Modern historians have felt it more likely that Edward, at Robert's urging, wished to divorce Edith and remarry in order to have children to succeed him on the English throne, although it is possible that he merely wished to be rid of her, without necessarily wanting a divorce.

In these societies, children retain the family name of the mother, and women were permitted to divorce and remarry if they wished.

Catherine did have plans to remarry ; in about 1570, she wished to marry Duke Francis II of Saxe-Lauenburg, the brother of her stepdaughter's husband, Duke Magnus II.

Another possibility is that he wished to search for other possible heirs to King Edward in Hungary.

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.

Since it would have brought broad gauge into Curzon Street, with the possibility of extending it to the Mersey, it was something that the other standard gauge lines wished to avoid, and they pledged to assist the Midland with any losses it might incur.

In 1956, he was considered a possibility for the party's leadership, but decided not to run, disappointing those in the party establishment who wished to prevent the populist John Diefenbaker from becoming leader.

No one in Portugal wished to revisit the short period ( 1808 – 1820 ) when Portugal and Brazil were ruled under a dual monarchy, so, even though Pedro was clearly the rightful heir, the possibility of Pedro returning as the new King of Portugal was problematic.

A further possibility is that Holbein simply wished to show off his ability with the technique in order to secure future commissions.

Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.

he had in fact said simply that he wished the thing hadn't happened, which was as honest as he could put it.

" fortification which was founded on the soil of the Alemanni that Trajan wished to be called with his own name ".

Ariovistus had become involved in an invasion of Gaul, which the German wished to settle.

The Soviet scientists had suggested this name be given to element 105 ( which was finally called dubnium ) and the German team wished to recognise both Bohr and the fact that the Dubna team had been the first to propose the cold fusion reaction.

Following a Royal Commission report in 1906, work began on a new prayer book, work that was to take twenty years due in part to the demands of the Great War ( 1914 – 18 ) and in part to the constitution of the Church Assembly in 1920 which " perhaps not unnaturally wished to do the work all over again for itself.

Brooks's institute has charged varying fees to prospective clients who wished to learn how to live without food, which have ranged from US $ 100, 000 with an initial deposit of $ 10, 000 to one billion dollars, to be paid via bank wire transfer with a preliminary deposit of $ 100, 000, for a session called " Immortality workshop ".

Perhaps the tragedy of his life was that he was never awarded the high official position which he desired, from which he wished to demonstrate the general well-being that would ensue if humane persons ruled and administered the state.

This controversy between those who advocated independent computations, and those who wished to continue the custom of relying on the Jewish calendar, was formally resolved by the First Council of Nicaea in 325 ( see below ), which endorsed the move to independent computations, effectively requiring the abandonment of the old custom of consulting the Jewish community in those places where it was still used.

The facilities at the centre, initially labelled ESDAC ( European Space Data Acquisition Centre ), were essentially a large mainframe computer or computers, which was made available both to its in-house staff and to visiting scientists and fellows who wished to use them to analyse and study the recovered data.

This brought them into conflict with Britain and the Dutch Republic, which wished to preserve the independence of the southern Netherlands from France.

* 1967-The first sovereignty referendum was held on 10 September, in which Gibraltar's voters were asked whether they wished to either pass under Spanish sovereignty, or remain under British sovereignty, with institutions of self-government.

As all Federal Presidents but his mentor Heinemann, who had not wished to be seen off in this manner, Rau was honored by a Großer Zapfenstreich which on his wish included the hymn " Jesus bleibet meine Freude " ( Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring ).

He was often appointed to deliver occasional discourses, both in London and Dublin, but his lack of facility in English prevented his preferment in England, and also excluded him from the deanery of St. Patrick's, Dublin, to which William III wished to promote him.

During the consultations on 21 May an earthquake occurred ; the participants were terrified and wished to break up the assembly, but Courtenay declared the earthquake a favorable sign which meant the purification of the earth from erroneous doctrine, and the result of the " Earthquake Synod " was assured.

On 11 January 2008, Jay Kay himself posted a news item in which he thanked everyone who wished him the best for his birthday, and announced that the writing process for the new album had just begun.

In part he was following in the tradition of Henry I and Henry II, but by the 13th century the volume of administrative work had greatly increased, which put much more pressure on a king who wished to rule in this style.

In this era of escalating Japanese militarism, the name was changed from (" Chinese hand " or " Tang hand " verbatim, as the name of the Tang dynasty was a synonym to China in Okinawa ) to (" empty hand ") – both of which are pronounced karate – to indicate that the Japanese wished to develop the combat form in Japanese style.

A brief intervention in 1137 – 1138 by the Byzantine emperor John II Comnenus, who wished to assert imperial suzerainty over all the crusader states, did nothing to stop the threat of Zengi ; in 1139 Damascus and Jerusalem recognized the severity of the threat to both states, and an alliance was concluded which halted Zengi's advance.

In the wave of round-ups that followed, the term ' kulak ' lost its previous distinction and became a general accusation ( like wrecking ), which could be leveled at anyone whom the troikas wished to convict.

He also joined another revolutionary organisation, The Society for the Study of Wang Fuzhi ( Chuan-shan Hsüeh-she ) which had been founded by a number of Changsha literati who wished to emulate Wang Fuzhi ( 1619 – 1692 ), a philosopher who had become a symbol of Han resistance to Manchu invasion.

He wished to know where the " Indus ( which is the only river save one that produces crocodiles ) emptied itself into the sea ".

Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures.

Foster returned to Manchester, not wanting to return to the town hall as his parents wished and unsure of which path to follow.

It was obvious that he wished himself different from the sort of person he thought he was.

What they wished for most was security ; ;

The clause reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.

The oyabun was entertaining a group of dignitaries, the secretary said, businessmen from Tokyo for the most part, and Kayabashi wished to show them the mission.

There was the day Uncle Izaak had, in an unexpected grandiose gesture, handed over the pretty sloop to Abel for keeps, on condition that he never fail to let his brother accompany him whenever younger the boy wished.

She had a hard time making him understand that it was Farouk she wished to meet.

The day's sun was gathering its strength in gold, and she wished she had brought her parasol, if only to shade Doaty's flowers.

There was a tap at the door and Oliver entered with the word that Heiser wished to see the Captain.

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

The worst that could be brought against him was that he had wished his father's death.

Salieri quickly impressed the Emperor, and Gassmann was instructed to bring his pupil as often as he wished.

The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

Britain wished to deny Russia access to the " warm waters " and supported the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, although it also supported a limited expansion of Greece as a backup plan in case integrity of the Empire was no longer possible.

Another subject of the split was whether to embrace devolution as a first step to full independence ( or as the sole step if this was what the electorate wished ) or for it to be " all or nothing ".