His father tried to make the food a topic.

`` Just because your father tried to make a banker out of you, you've leaned over backward to keep your hands off.

His father, although a kind man in private, was also an aggressive prosecuting attorney who tried death penalty cases, arguing strongly for the death penalty to be imposed.

In 1183, the Young King Henry tried again to force his father to hand over some of his patrimony.

In debt and refused control of Normandy, he tried to ambush his father at Limoges.

In 1535 Christian II, the deposed monarch, tried to regain power from King Christian III who just succeeded his father Frederick I.

George's father Augustine was a slave-owning tobacco planter who later tried his hand in iron-mining ventures.

Caligula, who is only 5 years old at the time, completes the curse and kills his father, because his father had tried to discipline him.

She tried to shoot her father with a crossbow after King Henry allowed her two young daughters to be blinded.

Creusa's father, Creon, burned to death with his daughter as he tried to save her.

When Lothair tried to call a general council of the realm in Nijmegen, in the heart of Austrasia, the Austrasians and Rhinelanders came with a following of armed retainers, and the disloyal sons were forced to free their father and bow at his feet ( 831 ).

For two years he tried to raise funds to publish a booklet describing the language until he received the financial help from his future wife's father.

CNN's preliminary report following the attacks claimed that an unnamed acquaintance relayed " He told me once that his father had tried to kill him when he was a child.

On 1 July 1535, More was tried before a panel of judges that included the new Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas Audley, as well as Anne Boleyn's father, brother, and uncle.

Grant's father, again believing his son's only potential for success to be in the military, tried to get the Secretary of War to rescind the resignation, to no avail.

Suetonius also recorded that when Vitellius was born his horoscope so horrified his parents that his father tried to prevent Aulus from becoming a consul.

Unlike his father, who gave his people permission to collaborate with the French, William was a strong personality and he tried to regain the Republic.

But then his brother Geoffrey, who had received as appanage the three fortresses of Chinon, Loudun and Mirebeau, tried to seize upon Anjou, on the pretext that, by the will of their father, Geoffrey the Handsome, all the paternal inheritance ought to descend to him, if Henry succeeded in obtaining possession of the maternal inheritance.

Her father had tried to also find a brilliant match for Elizabeth with the French Royal court when he paid a visit there.

The artist has perhaps tried to depict Edward's blepharoptosis, a trait he inherited from his father. Edward was born at the Palace of Westminster on the night of 17 – 18 June 1239, to King Henry III and Eleanor of Provence.

When her father tried to get Anne to baptise her youngest daughter into the Catholic faith, Anne burst into tears.

In 1225, the street performer and juggler Bertrand Cordel, doubtlessly encouraged by local lords, tried to pass himself off as Baldwin I of Constantinople ( the father of Jeanne of Flanders ), who had disappeared at the battle of Adrianople.

Dudley's youth was overshadowed by the downfall of his family in 1553 after his father, the Duke of Northumberland, had unsuccessfully tried to establish Lady Jane Grey on the English throne.

At home, Mary ’ s father excitedly talks about her upcoming wedding, only for her to reveal that she and Massimo are not engaged before scolding her father for trying to arrange her marriage.

In 1254, English fears of a Castilian invasion of the English province of Gascony induced Edward's father to arrange a politically expedient marriage between his fourteen-year-old son and Eleanor, the half-sister of King Alfonso X of Castile.

After the election of Theobald I as king of Navarre, his father tried to arrange a marriage for Alfonso with Theobald's daughter, Blanche of Navarre, but the move was unsuccessful.

In 1677, during his mother's regency she tried to arrange a marriage between Victor Amadeus and his first cousin Infanta Isabel Luísa of Portugal, the presumptive heiress of her father, Peter II and Victor Amadeus ' aunt.

When the law periodically caught up to his father, Milan Cimbora said, he would hire a lawyer from Tampa to arrange for him to pay a fine at the Sheriff's Office.

The Pontifex Maximus, acting as the father of the bride, would typically arrange a marriage with a suitable Roman nobleman.

When he was three his father tried to arrange a marriage between him and Mary Tudor, the younger daughter of King Henry VII of England.

Hobbs ' father, having helped to arrange his appearance in the match, died from pneumonia a week after the match.

While working there, one of his colleagues and a friend of his father, F. C. Hutt, got in contact with Hayward to ask him to arrange a trial for Hobbs, with a view to joining Surrey.

In 1174, her father sent Frederick de la Roche, archbishop of Tyre, on a diplomatic legation to Europe to drum up support ( martial and financial ) for the Crusader states, and to arrange a suitable marriage for Sibylla.

Upon arriving in Perth, they arrange to stay with Frank's father, an Irish immigrant.

A ketannah ( literally meaning " little ") was any girl between the age of 3 years and that of 12 years plus one day ; a ketannah was completely subject to her father's authority, and her father could arrange a marriage for her without her agreement.

If the father was dead or missing, the brothers of the ketannah, collectively, had the right to arrange a marriage for her, as had her mother, although in these situations a ketannah would always have the right to annul her marriage even if it was the first.

With the absence of Yamauchi ’ s father, his grandparents met to arrange the marriage.

As a result, his parents arrange to send him to military school, until they discover that he suffers from the same panic attacks that plagued his father and grandfather.

In 1167, his father had tried to arrange marriages for him and Conrad to daughters of Henry II of England or sisters of William I of Scotland-but these failed, the English match probably because of consanguinity ( the boy's mother Judith was related to Eleanor of Aquitaine ), the Scottish match because the princesses were already married.

The music of the Monkees often featured rather dark subject matter beneath a superficially bright, happy sound ( the song " Last Train to Clarksville ", for instance, is actually about a young man who has been drafted, and is trying to arrange one last date with his girlfriend before he ships out, and includes the line " And I don't know if I'm ever coming home "); the music of the film takes the darkness and occasional satirical elements of the Monkees ' earlier tunes and makes it far more overt, as in " Ditty Diego-War Chant ", or " Daddy's Song ," which has Jones singing an upbeat, Broadway-style number about a boy abandoned by his father.

Like any father, he wants what is best for his son, even taking the time to personally arrange Jan's transfer to a school so he could be with children his age.

He also has to arrange his different social roles as father, husband, club member – this is an intrapersonal role conflict.

In 1912 his father was appointed Intendant of the Municipal Theatre in Chemnitz and was therefore in a position to arrange for Richard to appear as Tamino in The Magic Flute on 2 March 1913.

Following the death of Mary's husband Francis II of France in 1560, and the apparent failure of the English marriage plan, his father tried to arrange for his marriage to the Queen of Scots, first suggested in their infancy.

Sala was born in London ; his father ( 1792 – 1828 ) being the son of an Italian who came to London to arrange ballets at the theatres, and his mother ( 1789 – 1860 ) an actress and teacher of singing.

This does not sit well with Arthur, even as Annie risks their safety to contact her estranged father and arrange a home and life for Danny if they should decide to leave him behind.