The vast majority of his Khoja Ismaili followers in India welcomed him warmly, but some dissident members, sensing their loss of prestige with the arrival of the Imam, wished to maintain control over communal properties.

However, Peter had wished his son and heir to dedicate himself to the service of new Russia, and demanded from him unceasing labour in order to maintain Russia's new wealth and power.

The Chinese had long been a source of aid and apparently wished to maintain contact with Comoros to counterbalance Indian and Soviet ( later Russian ) influence in the Indian Ocean.

As a result, he had to struggle to maintain his power against the groups who broke away after giving him allegiance, or those who wished to take his position.

They wished for a smaller instrument, since the Taus was hard to carry and maintain, due to constant battles.

Zbigniew, whose country bordered Pomerania, wished to maintain good relations with his northern neighbor.

Whereas other ministers such as Malcolm Rifkind wished to imply that British euro membership was unlikely, Clarke fought successfully to maintain the possibility that Britain might join a single currency under a Conservative government, but conceded that such a move could only take place on the basis of a referendum.

Mirkin had long wished to produce a sketch show, and designed The Edge to be " fast-paced " and " some skits overlap, end abruptly or are broken into segments ," in order to maintain attention.

Ebroin endeavoured to maintain at any rate the union of Neustria and Burgundy, but the great Burgundian nobles too wished to remain independent.

As they had become kings around the same time, Haakon wrote to Henry in 1224 that he wished they could maintain the friendship that had existed between their fathers.

Because of the skewed franchise, a large body of voters continued to vote for Unionists, who wished to maintain the Union that joined Britain and Ireland.

For most of his career Denard had the quiet backing of France and the French secret service which wished to maintain French influence over its ex-colonies.

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In 1939, Old Brethren who wished to maintain the stress on annual meeting decisions and the rejection of automobiles, telephones, electricity, and tractors formed a group called the Old Brethren German Baptists.

However, the reason for the behaviour is believed to be that the villagers wished to feign madness in order to avoid a Royal Highway being built through the village, as they would then be expected to build and maintain this route.

The Swimming Club's origin dates back to 1929 and owes its origins to the desire of a band of dedicated local lifesavers who wished to maintain their fitness during the winter months.

Hyrcanus threatened that any Idumeaan who wished to maintain their land would need to be circumcised and enter into the traditions of the Jews.

Democracy Now () was a political movement in East Germany founded in the wake of the collapse of Communism that wished to maintain a human, democratic version of socialism in opposition to what they saw as " western consumer society ".

In the face of aggressions by Napoleon, who had promoted himself to Emperéur des Francais on May 18, 1804, Francis feared for the future of the Holy Roman Empire and wished to maintain his and his family's Imperial status in the event that the Holy Roman Empire should be dissolved.

San Antonio community leaders who wished to maintain a Protestant-related college in the city approached Trinity with a relocation offer.

The London Swinton Circle was founded in 1961 by Conservatives who had attended Party training schools at Swinton Castle in Yorkshire, and who wished to maintain contact through regular meetings in London.

The SEC did not consider that it was forming a new denomination, but rather saw itself as serving as a church home for Episcopalians who wished to maintain their Anglican faith and traditions while reaching out to other conservatives.

In a different circumstance, the producers of the Broadway revival of Cabaret wished to maintain the atmosphere of a sleazy nightclub at its Studio 54 venue, and insisted on handing out Playbills after the performance.

Most Novgorodian boyars wished to maintain the Republic's independence since if Novgorod was to be conquered, the boyars ' wealth would flow to the grand prince and his Muscovite boyars and the Novgorodians would fall into decline.

When he was 16 years old, he defied his father, who wished for his eldest son to remain home and manage his family's estate.

A child of the most important family of the area, her father decided to send her to the cloisters for no other reason than to simplify his affairs: he wished to keep his properties united for his first-born, heir to the family's title and riches.

Drawing on the family's Scottish roots, he sought to rename them the Lothian Hills and envisioned a grand scheme in which castles named after originals in Scotland would be built on the mountaintops and sold to members of the European nobility who wished to have grand manors.

Beginning in 1778 Emperor wished to have new works, in German, composed by his own subjects and brought on the stage with clear Imperial support.

" Of course His Imperial Majesty is a pacifist and he wished to avoid war.

The chief motive of these men, both of whom were experienced generals, was that they wished to assume the Imperial position that Nikephoros II and John I had held, and thus return Basil to the role of impotent cypher.

While Dong Fuxiang's Kansu army, now swollen by the addition of the Boxers, wished to press the siege, Ronglu's Imperial forces seem to have largely attempted to follow the Dowager Empress's decree and protect the legations.

The Emperor and Imperial Court wished to submit, but they were ignored by the shogun in Kamakura.

When World War I broke out Tank wished to join the Imperial German Army Air Service, but his father insisted he instead follow the family tradition and enlist in the cavalry.

The rebels were grouped under the Sonnō Jōi slogan which had been promulgated by the Emperor as the " Order to expel barbarians " in March 1863, and wished to take control of the Emperor himself to accomplish the restoration of the Imperial throne.

The League had the support of Pope Alexander III, who also wished to see Imperial power in Italy decline.

They also wished to dismiss General Hayashi Senjūrō and the divisional commander of the Imperial Guard Hashimoto Toranosuke.

As archbishop he restored the Byzantine churches ; issued a catechism to the clergy with instructions that it should be learned by heart ; composed rules for the priestly life, entrusting to the deacons the task of superintending their observance ; assembled synods in various towns in the dioceses, and firmly opposed the Polish Imperial Chancellor Sapieha, when he wished to make many concessions in favour of the Eastern Orthodox.

Some officials wished Zhao Yunrang to be given the title of " Imperial Uncle ", however Yingzong sided with Ouyang Xiu and others and granted him the title " Parent ".

In 1870, the government fell on the question of the revision of the constitution: Taaffe with Potocki and Johann Nepomuk Berger wished to make some concessions to the Federalists ; the Liberal majority wished to preserve undiminished the authority of the Imperial Council.

According to Gracey the Defence Secretary Iskander Mirza wished Akbar to go on to the Imperial Defence College to " complete his education ".

T. J. Moore notes that “ seating in the temporary theaters where Plautus ’ plays were first performed was often insufficient for all those who wished to see the play, that the primary criterion for determining who was to stand and who could sit was social status ”.

Aborigines who wished to improve their status looked to education rather than headhunting as the new form of power.

In 1867, revolt broke out in western Guatemala, which many residents wished to return to its former status of an independent state as Los Altos.

* the Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë, supported by Lionel Jospin and his friends, who wished to keep the status quo of the 2007 campaign and come back to the Plural Left ;

British diplomats, particularly Envoy Edward James Nottingham, who wished to secure the continuation of their existing trade agreements, saw the development of a customs union as a threat to the economic status quo.

Julia wished to attain the status of Empress, and so married the well-descended Romulus.

Those who were unwilling or unable to purchase citizenship, which cost about 60 shillings in 1326, but wished to live in Sion were classed as permanent residents and their descendants held the same status until they could buy their citizenship.

She claims that the departmental status of the island requires the relinquishment of the jus soli wished in 2005 by François Baroin, then Minister of Overseas and the implementation of the ' French first ' policy in the granting of welfare aids.

This outcome came as a surprise to most of the Confederates, who had wished only to restore the status quo ante and had expected that the overthrow of the May 3rd Constitution would achieve that end.

Large Jewish communities wished to show not only their wealth but also their newly acquired status as citizens by constructing magnificent synagogues.

Himmler encountered considerable difficulties with the Volksdeutsche of France and Luxembourg, who often wished retain their former status as citizens of their respective countries.

Because Pir Roshan failed in his mission, ever since, his message has been demonized / distorted by the powers that be who wished to retain the status quo.

In Hillgruber's opinion, after the war had begun, a split occurred within the German leadership between the moderate imperialism of the Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, who wished for territorial gains if they could be obtained, but was prepared to settle for a peace based on the pre-1914 status quo, and a more radical group centered around General Erich Ludendorff and the rest of the Third Supreme Command who wanted total victory over all of Germany's enemies, no matter what the cost, and very wide-ranging annexations in Europe, Asia and Africa.

The marriage was arranged to strengthen the status of the Belgian Monarchy: as the former Protestant monarch of a newly established monarchy, the Belgian King wished his son to marry a member from a Roman Catholic and prestigious dynasty, and the name Habsburg was one of her more important qualities.

The context of the 21st Amendment, they wrote, was to return to the status quo that existed before Prohibition, making it clear that the states had the power to regulate alcohol however they wished, including banning alcoholic beverages entirely within the state if desired.

The debate over the pontifical and Catholic status of the university dates back to the 1991 Apostolic Exhortation " Ex Corde Ecclesiae " of Blessed Pope John Paul II, in which the pope legislated the essential norms for institutes of higher education which wished to be known as " Catholic.

Rumford was heavily influenced by the theological argument from design and it is likely that he wished to grant water a privileged and providential status in the regulation of human life.

Bugey has wished to achieve full Appellation d ' origine contrôlée ( AOC ) status for some time.

This new category was available only to Hong Kong BDTCs, and any Hong Kong BDTC who wished to do so would be able to acquire the status of British National ( Overseas ).

Any Hong Kong BDTC who wished to do so was able to acquire the ( non-transmissible ) status of British National ( Overseas ).

They recognised that the five million working-class men under arms deserved improved conditions and status, and wished to " see what they could do to assist Labour ".

When Barbara Ann Scott won the World Figure Skating Championships in 1947, she was presented with a car by Lewis on her triumphant return ; however, she was not able to accept the gift from the city because she wished to retain amateur status.