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Telemann returned to Hamburg, but would still supplement his income by taking up additional jobs: in 1723 – 1726 he served as Kapellmeister von Haus aus to the Bayreuth court, and between 1725 and 1730 he acted as corresponding agent to the court at Eisenach, supplying news from northern Europe.
In this regard, the IRA acted to a large degree as an agent of social control and stability, driven by the need to preserve cross-class unity in the national struggle, and on occasion being used to break strikes.
Interrogated repeatedly regarding his intelligence work and his connection with Guy Burgess, he continued to deny that he had acted as a Soviet agent.
In 1074 and 1075 he acted as intermediary, probably as Gregory's agent, between the Norman princes themselves, and even when the latter were at open war with the pope, they still maintained the best relations with Monte Cassino.
Pleyel essentially acted as his agent in collecting mechanical royalties for his works and provided him with a monthly income and a studio space at its headquarters in which he could work and entertain friends and business acquaintances.
During these overlapping periods, Ram Mohan Roy acted as a political agitator and agent, while being employed by the East India Company and simultaneously pursuing his vocation as a Pandit.
There he acted respectively as a clerk, journalist, soldier and recruitment agent until February 1918.
Through the late 1920s, he acted as a Comintern agent to help build Communist movements in Southeast Asia.
The Germans argued that Grynszpan had acted as the agent of a Jewish conspiracy, and their fruitless efforts to find evidence to support this contention further delayed the trial.
Dr. John Blaisdell acted as agent for early proprietors.
Shane lived here until 1832 when he acted as a government agent and accompanied the Shawnee Indians to Kansas.
In 1543 the Mercers Company admitted the 24-year-old Gresham as a liveryman, and in the same year he went to the Low Countries, where, either on his own account or on that of his father or uncle, he both carried on business as a merchant and acted in various matters as an agent for King Henry VIII.
Under Queen Elizabeth ( reigned 1558 – 1603 ), besides continuing in his post as financial agent of the crown, Gresham acted temporarily as ambassador at the court of Margaret of Parma, receiving a knighthood in 1559 prior to his departure.
* By showing that Hitler just as often reacted as acted, he offered a balance to previous accounts where Hitler was portrayed as the sole agent and the leaders of Britain and France as entirely reactive.
The film was inspired by sports agent Leigh Steinberg, who acted as Technical Consultant on the crew.
Sarah acted as Anne's agent after the latter's father, James II, was deposed during the Glorious Revolution ; and she promoted her interests during the rule of James's successors, William III and Mary II.
The successful patent on the acreage was due largely to Spencer, who acted as agent for his cousin Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper, the English landowner who controlled the Northern Neck of Virginia, in which the tract lay.
IVR became vital for call centers deploying universal queuing and routing solutions and acted as an agent which collected customer data to enable intelligent routing decisions.
He acted as electoral agent for Samuel Montagu in Whitechapel at the General Election of 1886, and for Jane Cobden, who stood for election to the London County Council as a Liberal candidate in 1889.
From 1860 to 1864, as J. Pierpont Morgan & Company, he acted as agent in New York for his father's firm.
He sometimes acted on their behalf as an agent provocateur.
The philosopher Peter Singer considers that usually when we describe an action as conscientious in the critical sense we do so in order to deny either that the relevant agent was motivated by selfish desires, like greed or ambition, or that he acted on whim or impulse.
W. Mark Felt an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation who retired in 1973 as the Bureau's Associate Director, acted on conscience to provide reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein with information that resulted in the Watergate scandal.
He acted as Paris agent for the empress in the purchase of works of art, and executed many confidential commissions for her.
In 2010, a book entitled ' The Social Agent ' states that Mucha allegedly acted as a ' social agent ' for the StB.

acted and Philip
Philip of Valois, the late king's first cousin acted as regent, pending the birth of the king's posthumous child, which proved to be a girl.
The New South Wales Governor, Sir Philip Game, intervened on the basis that Lang had acted illegally in breach of the state Audit Act and sacked the Lang Government, who then suffered a landslide loss at the consequent 1932 state election.
In this year, when his brother-in-law Louis de Bourbon, comte de Soissons fled from France after his failed conspiracy against Cardinal Richelieu, Thomas Francis acted as intermediary between Soissons and the Spanish in negotiations which led to a formal alliance between the count and Philip IV of Spain concluded 28 June 1637-although within a month Soissons had reconciled with France.
Military action for Thomas is not recorded in 1637, but in this year, when his brother-in-law Soissons fled from France after his failed conspiracy against Cardinal Richelieu, he acted as intermediary between Soissons and the Spanish in negotiations which led to a formal alliance between the count and Philip IV of Spain concluded 28 June 1637-although within a month Soissons had reconciled with France!
John Henslowe seems to have acted as his agent, and Philip to have prudently reused his old account book.
He had been a board member of Philip Morris between 1964 until his court appointment in 1971 and had acted as a contact point for the tobacco industry with the Virginia Commonwealth University.
The liner RMS Empress of Canada acted as the troopship, escorted by Force K: two Royal Navy cruisers, HMS Nigeria ( flagship ) and Aurora and three destroyers: HMS Icarus, Anthony and Antelope ; Philip Vian remained in command.
The play was most likely written to be acted by Lord Strange's Men, the only company of the time that could have mounted such a large and demanding production, at Philip Henslowe's Rose Theatre, which possessed the special staging requirements ( large-capacity second-level platform and special enclosure ) called for by the play.
Longchamp first distinguished himself at the court of King Philip II of France in Paris in 1189, when he acted as Richard's envoy in a dispute with William Marshall, King Henry's envoy.
During the absence of the minister, Philip Warwick, Robinson acted as resident and as envoy extraordinary, and he was thus in Sweden during a very interesting and important period, and was performing diplomatic duties at a time when the affairs of northern Europe were attracting an unusual amount of attention.
During this time he also acted as a royal justice, and in January 1199, Richard sent him to King Philip II of France to notify the French king that the truce between Philip and Richard was over.
According to historian Henry Hallam, the first sénéchaux to receive judicial functions did so by an edict of Philip II of France in 1190, and " acted as the king's lieutenants in his domains ", or a sort of roving ambassadors or ministers for the throne.
Of course he acted in a number of Fletcher's plays, as well as Shakespeare's ; presumably he also acted in his own Amends for Ladies ( printed 1618, though probably written earlier ), and in The Fatal Dowry, which he wrote with Philip Massinger.
Although her power decreased after the accession of Philip in 1180, she acted as regent of the kingdom in 1190 while Philip was away on the Third Crusade.
Angus then acted in the television TV movie " 15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight " ( 1993 ) and also on the television show " Takin ' Over the Asylum " ( 1994 ) which was about a salesman who runs a radio station in an institution.
They had acted similarly after the deaths of Charles the Bold in 1477 and Philip the Handsome in 1506.
She has acted as a voice-over in an Audible Kids audiobook of the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman as Roger Parslow, Serafina Pekkala, and other smaller roles.
He served as secretary of the party's Chinatown branch, acted as an advisor to Philip Ruddock and was a prominent supporter of federal MP Brendan Nelson and prominent candidate for Lord Mayor of Sydney Kathryn Greiner.
The New South Wales Governor, Sir Philip Game, intervened on the basis that Lang had acted illegally in breach of the state Audit Act and sacked the Lang Government, who then suffered a landslide loss at the consequent 1932 state election.
She acted as a bridesmaid to then-Princess Elizabeth at her 1947 wedding to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ( her first cousin ).

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