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

Having no living legitimate children, Caesar had adopted his great-nephew Octavius as his son and main heir.

" Having unsuccessfully approached both the University of Oxford and Harvard University, Morris was able to talk his way into Princeton University, where he began studying the history of science, a topic in which he had " absolutely no background.

Having retired as a player in 1979, he had no VFL coaching experience and was regarded as something of a risk, although he had coached in the Australian Army whilst on national service.

Having no actual power, he rebelled, attempting suicide and accusing Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and his consort Itsuko of adultery.

Having noted the current use of many, often contradictory, definitions of feudalism, she argued that the word is only a construct with no basis in medieval reality, an invention of modern historians read back " tyrannically " into the historical record.

Having no children, he bequeathed much of his estate to Christian charities, especially those that helped the poor.

Having noted that the island was still uninhabited, he was presumably the less inclined to risk a landing when there was no British settlement there to report on.

There is no clear evidence that the United States actually exercised such a degree of control as to justify treating the contras as acting on its behalf ... Having reached the above conclusion, the Court takes the view that the Contras remain responsible for their acts, in particular the alleged violations by them of humanitarian law.

Having almost no natural resources and always suffering from overpopulation in its small territory, which deterred continued population growth and the formation of a large internal consumer market, South Korea adapted an export-oriented economic strategy to fuel its economy, and in 2010, South Korea was the seventh largest exporter and tenth largest importer in the world.

Having no opposition to contend with, he was able to power through much needed social reforms.

Having no other choice but to drink the poison, she died on the eve of Samhain, after which the festival came to be known as Mongfind's Feast, " wherefore women and the rabble make petitions to her on samain-eve.

Having possessions on six continents, Britain had to defend all of its empire with a volunteer army, for it was the only power in Europe to have no conscription.

Having met with no success farming, the Grants left the St. Louis farm when their fourth and final child was born in 1858.

Having ruled Italy for over 40 years with no alternative other than the Italian Communist Party, DC members had ample opportunity to abuse their power, and some did.

The Chinese character s around the Taijitu symbol read: " Using no way as way " and " Having no limitation as limitation " The arrows represent the endless interaction between yang and yin.

Having made no major discoveries for a year, they were at the point of having to sell their furniture to pay the rent.

Having absolutely no idea what her key was, she sang regardless and got the job.

Having no previous acting experience, she started acting lessons after being cast.

Having its reputation at stake, Russia had no other choice but to declare war on the Ottomans in April 1877.

Having not once mentioned such gardens, Willey concludes that there is no sound evidence in favour of these fictitious legends.

Having exhibited this possibility, Frege's larger purpose was to defend the view that arithmetic is a branch of logic, a view known as logicism: unlike geometry, arithmetic was to be shown to have no basis in " intuition ", and no need for non-logical axioms.

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

Having survived all his children except Robert and Thomas, Burghley died at his London residence, Cecil House on 4 August 1598, and was buried in St Martin's Church, Stamford.

Having seen the murders of the children, some people further up the road began running.

Having had no children, the crown passed on to his brother, Albert II of Belgium, following his death.

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 ended Jianwen's reign, Zhu Di and his administration spent the latter part of 1402 brutally purging China of Jianwen's supporters as well as their family members including women and children.

Having spent years as a familiar face who never quite became a household name, his big chance came with the major television series, Edward the Seventh ( 1975 ), in which he played the title role and his real-life sons, Samuel and Joseph, played the sons of King Edward VII as children.

Having no legitimate children, in 1861 he named Captain John Brooke Johnson-Brooke, his sister's eldest son, as his successor.

Having seen Roark's buildings, Toohey has a good idea what kind of temple Roark would construct – and even before Roark ever heard of Stoddard and his temple, Toohey already planned how he would attack the temple once built, get it destroyed and Roark discredited, and transform it into an " institute for subnormal children ".

Having five children and a toddler had created family insecurity and was in some ways a disgrace to the Natsume family.

Having buried his wife Jane ( Purdon ) and two sons ( of their 20 children ) in the family vault at St. Patrick ’ s, Adam Loftus died at his Episcopal Palace in Kevin Street “ worn out with age ” and joined his family in the same vault.

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

Having slightly older children participating in activities such as school clubs and teams also allowed social networks to widen, giving the women a stronger support base, emotional or otherwise.

Having family that you can rely on is very important in times of economic hardship especially if there are children involved.

Having no children, Killam and his wife devoted the greater part of their wealth to higher education in Canada.

: Having a lot of children to take care of you in your old age is like a warrior with a lot of arrows.

Having had no brothers, she received an education that would have only been bequeathed to a son, and this background greatly influenced the way she educated her children.

Having organised and trained her manhood through her secret revolutionary organisation, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and through her open military organisations, the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army, having patiently perfected her discipline, having resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself, she now seizes that moment, and, supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe, but relying in the first on her own strength, she strikes in full confidence of victory.

Having children enabled the inheritance of land, which offered security and status.

" Having invited her to travel up to Connecticut one weekend in 1963 to visit his family, New England Irish Catholic, with six children, Didion said she " liked the set-up, liked being there, and liked him.

Having no children, Northumberland now began to arrange his affairs.

Having the task of selecting feeble-minded children for his small school, Porteus experimented with notions of head size and the emerging pencil and paper tests of intelligence that emerged in the early years of the twentieth century.