Had it been bestowed while the Secretary General of the United Nations was living, unquestionably he would have been greatly encouraged in pursuing a difficult and, in many ways, thankless task.

A sense of self-certainty and the freedom to experiment with different roles, or confidence in one's own unique behavior as an alternative to peer-group conformity, is more easily developed during adolescence if, during early childhood, the individual was permitted to exercise initiative and encouraged to develop some autonomy.

Aristotle encouraged Alexander toward eastern conquest, and his attitude towards Persia was unabashedly ethnocentric.

This movement was encouraged by the Catholic Church, the most important patron of the arts at that time, as a return to tradition and spirituality.

They encouraged farming and agriculture and taught farming and cultivation techniques, as they believed that agricultural development was the key to a stable and prosperous society.

In addition to this, the land the Ainu lived on was distributed to the Wajin who had decided to move to Hokkaido, who had been encouraged by the Japanese government of the Meiji era to take advantage of the island ’ s abundance of natural resources, and to create and maintain farms in the model of western industrial agriculture.

Also during his reign taxes were lightened ; literature, art and science were encouraged ; the lot of the soldiers was improved ; and, for the convenience of the people, loan offices were instituted for lending money at a moderate rate of interest.

He was left in the hands of reactionary boyars and priests, who encouraged him to hate his father and wish for the death of the Tsar.

Alfred was a learned and merciful man who encouraged education and improved his kingdom's legal system and military structure.

He was believed to have arranged the poisoning of Alexios II's elder sister Maria the Porphyrogenita and her husband Renier of Montferrat, although Maria herself had encouraged him to intervene.

Carnegie believed the concentration of capital was essential for societal progress and should be encouraged.

* Lauder College ( named after his uncle who encouraged him to get an education ) in the Halbeth area of Dunfermline was renamed Carnegie College in 2007.

He encouraged technical investigation, and was Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the first technical journal, Technical Studies, in the Field of the Fine Arts, published by the Fogg from 1932 to 1942.

However, in the 17th and 18th centuries Bern encouraged industrial development in Unteraargau and by the late 18th century it was the most industrialized region in the city-state.

The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church, which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent, in response to the Protestant Reformation, that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement.

The rebuilding of the temple was encouraged by the leaders of the empire in hopes that it would strengthen the authorities in local contexts.

The zoologist Desmond Morris proposed that the rounded shape of a woman's breasts evolved as frontal, secondary sex characteristic that is a sexual-attraction counterpart to the buttocks, and so encouraged frontal copulation, the reason being that while other primates mate by means of the rear-entry position, the upright, bipedal human being was likelier to successfully copulate face to face in the missionary position.

It also encouraged other European countries to turn against France, and was a factor in the outbreak of the War of the Second Coalition.

The Ottomans, with whom Bonaparte had hoped to conduct an alliance once his control of Egypt was complete, were encouraged by the Battle of the Nile to go to war with France.

A slight success over Octavian's tired soldiers encouraged him to make a general attack, in which he was decisively beaten.

Also in London at this time was Jan Ladislav Dussek, who, like Clementi, encouraged piano makers to extend the range and other features of their instruments, and then fully exploited the newly opened possibilities.

One of the major developments of the 1990s was the re-emergence of the romantic comedy film, encouraged by the success of When Harry Met Sally ... in 1989.

In the early 19th century there was much interest in enclosing and " improving " the open moorland on Dartmoor, encouraged by Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt's early successes at Tor Royal near Princetown.

This encouraged Crossing to arrange to lift the clapper bridge, but no inscription was found.

The second wave from Britain and Ireland was encouraged to settle in Canada after the War of 1812 by the governors of Canada, who were worried about anti-English sentiment among its citizens.

He made donations to various charitable endeavors using the money he made from his activities, and was viewed by many to be a " modern-day Robin Hood ".

Being a bishop was a position that gained power because bishops and other key religious figures could withstand the constant change of government and political leaders allowing them to become an authority on the city and its political endeavors.

As a result various laws were set in place to limit African Kenyans in their own land, for example, they had to walk around with ' Passes ' at all times, and free movement, schooling and entrepreneurial endeavors for Africans in Kenya was strictly enforced by colonial policebetween the late 1800's and

One of Baum's worst financial endeavors was his The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays ( 1908 ), which combined a slideshow, film, and live actors with a lecture by Baum as if he were giving a travelogue to Oz.

Its royalty of a half-cent per copy was enough to sustain Webster in his other endeavors.

( It was implied in the episode " Destiny " that males are inept at engineering endeavors, but this could just be bias: probably most males take up military careers, leaving the scientific field open to women.

Despite his age, he was uncommonly energetic, and throughout some two decades pursued settlement and church endeavors, always engaged in controversy and confrontation with Bay Colony leaders.

The first step towards industrialization was land reforms, a crucial step in modernizing the economy, as it created a class of landowners with capital they can invest in future economic endeavors.

Others have argued that the shuttle program was a step backwards from the Apollo Program, which, while extremely dangerous, accomplished far more scientific and space exploration endeavors than the shuttle ever could.

His father, Salvador Dalí i Cusí, was a middle-class lawyer and notary whose strict disciplinary approach was tempered by his wife, Felipa Domenech Ferrés, who encouraged her son's artistic endeavors.

On August 5, 1772, the occupation manifesto was issued, much to the consternation of a country too exhausted by the endeavors of the Confederation of Bar to offer successful resistance ; nonetheless several battles and sieges took place, as Polish troops refused to lay down their arms ( most notably, in Tyniec, Częstochowa and Kraków ).

It was Bruni who used the phrase studia humanitatis, meaning the study of human endeavors, as distinct from those of theology and metaphysics, which is where the term humanists comes from.

Ferdinand was not displeased with exile and spent most of his time devoted to artistic endeavors, gardening, travel and natural history.

That same year she was one of the original 31 recipients of the newly reinstituted Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is awarded for " especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interest of the United States, World Peace or cultural or other significant public or private endeavors ".

After retiring from football, Perry was involved in a few other entertainment endeavors, including the following:

Young was also keen to pursue his musical endeavors with the help of experimental aids.

His mother, who died when he was nine years old, taught him valuable lessons about persistence and putting one ’ s whole effort into endeavors, and he carried these with him through his career as a jazz drummer.

Since Damascus Post 171 was founded after World War II, it has engaged in charitable and civic endeavors, ranging from installing Christmas decorations downtown to sponsoring high school scholarships.

One of the first endeavors was the processing of iron ore. Duane M. was the Sherrif at the time the town was named.

The location was first settled around 1801, and much of the early community endeavors exploited the sulfur springs as a health spa.

Besides the expected religious meetings, a week was devoted to musical endeavors heard of this, not sure accuracy for " music week.