Journal wrote: " Cops on duty were using clubs and blackjacks to assist Mayor Wittpenn and Frank Hague defeat the Davis men.

Though then-Mayor Pam Iorio declared that Davis would be an " excellent " successor, it was speculated that the defeat of the rail referendum by voters left Davis with no platform to run for Mayor on.

Macaulay was eliminated on the next-to-last ballot, and, with Davis, delivered crucial support for John Robarts to defeat Kelso Roberts on the final vote.

As there was no serious consideration of a Liberal-NDP alliance after both campaigns, Davis was able avoid defeat in the legislature by appealing to other parties for support on particular initiatives.

2 player in Brazil, second only to Fernando Meligeni, and had his then highest point by helping the Brazil Davis Cup team defeat Austria in 1996 and reach the competition's first division, the World Group.

Among the local trustees was Henry Stuart Foote of Tuscumbia, who would move to Mississippi and defeat Jefferson Davis in the 1850 Governor's race.