Having chosen his ground carefully Hobbes launches an epistemological attack on metaphysics.

Having chosen the army, he obtained, through the assistance of his friends, a cornet's commission in the dragoons.

Having distinguished himself in his father's war against the Seljuk Turks, in 1143 Manuel was chosen as his successor by John, in preference to his elder surviving brother Isaac.

Having no children and being the last member of her dynasty, she had chosen one of her favorites, the former military finance minister, Michael VI Bringas, as her successor on the recommendation of her chief minister, Leo Paraspondylos.

Having chosen an appropriate animal as a totem for the lodge, the committee turned to finding a new name, which was supposed to be symbolic of the Native American background of the Order of the Arrow.

Having been an avid runner throughout his life ( he was chosen to be Solicitor General just two days after completing the Boston Marathon ), an annual race is held in his honor at BYU to raise proceeds for cancer research.

Having never married or had children of her own, her chosen heir was her great nephew Robert Hornyold-Strickland.

Having chosen to kill herself rather than live with a disfigured face, she is the victim of " Pride ".

Having chosen a new Avatar, Chris Kent who was freed from the Zone, he too would have been freed from his shackles thus causing the Phantom Zone to cease to exist.

Having chosen a successor, Cao Cao took measures to emasculate other contestants.

Having in 1804 been chosen to represent Liskeard, he was on the restoration of the Pitt ministry appointed secretary of the treasury, holding office till the dissolution of the ministry after the death of Pitt in January 1806.

Having said that, I don ’ t think we only develop as artists practising in our chosen fields.

Having chosen the architect Michael Hopkins of Hopkins Architects in a design competition, Christie announced in 1990 that a new theatre, capable of seating 1, 200 people, would be constructed in 1992.

Having chosen to join neither side at the critical moment, they now had all sides against them.

Having been chosen as the PNH candidate, he was eventually allowed to stand.

Having joined Apple in 1980, he rose through the ranks in Apple's European operations as President of Apple Europe and was chosen to take over as CEO when John Sculley was ousted by Apple's board of directors in June 1993.

Having participated in the 1921 revolution that established the Mongolian People's Republic, Bumtsend was chosen to serve as chairman of the Presidium of the State Small Khural in 1940.

Having previously played their football at various venues within the city, a former dung hill for police horses was chosen by Aberdeen to be cleared and readied for football on 1 February 1899.

Having a right circular cylinder with a height units and a base of radius units with the coordinate axes chosen so that the origin is at the center of one base and the height is measured along the positive x-axis.

Having chosen a new leader, the society obtained from Queen Anne a charter under the Great Seal of Scotland, establishing them as a corporation by Letters Patent, dated the 31 December 1713 into a Royal Company.

Having been told that artists were being chosen to do war paintings for the Canadian War Records Office, he applied, and in 1918 was ' loaned ' to the Canadians for six months as an official war artist.

Having chosen the title Hot Streets, the album cover featured a picture of the band ( shot by photographer Norman Seeff ) rather than just the group logo.

" Having at least a conversational level Japanese, combined with European or other foreign looks as well as a standout personality, they are often chosen because they meet the Japanese stereotypes of foreigners ( for example, the notion that Americans generally look rugged and have blond hair and blue eyes ).

Having initially auditioned as the entertainment presenter, Murray was instead was chosen as a news presenter.

Having composed the Proclamation some time earlier, Lincoln had waited for a military victory to publish it to avoid it being perceived as the product of desperation.

Having defeated the warlords in south and central China by military force, Chiang was able to secure the nominal allegiance of the warlords in the North.

Having served as secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce, he also knew that the South lacked the military and naval resources necessary to defend itself if war were to break out.

Having kept bonds with the English speakers ( he spent part of his childhood in the United States and usually spoke English ) and with French soldiers in North Africa ( under Admiral Lemonnier ), Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( whose villa " Baobab " at Sanary ( Var ) was opposite Admiral Darlan's villa " Reine "), helped the French Navy to join again with the Allies ; he assembled a commando operation against the Italian espionage services in France, and received several military decorations for his deeds.

Having already proven his skills as a military leader, he is described in the lyrics as the one " who has shown us ways to victory.

Having concern over potential British military involvement in the war, on June 15, 1881, Blaine stressed that the conflict be resolved by consent of the Latin American countries involved and that the Peruvian government pay Chile an indemnity rather than cede the contested land.

Having succeeded Anderson at Louisville, Sherman now had principal military responsibility for Kentucky, a border state in which Confederate troops held Columbus and Bowling Green and were present near the Cumberland Gap.

Having been close to La Rioja Bishop Enrique Angelelli ( a Third World Priest opposed by much of Argentina's conservative Roman Catholic Church ), he was imprisoned by the military junta in Formosa Province until 1981, reportedly tortured in the process.

Having idle factory space and capital available at this historical moment, to be invested wherever good return seemed available, P & WMT saw the postwar aviation industry, both military and civil ( commercial, private ), as one with some of the greatest growth and development prospects available anywhere for the next few decades.

Having this strategic military support, Yuan held the balance of power between various revolutionaries ( like Sun Yat-sen ) and the Qing Court.

One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively to the virtues of loyalty and filial piety .... Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die.

Having failed to muster an effective military response, Edgar's leading supporters lost their nerve, and the English leaders surrendered to William at Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.

Having passed his law, Tiberius was lauded as a founding hero not just of a single city or race, but as the founding hero of all the Italians, who had come to endure immense poverty and deprivation, denied of their rightful land because of their military services and having lost work because of the influx of slaves, who were loyal to no man while citizens were loyal to the state.

Having crossed the Cottian Alps at the Mont Cenis pass, he first came to Segusium ( Susa, Italy ), a heavily fortified town containing a military garrison, which shut its gates to him.

Having no options or allies left Charles II asked for a truce, and by the Treaty of Briones on 31 March 1379 agreed to Henry's demands that he agree to be bound in perpetual military alliance with Castile and France against the English, and to surrender 20 fortresses of southern Navarre, including the city of Tudela to Castilian garrisons.

Having successfully stormed the palace, Minh had arrived at the presidential residence in full ceremonial military uniform " with a sedan and everything else ".

Having military intelligence representatives participate in the execution of the national defence policy is important because it becomes the first respondent and commentator on the policy expected strategic goal compared to the realities of identified threats.

Having supplanted agriculture and aquaculture in the last decades of the 20th century, Beaufort's military bases employ thousands of jobs directly and indirectly related to base operations and pump millions of dollars into the local economy.

Having successfully served in the Mexican military in the war against the French occupation, José Maria Leiva's service proved so exemplary that in 1872 he was appointed to the office of " Alcalde Mayor " of the Yaqui by then Sonora Governor Ignacio Pesqueira.

Having distinguished himself by his military abilities during this campaign, Henry was appointed as margrave of Tuscany and as Lothair's successor in the Duchy of Saxony.

Having a low regard for the Greek Army's military effectiveness, the Bulgarian leadership estimated that, according to the military plans, their limited forces that had been deployed to the Macedonian theatre would be able to occupy the larger part of the region and the important port city of Thessaloniki before the Greeks.

Having a military father, Borrow had a childhood of growing up at different posts.

Having claimed over 800 lives, violence between Trotskyite and Fascist extremists had abated somewhat since López Rega's July exile ; the Montoneros, however, began a series of audacious attacks on military installations, including August dynamiting of a nearly finished Navy destroyer near the port of La Plata and the Operation Primicia, a terrorist attack on a military base in Formosa Province on October 5.