" According to Barson, " Capra became ensconced as Harry Cohn's most trusted director.

As a young man, he befriended Pargalı Ibrahim, a slave who later became one of his most trusted advisers.

The 4th Armoured Division became one of the Assad government's most trusted security forces.

The President was by habit fiercely loyal and protective to those he befriended and complacently trusted ; effectively reformers who desired integrity in the federal government became hostile to the Administration and caused a party split in 1872.

' The young eunuch eventually became a trusted adviser of the Prince of Yan, and assisted the prince in his insurrection against his nephew the Jianwen Emperor.

After his return from Rome, Arminius became a trusted advisor to Varus.

Reputation and clearing became central concerns, and the states which could handle them most effectively became very powerful empires, trusted by many peoples to manage and mediate trade and commerce.

In 2002, he became an outspoken critic of trusted computing proposals, in particular Microsoft ’ s Palladium operating system vision.

When the question of Henry's divorce from Queen Catherine of Aragon arose, Fisher became the Queen's chief supporter and most trusted counselor.

Diane became Henry's most trusted confidante and, for the next twenty-five years, wielded considerable influence behind the scenes, even signing royal documents.

Following his release from jail, he became a trusted associate of Hồ Chí Minh, a leading Vietnamese communist.

He served as an officer in the U. S. Navy from 1944 to 1946, reaching the rank of Captain and serving as assistant naval aide and then naval aide to President Truman, for whom he became a trusted personal adviser and friend.

As a long-time enemy of Burgundy, Louis no doubt valued the inside information Commines was able to provide, and Commines quickly became one of the king's most trusted advisers.

In 1067 Odo became earl of Kent, and for some years he was a trusted royal minister.

After 1911, Kung became one of Yan's most trusted advisors, and Yan was soon recognized as the military governor of Shanxi by Yuan Shikai, and effectively controlled Shanxi until 1949, when the Communists took control of mainland China.

" They became Nixon's most loyal and trusted aides during his presidency.

Olivares rapidly became Philip's most trusted advisor and when Philip ascended the throne in 1621, at the age of sixteen, he showed his confidence in Olivares by ordering that all papers requiring the royal signature should first be sent to the count-duke.

In his capacity of Praetorian prefect Sejanus quickly became a trusted advisor to Tiberius.

Tiye became her husband ’ s trusted adviser and confidant.

Soon after the accession of William Rufus, St-Calais became one of the king's most trusted lieutenants, along with the recently released Odo of Bayeux.

He became a trusted royal servant during the subsequent reign of Henry II, accompanying the king on campaigns in France and Ireland.

In June 1751 he became President of the Council, and was still liked and trusted by the King, but his share in government did not go beyond giving advice, and endeavouring to forward ministerial arrangements.

As a theologian, he did not have the clamour of Luther, Zwingli or John Calvin, but he became a trusted religious leader.

She became Zek's lover and trusted advisor.

Over the next several years Metastasio gave Salieri informal instruction in prosody and the declamation of Italian poetry, and Gluck became an informal advisor, friend and confidante.

He then became the naval advisor to the Army Council from 1906 to 1908 where he was involved with drawing up plans for joint operations to land an expeditionary force in Europe.

In 1997, Don Yannias, a long-time associate and investment advisor of Safra, became CEO of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. A new company, Britannica. com Inc. was spun off in 1999 to develop the digital versions of the Britannica ; Yannias assumed the role of CEO in the new company, while that of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. remained vacant for two years.

Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.

Flavius Josephus fully defected to the Roman side and was granted Roman citizenship, and became an advisor and friend of Vespasian's son Titus.

320 ) who became an advisor to the first Christian Roman emperor, Constantine I, guiding his religious policy as it developed, and tutor to his son.

She was also a friend to figures such as Luigi Pulci and Agnolo Poliziano and became her son's advisor when he took over power.

His cousin, Ernesto Pacelli, was a key financial advisor to Pope Leo XIII ; his father, Filippo Pacelli, a Franciscan tertiary, was the dean of the Sacra Rota Romana ; and his brother, Francesco Pacelli, became a lay canon lawyer and the legal advisor to Pius XI, in which role he negotiated the Lateran Treaty in 1929, the pact with Benito Mussolini, bringing an end to the Roman Question.

With Gelasius ’ death, Lamberto became a close advisor of Pope Callixtus II.

Even as Rajiv remained aloof from politics, his younger brother Sanjay became a close advisor to their mother.

Elected to Sanjay's Lok Sabha ( parliamentary ) constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh state in February 1981, Gandhi became an important political advisor to his mother.

Following the Darfur Peace Agreement, the office of senior Presidential advisor was allocated to Minni Minnawi, a Zaghawa of the Sudanese Liberation Army ( SLA ), and this thus became the fourth highest constitutional post.

In late 1894 or early 1895, Dickson became an ad hoc advisor to the motion picture operation of the Latham brothers, Otway and Grey, and their father, Woodville, who ran one of the leading Kinetoscope exhibition companies.

Holt ; J. Emrys Lloyd, who became the committee's legal advisor ; C. B.

In the late 1960s, Took became Comedy advisor to the BBC and was responsible for bringing together the performers who formed Monty Python's Flying Circus before moving to the USA to work briefly on Rowan and Martin's Laugh In.

Throckmorton henceforth became his political advisor and intimate.

Brzezinski became Carter's principal foreign policy advisor by late 1975.

Philip Kerr's conversion came only after experimenting with Eastern religion, but he later became a spiritual advisor for Astor.

Schlee, who split his time between the two, became Garbo's close companion and advisor until his death in 1964.

Gríma quickly became Théoden's chief advisor, but unknown to all he was secretly working for Saruman.

Soon he became the king's advisor, and corrupted the greater part of Númenor to the worship of Morgoth, offering human sacrifices and cutting down Nimloth, the White Tree.

Of the remaining members of the Fellowship of the Ring, it is recorded that Samwise Gamgee became Mayor of the Shire, and was an advisor of King Elessar.

Following William of Orange's assassination and Prince Maurice of Nassau's assumption of his father's office, he became an advisor and tutor of Maurice, who asked his advice on many occasions, and made him a public officer – at first director of the so-called " waterstaet " ( the government authority for public works ) from 1592, and later quartermaster-general of the army of the States-General.