Many historic buildings in Ireland were destroyed during the war, most famously the Custom House in Dublin, which was disastrously attacked on de Valera's insistence, to the horror of the more militarily experienced Collins.

Hostilities did not flare up again until 1419, during the Council of Constance, when they were called off at the papal legate's insistence.

At the insistence of Cato the Younger, then quaestor, all men who had profited during the proscriptions were brought to trial.

Pamela Andrews, the heroine of Pamela, represented " Richardson's insistence upon well-defined feminine roles " and was part of a common fear held during the 18th century that women were " too bold ".

An innocent, affectionate gesture between the two during a song ( Clark touched Belafonte on the arm ) prompts concern from the show's sponsor ( Chrysler Corporation ) due to the difference in their races, but the scene is aired intact at Clark's insistence.

It was Lippert's insistence on an American star in the Hammer films he was to distribute that led to the prevalence of American leads in so many of the company's productions during the 1950s.

* In " Part III: Fighting Each Other ", a World War I officer ( Jones ) attempting to rally his men to find cover during an attack is hindered by their insistence on celebrating his birthday, complete with presents and cake.

Pupin stayed in Paris for two months during the peace talk ( April – May 1919 ) on the insistence of the government.

The Odd Couple utilized a laugh track during its first season ; it shifted to a live audience ( at the insistence of its stars ) by the second season

Toft's confession of 7 December demonstrates her insistence that her sister-in-law played no part in the hoax, but Manningham's 1726 An Exact Diary of what was observ'd during a Close Attendance upon Mary Toft, the pretended Rabbet-Breeder of Godalming in Surrey offers eyewitness testimony of her complicity.

His success as an administrator provoked the jealousy of almighty Ukrainian born Prince Potemkin, upon whose insistence Chernyshev was sent away to govern Belarus, which had been snatched from Poland during the first partition several months prior to that.

His form as seen through the first part of the game leads the player to believe he is some sort of insect ( despite his adamant insistence otherwise ), but he bears a resemblance to a one-inch boy during the portion of the game spent at Issun's size.

Sombart's insistence on Sociology as a part of the Humanities ( Geisteswissenschaften ), necessarily so because it dealt with human beings and therefore required inside, empathic " Verstehen " rather than the outside, objectivizing " Begreifen " ( both German words translate as " understanding " into English ), became extremely unpopular already during his lifetime, because it was the opposite of the " scientification " of the social sciences, in the tradition of Auguste Comte, Émile Durkheim and Weber ( although this is a misunderstanding ; Weber largely shared Sombart's views in these matters ), which became fashionable during this time and has more or less remained so until today.

Rahul, who also joins Yash and Rohan during the funeral service, agrees to return home for one visit to meet his mother, on the insistence of Rohan and Poo.

Those with less understanding of fine details of Yugoslav history, or his ideological opponents, often cite his strong nationalist feelings ( attempting rehabilitation of allied Serbian Chetniks, Kingdom of Yugoslavia's legal army during WWII ) as contrarian to his insistence on peaceful solution to Yugoslav crisis.

Winston Churchill revived the Imperial War Cabinet during the Second World War at the insistence of John Curtin, the Prime Minister of Australia.

His social conscience was much appreciated during the Depression era, as was his insistence that his salary should be cut as were the salaries of public servants at the time.

Although James struggled to impress at first, Grobbelaar's insistence on playing for Zimbabwe gave James chances ; Grobbelaar only played 6 times for Liverpool during 1992 – 93, and even spent a period on loan at Stoke City.

The Irish Brigade distinguished itself from the rest of the Army of the Potomac by Meagher's insistence on arming it with Model 1842 smoothbore muskets, an obsolete weapon that was largely phased out during 1862, because he wanted his men to be able to fire buck-and-ball shot ( a. 69 caliber musket ball with four smaller balls ), which produced a shotgun effect in close-range combat and could not be used with rifles.

At the insistence of Thomas B. Jeffery, the position of the driver was also moved to the left-hand side of the car during the 1903 Rambler production.

At the insistence of his mother, who wanted him to participate in an extracurricular activity as a way to keep him away from crime and violence, Curtis began to play football during his senior year despite having never cared much for the sport.

His insistence that his followers refuse welfare not related to employment was estimated to have saved New York City $ 2 million during the Depression.

Whereas other militant organisations made some compromise with the tenets of Sikhism during the militancy period, Babbar Khalsa stood alone in its insistence on the strict compliance of the rules of the Khalsa brotherhood.

The Guyana expedition of Roger North in 1620 seemed to be a repeat of Raleigh's violation of Spanish settlements in the Caribbean, and at Gondomar's insistence North was imprisoned.

Enraged by the Mothren leader's insistence on the expedition, Malzor murders him and usurps his position.

He joined the vessel near Tahiti, and was welcomed aboard on insistence of Sir Joseph Banks, a member of Cook's expedition.

Kermit Roosevelt, Theodore's son, had recently gotten engaged to a socialite named Belle and didn't plan on joining the expedition but did on the insistence of his mother to protect his father.

He knew her mind pretty well, by now, its quick perceptions and sympathies, its painful insistence on truth and directness, its capacity for love almost too deep for a man to reciprocate, even in part.

It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

The facts, he adds, are hidden from public view by squeamish objections to calling bad conditions by their right name and by insistence on token integration rather than on real improvement of the schools, regardless of the color of their students.

Mr. Kennedy was convinced that insistence on the demand would make international agreements, or even negotiations, impossible.

So, too, was the insistence on the relativity of the external world, and the ideas that language and things perceived by consciousness were poor substitutes indeed for immediate perception by pure, indwelling spirit: the opposition of pure consciousness to ratiocinating consciousness.

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.

His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel, and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, illustrated by the contest between Yahweh and Baal on Mount Carmel, as told in 1 Kings 18, form the keynote to a period which culminated in the accession of Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen disciple Elisha was the leading figure.

This can be mitigated somewhat by insistence on using CNAME records indicating service rather than actual machine names to refer to the service, but there is no way of guaranteeing that users will follow such a convention.

In his defense, some baseball historians have suggested that it was not customary for game-ending hits to be fully " run out ", it was only Evers's insistence on following the rules strictly that resulted in this unusual play.

Clérambault's insistence on confining his huge force in the village was to seal his fate that day.

" The film is noteworthy for its invocation of silent film techniques and an insistence on the jump-cut for effect.

While some recent scholars have questioned the existence of a large-scale Domitian persecution, others believe that Domitian's insistence on being treated as a god may have been a source of friction between the Church and Rome.

Although at first the disagreement appeared to be minor and inspired by personal conflicts, for example, Lenin's insistence on dropping less active editorial board members from Iskra or Martov's support for the Organizing Committee of the Congress which Lenin opposed, the differences quickly grew and the split became irreparable.

Leon Trotsky at first supported the Mensheviks, but left them in September 1904 over their insistence on an alliance with Russian liberals and their opposition to a reconciliation with Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

This was in sharp contrast to his insistence, for more than 30 years, that those killed on the day had not been innocent.

" Who claims to find a contradiction between the Greek pagan insistence on the eternity of the world and the Aristotelian rejection of the existence of any actual infinite.

Mainly on the insistence of the Army, many independent churches were tolerated, although everyone still had to pay tithes to the established church.

In 2011, while waiting for certification, several service members were discharged under DADT at their own insistence, until July 6 when a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals re-instated Judge Phillips ' injunction barring further enforcement of the U. S. military's ban on openly gay service members.

Although " prescriptions " against the possibly deleterious consequences of these kinds of encounters vary, from Kierkegaard's religious " stage " to Camus ' insistence on persevering in spite of absurdity, the concern with helping people avoid living their lives in ways that put them in the perpetual danger of having everything meaningful break down is common to most existentialist philosophers.

For reasons of plunder and the Germans ' insistence on conquest, the Crusade leaders targeted Damascus, an ally until the attack.

His insistence on recognition as such by the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire since 1489 resulted in the granting of this recognition in 1514 by Emperor Maximilian I to Vasili III.

After the 2010 season, the Marlins continued their string of dealing players when their contracts became too much to bear, dealing power-hitting second basemen Dan Uggla to the Atlanta Braves after his insistence on an extra year in his possible contract extension went nowhere with the front office.

The Hosken Report, in particular, was criticized for its alleged ethnocentrism, its negative statements about African society, and its insistence on Western intervention.