The expectation of obtaining these sinecures drew young men towards the church in considerable numbers, and the class of abbés so formed — abbés de cour they were sometimes called, and sometimes ( ironically ) abbés de sainte espérance, ( abbés of holy hope ; or the pun, of St. Hope )— came to hold a recognized position.

The withdrawal from the FA Cup, however, drew considerable criticism as this weakened the tournament's prestige and Alex Ferguson has since admitted his regrets in how they handled the situation.

: From time to time a strange vehicle drew near to the place where they stood — such a vehicle as the lady at the window, in spite of a considerable acquaintance with human inventions, had never seen before: a huge, low, omnibus, painted in brilliant colours, and decorated apparently with jingling bells, attached to a species of groove in the pavement, through which it was dragged, with a great deal of rumbling, bouncing, and scratching, by a couple of remarkably small horses.

The ensuing trial drew considerable attention.

He drew considerable inspiration from Fourier's work on heat conduction in the theoretical explanation of his work.

" Another image which drew considerable attention was the artwork created for the " Police Story " single, showing a police officer being held with a gun in his mouth with the speech blurb " Make me come, faggot!

The channel drew considerable media attention thanks to its promotion by famous comedian Bill Cosby, who was part-owner of that station when it started.

In the war that followed, Philip, who drew his principal support from south Germany, met with considerable success.

The concert drew considerable media coverage, with Kay's fluent German stunning those who did not know beforehand about his growing up in Germany.

It was an artesian well and drew water from a considerable distance below the water table.

He drew up two memorials representing that the landing of a considerable French force in Ireland would be followed by a general rising of the people, and giving a detailed account of the condition of the country.

While very small in scale compared to such shows as RAF Fairford or Farnborough, the air show was a local attraction and drew a considerable crowd.

However, in the 1990s extensive new neighborhoods were built, constituting in effect a whole new town, which drew a considerable number of Israelis of other origins.

This drew considerable attention not only because of the substantial value of the fortune but because of the remarkable fact of a senile nonagenarian's affairs being taken over by someone actually slightly older than he.

In 2002, Alcor drew considerable attention when baseball star Ted Williams was placed in cryonic suspension ; although Alcor maintains privacy of its patients if they wish and did not disclose that Williams was at the Scottsdale facility, the situation came to light in court documents that grew out of an extended family dispute over Williams ' wishes in regard to his remains.

Her interpretation of Plato's Symposium in particular drew considerable attention.

The incident drew considerable media reaction after Ripa complained at length about the incident on her show the following Monday.

Vegan Reich was for many in the hardcore scene their first exposure to ideas about militant animal liberation, and the controversy they aroused drew considerable attention to their positions.

Rudolph J. Rummel was another early researcher and drew considerable lay attention to the subject in his later works.

In the Adam Keller Court Martial which drew considerable public attention in April – May 1988, Reserve Corporal Adam Keller was charged with " insubordination " and " spreading of propaganda harmful to military discipline " in that while on active military duty he had written on 117 tanks and other military vehicles graffiti with the text: " Soldiers of the IDF, refuse to be occupiers and oppressors, refuse to serve in the occupied territories!

A final rebellion in 1400 led by Owain Glyndŵr, a member of the rival royal house of Powys, also drew considerable support from within Gwynedd.

Merlin de Douai recommended the readmission of the survivors of the Girondin party to the Convention, and drew up a law limiting the right of insurrection ; he had also a considerable share in the foreign policy of the French Republic.

The constables drew pistols and truncheons before going on patrol and considerable efforts were made to use them only in Protestant areas.

However, the extension still drew considerable sport spectator traffic because it is within walking distance of the FedEx Field football stadium.

The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.

At the end of the war, a substantial amount of Nazi plunder was found stored in Austria, where Hitler had hoped to retreat as the war drew to a close.

Over its run, Beavis and Butt-Head drew a notable amount of both positive and negative reactions from the public with its combination of lewd humor and implied criticism of society.

The government spent a significant amount of money on the war effort which, in turn, drew down its supply of coin.

A comment he made in a 2000 column, calling members of the National Rifle Association " morons " drew a record amount of mail for the column and a few death threats.

Their drive to insist on " friendly governments " as the war drew to a close did not happen in an ideological vacuum: the Soviets did indeed impose these pro-Soviet regimes in Central Europe by what effectively wound up being unilateral decree – but the role of the partisans on all fronts of the war, as well as the estimated 20, 000, 000 Soviet soldiers who died to defeat fascism, cannot be dismissed, as it lent a certain amount of the appearance of ' licence ' on the part of the Soviet administration to control Central Europe that they would not otherwise have had.

Rubinstein drew a tremendous amount of criticism from the Russian nationalist music group known as The Five.

At the California Constitutional Convention of 1878-79, the state legislature drew up a new constitution that denied railroads " the right to deduct the amount of their debts mortgages from the taxable value of their property, a right which was given to individuals.

Although G-funk was birthed in Los Angeles, the popular sub-genre drew a large amount of influence from the earlier Bay Area-based sound known as Mobb music of the mid to late 80s pioneered by legendary Oakland rappers like Too Short.

It was originally designed to enable an engine to operate through great ranges of speed and throttle without a change in quality of the mixture to compensate for a problem with earlier carburetors where the speed of the engine was limited by the amount of gasoline as the engine drew differing amounts of air.

Rose was a conscientious politician, although he and his two sons drew a large amount of money from sinecures, a fact referred to by William Cobbett in his A New Year ’ s Gift to old George Rose.

The proposal for the grade crossing of New Jersey Transit's Atlantic City Line initially drew criticism from both the Delaware Valley Association of Rail Passengers and the Federal Railroad Administration because of the high amount of road and railroad traffic that would pass through the crossing.

This event, which drew over 10, 000 fans the previous three years, drew less than that amount for the 1987 event, which featured Kevin Von Erich defending the World Class title against Nord The Barbarian, who in actuality was a protégé of Bruiser Brody's.

# Diefenbach and West ( 2007 ) drew upon the third-person effect in their analysis of the relationship between amount of television viewing and attitudes toward mental health.

Although school board architecture drew a considerable amount of criticism at the time, the schools were often sturdy and practical structures, and many schools constructed during this period are still in use.

While the game system drew a picture on the screen, one of the players would have a limited amount ( 60 seconds for the main game, and 90 for the speed round ) of time to type in the word or phrase represented by the image.

Over the course of his professional life, Harris drew both a loyal following and a considerable amount of criticism.

This song drew a fair amount of attention to the band, and they eventually signed a recording deal with EMI.

He suggested that the circle could be nothing more than a sink for the sewage from the septic tank, an idea that understandably drew a certain amount of interest.

In the late 1940s, he drew for EC Comics, including War Against Crime, before working both as an advertising artist and producing a large amount of work for both the American Comics Group and DC Comics titles during the early to mid-1950s.

Foakes was in financial difficulty and, with the help of his solicitor, drew up an agreement for Beer to waive any interest on the amount owed.

This sinecure was a small amount in comparison to his private business, which by 1609 saw him with loans to Queen Anne of £ 18, 000, from which he drew a sizable interest.

It is often described as a rival to parliamentary nationalism which for most of the period drew the predominant amount of support from Irish nationalists.