I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Having whipped Mr. De Sapio in the primaries and thus come into control of Tammany Hall, they have changed the name to Chatham Hall.

On May 11,330, A.D.,, its name was changed again, this time to Constantinople after its emperor, Constantine.

When that was broken up after the First World War, its name was changed once more.

The category's original name was Best Art Direction and was changed to its current name for the 85th Academy Awards, with the Art Director's branch being renamed the Designer's branch.

The procedures used by the BIH evolved, and the name for the time scale changed: " A3 " in 1963 and " TA ( BIH )" in 1969.

The resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.

The name of the town was then changed to Anbar (" granaries ").

The family originally spelled their name " Alcock ", later changed to " Alcocke " then " Alcox ".

Amos Bronson, the oldest of eight children, later changed the spelling to " Alcott " and dropped his first name.

By age three, however, her mother changed her name to Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, after her own mother.

As a teenager, she changed the spelling of her name to " Abbie " before choosing to use only " May ".

On May 10, 2012, NYSE Amex Equities changed its name to NYSE MKT LLC.

In 1929, the New York Curb Market changed its name to the New York Curb Exchange.

Lucius ’ name was changed to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus and he became Claudius ’ s adopted son, heir and recognised successor.

In 221, Alexander's grandmother, Maesa, persuaded the Emperor to adopt his cousin as successor and make him Caesar and Bassianus changed his name to Alexander.

As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.

The school's name has since changed several times, but since 1989 has been considered a branch campus of the Petroleum University of Technology, centered in Tehran.

With ASP Version 3 the name was changed to Asymmetric Multiprocessor and support was added for OS / VS2 ( SVS ).

In 1968, UBBTS became a Bible and junior Christian liberal arts college, and in 1970 the name was changed to Atlantic Baptist College ( ABC ).

The name was also changed to Atlantic Baptist University, a reflection of expanded student enrollment and academic accreditation.

On August 21, 2009 it was announced that the institution had changed its name to Crandall University in honour of Rev.

In 1802, at the age of 26, he won a place to study theology at St. John's College, Cambridge where he changed his name, Brunty, to the more distinguished sounding Brontë.

The Haggada identifies them as separate people, the second being the first Abimelech's son, and that his original name was Benmelech (" son of the King ") but changed his name to his father's.

As Elizabeth aged her image gradually changed.

Meals often ended with an issue de table, which later changed into the modern dessert, and typically consisted of dragées ( in the Middle Ages, meaning spiced lumps of hardened sugar or honey ), aged cheese and spiced wine, such as hypocras.

Screenwriter Paul Schrader ( who directed the other three films ) has stated that he considers the central characters of the four films to be one character, who has changed as he has aged.

Following a series of post-Vatican II reforms, his feast day was changed and his name was added to the Roman Catholic calendar of saints in 1970 for celebration on 22 June jointly with St John Fisher, the only remaining bishop ( owing to the coincident natural deaths of eight aged bishops ) who, during the English Reformation, maintained, at the King's mercy, allegiance to the pope.

In Ovid's retelling, placed in the mouth of the aged Homeric hero Nestor, Caenis, the daughter of Elatus ( a Lapith chieftain ) and Hippea, was raped by Neptune, who then fulfilled her request to be changed into a man so that she could never be raped again ; he also made Caenis invulnerable to weaponry.

He also established a pricing structure in which ( from lowest to highest priced ) Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac — referred to as the ladder of success — did not compete with each other, and buyers could be kept in the GM " family " as their buying power and preferences changed as they aged.

The course of her life had changed when, aged 16, she got a job as a waitress at the Alexandra Palace so that she could see the composer John Philip Sousa, but she overheard two gentlemen discussing the loss of a target for an act in which they shot an apple off a girl ’ s head.

Stansgate died at Westminster, London, in November 1960, aged 83, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his second son, Tony Benn, who in 1963 succeeded in getting the law changed to allow him to disclaim the peerage.

And DOE Secretary Federico Peña testified the following year, " Experiments at the NIF will test the simulation codes developed under the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative ( now known as Advanced Simulation and Computing program ) and demonstrate how aged or changed materials in weapons could behave under the unique conditions of nuclear weapons detonation.

JSA for a single person is changed annually, and at August 3, 2012 the maximum payable was £ 71. 00 per week for a person aged over 25 and £ 56. 25 per week for a person aged 18 – 24.

On 1 December 1939, the Germans published a decree requiring all Jews aged 6 and older to wear an armband on their right arm bearing a yellow Star of David ( the colour was later changed to blue ).

In 2001, the UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup All-Star Match format was changed slightly for the second All-Star Match to bring together great players aged between 35 and 45 who now revel in their ‘ veteran ’ status and play the game purely for pleasure.

Lyell's second volume explained extinctions as a " succession of deaths " due to changed circumstances with new species then being created, but Darwin found giant fossils of extinct mammals with no geological signs of a " diluvial debacle " or environmental change, and so rejected Lyell's explanation in favour of Giovanni Battista Brocchi's idea that species had somehow aged and died out.

The labels formerly read " Aged 4 years in wood ", which was changed some years ago to " Flavor aged in oak barrels ", again in 1996 to " Barrel Aged, Bold Taste " and currently notes " Barrel Aged 3 Years • Bold Taste ".

Theories as to the reason for the claimed change in flavor include that the secret formula has been changed to use new products not originally available to Vernor, such as high fructose corn syrup ; that it seems to have less carbonation than formerly ; and that Vernors is no longer aged four years, but three in oak barrels.

He was brought up in Southall, he changed his name aged 19 after tracing his family history, through the slave trade back to his ancestral African roots in Ghana.

By law, the army cannot recruit under-age students ; most of eleventh-graders are aged 16 – 17, and the draft is almost changed for the payment of a monetary fee.

Like many grey horses, Daylami changed in appearance as he aged.

The redesigned P-Bass pickguard was made of a single layer of gold anodized aluminum with 10 screwholes ( 1957 – 59 ) and then changed in 1960 to a 13-screw celluloid " multilayer " with 3 or 4 layers of black, white, mint green, aged white pearloid and brown tortoise shell.

As the transmission's seals and other elastomers aged, the hydraulic control characteristics changed and the 2-3 shift would either cause a momentary flare ( sudden increase in engine speed ) or tie-up ( a short period where the transmission is in two gears simultaneously ), the latter often contributing to failure of the front band.

In this film, Hamilton starred as Patricia Bates, the traumatised, catatonic daughter of a devoutly religious, middle aged Home Counties couple ( Denholm Elliott and Joan Plowright ) whose lives are changed by a demonic drifter and con man who calls himself Martin Taylor, played by Sting.

A few centuries slip by ; Eve and Adam have aged a bit, but otherwise have changed but little: She spends her time by spinning flax for weaving, he digs in the garden.

Over the course of the character's history he changed and aged.