Theodora, widow of the Emperor Theophilus ( died 842 ), acted as regent during the minority of her son Michael III, who was said to have been introduced to dissolute habits by her brother Bardas.

Henry V's brother, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, acted as regent.

He acted as retriever when his elder brother gamekeeper shot magpies, owls, rats and curlews, growing up surrounded by the harsh realities of working farms in the valleys and on the moors.

However she was captured, together with her mother who had acted as the Regent of Hungary, in the following year by the rebellious House of Horvat, Bishop Paul of Mačva, his brother Ivaniš and younger brother Ladislav.

One year later he acted as regent for Germany, together with his elder brother, Frederick II of Swabia.

After the death of Edward, further attempts to curb the power of the nobles were made by his brother, D. Pedro, duke of Coimbra, who acted as regent during the minority of Afonso V of Portugal ( 1438 – 1447 ).

Directed by Stella Adler's brother and acted alongside Marlon Brando.

Anne had so far failed to produce a male heir, and Cromwell, aware that the King was growing impatient and had become enamoured of the young Jane Seymour, acted with ruthless determination, accusing Anne of adultery with several courtiers, including her own brother, Viscount Rochford.

King Magnus ' youngest brother Benedict, then archdeacon, acted as his Lord High Chancellor of Sweden, and in 1284 Magnus rewarded him with the Duchy of Finland.

Growing up, Bridges shared a close relationship with his brother Beau, who acted as a surrogate father when their father was working.

Pickens ' brother, Samuel T. Lindley, acted under the name Easy Pickens.

In 744 the Picts acted alone, and in 750 Óengus may have cooperated with Eadberht of Northumbria in a campaign in which Talorgan, brother of Óengus, was killed in a heavy Pictish defeat at the hands of Teudebur of Alt Clut, perhaps at Mugdock, near Milngavie.

Hugh's motives are unknown, but it is presumed that he acted to forestall Rudolph's brother and successor as Duke of Burgundy, Hugh the Black, from taking the French throne, or to prevent it from falling into the grasping hands of Herbert II of Vermandois or Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy.

He had a brother, Ordmaer, who acted as his steward and administered the family estates.

He is the older brother of actor / comedian Bill Murray and has acted together with him in several films, including Caddyshack, Scrooged, Ghostbusters II, The Razor's Edge and Groundhog Day.

Charles Evers, activist and brother of Medger Evers ( activist assassinated in 1963 ), praised Law and said he acted “ not for the Negro, but for justice and what is right .”

In Greek mythology, Epimetheus was the brother of Prometheus (" foresight ", literally " fore-thinker "), a pair of Titans who " acted as representatives of mankind " ( Kerenyi 1951, p 207 ).

His first release for the new millennium, Mela, in which he acted alongside his real-life brother Faisal Khan, was both a box-office and critical bomb.

Like his younger brother, Gaylord acted in motion pictures, but his career was nowhere near as renowned as Harold's.

Having been defeated by William in 1251, Conrad decided to invade Italy in the hope to regain the rich reign of his father, and where his brother Manfred acted as vicar.

In 1992's All's Well, Ends Well, he acted as an effeminate brother who would later realize the meaning of true love.

She acted as regent for her brother, Peter II, in 1701 and 1704 – 05.

He, along with his friends and brother, created and acted in many plays throughout 1820.

Frederick IV was killed at the Battle of Kliszów in 1702, and his brother Christian August acted as regent for his son Charles Frederick until 1718.

White also acted in and directed Triple Trouble, Essanay's last Chaplin release.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

Thus, the Commission acted with a sense of social responsibility within the area of its own convictions about the problem of government support to private education.

If Rose Mallory's killer acted this way, catching up with him was going to be a cinch.

Bloch was not concerned with the effectiveness of the royal touch — he acted instead like an anthropologist in asking why people believed it and how it shaped relations between king and commoner.

Joining the League of Torgau in 1526, he acted in unison with the Protestants, and was among the princes who banded and plotted together to overthrow Charles V after the issue of the Augsburg Interim in May 1548.

" Johnson acted in accordance with his nature.

In the beginning of 1222, the discontent serviens ( nobles ) came to Andrew's court in large numbers, and they persuaded the king to issue the Golden Bull which confirmed their privileges, including the right to disobey the King if he acted not in line with the provisions of the Golden Bull ( ius resistendi ).

At times the imperialist democracy acted with extreme brutality, as in the decision to execute the entire male population of Melos and sell off its women and children simply for refusing to became subjects of Athens.

It was Maire Gullichsen who acted as the main client, and she worked closely not only with Alvar but also Aino Aalto on the design, inspiring them to be more daring in their work.

" In the 1999 South Carolina Supreme Court case State v. Gaines, the Court held that Alford guilty pleas were to be held valid in the absence of a specific on-the-record ruling that the pleas were voluntary – provided that the sentencing judge acted appropriately in accordance with the rules for acceptance of a plea made voluntarily by the defendant.

Those powerful families were supported by Iberians who were openly or secretly Christians and had acted with the rebels.

The Black and Tans acted with the Auxiliaries in the government's attempts to break the IRA.

In Lika and west Herzegovina in particular, which he described as " hotbeds of Croatian separatism ," he wrote that the majority-Serb police acted " with no restraining authority whatsoever.

Some Boeotian vase-paintings show a caricature version of the episode, acted out by dwarf pygmies with negroid attributes, and an aged and lame Odysseus leaning on a staff ; they are the mute survivors of some rustic comedy tradition that is impenetrable to us.

< li > A variety of actions or pursuits which were thought to be injurious to public morality, might be forbidden by an edict, and those who acted contrary to such edicts were branded with the nota and degraded.

Often he would withdraw to a cave seven miles distant, with a single companion who acted as messenger between himself and his brethren.

At this time the Piast duke Konrad I of Masovia with the consent of Pope Innocent III had started the first of several unsuccessful Prussian Crusades into the adjacent Chełmno Land and Christian acted as a missionary among the Prussians east of the Vistula River.

The preamble to the Class Action Fairness Act stated that some abusive class actions harmed class members with legitimate claims and defendants that have acted responsibly ; adversely affected interstate commerce ; and undermined public respect for the country's judicial system.

# Direct contempt is that which occurs in the presence of the presiding judge ( in facie curiae ) and may be dealt with summarily: the judge notifies the offending party that he or she has acted in a manner which disrupts the tribunal and prejudices the administration of justice.

When reports of this reached the Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark, Pope Saint Cyril I of Alexandria acted quickly to correct this breach with orthodoxy, requesting that Nestorius repent.

He acted in much the way he portrays management consultants in the comic strip, with an arrogant manner and bizarre suggestions, such as comparing mission statements to broccoli soup.

Karma Pakshi's disciples acted in accordance with the will and located the reincarnated boy of their master.

It was carried in a cart with a woman who acted as bridesmaid.

Both alembics and retorts are forms of glassware with long necks pointing to the side at a downward angle which acted as air-cooled condensers to condense the distillate and let it drip downward for collection.