Out of favour at Stoke, Beattie signed a two-year contract, with the option of a further year, with Scottish Premier League side Rangers for an undisclosed fee in the summer of 2010.

He was hoping to get a two-year contract, but was offered just a one-year deal and turned it down in favour of a transfer to Aston Villa.

In favour of the Synoptic chronology, E. P Sanders observes that a short ministry accords with the careers of other known prophetic figures of the time — who appear in the desert, raise large scale public interest, but soon come to a bloody end at the hand of the Roman military.

In March 1949, after losing Stalin's favour, he lost the foreign affairs ministry to Andrei Vyshinsky.

Thus the majority vote in favour of the amendment to the militia bill caused the downfall of Russell's ministry, which occurred on February 21, 1852.

In 1982 the United Reformed Church voted in favour of a covenant with the Church of England, the Methodist Church and the Moravian Church, which would have meant remodelling its moderators as bishops and incorporating its ministry into the apostolic succession.

" At the same time he was in favour of making the creed of the Church as wide as possible —" not narrower than that which is even now the test of its membership, the Apostles ' Creed "— and of throwing down all barriers which could be wisely dispensed with to admission to its ministry.

( 1780 ), written by Horne in conjunction with others, criticizing the measures of Lord North's ministry, passed through numerous editions ; the other, A Letter on Parliamentary Reform ( 1782 ), addressed by him to Dunning, set out a scheme of reform, which he afterwards withdrew in favour of that advocated by William Pitt the Younger.

He became Lord Privy Seal in Lord North's ministry ( 1771 ) but resigned in 1775, being in favour of conciliatory action towards the American colonists.

After attending the Lycée Saint-Louis he became a clerk in the ministry of war, and won public favour as a poet of the Parnassian school.

The reconstituted Norquay ministry threatened to eliminate government bilingualism, and to redraw the electoral map to favour the English.

In 1982 the United Reformed Church voted in favour of the covenant, which would have meant remodelling its elders and moderators as bishops and incorporating its ministry into the apostolic succession.

He would be the de facto leader of this Whig ministry as Northern Secretary until 1717, when he was demoted to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in favour of the First Stanhope / Sunderland Ministry after being outmanouvred by his rival Whigs.

Lord Godolphin took power in 1684, but after Charles's death in 1685, his successor, James II, purged the ministry of those whom he did not favour ; Lord Rochester was " kicked upstairs ," forming the Second Rochester Ministry.

Not all people were in favour of her ministry, regarding it as akin to witchcraft.

Early in 1853 he married, and as the Derby connexion put him out of favour with ministry of George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, and especially with Sir James Graham, the First Lord of the Admiralty, he settled down in Sussex as manager of his father's property.

Disillusioned and depressed, he fell into a deep melancholy and abdicated in favour of his son, John II.

Those who favour the later date appeal to the earliest external testimony, that of the Christian father Irenaeus ( c. 150-202 ), who wrote that he received his information from people who knew John personally.

Several key leaders early in the Protestant Reformation, including Martin Luther and John Calvin, followed the traditional reasoning in favour of capital punishment, and the Lutheran Church's Augsburg Confession explicitly defended it.

The powerful Anjou nobleman William de Roches was persuaded to switch sides from Arthur to John ; suddenly the balance seemed to be tipping away from Philip and Arthur in favour of John.

John was optimistic, as he had successfully built up alliances with the Emperor Otto, Renaud of Boulogne and Count Ferdinand of Flanders ; he was enjoying papal favour ; and he had successfully built up substantial funds to pay for the deployment of his experienced army.

Hunt was dropped at the end of 1978 in favour of Lotus's Ronnie Peterson, but when Peterson was killed by a crash at the Italian Grand Prix, John Watson was signed instead.

Fadden stood down in favour of Labor leader John Curtin.

McMahon stood down in favour of John Gorton.

Since the soul is a spiritual substance it is not brought into being through transformation of matter, but directly by God, whence the special uniqueness of each person .." Fifty years later, Pope John Paul II, stating that scientific evidence now seemed to favour the evolutionary theory, upheld the distinction of Pius XII regarding the human soul.

Peter Gay writes of the Puritans ' standard reputation for " dour prudery " as a " misreading that went unquestioned in the nineteenth century ", commenting how unpuritanical they were in favour of married sexuality, and in opposition to the Catholic view of virginity, citing Edward Taylor and John Cotton.

The London Gazette of 17 March 1691 published a patent in favour of John Lofting for a fire engine, but remarked upon and recommended another invention of his, for a beer pump:

According to Barbour and Fordoun, in the late summer of 1305 in a secret agreement sworn, signed and sealed, John Comyn agreed to forfeit his claim to the Scottish throne in favour of Robert Bruce upon receipt of the Bruce lands in Scotland should an uprising occur led by Bruce.

Despite the central role played by Canadian John Humphrey, the Canadian Government at first abstained from voting on the Declaration's draft, but later voted in favour of the final draft in the General Assembly.

In early November 1292, at a great feudal court held in the castle at Berwick-upon-Tweed, judgement was given in favour of John Balliol having the strongest claim in law.

By September 1298, Wallace resigned as Guardian of Scotland in favour of Robert the Bruce, Earl of Carrick and future king, and John Comyn of Badenoch, King John Balliol's nephew.

This collar, however, has its origin in no royal favour, Sir John Alen, thrice a lord mayor, having bequeathed it to the then lord mayor and his successors " to use and occupie yerely at and uppon principall and festivall dayes.

After a lengthy hearing, a decision was made in favour of John Balliol on 17 November 1292.

In 1709 he presented a petition to King John V of Portugal, seeking royal favour for his invention of an airship, in which he expressed the greatest confidence.

John travelled to Sicily to stir up the discontents in favour of Peter and thence to Constantinople to procure the support of Michael VIII Palaeologus.

King John receives an ambassador from France, who demands, on pain of war, that he renounce his throne in favour of his nephew, Arthur, whom the French King, Philip, believes to be the rightful heir to the throne.

The historical parallels in the succession of Richard II may not have been intended as political comment on the contemporary situation, with the weak Richard II analogous to Queen Elizabeth and an implicit argument in favour of her replacement by a monarch capable of creating a stable dynasty, but lawyers investigating John Hayward's historical work, The First Part of the Life and Raigne of King Henrie IV, a book partly derived from Shakespeare's Richard II, chose to make this connection.

The two travel to California to see John Watson, an enigmatic scientist who purports to know the cause of the dolphins ' disappearance and who eschewed his original name in favour of " Wonko the Sane " due to harbouring the belief that the entire world's population save himself has gone mad.

An April Fools ' Day show which aired in 2003 featured Robinson being strangely nice to the contestants, and abandoning her traditional black wardrobe in favour of a metallic pink overcoat.

Ernest Robinson, secretary of the Winnipeg Trade and Labour Union, issued a statement that “ every organization but one has voted in favour of the general strike ” and that “ all public utilities will be tied-up in order to enforce the principle of collective bargaining ".

The second creation came in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1827 in favour of the Honourable F. J. Robinson.

A ballot on a strike in sympathy of Robinson and opposed to the dismissal was held but the motion not carried, votes being 14, 000 against a strike and only 600 in favour.

Despite some impressive performances in the 2005 Autumn Internationals and being made captain for England's tour to Australia in 2006, he fell out of favour with England when Brian Ashton replaced Andy Robinson as coach in late 2006 and has not featured since.