Medea tried to have Theseus killed by encouraging Aegeus to ask him to capture the Marathonian Bull, but Theseus succeeded.

When Lady Eleanor went to ask him for the return of her property, it was said that Edward tried to persuade her to sleep with him, and when she refused, that he promised to marry her.

While shooting the cemetery scene, Hopper tried to convince Fonda to talk to the statue of the Madonna as though it were Fonda's mother ( who had committed suicide when he was 10 years old ) and ask her why she left him.

Audiences were encouraged to request songs and ask questions which, Kaplan stated, the band tried to answer " in a strategic manner so that the answers to the questions will lead to the next song.

MR. CHANNING ( Northamptonshire, E .) I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether 11 years ago, in reporting upon a serious collision on the Great Northern of Ireland Railway, between two portions of a train which had become separated, General Hutchinson pointed out to the Company that an automatic brake would have absolutely prevented the collision, by arresting the carriages the moment the separation occurred ; whether at that time the secretary of the company informed General Hutchinson that the simple vacuum brake, whose failure caused this accident, was being merely tried experimentally on the line, and that the company had not yet come to a decision as to what brake would be finally adopted ; and, whether, in spite of this recommendation, this simple vacuum brake, upon the failure of which General Hutchinson reported in 1878, has remained in use on the Great Northern of Ireland line ever since, and is the same brake that was in use in the recent disastrous collision near Armagh?

He tried to ask the Emperor whether he had a will for the Shōwa Restoration or not.

During the run on the banks of 1857, Peabody had to ask the Bank of England for a loan of £ 800, 000: although rivals tried to force the bank out of business, it managed to emerge with its credit intact.

For this very reason, Freud tried to focus on details during psychoanalysis and asked his patients about things they could even think trivial ( i. e. while a patient was describing an experience in their dream, Freud could ask him / her: " was there any sign upon the walls?

In his view, the judge has to ask the woman being tried for such accusation to defend herself.

Groener stated that when he tried to play the Mayor too dark or evil, Joss Whedon or other directors would ask him to tone it down, take it easy and make the part " real nice ".

George's dad has a 65th birthday party and George inadvertently invites the whole band plus the Telecom man when he tried to ask Christine to come.

In the absence of native-born military experts, the committee composed by Luis Moreira Cunha and several officers tried to contact the Portuguese military serving in Brazil to ask them to join the Brazilian Empire.

Judge Isaacs calls Jack to his bench to ask whether he wishes to be tried as Jack Sommersby even if it will certainly mean death by hanging.

He tried to ask the government ministers awkward questions supporting his case, but they were disallowed by the Lord Chief Justice.

He tried to ask his people for permission to interfere and save the Earth, but his message was intercepted by the Kymellians ' old enemies, the Zn ' rx, whom Whitey called " Snarks ", and they kidnapped Dr. Power and his wife in an attempt to gain the anti-matter formula.

Rocco tried to ask for 30 seconds to finish his report, but the umpire ejected him from the stadium, so Rocco had to toss it back to the studio immediately.

Draper later claimed that after Parlophone contacted him to ask whether he wanted to be involved in putting together the album sessions for release, he tried to reform the band to properly finish it but no one else was interested.

In the mid-1940s Niska tried to finance the building of a new boat by giving interviews about his life — he needed the money and knew he could afford to ask.

McCarthy tried to ask Welch another question about Fisher, and Welch cut him off:

People who think the pre-Thatcher years were a golden age really didn't live through them: just ask anyone who rode on the clapped-out railways or tried to make a telephone call when the Post Office ran the phones.

They were tried at Edmound Bonner's house where the group took the opportunity to ask the crowd attending to convert to Protestantism.

" He said when he got to be dating age, " I tried to change it in school, call myself Richard, but kids would call for me and ask for Richard, and my parents would burst out laughing and say, ' You mean Bubba?

Then later, as he tried to combine hockey and school, he became concerned his studies were suffering and approached Canadien management to ask if they could find him accommodation closer to the school.

The police then arrive and ask Miss Claridge if Trent tried to kill her again.

He tried to tell the Lady Da, but the words weren't quite straight.

Although Jane Austen tried her hand at the epistolary in juvenile writings and her novella Lady Susan, she abandoned this structure for her later work.

An early inkling of changing attitudes came in 1960, when the government of the day tried unsuccessfully to prosecute Penguin Books for obscenity, for publishing the D. H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, which had been banned since the 1920s for what was considered racy content.

As CNN explained on February 28, 1997, " The report refutes claims by conservative political organizations that Foster was the victim of a murder plot and coverup ", but " despite those findings, right-wing political groups have continued to allege that there was more to the death and that the president and First Lady tried to cover it up ".

Dudley's youth was overshadowed by the downfall of his family in 1553 after his father, the Duke of Northumberland, had unsuccessfully tried to establish Lady Jane Grey on the English throne.

When he tried to skirt around Tepeyac hill, the Lady intercepted him, assured him his uncle would not die, and asked him to climb the hill and gather the flowers he found there.

He then tried to get into " society " by sponsoring bare-knuckle boxer Tom Molineaux ( the first black man to contend for a championship ) and subsequently married Flashman's mother Lady Alicia Paget, a fictional relation of the real Marquess of Anglesey.

Agnieszka Holland's Washington Square ( 1997 ) was well received by critics, and Jane Campion tried her hand with The Portrait of a Lady ( 1996 ) but with much less success.

They have tried to keep the contents of this Book a secret, although it has been published on a number of occasions by figures such as Charles Cardell, Lady Sheba and Janet and Stewart Farrar.

Bolt's work for director David Lean garnered him particular acclaim and recognition, and Bolt tried his hand at directing with the unsuccessful Lady Caroline Lamb ( 1972 ).

Nelson tried to score another hit, but did not have any luck with songs like " Rock and Roll Lady ".

John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, KG ( 1504 – 22 August 1553 ) was an English general, admiral, and politician, who led the government of the young King Edward VI from 1550 until 1553, and unsuccessfully tried to install Lady Jane Grey on the English throne after the King's death.

Mrs Western now tries to persuade Sophia to marry Lord Fellamar, but she tells her aunt how he tried to force himself on her in Lady Bellaston's house.

Johnson later said: " I couldn't have been more shocked about Walter Jenkins if I'd heard that Lady Bird had tried to kill the Pope.

Meanwhile, Yang Guozhong's wife Pei Rou, son Yang Xi ( 楊晞 ), the Lady of Guo, and the Lady of Guo's son Pei Hui ( 裴徽 ) tried to flee, but were killed in flight.

" She tried intermittently to do what was expected of her, but she never convinced people that her heart was in it, and her tenure as First Lady

Some commentators have tried to style prime ministers ' wives as " First Lady of Canada ", similar to the style of First Lady used in republics, but this is not a recognized title.

The First Lady tried to have the overcrowded mansion enlarged, but was unsuccessful.

Lady Carnarvon saw this as blackmail and persuaded her new husband to take his wife to court for what Sir Henry McCardie, who tried the case, called " the most bitterly conducted litigation I have ever known ".

Lady Alice's case was tried by Judge Jeffreys at the opening of the Bloody Assizes at Winchester.

Their father was John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, who led the English government from 1550 – 1553 under Edward VI and unsuccessfully tried to establish Lady Jane Grey on the English throne after the King's death in July 1553.