[permalink] [id link]
He persuaded Charles to despatch him to Italy to view the Medici princesses, but the royal marriage and treaty with Portugal were settled in his absence.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
persuaded and Charles
In 893, Arnulf switched his support from Odo to Charles the Simple after being persuaded by Fulk ( Archbishop of Reims ) that it was in his best interests.
Scherer persuaded retired businessman and trustee Charles W. Gates to donate $ 25, 000 in seed money to build Gates Laboratory, the first science building on campus.
) Charles XII persuaded the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III to declare war on Russia, which resulted in the Ottoman victory at the Pruth River Campaign of 1710 – 1711.
He undertook diplomatic missions to Bulgaria ( 866 ) and France ( 869 and 872 ), and he persuaded Charles the Bald, King of France, to be crowned as emperor by the Pope in 875.
A subsequent investigation led by the District Attorney of New York resulted in the arrests of Patrick and of Rice's butler and valet Charles F. Jones, who had been persuaded to administer chloroform to Rice while he slept.
A subsequent investigation led by the District Attorney of New York resulted in the arrests of Patrick and of Rice's butler and valet Charles F. Jones, who had been persuaded to administer chloroform to Rice while he slept.
Manfred's own usurpation from Conradin told upon King Louis ' scruples ; this time, he was persuaded to admit the offer, and Charles ratified a treaty with the Pope in July 1263.
Nevertheless, he persuaded Innocent of his sincerity in working towards it, and Charles was again forbidden to attack Constantinople.
The establishment of a Royal Observatory was proposed in 1674 by Sir Jonas Moore who, in his role as Surveyor General at the Ordnance Office, persuaded King Charles II that the Observatory might be built with Flamsteed employed in it.
The Yorkist king persuaded his host, Charles the Bold, to help him regain the English throne.
The complications involved in a female Habsburg ruler had been long foreseen, and Charles VI had persuaded most of the states of Germany to agree to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713.
In 1978, Topeka attorneys Richard Jones, Joseph Johnson and Charles Scott Jr. ( son of the original Brown team member ), with assistance from the American Civil Liberties Union, persuaded Linda Brown Smith — who now had her own children in Topeka schools — to be a plaintiff in reopening Brown.
Charles Stanley, pastor of Atlanta's megachurch First Baptist and a television evangelist, has written that the doctrine of eternal security of the believer persuaded him years ago to leave his familial Pentecostalism and become a Southern Baptist.
Riis was influenced by his father, whose school Riis delighted in disrupting, and who persuaded him to read ( and improve his English via ) Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round and the novels of James Fenimore Cooper.
Cult leader Charles Manson persuaded members of his " family " that the album was an apocalyptic message predicting a prolonged race war and justified the murder of wealthy people.
The lower estates protested the imposition of fresh burdens, but were persuaded by Charles.
In 1905, its community leaders persuaded former native and steel tycoon Charles Schwab to build a large paper mill.
Selwyn also said that " Charles, I am persuaded, would have no consideration on earth but for what was useful to his own ends.
Ferdinand II had named Ferdinand as his heir-apparent in his will before being persuaded to revoke this bequest and rename Joanna and Charles I as his heirs-presumptive instead.
Czernin persuaded Charles to send a ' Word of Honour ' to Austria's allies saying that Sixtus had not been authorised to show the letter to the French Government, that Belgium had not been mentioned, and Clemenceau had lied about the mentioning of the Alsace.
This persuaded Archduke Charles that he had left III Korps in an exposed position and ordered it to hasten their retreat and get in line with VI Korps.
Napiers also inspired Charles J. Glidden to create the Glidden Tours in upstate New York, which in turn persuaded Napier to build a factory in Boston.
The Scottish Covenants persuaded the exiled Charles II of England to agree to the terms of the Solemn League and Covenant in the Treaty of Breda ( 1650 ).
The President of the Harvard Dramatic Society, Charles Leatherbee, along with the President of Princeton's Theatre Intime, Bretaigne Windust, who together had established the University Players on Cape Cod the summer before, persuaded Sullavan to join them for their second summer season.
He recounts how he was approached by Charles Rivington and had to be persuaded that this was the correct course.
persuaded and him
But Winston had persuaded him.
With difficulty, Hudson persuaded him to rejoin the ship, and they sailed from Iceland.
Alcott persuaded them to come to the United States with him ; Lane and his son moved into the Alcott house and helped with family chores.
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.
In Milan, however, he impressed his captor with his cultured demeanor and persuaded him to let him go by making it plain that it was not in Milan's interest to prevent the victory of the Aragonese party in Naples.
It was probably his wife who persuaded him to conspire against his brother again, but when King Emeric, who had realised that Andrew's troops outnumbered his armies, went unarmed, wearing only the crown and the sceptre, to Andrew's camp near Varasd, Andrew immediately surrendered.
Oliver Roy writes that in the following period Massoud's " personal prestige and the efficiency of his military organisation persuaded many local commanders to come and learn from him.
He was persuaded to stay on by Stafford Cripps, a wealthy socialist who agreed to pay him an additional salary.
Rockies first baseman Andrés Galarraga won the batting title, hitting. 370 for the season after Manager Don Baylor persuaded Galarraga to change from a standard batting stance into an open one in which he squarely faced the pitcher, allowing him to see incoming pitches properly.
A " Draft Eisenhower " movement in the Republican Party persuaded him to declare his candidacy in the 1952 presidential election to counter the candidacy of non-interventionist Senator Robert Taft.
In 1799 fellow-student Henry Brougham persuaded him to study the diffraction of light.
Ricordi persuaded him to accept Ruggero Leoncavallo as his librettist, but Puccini soon asked Ricordi to remove him from the project.
He eventually persuaded his father to let him study law at the Studium in the city.
However, Merelli persuaded him to write Nabucco and its opening performance in March 1842 made Verdi famous.
In 1883 Wells persuaded his parents to release him from the apprenticeship, taking an opportunity offered by Midhurst Grammar School again to become a pupil-teacher ; his proficiency in Latin and science during his previous, short stay had been remembered.
Greenberg immediately became the favorite to become the new team's first owner and persuaded Veeck to join him as his partner.
of A & R, Dr. George Butler, persuaded him to sign with that label.
Davy's boyhood was spent partly with his parents and partly with Tonkin, who placed him at a preparatory school kept by a Mr. Bushell, who was so much struck with the boy's progress that he persuaded Davy's father to send him to a better school.
He did not want the position, preferring to maintain his quiet life of reading in Massachusetts, and probably would have rejected it if his father had not persuaded him to take it.
Susan Polgár met Bobby with her family and persuaded him to come out of hiding " in a cramped hotel room in a small Yugoslavian village ".
Cooper was impressed with Locke and persuaded him to become part of his retinue.
As a result, Robinson joined a neighborhood gang, but his friend Carl Anderson persuaded him to abandon it.
0.208 seconds.