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 no children left, he could not find anyone among his remaining relatives who was able to rule the country competently and be willing to maintain the Christian faith of the nation.

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 consolidated his conquests in Syria ( 1831 – 38 ), Ibrahim Pasha, son of the viceroy of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, made the fatal mistake of trying to disarm the Christians and Druzes of the Lebanon and to draft the latter into his army.

Having prepared for this, Anton Philips and his son in law Frans Otten, as well as other Philips family members, fled to the United States, taking a large amount of the company capital with them.

Having initially lost territories in Erzurum to the Shah's son, Suleiman retaliated by recapturing Erzurum, crossing the Upper Euphrates and laying waste to parts of Persia.

Having discovered the entrance, Solomon found an idol inside that had in its mouth a silver tablet saying in Greek ( a language not thought by modern scholars to have existed 1000 years before the time of Solomon ) that the statue was of Shaddad, the son of ' Ad, and that it had reigned over a million cities, rode on a million horses, had under it a million vassals and slew a million warriors, yet it could not resist the angel of death.

Tertullian wrote in his book On Patience 5: 15 " Having been made pregnant by the seed of the devil ... she brought forth a son.

Having promised the ring ( and with it, his estate ) to all three, the king had two equally precious copies made and gave one ring to each son.

Having defeated King Beorhtwulf of Mercia in battle, the Danes moved on to invade Wessex, but were decisively crushed by Egbert's son and successor King Aethelwulf in the exceptionally bloody Battle of Aclea.

Having grown up in Hollywood, the son of a studio production manager and grandson of a silent film director, Edwards had watched the films of the great silent clowns, including Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Laurel and Hardy.

Having established his right to levy a tonnage on wines in the mark, he issued in February 1473 the Dispositio Achillea, which decreed that the Margraviate of Brandenburg should descend in its entirety to the eldest son, while the younger sons should receive the Franconian possessions of the family.

* Having rebuffed the armed forces of Conrad IV of Germany, Pope Innocent IV offers Sicily to Edmund, son of King Henry III of England.

Having survived his own son, he is succeeded by Cranaus.

Having read the files, he told his son, Vivion, " they were magnificent, son ".

* Having suffered heavy losses since invading Scotland in 208, emperor Septimius Severus sens his son Caracalla to systematically wipe out and torture the Scots into submission.

Having survived his own son, he is succeeded by Cranaus.

Having heard about that, Amyntor punished his son by either blinding him or cursing him with infertility.

Having been released from jail, Dulipo then discovers that he is Cleander's long lost son.

Having done much to improve the state of his inheritance in 1684, Victor Amadeus took the decision to abdicate in September 1730. the month before the lonely king having lost most of his family including his favourite son the Prince of Piedmont sought the security of a previous mistress Anna Canalis di Cumiana.

Having already murdered the station manager and his son, the gang kills Rintoon when he reaches for a shotgun.

Having previously escaped death at the hand of Eurypylus ( son of Telephus ), he was devoured by Polyphemus.

Having left no heirs, Jiang became the adopted son of Shangqing's wife, or his Aunt, Wang Zhelan, to whom he referred to as " Niang " or " Mom.

Having lost his fleet and the hereditary fiefdom promised to his son, Muhammad Ali now demanded as compensation that Ibrahim be appointed wali ( viceroy ) of the Ottoman province of Syria ( which included modern Syria, Lebanon and Palestine ).

Having assassinated his brother Vimerano ( this is the basis for his nickname ), and with the nobles restless, he named as his successor Bermudo, son of Vimerano.