While some historians read this generous act as a sign that Emperor Menelik still hoped for a peaceful resolution to the war, Harold Marcus points out that this escort allowed him a tactical advantage: " Menelik craftily managed to establish himself in Hawzien, at Gendepata, near Adwa, where the mountain passes were not guarded by Italian fortifications.

Buchan's name had been earlier put forward by Mackenzie King to George V as a candidate for the governor generalcy: Buchan and his wife had been guests of Mackenzie King's at his estate, Kingsmere, in 1924, and Mackenzie King, who at that time was prime minister, was impressed with Buchan, stating, " I know no man I would rather have as a friend, a beautiful, noble soul, kindly & generous in thought & word & act, informed as few men in this world have ever been, modest, humble, true, man after God's own heart.

" He is a person with an impeccable past, generous sentiments and deep religious and humanist training, but whose excessive sensitivity and poetic temperament have led him to act in accordance with the passion of the moment rather than calm, firm will.

Until the 1970s, the Treaty was generally ignored by both the courts and parliament, although it was usually depicted in New Zealand history as a generous act on the part of the Crown.

This generous act cemented good local relations between the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church.

In July 1984 — by which time PCjr sales had declined to only a few thousand a month — IBM replaced the chiclet keyboard for free with a different wireless model, an unusually generous act for the company and the industry.

Most modern stories indicate that the exchange is performed as a means of vengeance, and it is almost never depicted as a generous act.

In return for his generous act, they give the newborn baby girl the middle name of Mateo in gratitude and to honor his memory.

Longboarding is the act of riding on a longboard, A longboard is known for its generous size ( both length and width ) over its smaller, technical counterpart, the skateboard.

Because of this generous act, he is chosen by the European Union to be the first recipient for rejuvenation technology, which will leave him with the body of a young man.

When an organization, composed almost entirely of aliens, who are themselves here by the sufferance of a generous hospitality, band themselves together in defiance of the law to drive out a class, who, however objectionable, have the same legal rights as themselves, it is an act of insolent audacity that ought to move the indignation of every honest man.

They act as confidants to Natsuki, with Makoto playing the kind, yet concerned businessman and Ayami the sweet generous sister.

As Pauline Turner Strong said in an article in Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies: " Adoption across political and cultural borders may simultaneously be an act of violence and an act of love, an excruciating rupture and a generous incorporation, an appropriation of valued resources and a constitution of personal ties .”

When Leo XIII determined to open the Vatican Archives to the scholars of the world, he found in him the savant to whom he might safely entrust the practical execution of this generous act.

He condemned the act that offered generous inducement to the landlords to sell their estates to the tenants, the Irish Land Commission mediating to then collect land annuities instead of rents, on the grounds that landlords should not receive any compensation for land which Davitt felt belonged to the state.

As Wismer owned what would seem to have been the most potentially lucrative franchise, especially with regard to broadcasting rights, in the nation's largest media market, the act seemed at first blush most generous for a self-described " hustler ".

After its enactment, some consumer advocacy groups criticised the FACT Act claiming that it preempts some stricter and already-existing state regulations, and provides exceptions that are ' far too generous ' to new regulations regarding disclosure of personal information by banks as found in the act.

These aristocratic values began to be criticised in the mid-17th century ; Blaise Pascal, for example, offered a ferocious analysis of the spectacle of power and François de La Rochefoucauld posited that no human act — however generous it pretended to be — could be considered disinterested.

The traditional aristocratic values began to be criticised in the mid 17th century: Blaise Pascal, for example, offered a ferocious analysis of the spectacle of power and François de La Rochefoucauld posited that no human act — however generous it pretended to be — could be considered disinterested.

It implies the spirit of generous sharing or the act of giving as contrasted with selfish getting.

In reference to Brown's raid she wrote, `` though we are non-resistants and religiously believe it better to reform by moral and not by carnal weapons, we know thee was anemated by the most generous and philanthropic motives ''.

`` As a private institution, supported by generous individuals, Emory University will recognize no obligation and will adopt no policy that would conflict with its purpose to promote excellence in scholarship and Christian education.

On 2 September, Skippon, having been told that his infantry were unable to break out as the cavalry had done, and having been offered generous terms by the King, surrendered 6, 000 infantry and all his army's guns and train.

On November 29, 1921, the trustees declared it to be the express policy of the Institute to pursue scientific research of the greatest importance and at the same time " to continue to conduct thorough courses in engineering and pure science, basing the work of these courses on exceptionally strong instruction in the fundamental sciences of mathematics, physics, and chemistry ; broadening and enriching the curriculum by a liberal amount of instruction in such subjects as English, history, and economics ; and vitalizing all the work of the Institute by the infusion in generous measure of the spirit of research.

This relationship was rooted largely in the generous and lenient treatment of Japanese POWs by the Nationalist government in the years immediately following the Japanese surrender in 1945, and was felt especially strongly as a bond of personal obligation by the most senior members then in power .< ref name =" Journal1 "> Gillin, Donald G. and Etter, Charles.

Situated in 50 industrial free zones around the country, these mostly foreign-owned corporations take advantage of generous tax and other financial inducements offered by the government to businesses that operate within the zones.

At the culmination of the ensuing months-long legal dispute, he watched, as described by Sandford, " millions of dollars of his future earnings being surrendered " in what were " uniquely generous terms for Defries ", then " shut himself up in West 20th Street, where for a week his howls could be heard through the locked attic door.

Bazille was generous with his wealth, and helped support his less fortunate associates by giving them space in his studio and materials to use.

In 1846, he attracted attention by his bitter articles against the government in Lajos Kossuth's paper, the Pesti Hírlap, and was returned as one of the Radical candidates to the diet of 1848, where his generous, impulsive nature made him one of the most thorough-going of the patriots.

After her abdication the queen came to reside in Rome, where she was confirmed in her baptism by the Pope, in whom she found a generous friend and benefactor, on Christmas Day, 1655.

But this same generous nature led him to bestow on his relations the riches they were eager to accumulate ; on their behalf, and to the discredit of his pontificate, he revived sinecure offices which had been suppressed by Innocent XI.

Alexander VIII assisted his native Venice by generous subsidies in the war against the Turks, as well as sending seven galleys and 2, 000 infantry for the campaign in Albania.

Like all the pontiffs, Clement X advised the Christian princes to love each other, and to prove it by an entire confidence, by generous measures, and by a prudent and scrupulous conduct.

Notwithstanding the meekness and affability of his upright and moderate character, modest to a fault ( he had the classical sculptures in the Vatican provided with mass-produced fig leaves ) and generous with his extensive private fortune, Clement XIII's pontificate was disturbed by perpetual contentions respecting the pressures to suppress the Jesuits coming from the progressive Enlightenment circles of the philosophes in France.

Eugene is described by his biographer as simple and humble, learned and eloquent, handsome and generous, a lover of peace, and wholly occupied with the thought of doing what was pleasing to God.

He lived in Athens as a vegetarian bachelor, prosperous and generous to his friends, until the end of his life, except for a voluntary one year exile, which was designed to lessen the pressure put on him by his political-philosophical activity, little appreciated by the Christian rulers ; he spent the exile traveling and being initiated into various mystery cults as befitted his universalist approach to religion, trying to become " a priest of the entire universe ", worshiping all forms of the One God.

In addition, having been close to him in their youth, she now showed excessive affection towards her uncle – whilst many historians today dismiss this as familial affection ( noting their early friendship, and his similarity to her father and grandfather ), many of Eleanor's adversaries mistook the generous displays of affection between uncle and niece for an incestuous affair.

The death of Amelia's father prevents their meeting, but following Osborne's death soon after, it is revealed that he had amended his will and bequeathed young George half his large fortune and Amelia a generous annuity.

Esmeralda, a beautiful Gypsy with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and a poor street poet, Pierre Gringoire, but especially those of Quasimodo and his adoptive father, Claude Frollo, the Archdeacon of Notre Dame.

Lady Mary, " my unruly daughter " angered her father by refusing to marry the Earl of Clanbrassil, and again by marrying the Earl of Warwick without his consent ; but they were soon reconciled and he furnished a generous dowry.

With generous support from local music lovers and the municipal orchestra, with whom they gave a farewell concert on 9 October, the two young musicians, accompanied by their father, made the four-day journey to Paris in November 1833.

Second of their sons was Marangatú, a benevolent and generous leader of his people, and father of Kerana, the mother of the seven legendary monsters of Guaraní myth ( see below ).

At seventeen, Sargent was described as " willful, curious, determined and strong " ( after his mother ) yet shy, generous, and modest ( after his father ).

" John Ryon, Esq .," as my father wrote his name among the patrons of my sister ’ s school, was at that time a member of the state senate, deservedly popular, a most generous and obliging gentleman.

Indeed, Fox's generous nature ( helped by his earlier over-indulgence by his father ) made him a rather hopeless political party-leader, often seeming quite unwilling to cajole or discipline his unruly supporters, especially in the case of the young, who were disproportionately represented among the Foxites.

He was of a generous nature and, like his father, truly magnificent.

His generous bequests in favour of his own profession are administered by the Stationers ' Company, of which he became a liveryman in 1738, and in whose hall is his portrait bust and a painting of his father.

Isaac Van Zandt is the father of Texas politician and businessman K. M. Van Zandt and his sister Ida Van Zandt Jarvis, a generous benefactor and the first female trustee of Texas Christian University ( TCU ).

His mother, who came from southern Italy ( Basilicata province ), was a devout Roman Catholic, while his father was an easy-going, generous, openminded, anticlerical man.

His sons, whose side-by-side mansions were on the site later occupied by the first Waldorf-Astoria Hotel ( a family property ) and then the Empire State Building, inaugurated an era of both more flamboyant living and more generous philanthropy than their austere father and grandfather.

His father brushes away his timid confession, reminding him bluntly that he wants Hermann to choose a wife from a respected local family with a generous dowry.

In recognition of the generous financial contribution from the then Nawab of Dhaka, it was named after his father Khwaja Ahsanullah.

A generous wedding gift from her father placed them immediately into the ranks of the wealthy.

He tells her that he was trying to think of a piece of advice that every father should tell his daughter, and tells her to be generous with her time, her love, and her life.

* Fra Cristoforo is a brave and generous friar who helps Renzo and Lucia, acting as a sort of " father figure " to both and as the moral compass of the novel.

Like his father and brother he was a generous philanthropist and contributed almost £ 1 million to slum clearance and housing projects, among other causes.

From Motherwell's own words, the reason he went to Harvard was because he wanted to be a painter while his father urged him pursue a more secure career: " And finally after months of really a cold war he made a very generous agreement with me that if I would get a Ph. D. so that I would be equipped to teach in a college as an economic insurance, he would give me fifty dollars a week for the rest of my life to do whatever I wanted to do on the assumption that with fifty dollars I could not starve but it would be no inducement to last.

He was opposed to impressment and to flogging and was considered so kind and generous that he was called " father " by the common sailors.

His father was a merchant and stockbroker who was generous benefactor to the Royal Free Hospital became High Sheriff of Kent and was knighted in 1938.

Lolita does not believe or see that Sylvia is just another person being generous to her because her father is famous.