In December 1414, the English parliament was persuaded to grant Henry a " double subsidy ", a tax at twice the traditional rate, to recover his inheritance from the French.

All the racers are persuaded to give the money to charity, Nick forcing Sinclair and his fellow gamblers to pay double the amount raised ( which is shown increasing at an alarming rate on the display board ).

After Flynn and Green performed Unchained Melody on the programme, ITV was inundated by people looking to buy the song, and the pair were persuaded by record producer Simon Cowell to record it and release it as a single, a double A-side with White Cliffs of Dover.

" Subsequently ITV was inundated by people looking to buy the song, and the pair were persuaded by Simon Cowell to release it as a single-a double A-side with White Cliffs of Dover.

Ruth Snyder first persuaded her husband to purchase insurance, but with the assistance of an insurance agent ( who was subsequently fired and sent to prison for forgery ) " signed " a $ 48, 000 life insurance policy that paid extra (" double indemnity ") if an unexpected act of violence killed the victim.

In 1958 Kubala persuaded two fellow Hungarian refugees, Sándor Kocsis and Zoltán Czibor to join him at FC Barcelona and together with a young Luis Suárez and Evaristo, they formed the nucleus of the team that won a La Liga / Copa del Generalísimo double in 1959 and a La Liga / Fairs Cup double in 1960.

His experience as a legislator proved crucial as he persuaded his former colleagues to almost double Congress's appropriations for the Bank.

* Chief-The Chief of the Jivaro village is friendly towards the Hunts, and is eventually persuaded to sell them the mummified head of a warrior, for which John Hunt pays double the requested price.

We therefore inhabitants of the Province of Maryland, firmly persuaded that it is necessary and justifiable to repel force by force, do approve of the opposition by Arms to the British troops, employed to enforce obedience to the late acts and statutes of the British parliament, for raising a revenue in America, and altering and changing the charter and constitution of the Massachusetts Bay, and for destroying the essential securities for the lives, liberties and properties of the subjects in the united colonies.

McCarthy, who had no evidence of specific acts of espionage and only weak evidence that Lattimore was a concealed Communist, in April 1950 persuaded Louis F. Budenz, the now-anticommunist former editor of the Communist Party organ Daily Worker, to testify.

Nervo and Knox had a technique of entering other acts and Black was persuaded to overcome the difficulty by letting this happen.

On 30 June 1691 he met the Jacobite chiefs ; he persuaded them to refrain from acts of hostility till October, gaining their consent by threats and promises rather than by the distribution of the money, which, it was believed, he retained himself.

His friend Vicki Wickham, who booked all the acts for the TV show Ready Steady Go !, persuaded him to move into music management.

This explains how the local community can be persuaded to re-define acts of suicide and murder as acts of martyrdom on behalf of the community ( 81-83 ).

In view of the success of her novels, particularly Jane Eyre, Charlotte was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes.

In October 1990, Major and Douglas Hurd, Major's successor as Foreign Secretary, finally persuaded Thatcher to allow Britain to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism, a move which she had resisted for some years, and which had been a cause of her quarrels with Howe and Lawson.

This move persuaded the three Slavic presidents to include Kazakhstan among the signatories to a recast document of dissolution.

I felt rebuked beneath his eye .</ poem ></ small > In 1809, Scott persuaded James Ballantyne and his brother to move to Edinburgh and to establish their printing press there.

In 1823, Musgrove Evans had located the land and persuaded General Joseph W. Brown and the others to move to the site.

Eventually, Northumbria was persuaded to move to the Roman practice and the Celtic Bishop Colman of Lindisfarne returned to Iona.

Tipped off to the factory closure, Schindler persuaded the SS officials to allow him to move his 1, 200 Jewish workers to Brünnlitz ( Czech: Brněnec ), in the German-speaking Sudetenland, thus sparing them from certain death in the gas chambers.

Xian was persuaded by Cao Cao ( 155 – 220 CE ), then Governor of Yan Province in modern western Shandong and eastern Henan, to move the capital to Xuchang in 196 CE.

He became an apprentice TV repairman until an electric shock persuaded him to move on to a series of other jobs.

Eventually both Manchester United and Newcastle United agreed fees with Blackburn Rovers and Shearer was all set to move to Manchester United but then at the last second Kevin Keegan requested one last audience with Shearer and persuaded him that his future lay at St. James Park.

In 1858, after years of elusive battle, chief Billy Bowlegs and his warriors were persuaded to surrender and move west, and the fort was abandoned.

The RAAF had more recruits than it could equip and train and Bradman spent four months in Adelaide before the Governor-General of Australia, Lord Gowrie, persuaded Bradman to transfer to the army, a move that was criticised as a safer option for him.

He was eventually persuaded, in the interests of security, to move to 10 Downing Street.

After only two years on the Rio Verde Reservation, however, local officials grew concerned about the Yavapais ' continued hostility, success, and self-sufficiency, so they persuaded the federal government to close their reservation and move all the Yavapai to the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation.

The citrus industry was the principal business in Leesburg for many years, until devastating freezes in December 1983 and February 1985 persuaded growers to move their groves further down the Florida peninsula.

Cornelius persuaded the builders of the Southern Railway ( US ) to move the planned route for their line through the area from its original surveyed path north of the present day State Highway 64 to its present path through the town of Crandall.

In the mid 20's he purchased the Maude Hitchcock farm on the east side of the road and persuaded his wife's brother-in-law, Ernest Vogt and family to move over from the farm on Niles Road east of Eagle to operate a dairy farm and provide the Hotel with dairy products.

In doing this, he persuaded the Shawnee tribe to move near the Potomac and Susquehanna Rivers.

He initially planned to take the offensive against the French, in a move he hoped would lead to the capture of Paris, but was persuaded by his advisors that this was impossible given the vast numerical superiority of the enemy.

In the late 18th century, he had been persuaded to move here from Dalston in Cumbria to supply tools for the coalfields.

The orchestra persuaded Sir Hamilton Harty, the popular conductor of the Hallé Orchestra, to move from Manchester to become the LSO's principal conductor.

However, the need to get aircraft based on Leyte to stop the Japanese from reinforcing the island was so pressing that Lieutenant General George Kenney was persuaded to accept the site, and Lieutenant General Walter Krueger agreed to move his headquarters.

It was Alexis Korner who persuaded Mayall to opt for a full time musical career and move to London.

Margaret of Savoy persuaded him to move to Turin ; but after a few months ( 1575 ) he returned to his old place at Bourges.

The events persuaded him to move to the new Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

With difficulty, Hudson persuaded him to rejoin the ship, and they sailed from Iceland.

Selkirk persuaded eighty men and four officers to go to Red River where they were to serve as a military force to protect his settlers from the hostile Northwest Company which resented the intrusion of farmers into the fur traders' empire.

Meade's failure to capture Lee's army as it retreated from Gettysburg, and the continued passivity of the Army of the Potomac, persuaded Lincoln that a change in command was needed.

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.

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.

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.

The following season saw UEFA create the European Champions ' Cup, but after objections from The Football League and the FA Chelsea were persuaded to withdraw from the competition before it started.

Jean le Rond d ' Alembert was persuaded to become Diderot's colleague ; the requisite permission was procured from the government.

* In the mid-1930s, Runyon persuaded promoter Leo Seltzer to formally change his Roller Derby spectacle from a marathon roller-skating race into a full-contact team sport, an innovation that was eventually revived in a DIY spirit seven decades later.

While on location in Ireland for The Young Racers in 1963, Corman, ever alert for an opportunity to produce a decent movie on a shoestring budget, persuaded Coppola to make a low-budget horror movie with funds left over from that movie.

In AD 4, persuaded by Livia, his wife, Augustus decided in favour of Tiberius, his stepson from Livia's first marriage to Tiberius Nero.

Ricordi persuaded him to accept Ruggero Leoncavallo as his librettist, but Puccini soon asked Ricordi to remove him from the project.

Later, Brian Blume persuaded Gygax to allow his brother, Kevin Blume, to purchase the shares from Melvin.

When Silas Marner is persuaded that his alienation from the church means also his alienation from society, the author's life is again mirrored with her refusal to attend church.

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.

A long-standing supporter of the Home Rule movement, Johnston persuaded Churchill of the need to counter the nationalist threat north of the border and created a Scottish Council of State and a Council of Industry as institutions to devolve some power away from Whitehall.

Weizsäcker recorded in his diary throughout the spring and summer of 1939 repeated statements from Hitler that any German-Polish war would be only a localized conflict and provided that the Soviet Union could be persuaded to stay neutral, there was no danger of a general war.

The powerful Anjou nobleman William de Roches was persuaded to switch sides from Arthur to John ; suddenly the balance seemed to be tipping away from Philip and Arthur in favour of John.

Brabham had identified a supply of suitable engine blocks obtained from Oldsmobile's aluminium alloy 215 engine and persuaded the company that an engine could be designed around the block, largely using existing components.

Advocates of this line hoped that the prince could be persuaded to distance himself from the right wing and to adopt leftist policies.

However, persuaded by popular demand, letters from children, and the failure of his new books, he returned to the series each time.

After Moses had persuaded the Lord not to destroy the people of Israel, he went down from the mountain and was met by Joshua.