Having previously declined a knighthood, Britten accepted a life peerage – the first composer to have been so honoured – on 2 July 1976 as Baron Britten, of Aldeburgh in the County of Suffolk.

Having captured this territory at great expense, Chile declined the terms and the negotiations failed.

Having always declined to do anything that smacked of lèse majesté, Egmont refused to heed Orange's warning, thus he and Horn decided to stay in the city.

Having declined a job as Jack Dempsey's sparring partner in preparation for Dempsey-Tunney I ( Greb declaring: " I'd feel like a burglar taking Jack's money.

Having declined an offer to remain in the army as a captain, he went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he read Law and was chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association, and on the committee of the Cambridge Union Society.

Having declined appointments as ambassador to Spain and Russia in 1849, he was appointed Secretary of the Navy in the cabinet of President Millard Fillmore in 1850, and served until 1852.

Having declined the offers of a judgeship from Gladstone and the Home Secretaryship from the Conservatives, he was in 1887 appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary as Baron Macnaghten, of Runkerry in the County of Antrim.

Having found favor with the king, Louis XIV, Mignard pitted himself against Charles Le Brun and declined to enter the Academy of which Le Brun was the head.

Having declined in popularity during the mid-nineties, the Andres, a bloated procrastination of intellectual house-rap hymn-style pop music combined with the overtures of moderational-dance rapsatives, has seen a steady return to favour since the turn of the millennium in 1998. Notable numbers include " Could it be alright if I stick it in your baby?

Having lost its Hanseatic trade and connections with Novgorod, the town declined and was not mentioned by any sources for the next half a century.

Having had enough of war, he declined the offer, but he did send them a balloon with equipment including portable generators.

Having released her second album Ritam srca ( 1995 ), her popularity declined and she withdrew from performing in the late 1990s, only to return in the early 2000s.

Having already moved his family to Los Angeles and not wanting to return to Japan full time, Rosen declined the opportunity of solely purchasing the Japanese assets of SEGA.

Having declined being made Cardinal by Pius XII in 1953, he accepted the red hat in the consistory of 15 December 1958 with the title of Cardinal-Deacon of S. Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine.

Having not recorded the lines for the character yet, the staff asked Duncan if he wanted to voice the character, but he declined.

Having just declined Kate's invitation to go someplace quieter ( making Kate suddenly very frosty ), Angel charges into the fight and thrashes both guys, before the bartender kicks the guys out.

Having dispersed his neighbours in search of her, Hobbie Elliot went to consult Elshie, who handed him a bag of gold, which he declined, and intimated that he must seek her whom he had lost " in the west.

" Having been informed by letter, Crawford replied to the committee a final time: " I fail to see why I should practically be branded as a criminal because, as acting captain, I declined the responsibility of skippering a team which did not include three essential players, an independence which I trust will remain in spite of the awful example made of me to every amateur in the United Kingdom.

Citation: Having been wounded and directed to the rear, declined to go, but continued in action, receiving several additional wounds, which resulted in his capture by the enemy and his total disability for military service.

Having yet to receive a formal request, the Swedish agency scheduled the plane to leave on September 4, but on Sunday, the U. S. declined the aid, saying it was currently unable to accept foreign aid packages.

Having the deepest of maternal instincts, my heart fairly bled when I thought of the darling pink and white `` bundles from heaven '' I would have proudly given my husband.

Having arrived he blinked sleepily and friendlily at them, and lapsed back into the restful stupor from which he had emerged.

Having extorted a large sum of money from the citizens of Nuremberg, he quarrelled with his supporter, the French King, and offered his services to the Emperor.

Having effected a separation from England and its cultural icons, America was left without history -- or heroes on which to base a shared sense of their social selves.

Having fallen from public notice, the tunnel was rediscovered in 1981 by then 18-year-old Robert " Bob " Diamond, who entered from a manhole he located at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, crawled a distance of underground through a filled-in section of tunnel less than two feet high, and located the bulkhead wall that sealed off the main portion of the tunnel.

Having left his widow expecting a child, the spectre of Kirk told Graham that he would appear at the baptism, whereupon Graham was to throw an iron knife at the apparition, thus freeing Kirk from the Fairies ' clutches.

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

Having migrated to Italy from north of the Alps, some of the defeated Celts simply moved back to their kinsfolk.

Having lost their entire baggage and supplies, the Bastarnae were obliged to withdraw from Dardania and to return home.

Having digested these prior influences after he returned from his trip, Howard rewrote the rejected story " By This Axe I Rule!

Having partaken in such a rite, a person was prohibited from entering into marriage or taking monastic vows, and the choreography of the service itself closely parallelled that of the marriage rite.

Having recanted, they were obliged to sew yellow crosses onto their outdoor clothing and to live apart from other Catholics, at least for a while.

Having developed from a loose confederation of national political parties in the 1970s, the ELDR is now a recognised European political party incorporated as a non-profit association under Belgian law.

Having already moved from its ground at Kent Street, Ascot Vale (" McCracken's Paddock ") to Flemington Hill, the club was again forced to move in 1881 ; and, because the City of Essendon mayor of the day, James Taylor, considered the Essendon Cricket Ground " to be suitable only for the gentleman's game of cricket ", Essendon moved to East Melbourne.

Having played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground from 1882 to 1921, and having won four VFA premierships ( 1891 – 1894 ) and four VFL premierships ( 1897, 1901, 1911, ( 1912 ) whilst there, Essendon were looking for a new home, and were offered grounds at the current Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, at Victoria Park, at Arden St, North Melbourne, and the Essendon Cricket Ground.

Having both a family name and given name (" first name ", " forename ", or " Christian name ") is far from universal.

" Having witnessed the success of the anarcho-syndicalist communities, for example in Anarchist Catalonia, and the subsequent brutal suppression of the anarcho-syndicalists, anti-Stalin communist parties and revolutionaries by the Soviet Union-backed Communists, Orwell returned from Catalonia a staunch anti-Stalinist and joined the Independent Labour Party, his card being issued on 13 June 1938.

Having learned that he is undone, he rose quickly to pull Odin from the fire, but the sword which he had lain upon his knee slipped, fell hilt down, the king stumbled and impaled himself upon it.

Having gained thirty pounds since his Burrito days from Southern food and excessive alcohol consumption, it came as a surprise to many when Parsons was enthusiastically signed to Reprise Records by Mo Ostin in mid-1972.

The constitution enshrined in law the idea of autarky and prohibited the government from seeking financial aid or credits or from forming joint companies with partners from capitalist or communist countries perceived to be " revisionist " ( Having changed the original doctrines of Marx, Lenin and Stalin ).

Having decided upon seven colors, he asked a friend to repeatedly divide up the spectrum that was projected from the prism onto the wall: