Having converted to Christianity, he resigned his post before Diocletian's purging of Christians from his immediate staff and before the publication of Diocletian's first " Edict against the Christians " ( February 24, 303 ).

Having fallen out of favour as a Mission, the building became the local headquarters of the Gas Board ( testament to which is the gas fired streetlights to the rear of the property ); it then became a working men's club before it was finally converted into executive apartments.

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Having converted to Roman Catholicism while in prison, Mildred Gillars then went to live at the Our Lady of Bethlehem Convent in Columbus, Ohio, and taught German, French, and music at St. Joseph Academy, Columbus.

Having formally converted from Catholicism to Protestantism at the age of 16, Toland got a scholarship to study theology at the University of Glasgow.

Having lived in relative poverty for much of his life, and for some time in London in actual squalor, he overextends himself financially, lured by the banks ' promises of easy credit, and buys a converted loft apartment.

Having been converted to Christian socialism and pacifism during the war, he wrote Lies ( 1919 ), Democracy and the Dog-Collar ( 1921 ) ( featuring such chapters as " The Church Is Not a Movement but a Mob ," " Capitalism is Nothing But Greed, Grab, and Profit-Mongering ," and " So-Called Religious Education Worse than Useless "), Food for the Fed Up ( 1921 ), The Wicket Gate ( 1923 ), and The Word and the Work ( 1925 ).

Having purchased the theater, Haliday, together with Harvey, converted the Brattle into a popular movie house for the showing of art films.

Having been raised by a single mother, he migrated to the U. S. city of Minneapolis in 1971 and converted shortly thereafter, and established the Speak the Word Church International in 1977.

Having learned from Operation Spring, Simonds devised the " Kangaroo ", an early armoured personnel carrier converted from non-operational armoured vehicles " defrocked Priests ".

Having struggled defensively at shortstop, Wynn was converted to a full-time outfielder in 1964.

Having converted to Islam and displayed his military ability in Iran ’ s war with the Ottomans, he quickly won the confidence of Shah Abbas I of Iran and was regularly consulted on the Georgian affairs.

Having started his career as a striker, Bullen converted to defence midway through his career, and has also been used in various other positions.

Having converted Lennon's recording studio into Startling Studios, Starr would record his new album there.

Having shown both live performances and films since 1915, in 1924 it was converted into a cinema.

Having defeated the Huns at Chalons and at the Nedao, migrating Germanic tribes invaded the Western Roman Empire and transformed it into Medieval Europe.

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 the Eastern Roman Empire on its southern border was preferable to Adrian than having to constantly deal with the troublesome Normans.

Having the power to control the Roman calendar, he conducted all religious ceremonies and appointed lower religious offices and officers.

Having been appointed governor of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis ( modern Provence ) in 58 BC, Julius Caesar proceeded to conquer the Gallic tribes beyond over the next few years, maintaining control through a careful divide and rule strategy.

Having been hurried with unseemly haste through all the intermediate orders, Leo received consecration two days after his election, which was unacceptable to the Roman populace.

Having outlived his father Philip, Charles succeeded Maximilian as Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, and thus ruled both the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish Empire simultaneously.

Having the " civilised " Eastern Roman Empire on its southern border was infinitely preferable to the Papacy than having to constantly deal with the troublesome Normans of Sicily.

Having left with the troops and Roman administrators, and planning to continue as the ruler of Britain in the future, his practical course was to transfer local authority to local rulers.

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 developed the Inquisition brought him the rancor of Roman people who, after his death, decapitated his statue in Campidoglio and dedicated to him the following pasquinata:

Having failed to perform Roman masculinity and virtue, Antony's only means with which he might “ write himself into Rome's imperial narrative and position himself at the birth of empire ” is to cast himself in the feminine archetype of the sacrificial virgin ; “ once understands his failed virtus, his failure to be Aeneas, he then tries to emulate Dido ”.

Having made Roman and Byzantine law his special study, he visited Paris in 1832 to examine Byzantine MSS., went in 1834 to Saint Petersburg and Copenhagen for the same purpose, and in 1835 worked in the libraries of Brussels, London, Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh and Cambridge.

Having been the Bishopric of Eastern Pamphylia, it is still a titular see of the Roman Catholic church.

Having first visited the Emperor Louis at Pavia, the archbishop repaired, with two imperial delegates to Rome, where Nicholas cited him before the Roman synod assembled in the autumn of 860.

Having narrowly avoided implication in Sir Thomas Seymour's attempted abduction of her sickly half-brother, the boy King Edward VI ; she becomes an unintentional figurehead for a Protestant rebellion led by Thomas Wyatt the Younger when her half-sister Queen Mary I of England, a devout Roman Catholic, succeeds to the throne.

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

Having recovered from their previous losses at Trebia ( 218 BC ) and Trasimene ( 217 BC ), the Romans decided to engage Hannibal at Cannae, with roughly 86, 000 Roman and Allied troops.

Having remained as the sequence for the Requiem Mass in the Roman Missal of 1962 -- the last edition before revisions from the Second Vatican Council were implemented ) --- it is still heard in churches where the Tridentine Latin liturgy is celebrated.

Having returned to Alexandria, Arius, according to a single source, sided with Meletius of Lycopolis in his dispute over the readmission of those who had denied Christianity under fear of Roman torture, and was ordained a deacon under the latter's auspices.

Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest before the French Revolution, Latreille was imprisoned, and only regained his freedom after recognising a rare species he found in the prison, Necrobia ruficollis.

Having renounced the Roman Catholic faith, to which his father had held, he became acceptable to Cromwell, and was known as plain Mr. Herbert.

Having great influence on church politics, because the helpless Bishop trusted him completely, he had a narrow and fearful point of view concerning the reformation of Catholicism, which even later he never gave up.

Having gained 500 converts to Catholicism between 1583 and 1586, he was arrested whilst walking with his mother near London Bridge, committed to The Clink and executed at Tyburn on 8 October 1586.

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 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 been born in Milan, Maria was recognized as a child prodigy very early ; she could speak both Italian and French at five years of age.

Having taught languages for 13 years, he changed his field of specialisation to linguistics, and developed systemic functional linguistics, including systemic functional grammar, elaborating on the foundations laid by his British teacher J. R. Firth and a group of European linguists of the early 20th century, the Prague school.

Having constructed saxophones in several sizes in the early 1840s, Sax applied for, and received, a 15-year patent for the instrument on June 28, 1846.

Having settled Aldeigja ( Ladoga ) in the 750s, Scandinavian colonists were probably an element in the early ethnogenesis of the Rus ' people, and likely played a role in the formation of the Rus ' Khaganate.

Having a thorough understanding of the entire test environment at the outset enables more efficient test design and planning and helps you identify testing challenges early in the project.

“ We never could stand each other, and instead of taking pressure off me, they put on even more by bringing Carlos Reutemann into the team .” Having announced his decision to quit Ferrari at season's end, Lauda left early due to the team's decision to run the then unknown Gilles Villeneuve in a third car at the Canadian Grand Prix.

Having led his men out from the castle to meet the enemy, Edward gained early success, but unwisely pursued a retreating force to the north, thus sacrificing the chance of overall victory.

Having decided against using the Norman system of horse litters, he settled on two-or four-wheeled horse-drawn wagons, which were used to transport fallen soldiers from the ( active ) battlefield after they had received early treatment in the field.

Having started as a student of de Man, Gayatri Spivak took on the translation of Of Grammatology early in her career and has since revised it into a second edition.

Having purchased the minor-league Quebec Aces, the team had a distinctly Francophone flavor in its early years, with Parent, Rochefort, Andre Lacroix, Serge Bernier, Jean-Guy Gendron, Simon Nolet and Rosaire Paiement among others.

Having the second-worst team record in the 2010 – 11 season as well as the Clippers ' first round pick that they received in the Mo Williams / Baron Davis trade, the Cavaliers had high odds of winning an early draft pick in the NBA Draft Lottery, with a 22. 7 % chance of their pick becoming # 1 overall.

Having gained little or nothing from these activities, he returned to Navarre in early 1372.

Having good communications with London from an early time the area became a popular country retreat, and as part of the suburban growth of London in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the population of Chiswick significantly expanded.

Having been established since the early 1950s it is only over the last several years that they have finally enjoyed a sustained period of success.

Having spearheaded the " British invasion ," by head-hunting such writers as Moore, Gaiman, Delano, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis and Peter Milligan, Berger was well suited to head up the new line, as she was already editing many of the series which would form the core of the early Vertigo output.

Having been excluded from known sea routes to the orient, which were based in European trade, the early French and British explorers in the area searched for the mythic water route known as the Northwest Passage through North America to the Pacific Ocean.

Having begun to develop campsites within their forests during the early 1960s, the Commission set up a Forest Cabins Branch during the 1970s to expand the number of cabins available for the public to stay in during their holidays.

Having a reputation for discipline and loyalty, and employing revolutionary battle tactics, they were considered the most powerful troops of the 15th century, until their methods were refined by the Landsknechte in the early 16th century.

Having released a cover of Them's " I Can Only Give You Everything " backed with original composition " One of the Guys " on the tiny AMG label over a year earlier, in early 1968 their second single was released by Trans-Love Energies on A-Square records ( though without the knowledge of that label's owner Jeep Holland ).

Having been betrayed by informants they fled to Corfu early in 1844.

Having lost both his parents at an early age, he and his brother were raised by Thomas Myles.