There were rumors that the Ministry of the Interior favored an arbitrary, `` non-political '' process, which were indirectly affirmed when the King personally intervened in the planned meetings.

Brubeck personally found this accolade embarrassing since he considered Duke Ellington more deserving of it and was convinced that himself being Caucasian as opposed to Ellington being African American was a factor for why he was favored.

Last May, a gentleman residing in Edinburgh, personally unknown to me, who had long resided in India, favored me with a letter expressing his approbation of the views which I had published on the nature and causes of hypnotic and mesmeric phenomena.

He personally had favored a licensing law, which he viewed as a compromise on the temperance issue, but signed the Baxter Bill knowing that the assembly would only override his veto, and he wished to be seen as doing the will of the people.

Stevenson told the treasury officials not to pay attention to any of his written endorsements ; if he really favored someone he would tell them personally.

That of the Americans favored longer compound words, although the name Overlord was personally chosen by Winston Churchill himself.

Prior to this date, Constantius II ( 337-361 ) and Valens ( 364-378 ) had personally favored Arian or Semi-Arian forms of Christianity, but Valens ' successor Theodosius I supported the Trinitarian doctrine as expounded in the Nicene Creed from the 1st Council of Nicea.

The monastery was favored by Ivan the Terrible, who personally supervised the construction of towered walls and bell-tower around an even more ancient cathedral.

Frederick Henry appears to have favored it personally, but he was hampered by the political divisions in the province of Holland where radical Counter-Remonstrants and moderates were unable to agree.

The monastery was favored by Ivan the Terrible who personally supervised the construction of towered walls and bell-tower around an even more ancient cathedral.

He had personally opposed the use of violence against both companies and laborers in labor disputes, and had favored the elevation of African Americans from an inferior social position to one of equality.

However, although Sheldon personally favored a state law guaranteeing bank deposits similar to the one in Oklahoma territory, the Republican convention overwhelmingly voted it down.

Painter personally favored Indian citizenship and the abolition of Indian reservations.

Mayor Robert Wagner, Jr. had to personally wire all National League owners and assure them that the city would build a park.

Many of Pitt's attacks on the government were directed personally at Sir Robert Walpole who had now been Prime Minister for twenty years.

James Douglas, war leader under Robert I of Scotland, made a bid to capture Isabella personally in 1319, almost capturing her at York – Isabella only just escaped.

In January 1557 Robert and Amy Dudley were allowed to repossess some of their former lands, and in March of the same year Dudley was at Calais where he was chosen to deliver personally to Queen Mary the happy news of her husband's return to England.

Ambrose and Robert Dudley were very close, in matters of business and personally.

Barrell ’ s final assessment of Robert III was of a man crippled in body and incapable or averse to personally confronting Albany but sought to do so through promoting the status of his sons, and even then he failed.

He planted the surrounding trees and he personally built, on the eminence to the north, his own funeral pyre and monuments dedicated to Moses, General John C. Frémont, and the poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Heine on his sickbed, 1851It was probably a similar fatalism that led Meyerbeer never to enter public controversy with those who slighted him, either professionally or personally, although he occasionally displayed his grudges in his Diaries ; for example, on hearing Robert Schumann conduct in 1850: ' I saw for the first time the man who, as a critic, has persecuted me for twelve years with a deadly enmity.

Most Democrats from the Southern states opposed the bill and led an unsuccessful 83-day filibuster, including Senators Albert Gore, Sr. ( D-TN ), J. William Fulbright ( D-AR ), and Robert Byrd ( D-WV ), who personally filibustered for 14 hours straight.

Another design, a gigantic pyramidal earthwork entitled Monument to the American Plow, was similarly rejected, and his " sculptural landscape " of a playground, Play Mountain, was personally rejected by Parks Commissioner Robert Moses.

When he was released, Mosby walked to army headquarters outside Richmond and personally related his findings to Robert E. Lee.

CBS historian Robert Metz, in CBS: Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye, quoted Godfrey as having once told cast and staffers, " Remember that many of you are here over the bodies I have personally slain.

On April 25, 1817, acting Secretary of State Robert Rush offered Poinsett the position of special commissioner to South America stating, “ No one has better qualifications for this trust than yourself .” Rush also added that he would be personally gratified by Poinsett ’ s acceptance.

In his book God Is My Co-Pilot, Colonel Robert Lee Scott, Jr., USAAF, commander of the 23d Fighter Group, China Air Task Force, described in detail an aerial raid he led on the Japanese shipping anchored in Hong Kong harbour, conducted 25 October 1942, and the lone attack he personally made in his Curtiss P-40K Warhawk ( nicknamed Old Exterminator ) upon the famous Peninsula Hotel:

Nye's father was a staunch supporter of Progressive Robert M. La Follette, and Nye personally remembered his father's taking him to hear Senator La Follette speak and then meet the Senator afterwards.

He served as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years ( 1945-1970 ), succeeding J. Robert Oppenheimer, who personally chose Bradbury for the position of director after working closely with him on the Manhattan Project.

Robert Delaunay, Albert Gleizes, and Gino Severini, all knew Henry personally.

He also published a novel on Jackson, Surry of Eagle's Nest ( 1866 ) as well as a biography of Robert E. Lee, officers that he had personally known.

Robert Walpole, sometimes called " the first Prime Minister ," had a personally antagonistic relationship with some of the dramatists ( such as John Gay ), and he responded to literary attacks with official power.

Also notable was that Wood did not do McPherson's autopsy personally but assigned it to Robert Davis, an employee who later was asked to resign and was a witness for the defendant ( Scientology ).

Thayer personally located and recommended USMA graduate Lieutenant Robert Fletcher to Dartmouth president Asa Dodge Smith.

Dembski responded with another press release: " Baylor University President Robert Sloan has removed me as director of the Michael Polanyi Center despite his having personally solicited me to come to Baylor and establish the Center as a means of furthering work on intelligent design.

Robert E. Lee realized the severity of the loss of Fort Harrison and personally brought 10, 000 reinforcements under Maj. Gen. Charles Field north from Petersburg.

The final pattern of Nazi Party ranks was designed in 1938 by Robert Ley, who personally oversaw the development of Nazi Party insignia through his position as head of the German Labour Front, and put into effect in mid 1939.

Early in the morning of April 12, negotiations with Anderson had failed and aides of Beauregard, sent to deal personally with Anderson, ordered the first shots of the American Civil War to be fired from nearby Fort Johnson.

Brad Wall, in the 2004 federal election, personally endorsed Conservative candidate David L. Anderson, Member of Parliament for Cypress Hills — Grasslands.

Art Rooney himself personally wrote to Anderson during his recuperation from the injury, wishing him a fast recovery and also assuring him that there was no maliciousness in the hit.

The New Democrats were defeated in the 1977 election, and Toupin personally lost his riding to Tory Bob Anderson by just under 2, 000 votes.