Having been appointed the king's goldsmith in 1661, Sir Robert was one of those who lent large sums of money for the expenses of the state and the extravagances of the court ; over £ 400, 000 was owing to him when the national exchequer suspended payment in 1672, and he was reduced to the necessity of compounding with his creditors.

Having no choice, he plunged into it, anyway, holding onto the microphone for support.

Having less than overwhelming support as well did not help his candidacy.

Having thus become the enemy of Persia, Athens was already in a position to support the Ionian cities when they began their revolt.

Having a family to support motivated Schliemann to attempt to make more money.

Having developed the diver's watch, IWC offered support to The Cousteau Society.

Having this type of view will bring merit and will support the favourable existence of the sentient being in the realm of samsara.

Having lost both referendums, the sovereignist Parti Québécois government renewed the push for recognition as a nation through symbolic motions that gained the support of all parties in the National Assembly.

Having won the support of the other two Oda elders, Niwa Nagahide and Ikeda Tsuneoki, Hideyoshi established Hidenobu's position, as well as his own influence in the Oda clan.

Having been vilified in the media for her support of free love, Woodhull devoted an issue of Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly ( November 2, 1872 ) to an alleged adulterous affair between Elizabeth Tilton and Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent Protestant minister in New York ( he supported female suffrage but had lectured against free love in his sermons ).

Having secured the support of the nobility, Sigismund was crowned King of Hungary at Székesfehérvár on 31 March 1387.

Having won the support of Confucian scholars who had powered previous Han dynasties ( abandoning the nepotism and corruption of the nine-rank system ), Emperor Wen initiated a series of reforms aimed at strengthening his empire for the wars that would reunify China.

Having thus to support his mother, Rossiter was unable to take up the place he had been offered by Liverpool University.

Having observed these movements, Peter decided to attack Lewenhaupt's smaller force before Charles could support it.

Having been outbid by Belgium's flag carrier Sabena for the Libyan oil industry support flight contract that year, Silver City's losses became unsustainable.

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

Having received the support of the archbishop of Milan and Giovanni Visconti, he defeated Giovanni di Vico, lord of Viterbo, moving against Galeotto Malatesta of Rimini and the Ordelaffi of Forlì, the Montefeltro of Urbino and the da Polenta of Ravenna, and against the cities of Senigallia and Ancona.

Having finally obtained limited support from the Legislature for his measures to defend the Province, Brock prorogued the Assembly and set out on 6 August with a small body of regulars and some volunteers from the York Militia ( the " York Volunteers ") to reinforce the garrison at Amherstburg at the western end of Lake Erie, facing Hull's position at Detroit.

Having won the overwhelming support of the Louisiana electorate, Long returned to pushing his legislative program with renewed strength.

Having opposed the Addington ministry ( though he approved of its negotiation of the Peace of Amiens ) as a Pitt-style tool of the King, Fox gravitated towards the Grenvillite faction, which shared his support for Catholic emancipation and composed the only parliamentary alternative to a coalition with the Pittites.

Having been effectively given insider information about which side to back in the coming revolution, the Rougons then make a series of seemingly bold moves to show their loyal and steadfast support for Napoleon III, winning the admiration of the most influential people in the town, mostly royalists who are themselves afraid of showing too much commitment for fear of backing the " wrong horse " and losing their standing and fortune.

Having amassed an army of over 7, 000 troops in Quebec, Burgoyne was also led to believe by reports that he could rely on the support of large numbers of Native Americans and American Loyalists who would rally to the flag once the British came south.

Having played essentially all of the instruments on the album, Kravitz had to quickly assemble a touring band to support the Let Love Rule release.

Having learned of the ensuing media blitz while in Los Angeles, Cameron flies to his hometown, with his supermodel girlfriend ( Shalom Harlow ), to support his former teacher and although Howard doesn't win ' Teacher Of The Year ', Cameron presents him with his Oscar.

Having gained the support of other senior retainers, including Niwa Nagahide and Ikeda Tsuneoki, Sanpōshi was named heir and Hideyoshi appointed co-guardian.

Having captured it and facing strong North Korean counter-attacks, the Argylls, devoid of artillery support, called in an allied air-strike.

Having been destitute for so long, ( even composing a poem on his gratitude at receiving the gift of a pair of shoes ) Ó Rathaille clearly hoped for a restoration of his position as ollamh and celebrated Valentine ’ s marriage to Honora Butler in 1720 in an Epithalamium.

Having seen her parents succumb to the Machine (“ demon ”) Scourge, and barely surviving herself, Rayna Butler begins her personal crusade against the thinking machines.

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 originated many roles in musicals she is also strongly identified with her second husband, director – choreographer Bob Fosse, remembered as the dancer – collaborator – muse for whom he choreographed much of his work and as the guardian of his legacy after his death.

Having become a member of the Committee of Both Kingdoms in 1644, he was in supreme command at Marston Moor but in the subsequent operations his lack of energy brought him into disagreement with Cromwell, and in November 1644 he strongly expressed his disapproval of continuing the war.

Having been both the Mayor of Shanghai and the city's party chief in the 1990s, Huang enjoyed very close relations with his patron Jiang Zemin, he was known to be strongly opposed to General Secretary and President Hu Jintao.

Having examined Climbié, the paediatrician was " strongly suspicious " that the injuries were non-accidental, and she decided to admit Climbié onto the ward.

Having been named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year for his performances in 1896, Ranjitsinhji began the 1897 season strongly, scoring 260 for Sussex against the MCC then, playing for MCC against Lancashire hit 157.

Having strongly keeled scales, this produces a rasping noise, similar to Echis.

Having stated his intention to retire at the end of the summer, Harvey started his final season in 1962 – 63 strongly.

# Having an all-in showdown with a strongly superior hand pre-flop and losing.

Having settled on the Panama route, the US opposed this proposal.

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 proved that Papon had organized eight " death trains ", the plaintiffs ' lawyers recommended that he be given a 20-year prison term, as opposed to the sentence of life imprisonment, which is usually the norm for such crimes.

Having only recently selected the CBS system, the FCC heavily opposed the NTSC's efforts.

Having some money saved and keeping his idea alive of being an inventor as opposed to a " medicine man ", Colt made arrangements to begin building guns using proper gunsmiths from Baltimore, Maryland.

Having received considerable reinforcements, their numbers increased to 55, 000, as opposed to the 36, 000 their opponents had.

Having experienced such a breakout into separate labor classifications at Boston transit, Ching opposed such a concept when he became director of industrial relations for the United States Rubber Company.

Having fallen out of favor with the Nazis ( for having opposed the dismissal of his Jewish colleagues ), Köhler immigrated to the U. S. in 1935.

Having the responsibility of chairman of first the Office of Economic Opportunity then the Cost of Living Council imposed on him Donald Rumsfeld was initially unhappy with his position as chairman of the council and the council's " success " and for a while opposed the idea of the council.

Having used his epics to fight political battles, albeit safe ones at first, Blackmore was opposed by wits of the other camp, especially as time went on.

Having opposed Yeltsin's secessionist policies during his tenure as Soviet Premier, he was removed from his post as Russian SFSR Premier and succeeded in his post by acting Premier Oleg Lobov.

Having studied the volcanoes of Italy and Auvergne, he opposed the views of Christian Leopold von Buch regarding craters of elevation, maintaining that the cones were due to the material successively erupted.

Having opposed Home Rule before 1914, they came to regard a Home Rule Ireland within the empire as preferable to an entirely independent Ireland outside it.

Having opposed membership of the EC ( EU ) in 1972, and then campaigned against ratification of the Single European Act in 1986, the party had by the late 1980s grudgingly reconciled itself to Danish membership, dropping the demand for withdrawal in 1990.

Having opposed the partition of Ireland from 1949, all the major political parties in the Republic of Ireland approved the Belfast Agreement of 1998 that consents to Northern Ireland remaining a part of the United Kingdom as long as a majority of its electorate so desires.

Having first worked for The New Zealand Herald in the 1970s, when he succeeded Sir Gordon Minhinnick, Evans was again its cartoonist for six years from 1997 till 2003 when those opposed to his anti-Zionist cartoons, which the Herald had judged to be " fair comment ", put pressure on the paper and, following Evans's subsequent refusal to stop drawing cartoons critical of Israel, he was dismissed.

Having been elected to govern a state that it had originally opposed the very existence of, the Fianna Fáil government under Éamon de Valera stripped the Irish Free State of many of the state symbols that it saw as being overly reminiscent of the ancien régime.

Having his own record label allowed him to take the time he desired to create his albums, and allowed him to create them using naturally acoustic spaces as opposed to the artificial acoustics of a recording studio.

Having rounded out a useful life in the exercise of those virtues which win the generous regard of our fellow-citizens, he died, leaving behind him a legacy of simple faith, of unbroken loyalty to duty, of conscientious tolerance for the severe convictions of others, even when opposed to him, of unfaltering belief in the effectiveness of lofty ideals, of tireless service for the welfare of the city he loved so well, and of generous help in all movement that helped either to lighten the burdens of the breadwinner or to brighten the pathway of the toiler.

In 1861 the country became an integral part of brigandage Lucan, Having as leading figures Michael Volonnino, Corporal Theodore and Michael Barbaro, Men loyal to Carmine Crocco who opposed the government of Savoy Vittorio Emanuele II that was recently installed.

Having done so, he would have ruled Iraq directly, but Rukn al-Dawla vehemently opposed this.