Alexander asked Giovanni's uncle, Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, to persuade Giovanni to agree to a divorce.

In June 1866, while on a visit to Copenhagen, the Tsarevich Alexander asked Dagmar for her hand.

They were introduced to composer Alexander Glazunov, a professor at the Conservatory, who asked to see Prokofiev and his music ; Glazunov was so impressed that he urged Prokofiev's mother that her son apply to the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

In the course of these rehearsals Alexander asked Wilde to shorten the play from four acts to three.

For example, in Federalist 84, Alexander Hamilton asked, " Why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?

Its first representation was in 1947, when magazine co-founder Hyman Goldsmith asked artist Martyl Langsdorf ( wife of Manhattan Project research associate and Szilárd petition signatory Alexander Langsdorf, Jr .) to design a cover for the magazine's June 1947 issue.

Alexander III was grateful and asked for all religious forces to unify.

Later that year, the French Assembly of the Bishops voted to condemn Arnauld's distinction between the pope's ability to bind the mind of believers in matters of doctrine but not in matters of fact ; they asked Pope Alexander VII to condemn Arnauld's proposition as heresy.

On Friday, July 13, 1973, during a preliminary interview, the Deputy Minority Counsel Donald Sanders asked White House assistant Alexander Butterfield if there was any type of recording system in the White House.

As a mermaid, she lived in the Aegean and when she encountered a ship she asked its sailors only one question: " Is King Alexander alive?

After Tsar Alexander II put down the 1863 January Uprising in Poland, French Emperor Napoleon III asked the United States to " join in a protest to the Tsar.

Alexander asked him to go to Warsaw.

In response to the rise of European fascism in the 1930s he was asked to write We Europeans with the ethnologist A. C. Haddon, zoologist Alexander Carr-Saunders and historian of science Charles Singer.

Finally, the Entente powers intervened and asked Venizelos to back down, allowing Alexander to retain the crown.

On the day of his accession to the throne, 10 June 1917, Alexander revealed his liaison with Aspasia Manos to his father and asked for his permission to marry her.

Having conferred the Order of the Bath upon Alexander, Arthur asked to meet Aspasia, and declared subsequently that, if he were younger, he would have sought to marry the young girl himself.

Alexander hardly paid attention to the incident and asked that it not be publicised.

The accounts of Plutarch and Diogenes Laërtius recount that they exchanged only a few words: while Diogenes was relaxing in the sunlight in the morning, Alexander, thrilled to meet the famous philosopher, asked if there was any favour he might do for him.

When he asked Alexander where he planned to move a unit of troops, he was told “ That ’ s none of your business .” Kutuzov pretended to sleep throughout the battle planning session as he feared that Alexander would blame him for the inevitable defeat.

His Image of Governance, compiled of the Actes and Sentences notable of the most noble Emperor Alexander Severus ( 1540 ) professed to be a translation from a Greek manuscript of the emperor's secretary Encolpius ( or Eucolpius, as Elyot calls him ), which had been lent him by a gentleman of Naples, called Pudericus, who asked to have it back before the translation was complete.

Randi asked investigator and crime scene analyst Alexander Jason for technical assistance and he was able to use a high-tech ( at the time ) computerized scanner during a Popoff appearance in San Francisco.

Alexander sent an envoy to Tyre, proposing a peace treaty, and asked to visit their city and offer sacrifices to their God Melqart.

Alexander claimed that, while dying, Darius had named Alexander as his successor to the Achaemenid throne and had asked Alexander to avenge his death, a striking irony since it was Alexander who had pursued him to his death.

He asked Quiney to find out whether the money had been paid and, if not, to send to the lodging of Sir Edward and entreat him to pay what he owed.

Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??

I wrote her that I'd met up with Eileen and that old bonds had proved too strong and asked her to send my clothes down by express.

The posse then asked that he send out the women and children as the building would be fired or torn down over his head if necessary to take him dead or alive.

Parents are asked in the bulletin to send packages of treats consisting of fruit and nuts, but no candy.

The jury asked Judge Cash to send in his written definition of the difference between first and second-degree murder and manslaughter.

The Emperor asked Leo to preside over the council, but Leo again chose to send legates in his place.

The Greeks then asked Britain to send Queen Victoria's son Prince Alfred as their new king, but this was vetoed by the other Powers.

" Lozgachev used the bedroom telephone where he frantically called a few party officials telling them that Stalin may have had a stroke and asked them to send good doctors to the Kuntsevo residence immediately.

Minos then asked Athens to send seven boys and seven girls to Crete every nine years to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, the offspring from the zoophilic encounter of Minos ' wife Pasiphae with a certain bull that the king refused to sacrifice to Poseidon, which he had placed within a labyrinth he commanded his architect Daedalus to build.

According to Condivi, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de ' Medici, for whom Michelangelo had sculpted St. John the Baptist, asked that Michelangelo " fix it so that it looked as if it had been buried " so he could " send it to Rome ... pass off as an ancient work and ... sell it much better.

The receiver is put into the Ganzfeld state or Ganzfeld effect and the sender is shown a video clip or still picture and asked to mentally send that image to the receiver.

Furious, he declared he would wreak a terrible vengeance on the city, whereupon the residents asked Honorius for forgiveness and to send another governor.

In a letter written to King David I of Scotland, the king was asked to send the bishops of Scotland to the Council, which discussed the claims of the Archbishop of York to have jurisdiction over the church in Scotland.

Furthermore, Serbian Radical Party founder and paramilitary Vojislav Šešelj claimed that President Milošević personally asked him to send paramilitaries into Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Shortly after becoming king, he asked the Irish of Dál Riata to send a bishop to facilitate the conversion of his people, and they sent Aidan for this purpose ; initially, the Irish sent an " austere " bishop who was unsuccessful in his mission, and Aidan, who proposed a gentler approach, was subsequently sent instead.

It was at this time that the Tanganyika army revolted and Britain was asked by Julius Nyerere to send in troops.

As part of the production, Smallfilms had to send the scripts to the BBC, but on reading the script for episode three, they asked Postgate to remove some " Clanger-speak ", explaining that although whistled, " you can ’ t say that on children ’ s television [...] you just can ’ t ".

Louis Comfort Tiffany was asked to send selected designers to assist.

Queen Victoria asked Lord Hartington to form a ministry, but he persuaded her to send for Gladstone.

** Vietnam War: Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies announces that the country will substantially increase its number of troops in South Vietnam, supposedly at the request of the Saigon government ( it is later revealed that Menzies had asked the leadership in Saigon to send the request at the behest of the Americans ).

According to Procopius, when summoned to surrender Gelimer instead asked Pharas to send him a loaf of bread, a sponge, and a lyre, to make the winter months on Pappua more bearable.

Since late July 2010, when Fox began to broadcast their sports programming with graphics optimized for 16: 9 displays rather than the 4: 3 safe area, the network has asked cable and satellite providers to comply and use the No. 10 Active Format Description code they now send out over Fox programming, which has 16: 9 content display in letterboxed mode on 4: 3 screens and has graphical elements optimized for the 16: 9 screen.

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