# Having been drawn and enabled, but prior to regeneration, one is able to believe … able also to resist.

Having been informed that Solon was employed to draw up a code of laws for the Athenians, Anacharsis described his occupation, saying:

Having been told what the plant produced, Whorf wrote a chemical formula on a piece of paper, saying to the director: " I think this is what you're doing ".

Having been transformed into the consensus candidate, he secured the Democratic Party nomination, finishing with a victory in Jerry Brown's home state of California.

Having presided over relatively serene political, economic and social conditions, the feeling of prosperity in the UK had been maintained into the new millennium, and Labour would have a free hand to assert its ideals in the subsequent parliament.

Having been defeated by his brother's armies, Cem sought protection from the Knights of St. John in Rhodes.

Having been almost entirely rebuilt twice, once due to Japanese air raids during World War II, and again after being devastated by Cyclone Tracy in 1974, the city is one of Australia's most modern capitals.

Having spent the greater part of his early life in the twilight of Nero's reign, his formative years would have been strongly influenced by the political turmoil of the 60s, culminating with the civil war of 69, which brought his family to power.

Having been denied admission to the Polytechnique, Galois took the Baccalaureate examinations in order to enter the École Normale.

Having been charged with murder, Anjirō had fled Japan.

Having been defeated by a seven nation army at the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813, he was forced to abdicate after the Six Days Campaign and the occupation of Paris.

Having said that, the literary sources of Priscus and Jordanes preserve only a few names, and three words, of the language of the Huns, which have been studied for more than a century and a half.

Having finished his political career, Genscher has been active as a lawyer and in international relations organizations.

Having been designated a State Sponsor of Terrorism since January 1984 ; Iran was in the midst of the Iran – Iraq War and could find few Western nations willing to supply it with weapons.

Having already been defeated by the Giants in the regular season, Baltimore was not favored to win, yet proceeded to take the title in sudden death overtime.

Having shown an early interest in art, Reynolds was apprenticed in 1740 to the fashionable London portrait painter Thomas Hudson, who had also been born in Devon.

Having thus secured his eastern frontier, Justinian turned his attention to the West, where Arian Germanic kingdoms had been established in the territories of the former Western Roman Empire.

Having been raised in a large family, including 43 children, Akii-Bua started his athletic career as a hurdler on the short distance.

Having been detected, Kearny decided to attack, and organized his troops to advance on San Pasqual.

:::: Having been created of one essence.

Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer, Megrahi dropped the appeal and on 20 August 2009, was granted compassionate release from jail and repatriated to Libya.

Having been a prime mover in establishing a tradition of palaeoanthropological inquiry, he was able to motivate the next generation to continue it, notably within his own family, many of whom also became prominent.

' Having said this, he and most of the members who had a right to sit in Parliament, withdrew from the House ; so that there was not the fourth part of a quorum of lawful members present in the House when the Secluded Members, who had been voted out of the Parliament by those that had an undisputed authority over their own members, undertook to dissolve the Parliament, which was not to be done, unless by their own consent ; and whether that consent was ever given, is submitted to the judgment of all impartial men.

Having multiple artisans working on the Libro de juegos would have been a typical practice for medieval chanceries and scriptoria, where the labor of producing a manuscript was divided amongst individuals of varying capacities, for example the positions of scribe, draftsman, and apprentice cutting pages.

Having been sent to the prison planet after his Injustice League was defeated, Lex quickly assumes control of the amassed villains, receiving competition only from Joker and Gorilla Grodd, who convince half of the villains to join them.

Having served since February as the provisional president, Davis was elected to a full six-year term on November 6, 1861 and was inaugurated on February 22, 1862.

Having failed to win Solihull in 1945, he was elected to the House of Commons in a 1948 by-election as the Member of Parliament for Southwark Central, becoming the " Baby of the House.

I generally believe if a government is elected to power in the lower House and has the numbers and can maintain the numbers in the lower House, it is entitled to expect that it will govern for the three-year term unless quite extraordinary events intervene ... Having said that ... if we do make up our minds at some stage that the Government is so reprehensible that an Opposition must use whatever power is available to it, then I'd want to find a situation in which ... Mr. Whitlam woke up one morning finding the decision had been made and finding that he had been caught with his pants well and truly down.

Having obtained the permission of the Dutch government, in 1723 the chapter elected a new archbishop, who was not confirmed in post, and excommunicated by Pope Benedict XIII.

Having elected Tarasios, one of her partisans, to the patriarchate in 784, she summoned two church councils.

Having been elected for centuries by the city council, he is now elected directly by the citizens of Rostock, following a reform in 2002.

Having taken his degree at the University of Oxford ( from Trinity College ) in 1838, he was elected to a fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1840, of which from 1842 to 1846 he was fellow and tutor.

Having been elected King of the Romans in 1636, he succeeded his father as Holy Roman Emperor in 1637.

Having already served as the Chairman of the Organisation of African Unity in 1986 to 1987, he was elected Chairman of the African Union, the OAU's successor body, in January 2006.

Having started as a tanner and merchant at Le Havre, he acquired considerable wealth, was elected to the National Assembly on 21 August 1881, and took his seat as a member of the Left, interesting himself chiefly in matters concerning economics, railways and the navy.

Having conceived the idea after a chance meeting with a girl during his wartime service in the Middle East, O ' Donnell elected to work with Jim Holdaway, with whom he had worked on the strip Romeo Brown, after a trial period of collaboration with Frank Hampson, creator of Dan Dare, left O ' Donnell dissatisfied.

Having conscientious objections to taking orders, he relinquished his fellowship in 1666, but in 1688 he was elected Camden professor of history at Oxford.

Having first been elected to Parliament in 1993 for the Oslo constituency, Stoltenberg served as

Having credentials as an activist, legislator, and " hero " in a hostage crisis, as well as an early endorsement from the Washington Post, Barry followed in Washington's mayoralty when its first elected mayor, Walter Washington, fell out of political favor in the 1978 election.

Having spent over 22 years in office, Mahathir was the world's longest-serving elected leader when he retired.

Having been involved in the local Fine Gael organisation in Limerick since the late 1960s, Noonan first held political office in 1974 when he was elected to Limerick County Council.

Having been historically governed by its clerical chapter alone, since 1872 the cathedral has been operationally overseen by a board comprising nine clerical members ( the dean, precentor, two clerical vicars and five other clerics ) and nine lay members, elected every third annual Easter vestry.

Having attended Toastmasters to improve his initially abysmal public speaking style, Evans served in the Washington State House of Representatives from 1956 to 1965 before being elected governor.

Having been elected rector of Edinburgh University, Muggeridge was goaded by the editor of The Student, Anna Coote, to support the call for contraceptive pills to be available at the University Health Centre.

Having been selected and elected for St. Albans, a safe Conservative seat, he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Nigel Lawson, then as Economic Secretary to the Treasury and Financial Secretary to the Treasury before joining the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to replace Nicholas Ridley in mid-1990 after the latter was forced to resign over an anti-German remark.

Having eliminated his rivals, Shane had himself elected The O ' Neill.

Having gained a reputation with his Histoire primitive de la Grèce, he was elected deputy to the Estates-General of 1789 by the third estate of the bailliage of Nîmes.

Having previously suspended the elected Western Regional Assembly, the federal government then reconstituted the body after new elections that brought Akintola's NNDP into power.

Having served as Speaker of Parliament since 1988, he was elected President in 2000, and was the first commoner ( rather than a traditional chief ) to be elected to the Presidency.