The nobility of Navarre aligned behind Peter of Atarés, the grandson of Alfonso's illegitimate uncle, while the Aragonese nobility rallied around the abbot-bishop Ramiro.

The elder Andronikos disowned his grandson, whereupon Andronikos III fled the capital and rallied his supporters around him in Thrace.

Through the influence of Bahiyyih Khanum, the eldest daughter of Bahá ' u ' lláh, everyone in the household initially rallied around Shoghi Effendi after the death of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

Georg Luck, repeats part of Murray's theory, stating that the Horned God may have appeared in late antiquity, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

Working alongside military commander Andrei Zhdanov as German advances threatened to cut off Leningrad he displayed considerable personal bravery, prancing around in defiance of heavy shelling at Ivanovskoye ; at one point he rallied retreating troops and personally led a counter-attack against German tanks armed only with a pistol.

" All the sons of Levi rallied around Moses, who ordered them to go from gate to gate slaying the idolators.

People recognized that Reverend Moon was abused for his religious beliefs and they rallied around.

Immediately, street protests and rallies filled cities across the country as Serbs rallied around Vojislav Koštunica, the recently formed Democratic Opposition of Serbia ( DOS, a broad coalition of anti-Milošević parties ) candidate for FRY president.

* March 23 – The Pakistan Resolution is rallied around by the All-India Muslim League ; Muslims from every corner of India meet up around Iqbal Park, Lahore ( now in modern-day Pakistan ).

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Fans around the world rallied in her support as she defeated cancer several times.

For months, Daley rallied the city and its corporate community around a pitch to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, arguing that hosting was a way to ignite the economy.

Since the 14th century the Deccan ( Southern Peninsular region of India ) was divided into two entities: on the one side stood the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate and on the other stood the Hindu kings rallied around the Vijayanagara Empire.

The victory-relatively small, as only a few Berber soldiers were involved — resulted in great prestige for Pelayo and provoked a massive insurrection by other nobles in Galicia and Asturias who immediately rallied around Pelayo, electing him King or military Dux.

Turks in Germany, excluded because of German policies regarding citizenship, rallied around ethnic lines as a political strategy.

Moderates rallied around the Compromise as the final solution to the sectional issues involving slavery and the territories.

The fleeing French troops turned around and rallied to her.

Next month, Churchill resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer over military spending, and when the Conservative mainstream rallied around Salisbury, Churchill's career was effectively ended, along with Chamberlain's hope of creating a powerful cross-party union of Radicals.

The royal preacher, Jakob Fabricius, rallied a few Swedish officers around him and started to sing a psalm.

During the late 1960s and 1970s, the Treaty of Waitangi became the focus of a strong Māori protest movement which rallied around calls for the government to " honour the treaty " and to " redress treaty grievances.

After delivering his Sunday morning sermon he rallied the members of the congregation around the cause of building a proper house of worship.

Peter had many qualities of those later monarchs educated in the centralization style, building a strong Royal administrative force ahead of his times, what was his ultimate failure, and to count or check all the feudal powers that rallied around to an alternative possibility, however illegitimate and opposite to the principles of aristocracy they represented themselves.

The initial disorder of the Allied column was soon checked as each battalion rallied around its colours ; the compact formation was restored, and the British and Hanoverians accomplished their retreat in good order.

At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

This attempt failed after Washington's supporters rallied behind him.

The masses, some of the nobility, and his former protector, John of Gaunt, rallied to him.

But Matthias rallied support from the disaffected Hungarians and forced Rudolf to give up the crowns of Hungary, Austria, and Moravia to him.

Bruce then rallied the Scottish prelates and nobles behind him and had himself crowned King of Scots at Scone less than five weeks after the killing in Dumfries.

Unwilling to accept the loss of his family, Bonanno rallied several members of his family behind him.

The fight was televised by HBO, and although Rosario shook Camacho badly in the fifth round and rallied down the stretch, Camacho swept the middle rounds and the judges thought that had been enough for him to retain the title by a split decision.

One hundred men from Racine, and ultimately 5, 000 Wisconsinites, rallied and broke into the jail to free him.

Six months later, Canning published a full account of his actions in the affair, and many who had initially rallied to him became convinced Castlereagh had been betrayed by his cabinet colleague.

Together with Emil Cioran and other Romanian expatriates, Eliade rallied with the former diplomat Alexandru Busuioceanu, helping him publicize anti-communist opinion to the Western European public.

For a while the king remained in the hands of the conspirators, who purposed murdering or just deposing him, but the people and the army rallied round him ; he recovered power, crushed the Sicilian rebels, had Bonello blinded, and in a short campaign reduced the rest of the Regno, avenging the rebel burning of Butera.

Even Malory, who depicts Mordred as a villain, notes that the people of England rallied to him because, " with Arthur was none other life but war and strife, and with Sir Mordred was great joy and bliss ".

After Takeshita was sidelined by the Recruit scandal, the Tanaka faction rallied behind Ryutaro Hashimoto, who led the Tanaka faction ( now called the Hashimoto faction ) until scandal forced him to resign his leadership position in 2004.

The Midlands were generally Parliamentarian in sympathy, and few people rallied to the king there, so having again secured the arms and equipment of the local trained bands, Charles moved to Chester and subsequently to Shrewsbury, where large numbers of recruits from Wales and the Welsh border were expected to join him.

Friends and relatives rallied to support him to recuperate at the sea-side resort of Yarmouth where he painted Yarmouth Beach and Jetty.

After Mao had rallied the rest of the Party against him, Peng's options were limited to stubbornly standing his ground, engaging in a humiliating self-criticism, or suicide.

Many of the men in the counties around ( Somerset, Wiltshire, and Hampshire ) who had not already fled rallied to him there.

The liabilities of the paper amounted to fully £ 50, 000 and, though his friends rallied round him and tried to ease the situation by advancing the sum required to pay off a mortgage of £ 11, 000 in 1858, the position became hopeless.

Parnell worked untiringly between Ireland and Britain making speeches for support which he actually got from the ( IRB ) Fenians who rallied to him.

When Venizelos was forced to flee Athens, Papandreou accompanied him to Crete, and then went to Lesbos, where he mobilised anti-monarchist supporters in the islands and rallied support for Venizelos's insurgent pro-British government in Thessaloniki.

He rallied around him the Armenians in the eastern parts of Cilicia and after a persistent and relentless pursuit of the Greeks, he successfully ousted the Byzantine garrisons from Pardzerpert ( now Andırın in Turkey ), Vahka, Sis ( today Kozan in Turkey ), Anazarbus, Adana, Mamistra and eventually Tarsus.