Initially on the advice of his mother, he attempted to buy the German tribes off, so as to gain time.

The most well-known example is Angulimala in the Theravadan Pali canon who had killed 999 people and then attempted to kill his own mother and the Buddha, but under the influence of the Buddha he repented and entered the monkhood.

Hikami no Kawatsugu, a son of Emperor Temmu's grandson Prince Shioyaki and Shōmu's daughter Fuwa, attempted to carry out a coup d ' état in 782, but it failed and Kawatsugu and his mother were sent into exile.

In his autobiography, Cardano claimed that his mother had attempted to abort him.

Duke Frederick II and Conrad, the two current male Staufer, by their mother Agnes were grandsons of late Emperor Henry IV and nephews of Henry V. Frederick attempted to succeed to the throne of the Holy Roman Emperor ( formally known as the King of the Romans ) through a customary election, but lost to the Saxon duke Lothair of Supplinburg.

Succeeding his mother, Radama II ( 1861 – 63 ) attempted to relax the queen's stringent policies, but was overthrown two years later by Prime Minister Rainivoninahitriniony ( 1852 – 1865 ) and an alliance of noble courtiers, who sought to end the absolute power of the monarch.

When she received the news, his mother attempted to contain her sorrow by writing down her feelings in a notebook her husband had been using to take notes on a relativity textbook he had been reading.

His mother questioned his home chemistry hobby only once, when he attempted to isolate a large amount of urea from urine.

The queen attempted to fight back with her own propaganda that portrayed her as a caring mother, most notably with the portrait of her and her children done by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, which premiered at the Royal Académie Salon de Paris in August 1787.

During her regency, the Prince of Wales attempted to start a number of quarrels with his mother, whom he saw as a useful proxy to irritate the King.

One of the Myrkr mission survivors, Alema Rar, attempted to plant seeds of doubt in Luke's mind by suggesting that his wife, Mara, may be somehow responsible for the death of his mother, Padmé Amidala, which he almost believes because of Mara's previous involvement as the Emperor's Hand.

In 1037 both the young prince and his mother returned to Poland and attempted to seize the throne.

But the next year, Margaret was left despairing when Clarence and Warwick supported a French-backed Lancastrian invasion of England: although she, together with her mother Cecily, Dowager Duchess of York, attempted to reconcile Clarence and Edward IV, the rebellion continued, and on 2 October 1470 the Lancastrians were returned to power and Edward had fled to Margaret and Charles in Burgundy.

However, when a young man ( the original woman's son ) had discovered that his fiance was this clone, he killed the clone, and then publicly killed his mother, and also attempted his own suicide before being stopped.

* Christopher Porco ( 1983-), was convicted on August 10, 2006, of the murder of his father and attempted murder of his mother with an axe.

Their son, Christopher Porco would be tried in Goshen, Orange County, on charges of second degree murder for the murder of his father and second degree attempted murder in the severe wounding and disfigurement of his mother.

He killed his maternal grandparents, his mother, girlfriend, classmate, and attempted to kill his sister ( Stacy Moody, the lone survivor ) before turning the weapon upon himself.

There are numerous reports and eyewitness accounts of supernatural phenomenon that took place while the Perron's lived in the home, physical attacks by the spirit of the witch on the Perron family and an attempted demonic possession of the mother, Carolyn Perron, by the spirit of the witch.

Amalric's widow ( Isabella's mother ) Maria Comnena had married Balian of Ibelin, and Raymond attempted to regain influence with a project to marry Sibylla to Balian's older brother Baldwin of Ibelin.

Louis attended Bronson Vocational School for a time to learn cabinet-making and his mother attempted to get him interested in playing the violin.

She met secretly with Alexander ’ s tutor de La Harpe to discuss his pupil's ascension, and attempted to convince Maria, his mother, to sign a proposal authorizing her son's legitimacy.

At one Canadian service, hidden cameras showed a mother who was carrying her Muscular Dystrophy-afflicted daughter, Grace, being stopped by two screeners when they attempted to get into the line for a possible blessing from Benny.

On the other hand, Anna ’ s mother, Irene Doukaina, according to Choniates “ threw her full influence on the side of ” and “ continually attempted ” to persuade the emperor to designate Nikephoros Bryennios, Anna ’ s husband, as emperor.

She attempted tried an older role with her final silent film My Best Girl in 1927., and in 1928, following the death of her mother, cut off her world famous curls.

In New York City in 1958, the city's Commissioner of Hospitals refused to permit a physician to provide a Protestant mother with a contraceptive device.

This means that such factors as the health of the parents, particularly the mother, their ability to provide their children with the necessities of life, the degree of population density of a country and the shortage of housing facilities may legitimately be taken into consideration in determining the number of offspring.

In order to provide a mother for his children, Patrick tried to remarry, but without success.

As Jacob Sapir could not provide for his family, Sapir's mother, Eva Seagal Sapir, opened a shop to supply the basic necessities.

His education there ended when plague struck the city about 1483, and his mother, who had moved there to provide a home for her sons, died of the infection.

This combination of fasting with lactation requires the mother to provide large amounts of energy to her pup at a time when she is not eating ( and often, not drinking ).

Other slugs, designed for use on service trains, may be fitted with a cab, which can control the whole consist, and may also provide additional fuel storage for the mother locomotive.

Most of the Poeciliidae are ovoviviparous, that is, while the eggs are retained inside the body of the female for protection, the eggs are essentially independent of the mother and she does not provide them with any nutrients.

Both children later said that their mother was too self-absorbed to provide real maternal love.

Milgram's father worked as a baker to provide a modest income for his family until his death in 1953 ( upon which Stanley's mother took over the bakery ).

The Church was to continue to provide versions of the Bible in the " mother tongues " of the faithful, and both clergy and laity were to continue to make Bible study a central part of their lives.

Her mother continued to provide support on the sly.

Lucy Martin A young woman who chose to marry a repulsive suitor rather than wait for her true love, in order to provide for her aging mother.

His father had died in 1780, and he now had to provide for his wife and two children, as well as for his mother, brothers and sisters.

His biological mother entrusted her son's care to her former foster parents Roy and Karen, hoping that they would be able to provide him with an education and a stable family life.

To satisfy dynastic obligations and to provide his children with a mother figure, Ferdinand married Eleonore Caroline Gasparine Louise, Princess Reuss-Köstritz, on 28 February 1908.

When confronted about this by Hercules, Zeus revealed that he specifically chose Alcmene to be Hercules ' mother because he, unfortunately, knew that he could not be there for his son and knew that she would provide him with the love, strength, and support he deserved, thus revealing he had put more thought into Hercules ' birth than any other child he ever had ).

The term " othermother " or " other mother " is also used in some contexts for women who provide care for a child not biologically their own in addition to the child's primary mother.

The suckling future king of the gods had unusual abilities and strength, and in playing with his nursemaid accidentally broke off one of her horns, which then had the divine power to provide unending nourishment, as the foster mother had to the god.

Seeking to provide a lasting memorial to his mother and brother, W. R. Nicholson of Longview, Texas, purchased a former bank building and donated it to the city.

Married to a husband who was frequently absent, McCarty's mother reportedly washed clothes, baked pies, and took in boarders in order to provide for herself and her sons.

Peter's mother -- Dowager Duchess of Denver -- Peter's sister, John Donne, a case of vintage port, and the handling of " corroded sut " provide plenty of garnishing for an indifferent murder, even if we weren't also given an idea of Lord Peter's sexual tastes and powers under trying circumstances.

After his father became ill, Ritzer recalled instances when his mother had to break open the family's piggy bank in order to provide for the family.