Vermes states that the Testomonium provides Josephus ' authentic portrayal of Jesus, depicting him as a wise teacher and miracle worker with an enthusiastic group of followers who remained faithful to him after his crucifixion by Pilate, up to the time of Josephus.

Although being undertaken by some of the Revolution's enthusiastic followers, the destruction of historical relics was never formally sanctioned by the Communist Party, whose official policy was instead to protect such items.

Media reception of the CD was generally enthusiastic, with the Allmusic saying the album " has all the assuredness and smart developments that should keep Monica's younger longtime followers behind her — all the while holding the ability to appeal to a wider spectrum of R & B and hip-hop fans.

He and his followers were not enthusiastic for this program.

He rose to leadership among Zwingli's young and enthusiastic followers.

As a teenager, Bei Dao was a member of the Red Guards, the enthusiastic followers of Mao Zedong who enforced the dictates of the Cultural Revolution, often through violent means.

They are also mentioned-quite negatively-in a letter by Robert Burns: " bout two years ago, a Mrs Buchan from Glasgow came among them, & began to spread some fanatical notions of religion among them, [...] till in spring last the Populace rose & mobbed the old leader Buchan & put her out of the town ; on which all her followers voluntarily quit the place likewise, & with such precipitation, that many of them never shut their doors behind them [...] Their tenets are a strange jumble of enthusiastic jargon ; among others, she pretends to give them the Holy Ghost by breathing on them, which she does with postures & practices that are scandalously indecent.

Even more than two hundred years later, during the last century, when Western specialists in Chinese, who had by that time created the discipline known as sinology, designed the early forms of numerous transcriptions used today, the first mistakes of enthusiastic missionaries, envoys and business men were not fully eliminated.

She loved dancing and pageants, activities often frowned upon in Presbyterian Scotland, but for which she found a vibrant outlet in Jacobean London, where she created a " rich and hospitable " cultural climate at the royal court, became an enthusiastic playgoer, and sponsored lavish masques.

Halo < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s soundtrack was created by Bungie Studios ' audio director, Martin O ' Donnell, and received enthusiastic praise from many critics.

On 28 October 1950, a day before the decisive match against Red Star ( a 2 – 1 win ), the official fan organization Torcida was founded, It was created by engineering student Vjenceslav Žuvela, who chose the name after the enthusiastic Brazilian fans, and Torcida become the first organized group of supporters in Europe.

Although most of the Lebanese sects were not enthusiastic for the new state, Maronites were the majority and managed to preserve its independence ; an independence that created a unique precedent in the Arab world as Lebanon was the first Arab country in which Christians were not a minority.

Alan volunteered his son's house for Valerie Eng's ( a girl Don and Charlie both liked during high school ) wedding, toiled over coordinating every detail, and assigned the seating arrangement to Charlie, who created a mathematical algorithm for it, though Charlie didn't overall seem too enthusiastic about it.

is one of the wide tree-lined boulevards created in Paris during the Second French Empire by Baron Haussmann, with enthusiastic support from Napoleon III.

The tremendous increase in shooting generally created a demand for a wider range of shooting equipment, many of the ideas for which came from the enthusiastic shooters themselves.

A monument erected in the new cemetery at Thurso testifies to the respect which his life-work created, when the merits of this enthusiastic naturalist came to be appreciated.

The work, in the opinion of enthusiastic dilettanti, stamped the author as the first artist of modern times.

The enthusiastic reception of morphine led to the foundation of the modern pharmaceutical industry.

The Muslim troops were armed with modern repeater rifles and artillery, and reportedly enthusiastic about going on the offensive and killing foreigners.

" Its republication in 1947, with an enthusiastic introduction by Gide, helped bring about the modern critical and academic appreciation of this novel.

Humphrey was an enthusiastic successor of his father's New Deal-inspired political philosophy, and throughout his career he remained devoted to traditional progressive ideals as well as their more modern manifestations: " If you think that being too liberal means raising the minimum wage, advocating health care for everyone, protecting the environment, taking on the tobacco industry, enacting campaign finance reform, and putting more cops on the streets, then guess what?

This shootout, the first of its kind in the NHL in the modern era, received an enthusiastic, frenzied response from the crowd when it was announced, and carried on during the event.

Whatever modern opinion may be of his recordings, the enthusiastic applause of his colleagues attests to their appreciation on at least one occasion, as can be heard at the end of his rendering of Tosti's song " Ideale ".

British Admiral Somerville was not enthusiastic about the action, saying that it was "... the biggest political blunder of modern times and will rouse the whole world against us ... we all feel thoroughly ashamed ..." Although it did rekindle anglophobic feelings in France, the action demonstrated Britain's resolve to continue the war alone and rallied the British Conservative Party around Churchill ( although Prime Minister Churchill was not party leader ).

As a student at senior high school in Sonneberg between 1957 and 1961, he was enthusiastic about modern music and dance genres such as swing, boogie-woogie, blues and rock ' n ' roll, and taught himself to play guitar and piano.

In the late 1980s, Ladd worked at KMPC, where he helped to shape its " Full Spectrum Rock " blend of classic and modern rock, and was enthusiastic about its rebranding as KEDG " the Edge " in March 1989, but was laid off when the station abruptly abandoned its rock format two months later.

Stefano wrote and executive produced the Al Pacino drama Two Bits ( 1995 ; aka A Day to Remember ), a personal project that fared poorly at the box-office and with critics, leaving Stefano less than enthusiastic about continuing to write for modern Hollywood.

Decades later, with the ZX81 games played mostly in emulated environments by the retrogaming community, it still fetches enthusiastic reviews, even while modern high-end gaming consoles and home computers provide much richer capabilities for one's immersion into a first-person 3D game:

The museum has received great attention from within the field of museum design and historians for its use of modern technology, theatrics, and high-fidelity figures to tell the Lincoln story, generating larger than expected attendance, enthusiastic visitors and a sharp boost to the regional economy, including increased attendance at surrounding historical attractions.

The reservoir is home to an enthusiastic sailing club ( www. chelmarshsailing. org. uk ) whose refurbished facilities were opened by the Princess Anne in 2004, Chelmarsh Sailing club encourages people of all ages to learn to sail, it has an expanding fleet of modern sailing boats which are suitable for people of all ages and abilities.

Therefore Dasan is of great importance as he was able to be enthusiastic for modern Western ideas but remained deeply committed to the depth of Confucianism.

The text's modern editor, Geberding, who vindicates the coherence and accuracy of its account, gives reasons for locating the anonymous author in Soissons, probably in the royal monastery of Saint-Médard and characterizes him as " Neustrian, a staunch Merovingian legitimist, secular as opposed to ecclesiastically minded, and an enthusiastic admirer and probably a member of that aristocratic class based on the Seine-Oise valley whose deeds, wars and kings he describes ". Liber historiae Francorum is customarily dated to 727 because of a reference at the end to the sixth year of Theuderic IV.

The doyen of modern American market-oriented libertarianism, Austrian School economist Murray Rothbard, was initially an enthusiastic partisan of the Old Right, particularly because of its general opposition to war and imperialism.

Adrian first achieved wide public notice in a nine-month season at the Westminster Theatre from September 1938, as Pandarus in a modern dress Troilus and Cressida and Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonnington in The Doctor's Dilemma, winning enthusiastic notices from the critics: " Mr Max Adrian triumphantly turns Pandarus into a chattering and repulsive fribble of the glossily squalid night-club type "; " The egregious ' B. B .'...

Murphy was an early and enthusiastic supporter of Roosevelt and the New Deal, helping Roosevelt to become the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state of Michigan.

He was an enthusiastic supporter of most of the progressive policies of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, a fellow native of the South and to that point only the second member of the Democratic Party elected President ( in 1912 ) since the end of the Civil War.

In some cases, such as Czechoslovakia, this led to an enthusiastic support for socialism inspired by the Communist Party and a Social Democratic Party willing to fuse.

He was an enthusiastic supporter of Ed Miliband's campaign to lead the Labour Party in 2010, and was reported as telling activists, when Ed Miliband won, " We've got our party back ".

They considered Law a prime candidate, and after debating it for a month he guardedly agreed, enthusiastic about the idea but worried about the effect of a defeat on the Party.

Her battle with Laurel and Hardy in Hollywood Party is another typical enthusiastic Vélez performances.

The diary contains about 200, 000 words describing selfless thoughts with enthusiastic comments on Mao and the inspiring nature of the Party.

The CPUSA lost more allies when, under orders from the Comintern, it withdrew its previous enthusiastic support for the Progressive Party candidacy of Robert La Follette, Sr. for President in 1924.

Generally, critics cited having a fun experience in Mario Party 5, although the minigames received a more enthusiastic reaction than the actual board game, with GameSpy commenting that " the sheer volume can keep you compelled.

The three games in " Bonus " mode were praised, although reviewers were least enthusiastic about " Card Party ", with GameSpot commenting that " This mode is proof that the minigames are really what make Mario Party fun, as it's pretty dull.

Although initially enthusiastic about the Russian October Revolution of 1917 and its Bolshevik leaders, he rejected them soon afterwards, and eventually became one of the strongest advocates of excluding communists from the Labour Party.

Her slapstick battle with Laurel and Hardy in Hollywood Party and her dynamic presence opposite Leon Errol in Mexican Spitfire are typically enthusiastic Vélez performances.

During Philbrick's time in the Communist Party, its membership and support were eroded by the Party's sharp zigzag from anti-war agitation during the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, to enthusiastic support for the war effort after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

While Philbrick was in the Party, Earl Browder, its General Secretary, who was enthusiastic about wartime cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union, and was looking forward to postwar cooperation and growing acceptance of the Communist party by the American public, dissolved the Communist Party and reconstituted it as the Communist Political Association, apparently intending to set the Party on a reformist course.

Hillman's support for the Soviet experiment won him the enthusiastic support of the Communist Party USA in the early 1920s ; it also further alienated him from those in the Socialist Party and associated with the Daily Forward under the leadership of Abraham Cahan, with whom Hillman and the Amalgamated already had strained relations.

His parents and grandparents had been enthusiastic supporters of the Nazi Party, and Julius Streicher was a friend of the family.

He became an enthusiastic supporter of the Soviet Union and was expelled from the Socialist Party of America in 1919 along with numerous other sympathisers of the Bolsheviks.

* Germany and Austria after World War II when many former enthusiastic members of the Nazi Party embraced the newly-created nations of West Germany or East Germany and sought to erase or at least minimize their former role as Nazis.

The response to the new Constitution was less enthusiastic in the provinces, where the Hetmans ' Party exerted stronger influence.

Many thought Hollick would meet his match in Lord Stevens of Ludgate, proprietor of United ; but it was Stevens who was sidelined as Hollick became chief executive, and within 18 months the Express had undergone a radical shift of political affiliation, dropping its long-standing support for the Conservative Party to become an enthusiastic proponent of Tony Blair's New Labour.