He had enjoyed a promising career for several years before World War I in the House of Commons, but then he succeeded to his father's peerage as the 2nd Viscount Astor.

It closed the branch in Manila, which had enjoyed a brief boom after WWII but now was no longer promising.

The club's Academy, which is hailed as the best in the country, is responsible for youth development at the club and has enjoyed a fair amount of success in producing promising young players.

During the greater part of Jefferson's career he enjoyed the close collaboration of a fellow Virginian, James Madison, eight years his junior.

He has also enjoyed a successful career as an entertainer ( his records have sold in the millions ) and is a sharp businessman.

After starting his writing career by writing for " true confession " style pulp magazines like True Story, van Vogt decided to switch to writing something he enjoyed, science fiction.

Although the team enjoyed ultimate success, 1955 was the worst year of Robinson's individual career.

Richardson enjoyed a successful and extensive theatre career, making her stage debut in Moving at the Queen's Theatre in 1981.

Sinatra enjoyed a parallel recording career cutting duets with the husky-voiced, country-and-western-inspired Hazlewood, starting with " Summer Wine " ( originally the B-side of " Sugar Town ").

While Valentinian had enjoyed a successful military career prior to his appointment as emperor, Valens apparently had not.

Aniston has also enjoyed a successful Hollywood film career.

Hindenburg enjoyed a long career in the Prussian Army, retiring in 1911.

In addition to a career in film, he has also enjoyed a successful career on stage, winning Tony Awards for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?

Byrd enjoyed a high reputation among English musicians, especially in the earlier stages of his career.

He enjoyed a successful post-war career working for the U. S. Government as a diplomat, civil servant, and administrator.

Stone's career enjoyed a dramatic turn when he was awarded the commissions for the United States Embassy in New Delhi, India and the United States Pavilion for the 1958 International Exposition in Brussels, Belgium.

The band has enjoyed commercial success with 23 UK Top 40 hits spanning their career and 14 million albums sold by 2000.

Gullit has since often stated in interviews that it was in London he enjoyed his career the most and felt happiest.

But the truth is that my career, far from being destroyed after the war, flourished with a vigor it had not previously enjoyed.

Milo of Croton ( Greek: Μίλων, Mílōn ; gen .: Μίλωνος, Mílōnos ) was a 6th century BC wrestler from the Magna Graecian city of Croton in southern Italy, who enjoyed a brilliant wrestling career and won many victories in the most important athletic festivals of ancient Greece.

Democedes was a native of Croton and enjoyed a successful career as a physician at Croton, Aegina, Athens, and Samos.

Throughout his life, Curtis enjoyed painting, and since the early 1980s, painted as a second career.

Gorky's first book Очерки и рассказы ( Essays and Stories ) in 1898 enjoyed a sensational success and his career as a writer began.

Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE ( 15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003 ) was an Academy Award-winning English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years.

Antin also enjoyed a successful career as a stunt performer in dozens of films.

A number of performers also enjoyed a renaissance by adopting country sounds, including: the Everly Brothers, whose Roots album ( 1968 ) is usually considered some of their finest work ; former teen idol Rick Nelson who became the frontman for the Stone Canyon Band ; John Fogerty, who left Creedence Clearwater Revival behind for the country sounds of The Blue Ridge Rangers ; Mike Nesmith, who had experimented with country sounds while with The Monkees, formed the First National Band ; and Neil Young who moved in and out of the genre throughout his career.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.

For her first three vegetable months she waved her crabbed claws, kicked weakly with her clubbed feet and enjoyed the usual routine of the infant.

The first tour took place as a commercial venture, made without official backing, but the six subsequent visits that took place before the 1910 South Africa tour, the first representative of the four Home Unions, enjoyed a growing degree of support from the authorities.

Visits that took place before the 1910 South Africa tour ( the first selected by a committee from the four Home Unions ) had enjoyed a growing degree of support from the authorities, although only one of these included representatives of all four nations.

These guns ( some of which were of the three barrelled kind first seen at Elixheim the previous year ) enjoyed good arcs of fire, able to fully cover the approaches of the plateau of Jandrenouille over which the Allied infantry would have to pass.

Conservative Judaism enjoyed rapid growth in the first half of the 20th century, becoming the largest American Jewish denomination.

The first evidence of decorated trees associated with Christmas Day are trees in guild halls decorated with sweets to be enjoyed by the apprentices and children.

At first the king agreed with these changes and enjoyed reasonable popularity with the people, but as anti-royalism increased along with threat of foreign invasion, the king, stripped of his power, decided to flee along with his family.

Israel's southern neighbor, the Kingdom of Judah, emerged in the 8th century and enjoyed a period of prosperity as a client-state of first Assyria and then Babylon before a revolt against the Neo-Babylonian Empire led to its destruction in 586 BCE.

After their first few encounters, she found that she enjoyed his company and spent the next few years getting to know him and preparing herself to be the Marchesa of Mantua.

Because of his popularity as a portrait painter, Reynolds enjoyed constant interaction with the wealthy and famous men and women of the day, and it was he who first brought together the famous figures of " The " Club.

In 2010, Grammer enjoyed his first Tony Award nomination for La Cage Aux Folles as Best Leading Actor in a Musical.

He built a fortified capital at Ngazargamu, to the west of Lake Chad ( in present-day Niger ), the first permanent home a Sayfawa mai had enjoyed in a century.

While commercially watered-down, his album enjoyed a status of being one of the first mainstream Spanglish CDs on the market.

The first is the midwifery was not a profession to which freeborn women of families that had enjoyed free status of several generations were attracted ; therefore it seems that most midwives were of servile origin.

" She was the first woman to successfully claim the throne of England, despite competing claims and determined opposition, and enjoyed popular support and sympathy during the earliest parts of her reign, especially from the Roman Catholic population.

Craig's orchestra was also the first to broadcast over local radio station WSM-AM and enjoyed phenomenal success with a 12-year show on the NBC Radio Network.

* The thirteenth law is the entire right, or else ... the first possession ( in the case of alternating use ), of a thing that can neither be divided nor enjoyed in common should be determined by lottery.

* The fourteenth law is that those things which cannot be enjoyed in common, nor divided, ought to be adjudged to the first possessor ; and in some cases to the first born, as acquired by lot.

The prosperity enjoyed during the first two centuries ( 1540 – 1740 ) while contributing to colonial growth ; the placing of extensive regional judicial authority ( Real Audiencia ) as part of its jurisdiction ; and the pivotal role it played at the height of the Spanish Empire-the first modern global empire-helped define a distinctive sense of autonomy and of regional or national identity within Panama well before the rest of the colonies.

The Doors ' first hit single " Light My Fire " ( 1967 ), running for over seven minutes, became one of the defining records of the genre, although their follow up album Strange Days only enjoyed moderate success.