I am not easily persuaded that a rule accepted by so many people for so many centuries can be so lightly dismissed.

I made them show me their identification before I could be persuaded not to call on Felice Perrin ''.

When talking about those who have made " shipwreck " of their faith ( 1 Tim 1: 19 ), Wesley claims that " not one, or a hundred only, but I am persuaded, several thousands ... innumerable are the instances ... of those who had fallen but now stand upright.

With the monarchy at the point of complete financial breakdown Leopold I was at last persuaded to change the government.

My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes for fear of treachery ; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people ...

In January 1790 President Washington, in his first annual message to Congress stated that, " Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to ", and ordered Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson to prepare a plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States, afterwards referred to as the Jefferson report.

He campaigned for the reunion of the Roman and Orthodox churches, received the Patriarch of the Coptic Church and persuaded the Armenian Patriarch to remove the anathema against the Council of Chalcedon and Pope Leo I ( 440 – 461 ).

In 1580 he was persuaded by English Jesuits to moderate or suspend the Bull Regnans in Excelsis ( 1570 ) which had excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England.

The Pope persuaded Otto I to employ Gerbert as tutor for his young son, the future Emperor Otto II ( 973 – 983 ).

I felt rebuked beneath his eye .</ poem ></ small > In 1809, Scott persuaded James Ballantyne and his brother to move to Edinburgh and to establish their printing press there.

In 510 BC, he persuaded the Spartan king Cleomenes I to launch an attack on Athens, which succeeded in overthrowing Hippias.

There was real doubt at Rome, and its bishop ( either Eleuterus or Victor I ) even wrote letters in support of Montanism, although he was later persuaded by Praxeas to recall them.

Influenced by his wife, who was hostile to the return of the Macedonian Dynasty in the shape of Byzantine Emperor Basil II after the assassination of John I Tzimisces, Otto II was persuaded to annex the Byzantine controlled southern Italy.

And thus he was more dangerous to the morals, than to the libertys of his country, to which I am persuaded that he meaned no ill in his heart ... His Name will not be recorded in History among the best men, or the best Ministers, but much much less ought it to be ranked among the worst.

" I am not, I thank God, fantastically persuaded in religion but ... do find it soundly and godly set forth in this universal Church of England.

Marie Louise was finally persuaded to leave by Henri Clarke, who received the order from Napoleon: " I would prefer to know that they Empress and the King of Rome are both at the bottom of the Seine rather than in the hands of the foreigners.

Later Amadeus would be persuaded by Pope Clement VI to accompany Louis I of Naples on an expedition to Naples.

Then America enters World War I. Jim informs his worried mother that he has no intention of enlisting, but when he runs into his patriotic friends, he is persuaded to do just that, making his father very proud.

In 1992, he was persuaded by Sally Potter to play Elizabeth I in the film Orlando.

In 1973, Trevor-Roper in the foreword to a book by John Röhl endorsed the view that Germany was largely responsible for World War I. Trevor-Roper wrote that, in his opinion, far too many British historians had allowed themselves to be persuaded of the theory that the outbreak of war in 1914 had been the fault of all the great powers.

Selwyn also said that " Charles, I am persuaded, would have no consideration on earth but for what was useful to his own ends.

The Australian and I both were wearing insect repellent and were not badly bothered by insects, but my eyes watered as we stood watching the aborigine.

The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.

Both World War I and World War II had a devastating effect on the sport of Australian football and on Australian sport in general.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the game spread with the Australian Diaspora to areas such as New Zealand and South Africa ; however this growth went into rapid decline following World War I.

* 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins — The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

The victory song of the Australian national cricket team is entitled " Under the Southern Cross I Stand ".

* 40, 000 Horsemen, about the Australian Light Horse during the Sinai and Palestine campaign of World War I

* 1915 – World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.

* 1916 – World War I: Battle of Fromelles – British and Australian troops attack German trenches in a prelude to the Battle of the Somme.

Cade was appointed captain, Australian Army Medical Corps, A. I. F., on 1 July 1940 and posted to the 2nd / 9th Field Ambulance.

As a result of the ban on foreign service, during World War I and World War II, all-volunteer Australian Imperial Forces were formed for overseas deployment.

In 1914, following the outbreak of World War I, Nauru was captured by Australian troops, after which Britain held control until 1920.

In 1914, Australian troops occupied German New Guinea, and it remained under Australian military control through World War I until 1921.

Most of West Papua, at that time known as Dutch New Guinea, was occupied, as were large parts of the Territory of New Guinea ( the former German New Guinea, which was also under Australian rule after World War I ), but Papua was protected to a large extent by its southern location and the near-impassable Owen Stanley Ranges to the north.

Benaud said: " I ’ ll be doing Australian cricket next year – 2010 – but I don ’ t do any television at all anywhere else now and when I finish next year, then I ’ ll be doing other things ... But that ’ ll be no more television commentary ".

Woodley's and Dobe Newton's song " I Am Australian ", which was recorded by the Seekers, and by Durham with Russell Hitchcock and Mandawuy Yunupingu, has become an unofficial Australian anthem.

Woodley released several solo albums and focused on songwriting, including co-writing the patriotic song " I Am Australian " with Dobe Newton ( of the Bushwackers ) in 1987.

Vegemite was invented in 1922 by food technologist Cyril P. Callister when, following the disruption of British Marmite imports after World War I, his employer, the Australian company Fred Walker & Co., gave him the task of developing a spread from the used yeast being dumped by breweries.

`` Yeah, I can see that '', the friend was forced to agree.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.

A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.

`` I know Ches, he's a friend of mine.

In The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, it may be noted, Swift himself contemptuously dismissed Steele's reference to his friend at court: `` I suppose by the Style of old Friend, and the like, it must be some Body there of his own Level ; ;

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

The daughter, Lilly, was a very good friend of mine and I always had hopes that someday she and Meltzer would find each other.

He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

Faced with a gesture like Di Bosis', I find usually that my sentiments are closer to those of my sculptor friend.

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.