The canons, in a body, had tried to force him on his deathbed to let them give him the last rites of the Church, but he had died still proclaiming salvation by faith.

They were tried and executed one after the other until, when only one was still alive, the accounting error was discovered and that last surviving treasurer was acquitted.

She tried to poison him, but at the last second, Aegeus recognized his sword and knocked the poisoned cup out of Theseus ' hand.

At the same time, Compaq, through its acquisitions of the Digital Equipment Corporation last year and Tandem Computer in 1997, has tried to become a major systems company, like I. B. M.

Capital punishment was abolished in 1956, though the last person to be executed was in 1940 ( The current president Porfirio " Pepe " Lobo has tried to bring it back ).

As one of his last acts, Severus tried to solve the problem of powerful and rebellious governors in Britain by dividing the province into Upper Britain and Lower Britain.

The last two tried to establish hegemony by negotiating for naval base sites.

With the last of the Order's leaders gone, the remaining Templars around Europe were either arrested and tried under the Papal investigation ( with virtually none convicted ), absorbed into other military orders such as the Knights Hospitaller, or pensioned and allowed to live out their days peacefully.

During the last ten years, different organizations have tried to measure and monitor the proximity to what they consider sustainability by implementing what has been called sustainability metrics and indices. This has engendered considerable political debate about what is being measured.

After a series of operettas, Leoncavallo tried for one last serious effort ( Edipo Re ), but he died before he could finish the orchestration, which was completed by Giovanni Pennacchio.

The UAE embassy in turn contacted the Hamburg police and a UAE representative tried to find him in Germany, visiting mosques and Shehhi's last address in Hamburg.

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

At last, Harald was forced to make an expedition to the West, to clear the islands and the Scottish mainland of some Vikings who tried to hide there.

The last number of the Tribun appeared on 24 April, although Lebois in the Ami du peuple tried to incite the soldiers to revolt, and for a while there were rumours of a military rising.

In 1335, Hōjō Tokiyuki, son of last regent Takatoki, tried to re-establish the shogunate by force and defeated Kamakura's de-facto ruler Ashikaga Tadayoshi in Musashi, in today's Kanagawa prefecture.

The last abbot, Hugh Cook Faringdon, was subsequently tried and convicted of high treason and hanged, drawn and quartered in front of the Abbey Church.

Nagorny tried to come to her assistance ; he was roughly pushed back by one of the commisars ..." Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden told of her sad last glimpse of Anastasia: " Once, standing on some steps at the door of a house close by, I saw a hand and a pink-sleeved arm opening the topmost pane.

The last trial of a peer in the House of Lords was in 1935, when Lord de Clifford was tried for motor manslaughter.

He caused outrage when he tried to pardon the last three Nazi war criminals still in Dutch prisons in 1972.

A document signed by his brother, John III of Sweden, and a nobleman, Bengt Bengtsson Gylta ( 1514 – 74 ), gave Eric's guards in his last prison authorization to poison him if anyone tried to release him.

De Gaulle was tried in absentia in Vichy France and sentenced to death for treason ; he, on the other hand, regarded himself as the last remaining member of the legitimate Reynaud government able to exercise power, seeing the rise to power of Pétain as an unconstitutional coup.

Penny tried out for cheerleading, but due to having an accident with the stage being converted into a giant CD, LaCienega got the last spot on the cheerleading squad.

He tried to liberate serfs, but that did not last after his death.

Peace did not last long and in the forthcoming war she still tried to make peace between her sons.

He tried to persuade some of his crewmates to desert with him, remaining on the island ; he was counting on an impending visit by another ship.

After the Federation of the West Indies collapsed in 1962, the British government tried to form a small federation out of its remaining dependencies in the Eastern Caribbean.

After regaining control over the dissident governors, Abd-ar-Rahman III tried to conquer the remaining Christian kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula, attacking them several times and forcing them back beyond the Cantabric range.

The 49ers ( now led by Steve Young ) tried to run out the clock on their ensuing possession, but San Francisco running back Roger Craig had the ball dislodged by nosetackle Erik Howard, and Lawrence Taylor recovered the fumble in mid-air with 2: 36 remaining.

The remaining 2, 000 men of the German army limped on to Nicaea, where many of the survivors deserted and tried to return home.

He was tried a second time on five of the remaining charges, and the jury deadlocked.

Simes tried to illegally take command and was killed by Sam, leaving Max as the only remaining astrogator.

Previously, hedgehogs would get their heads stuck in the container as they tried to lick the remaining food from inside the cup.

The remaining cases were tried through summary proceedings that left insufficient time to thoroughly investigate the accused, so that many of the judgments of this period have questionable judicial value.

As emperor, Nepos tried to consolidate the Empire's remaining Western holdings, which consisted of Italy, Illyria and the remaining parts of Roman Gaul.

Overall, one or more antidepressants and anxiolytics were rated harmful by about half of survey respondents who had tried them, and as either harmless or helpful by the remaining respondents.

She tried to raise a rebellion around Pelusium, but she was soon forced to flee with her only remaining sister, Arsinoë.

I tried orienting the spacecraft manually using the DO-1 orientation engines, but the pressure remaining on the DO-1 has gone down to 180.

Gygax tried to have the sale declared illegal ; after that failed, Gygax sold his remaining stock to Williams and used the capital to form New Infinity Productions.

Of the two remaining neutral countries, Sweden and Portugal, the latter tried in vain to avoid Napoleon's ultimatum ( since 1373, it had had a treaty of alliance with the English which became an alliance with the United Kingdom ).

The group was taken to a pre-emptied barn, killed and buried along with fragments of the monument, while most of the remaining Jews, estimated at around 250 to 300 ( IPN final findings ), including many women and children, were led to the same barn later that day, locked inside and burned alive using kerosene from the former Soviet supplies ( or German gasoline, by different accounts ) in the presence of eight German gendarmes, who shot those who tried to escape.

As part of their aim to dismantle the remaining Czechoslovakian state, German representatives in February 1939 tried to persuade Tiso to declare Slovakia independent, but Tiso refused.

Two days before the hanging, a report of " four suspicious men " being driven away from an alehouse at East Sheen appeared in a newspaper, and was likely describing Gregory and his companions, but the remaining members of the Essex gang were not reported again until 30 March, when three of them ( unsuccessfully ) tried to steal a horse from a servant of the Earl of Suffolk.

After the fall of Constantinople, Thomas Palaiologos, brother of Constantine XI, was elected emperor and tried to organize the remaining forces.

The remaining Egyptian ships tried to escape to Beirut, but the Tyrian ships gave chase, and the Egyptians were forced to beach their ships and flee.

When Motosune drove out the remaining Waan fleets, he tried to reestablish control in the southern areas.