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 amassed considerable wealth, Yale spent it liberally in England.

Having spent a productive year there, Shepard won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools

Having kept bonds with the English speakers ( he spent part of his childhood in the United States and usually spoke English ) and with French soldiers in North Africa ( under Admiral Lemonnier ), Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( whose villa " Baobab " at Sanary ( Var ) was opposite Admiral Darlan's villa " Reine "), helped the French Navy to join again with the Allies ; he assembled a commando operation against the Italian espionage services in France, and received several military decorations for his deeds.

Having spent his formative years in France, where he attended the American School of Paris, he returned to the United States to attend the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1966.

Having received a special dispensation he continued his studies from home and so spent most of his seminary years as an external student.

Having fled Russia from the Crimea in 1919, she spent her remaining years in exile firstly in the United Kingdom with her sister, Queen Alexandra and later in her native Denmark mainly at Villa Hvidore.

Having spent all but eight months of its existence prior to 1941 in government, the UAP was ill-prepared for a role in opposition.

Having qualified in medicine by means of the Conjoint Diploma ( MRCS England, LRCP London ) in 1930 Bion spent seven years in psychotherapeutic training at the Tavistock Clinic, an experience he regarded, in retrospect, as having had some limitations.

Having spent time in London and other overseas cities, she began working as a typist for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney in 1978.

Having spent the last six years championing to Hitler sea power as the only way in which Germany could become a world power, Raeder was anxious that the Kriegsmarine be seen as doing more than its share of the fighting to ensure that Hitler would reward the Navy by not cutting its budget after the war.

Having spent time with every contestant came back to work in her favor as a trivia contest about the contestants gave her the immunity win and placed a target squarely on Kathy.

Having already spent his cut, Hooker pays Snyder in counterfeit bills.

Having spent a number of months working full-time in a Borders store, he wrote The Overnight ( 2004 ), about bookshop staff trapped in their hellish workplace during an overnight shelf-filling shift.

Having spent much of its Eccentric decades converting a large percentage of the mass of the tableaux ' scenery into engines, it easily outruns the very fast ship which other elements of the Culture had asked to keep watch on it.

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 read English history for years as a hobby, and not satisfied with the books written about King Richard III, Fields spent four years researching and two years writing the non-fiction book Royal Blood: Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes ( ISBN 0-06-039269-X ), which was published in 1998.

Having spent most of his career, as he himself jokingly admitted once, saying ' No ', Paisley assumed the chairmanship of the Agriculture committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly created by the Belfast Agreement, where he was praised as an effective, coordinating chairman.

Having spent many years in obscurity, Nancarrow benefited from the 1969 release of an entire album of his work by Columbia Records as part of a brief flirtation of the label's classical division with modern avant-garde music.

Having spent most of 1942 in the Reserve he managed to direct Lifeline ( Norman Armstrong ) starring Frank Pettingell at the Duchess Theatre in July ; and The Duke in Darkness ( Patrick Hamilton ) starring Leslie Banks at the St James's Theatre in October, also taking the role of Gribaux.

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 spent the entire morning doing nothing else than exchanging artillery fire with French II Corps, these men were relatively fresh.

Having spent his youth in the Norfolk area, Craddock decided to pursue the life of a sailor.

Having spent around £ 30, 000, and unwilling to spend more, he abandoned these experiments, only resuming his work in the 20th century, when he tested a number of smaller designs powered by gasoline engines.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.

Having worked with many Hollywood stars, Cronenberg says that he did not get to make a film with an actor he wanted to work with for a long time, Burt Reynolds.

Having been for a long period in history a land of mass emigration, Veneto is today one of the greatest immigrant-receiving regions in the country, with 454, 453 foreigners ( 9. 30 % of the regional population ) in 2008, the most recent of which are Romanian and Moroccan.

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

One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively to the virtues of loyalty and filial piety .... Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die.

Having been taken along to a computer fair, he became enamored of the first model of the Macintosh, the start of a long love-affair with the brand ( he claimed to have bought two of the first three Macintosh in the UK — the other being bought by his friend Stephen Fry ).

Having lived long under constant threat of deposition-or worse-by the Lekapenoi family, Constantine VII was extremely resentful of them.

The words, " Having received the Mandate from Heaven, may ( the emperor ) lead a long and prosperous life.

Having long resisted offers from MTV to reform to do an Unplugged show, they finally accepted as part of a deal that also allowed them to visit Morocco to record new material.

Having long been the poorest part of Spain, Extremadura is a largely rural region known for the Portuguese influence on its music.

Having been on the land for such a long time, Derr had befriended the local Native Americans of the area.

Having established dominance in the area by the eighteenth century, the Oglala Sioux had long considered the Black Hills as sacred land.

On 23 December he appeared in Congress, then sitting at Annapolis, and returned his commission as Commander-in-Chief: " Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action ; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.

Having written several long stories, Harper Lee found an agent in November 1956.

Having left behind all the traces of his past, Ibn ‘ Arabī began his long journey to the East from Marrakesh where he had a marvelous vision of the Divine Throne.

Having existed for over 600 years, Gray's Inn has a long list of notable members and honorary members.

Having hammered a hole into the wood the prey is excavated by a long barbed tongue.

Having suffered long from syphilis, which he had inherited from his father, he died in 1540 at his villa at Marmirolo.

Having infected and killed an insect, they continue to grow on the carcase and release spores for as long as any resources remain.

Having examined the soundscape, Arnold turns to the action of the tide itself and sees in its retreat a metaphor for the loss of faith in the modern age, once again expressed in an auditory image (" But now I only hear / Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar ").

Having a fossil record that was assumed to extend back at least 60 million years, the Procellariiformes was long considered to be among the older bird groupings, other than the ratites, with presumably distant ties to penguins and loons.

* Having had his philosophy condemned by the University of Utrecht, René Descartes begins his long correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia.

Having long been subordinate to English culture, Welsh musicians in the late 20th century had to reconstruct traditional music when a roots revival began.

Having the border further north than demanded by the Russians in the initial talks turned out to be fortunate for Sweden in the long run as major findings of iron ore were discovered in these areas later.