Assuming office in 1770, he had a controversial career during which land title disputes and factional conflict slowed the initial attempts to populate and develop the island under a feudal system.

Walter Gretzky had played Junior B hockey, but was slowed by chicken pox and failed in a tryout for the Junior A Toronto Marlboros, ending his playing career.

Quinn's film career slowed during the 1990s, but he nonetheless continued to work steadily, appearing in Revenge ( 1990 ), Jungle Fever ( 1991 ), Last Action Hero ( 1993 ), A Walk in the Clouds ( 1995 ) and Seven Servants ( 1996 ).

Hawn's career slowed down after leaving Hollywood in the late 1980s, but revived somewhat in 1990 with the action comedy Bird on a Wire, a critically panned but commercially successful picture that paired Hawn with Mel Gibson.

Although White's success on the pop charts slowed down as the disco era came to an end, he maintained a loyal following throughout his career.

His father had a drinking habit that slowed his career.

Beginning in 2000, Jacob's film career slowed down, and after a series of independent — mostly European — films, she revived her theatre career.

In the 1980s, Pablo's career slowed significantly.

Caillebotte's painting career slowed dramatically in the early 1890s, when he stopped making large canvases.

Fields's film career slowed down considerably in the 1940s.

In the depression era, Johnson's career slowed down somewhat.

In the late 1950s, her film career slowed, only to be replaced with a busy theater and television career.

By the 1970s her film career had slowed down.

After the release of the UK-only 1989 album, Kickin ', James ' recording career slowed as he struggled with personal and legal problems.

The Jill Sobule album seemed to establish Sobule's commercial prospects, but her third album slowed that momentum while setting what has so far been the musical and production patterns for the rest of her career.

After Weird Science, his acting career slowed down.

However, Normand's career had already slowed and her reputation was tarnished by revelations of her addiction, which was seen as a moral failing.

However, Normand's career had already slowed and her reputation was tarnished by revelations of her addiction, which was seen as a moral failing.

Diamond was openly gay long before it was socially acceptable, and believed his career was slowed by homophobia and antisemitism.

Welch's career slowed down after the Giants won the National League pennant in 1888 and 1889.

He was slowed by injuries during his second tenure in Houston, and after struggling the first half of with the Texas Rangers, he was released and finished his career with the Atlanta Braves, who moved him across the infield in an effort to fulfill their desire for a power-hitting first baseman.

Though Alexandre Tansman returned to Paris after the war, his disappearance from the European musical scene left him behind the musical currents of the time, and no longer fresh in the minds of the public, which slowed his previously fast-rising career.

For his part, Merkle was doomed to endless criticism and vilification throughout his career for this lapse, which went down in history as " Merkle's Boner ".

Educated as a lawyer, and holding lucrative positions as secretary and counsellor, he seemed, indeed, at one time to have settled down to the practice of law, but following an unexpected summons to Venice, after an absence of several years, he changed his career, and thenceforth he devoted himself to writing plays and managing theatres.

Coleman's time as coach turned out to be much like his playing career: highly successful but cut short when he had to stand down due to health problems in 1967.

This Annie took, becoming a professor's wife-only to have a woman scholar destroy her husband's career, drive him to suicide, and thus push Annie herself back down to the status of a servant.

Banks had a short career in management with Alliance Premier League side Telford United, he spent the 1979 – 80 season before being sacked after losing to a cup match against a team lower down the table.

Hurst wound down his career with Stoke City and also West Bromwich Albion.

His success on the football field led to several football scholarship offers, which he turned down to pursue a career in professional baseball.

Cagney's career began winding down, and he made only one film in 1960, the critically acclaimed The Gallant Hours, in which he played Admiral William F. " Bull " Halsey.

The expressionist influence lasted throughout Whale's career, with Whale's final film, Hello Out There, praised by Sight & Sound as " a virtuoso pattern of light and shade, a piece of fully blown expressionist filmmaking plonked down unceremoniously in the midst of neo-realism's heyday ".

Cotten's career cooled in the 1950s with a string of less high-profile roles in films such as the dark Civil War Two Flags West ( 1950 ), the Joan Fontaine romance September Affair ( also 1950 ), and the Marilyn Monroe vehicle Niagara ( 1953 ), after James Mason turned down the role.

As the war wound down in 1945, Heinlein began re-evaluating his career.

Columbia ’ s career would have started to wind down after STS-118.

During that period, Preminger advised her on career matters, including an offer made to Dandridge for the featured role of Tuptim in the 1956 film of The King and I. Preminger advised her to turn down the supporting role, as he believed it to be unworthy of her.

Over his career he held assignments as Safety Officer and had extensive training in aircraft crash investigation and investigated numerous crashes, including one that was accidentally shot down by a missile.

In early 1974, Pertwee announced he would step down as the Doctor in order to resume his stage career in The Bedwinner, also citing typecasting in the role as the reason for leaving, though later he would say that the catalyst for his departure was the death of his good friend and co-star Roger Delgado and the departures of co-star Katy Manning and producer Barry Letts.

Except at the start of her career, Garbo conducted few interviews ( she gave only fourteen in her life ), signed no autographs, attended few industry social functions, and turned down all but a few requests for public appearances.

He continued to harbor bitterness about his career, later turning down appearances and awards.

Encouraged by her nanny, Ole Golly, Harriet carefully observes others and writes her thoughts down in a notebook as practice for her future career.

By the 15th round, after Jeffries had been knocked down twice for the first time in his career, Jeffries corner threw in the towel to end the fight and prevent Jeffries from having a knock out on his record.

As her career in the U. S. began to wind down, she was reduced to appearing in the movie Stay Away, Joe ( 1968 ), playing the half-Apache stepmother of Elvis Presley.

Six months earlier, Joe was down on his luck, unable to find work as a screenwriter, having only made a few undistinguished films in his short career.

The proverb was apparently based on an anecdote about Ibycus stupidly or nobly turning down an opportunity to become tyrant of Rhegium in order to pursue a poetic career instead ( one modern scholar however infers from his poetry that Ibycus was in fact wise enough to avoid the lure of supreme power, citing as an example Plato's quotation from one of his lyrics: " I am afraid it may be in exchange for some sin before the gods that I get honour from men ") There is no other information about Ibycus ' activities in the West, apart from an account by Himerius, that he fell from his chariot while travelling between Catana and Himera and injured his hand badly enough to give up playing the lyre " for some considerable time.