Having taken Nanking in March ( and briefly visited Shanghai, now under the control of his close ally Bai Chongxi ), Chiang halted his campaign and prepared a violent break with Wang's leftist elements, which he believed threatened his control of the KMT.

Having taken on some £ 4 billion of debt to finance these acquisitions, the company had to sell off its commodity chemicals businesses.

Having taken control of several European countries through his machinations, he tries to provoke a war between the two fictional nations of Galonia and Toran with the help of the crooked Galonian General Lupo planning to set all the nations of the world at war, but is stopped by Superman.

Having defeated and slain Manfred in the great Battle of Benevento, Charles established himself firmly in the kingdom of Sicily at the conclusive Battle of Tagliacozzo, in which Conradin, the last of the house of Hohenstaufen, was taken prisoner.

Having taken the degree of master in 1516, he began to study theology.

Having taken the chest, she leaves the tree in Byblos, where it becomes an object of worship for the locals.

Having taken Carlisle, Charles's army progressed as far as Swarkestone Bridge in Derbyshire.

Having taken holy orders, Badham was appointed headmaster of Louth grammar school, Lincolnshire ( 1851 – 1854 ), and subsequently headmaster of Edgbaston proprietary school, near Birmingham.

Having briefly occupied the city and taken hostages and supplies from the city they returned to their ships at Riccall.

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 taken refuge at the Dunbar fortress, Marie of Guise asked France for help.

Having taken the imperial throne and made the 11-year old John IV ineligible for the emperorship by blinding him, Michael VIII Palaiologos had Theodore's three other daughters married off to Italian and Bulgarian foreigners, so their descendants could not threaten his own children's claim to the imperial succession.

Having truthfully revealed valuable things, Dolon expected to be taken as a prisoner to the ships, or to be tied up, while the other two found out whether he had told them the truth or not.

' Having taken such vows, ( a mendicant ) should not, on entering a village or scot-free town, etc., take himself or induce others to take or allow others to take, what has not been given.

Having taken the counsel of Bright, Gladstone invited Chamberlain on 27 April 1880 to become President of the Board of Trade.

Having moved into new premises in Cricklewood Lane, the yard was taken over by Clang Electrical Goods Ltd. From 1929 to 1933 the area was finally built over.

Having been taken to the place of execution in a cart with her hands firmly tied in front of her and wearing just a thin shift she was lifted over the executioner ’ s shoulder and carried up a ladder against the stake to be sat astride the saddle.

Having escaped the law, Jay and Silent Bob once again return to their quest to reach Hollywood only to have Suzanne taken by a Hollywood animal acting agency car.

Having taken this bold and honorable course, he quietly awaited the result which was simply that nothing was found against him and he was not molested in person but some cavalrymen belonging to the army that came out to quell the insurrection visited his home and did considerable damage, nearly demolishing his distillery, knocking in the heads of liquor casks and spilling a vast amount of whiskey.

Having two sets of local addresses caused confusion and in 1925 legislative steps were taken to give the whole area, post office, and train depot the name Patrick Springs.

Having taken off from Misawa, Japan, pilots Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr. safely belly-landed their Bellanca airplane Miss Veedol on a nearby airstrip known then as Fancher Field.

Having taken up his residence at Brussels, in 1818 Jacotot was nominated teacher of the French language at the University of Louvain, where he systematized the educational principles which he had already practised with success in France.

Having taken his degree at the University of Oxford ( from Trinity College ) in 1838, he was elected to a fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1840, of which from 1842 to 1846 he was fellow and tutor.

Having settled by the Elbe, Spree and Neisse in the 6th century, Sorbian tribes divided into two main groups, which have taken their names from the characteristics of the area where they had settled.

Having taken his seat in the Irish House of Lords in 1745, he was appointed one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in 1746, and was one of the ' managers ' of the impeachment of Lord Lovat.

Having recently sold his share of the seminal personal computer stores, the Byte Shop, Paul Terrell started looking for new ventures.

Having adopted the nickname " the Bad Boy " for himself and developed Bad Boy Furniture into a chain of stores around the Toronto area.

Having two stores configured like this allows Macy's to offer broader inventories of all products without having to incur the expense of building a single flagship-size store.

Having no track record in understanding the complex operations required to run retail department stores, and with the questionable locations of many of the proposed malls, coupled with forcing the newly acquired anchor stores into locations with no previous market presence, this venture proved deeply flawed and plunged L. J. Hooker, the department stores and its various development holdings into bankruptcy.

Having bought 140 Texaco petrol stations in 2007, Somerfield tripled the size of some of their shops, using a similar format to its convenience stores.

Having kept the family dairy herd and ice cream processing business, Braum and his wife Mary started the Braum's chain in 1968, opening 24 stores in Oklahoma during the first year.

Having old buildings available at low cost, a number of antique stores sprang up and for a while in the 1970s Unionville ranked high on the list of places to go to get antiques.

Having previously worked in pirate radio and booked and promoted bands in his native Ireland, Prendergast moved to Hoboken in 1982 and started Pier Platters record store, which subsequently developed a national reputation as one of the finest alternative stores in the country.

Having observed that retaining many levels of management tended to distance the decision makers from the community they served, he established a corporate policy requiring all supervisors to spend a minimum of three days a week in each of their respective stores.

Having them talk to animated characters in front of candy stores, discussing girlfriends and such.

Having entered the Police Academy by age 24, Wiggum managed to work around his many shortcomings by providing superiors with wonderful back rubs using the handle of his gun, and finally become a full fledged officer and by 32, he had managed to work his way up to the position of Police Chief of Springfield.

Having drawn the ire of some fans after losing their first round bout at the hands of Atlanta, head coach Mike Thibault was under the gun to engineer a deep postseason run in the pursuit of an elusive title.

Having learned from his experience at the Rank Organisation, he insisted on several conditions in the contract before agreeing to appear in the programme: all the fistfights should be different, the character would always use his brain before using a gun, and, much to the horror of the executives, no kissing.

Having equipped themselves with weaponry from a local underground gun dealer, the brothers quickly kill eight of the nine bosses and underbosses, and they save the leader, Yuri Petrov.

Having come armed, the defenders soon discover the creatures can be easily dispatched with well-aimed gun shots to the exposed brains, but it is Major Cummings who saves the day by blowing up the airbase's nuclear power plant machinery, robbing the creatures of their high-energy power source, causing them to die quickly and then dissolve away.

Having failed in securing whales on another cruise in 1857, Roys redesigned his gun.

" Having become a parent in the same year, hence home-responsibility-bound, Wirtz dropped his " loose cannon " career pursuits and, under the name of Marc Peters, submerged into the role of " hired gun " session arranger / conductor in partnership with producers including Kim Fowley and Jimmy Bowen.

Having captured the gun, he then turned it on the Germans.

Having failed, a party of thirteen men were assembled and rushed the position soon after, but the group was wiped out before they reached the first gun.

Having learned the gun trade in town, as well as having a wife from town, Daniel Baird Wesson returned with his wife to build a summer house there.

Having killed all four, El Topo is ridden with guilt, destroys his own gun and revisits the places where he killed those masters, finding their graves swarming with bees.