* In 1991, Powell was inducted into the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, which " honors the achievements of outstanding individuals in U. S. society who have succeeded in spite of adversity and of encouraging young people to pursue their dreams through higher education.

For example, Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps features the gimmick of a young couple who find themselves handcuffed together and who eventually, almost in spite of themselves, fall in love with one another, and Woody Van Dyke's 1934 detective comedy The Thin Man portrays a witty, urbane couple who trade barbs as they solve mysteries together.

Thanks to his popularity with the army, Nikephoros II Phokas was crowned emperor by the side of Romanos's young sons on 16 August 963, and in spite of the patriarch's opposition married their mother, the regent Theophano.

Nightingale worked hard to educate herself in the art and science of nursing, in spite of opposition from her family and the restrictive social code for affluent young English women.

In spite of all the difficulties he faces on the job, however, Hibiki proves to be a very competent and focused young man who proves that, as a man or a woman, he is quite proficient at teaching physical fitness and at social counseling.

She was born Marcelle Taillefesse at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France, but as a young woman she changed her last name to " Tailleferre " to spite her father, who had refused to support her musical studies.

At the age of seventy-five he married a young girl, and is said to have done so in order to spite his nephew, the next in succession, knowing that he himself must shortly die and that the jointure would impoverish the estate.

It is Walpurgis Night, and in spite of the hotelier's warning not to be late coming back, the young man later leaves his carriage and wanders toward the direction of an abandoned " unholy " village.

Though no orator, and in spite of a personality not particularly amiable or winning, he produced a profound impression upon young men by the pregnancy of his expression, a consistent logical method of thought based on Immanuel Kant and by the manliness of his character.

He tried to isolate himself from her as much as he could when he was young, supposedly out of spite because she, unlike him, was a planned pregnancy and birth.

However, Timmy is somewhat young, and a lot of the ideas he comes up with are met with spite and disgust.

Takasugi-in spite of his young age-was an influential factor within Chōshū as one of the most extreme advocates of a policy of seclusion and expelling the foreigners from Japan.

After 1761, young Madhavrao Peshwa tried his best to rebuild the empire in spite of his frail health and reinstated the Maratha authority over North India, 10 years after the battle of Panipat.

In spite of such hostile conditions, Gray Jays have a high rate of nest success and the young typically leave the nest in late April, well before most boreal birds have even returned from the south, let alone begun nesting themselves.

Other characteristics of his tenure were the opportunities given to young American singers in spite of the absence of a formal training program at that time, and also regular tours by the SFO to Los Angeles between 1937 and 1965, which expanded the season into November.

She is much older than her appearance would suggest, but " knows how to keep young in spite of the many years she has lived "-a fact that is established in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by the Soldier With Green Whiskers.

In spite of moving so many times at a young age, Osbourne did not find it disruptive.

The 9th Earl exerted influence on young Algernon's education in spite of his imprisonment, and Algernon frequently stayed with the 9th Earl in the Tower for 4 or 5 days at a time.

London's oldest daughter Joan commented that in spite of its tragic ending, the book is often regarded as " a ' success ' story ... which inspired not only a whole generation of young writers but other different fields who, without aid or encouragement, attained their objectives through great struggle ".

The media quoted some of Hancock's former Council of Europe's liberal group colleagues as saying that in the 2000s Hancock would usually come to their regular private gatherings alongside a series of young Russian and Ukrainian women-in spite of protests by some of those ; Hancock's former colleagues said they had witnessed his alleged assistants using the computers of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, the liberal group secretariat, which were supposed to be protected by a password ; apparently his ' assistants ' knew the password.

Having started working professionally at a young age, he left a large oeuvre, in spite of his fairly early death, and must have been a prodigious worker.

In the end in spite of his international and local rebel backers, and in spite of appealing to young Haitians to follow him, Phillippe won less than 1 % of the vote, demonstrating that he was no popular hero and was only the leader of a false, mercenary rebel group.

This shadowy figure resided at Pessinus and attempted to marry his daughter to the young Attis in spite of the opposition of his lover Agdestis and his mother, the goddess Cybele.

In spite of this, he went to Italy in 1132 in the train of the king, and his services there were rewarded in 1134 by the investiture of the Northern March, which was again without a ruler.

In spite of a treaty negotiated in 1678 with its ruler Ganga Zumba, a war between the two remained.

In spite of his victory, Vladislav I remained under Polish pressure and was forced to recognize a younger brother, Soběslav, as subordinate ruler of Moravia in Znojmo ( Znaim ) from 1111.

Urged by his Circassian mother, the sultan sought advice and counsel from Europe and endeavored to act on it, but advice not motivated by a conflict of interest was difficult to obtain, and in spite of the unquestionable desire of the young ruler to do the best for the country, wild extravagance both in action and expenditure resulted, leaving the sultan with depleted exchequer and the confidence of his people impaired.

In spite of this, Muhammad IV's brother and successor, Yusuf I of Granada maintained the alliance with the Marinid ruler.

With the resources thus gained he undertook to enable Philip V to carry out an ambitious foreign policy to undo the Treaty of Utrecht, with the aim of countering the Habsburgs and recovering Spanish possessions in Italy, where he was responsible for unwarranted invasions of Sardinia ( November 1717, strongly supported by Sardinian politician Vicente Bacallar ) and Sicily ( July 1718 ), in spite of promises made to the Pope, while pressing Spanish causes in France with the Cellamare Conspiracy.

) However, in spite of France's dislike of an Egypt dominated by the British, it was equally unwilling to allow the ambitious Governor to upset the balance of power, and thus, by waiting for the hope of a better chance at victory, Muhammad Ali had to suffer a harder defeat.

) and generally tries to render the language of a 9 through 11-year-old girl who, in spite of being clever and ambitious, is relatively uneducated.

Jo has a hot temper which often leads her into trouble in spite of her good intentions, but with the help of her own sense of humor, her sister Beth, and her mother she works on controlling it.

Home-schooled by their mother as well as private tutors in the United States and Europe, in spite of their father's fluctuating finances, they did not attend a regular school until they were in their teens.

His father, a physician, died when Fisher was but six years old, but his mother resolved, in spite of her limited income, to give the boy a classical education.

He wrote to his mother ' I have married Agnes to spite you and father '.

His father had been carver and sword-bearer to Jack Cade, and was killed at the Second Battle of St Albans on 17 February 1461 ; his mother, who was born on 1 July 1429, and married Poynings in December 1459, inherited her husband's property in Kent, in spite of opposition from her brother-in-law, Edward Poynings, master of Arundel College ; before 1472 she married a second husband, Sir George Browne of Betchworth, Surrey, by whom she had a son Matthew and a daughter.

Rocky's mother, Florence " Rusty " Dennis ( Cher ) is determined to give Rocky a life as normal as possible, in spite of her own wild ways as a member of the biker gang.

However, in spite of her troubled relationships with her mother, father, brother, and others, she is also fiercely loyal and caring about those to whom she is close.

Soon after, his mother became ill with measles, and in spite of the efforts of several doctors, Samuel's mother died when the measles turned into " galloping consumption.

Rose marries a doctor, Ted Jordan, who loves her but also wants to spite his snooty, racist mother.

In spite of owning a large mansion in the area he developed a passion for building, embarking on the project of re-creating the lost castle of Eaton Bray on some land bequeathed him by his mother.

In spite of great support from his homeland and his insidious mother, Malekith did not contest the ascension and Bel-Shanaar was crowned king.

At his mother ’ s insistence, Mathabane starts school and learns to love it, rising to the top of his class in spite of frequent punishments due to his family ’ s late payments for school fees.

She confesses to Cordelia that she was Mark's mother and that she loved him in spite of not being allowed to by Sir Ronald.

She soon figures out Aiden is fully human, but she is still attracted to him and pursues a relationship in spite of her mother Esmé's disapproval.

One of the group, a teenage Latina girl and ex-mechanic named Mona Vasquez, introduces herself, and tells Cosmo about the other two: Stefan Bashkir, another teen, used to be a cop before an accident killed his mother and almost killed him, and Lucien Bonn, called Ditto due to his habit of repeating what people say, had gene-splicing experiments performed on him as a baby to produce a " super-human "; however, these experiments did nothing except stunt his growth, making Ditto appear six in spite of him being twenty-eight.

In spite of that one year later he conspired with Archbishop Anno II of Cologne to seize Henry IV at Kaiserswerth in order to deprive his mother of power.

Her mother gave her consent that Jeanne-Marie, in spite of her young age, might spend some time at this hospital.

But in spite of the separation of these three barrios from the mother municipality, Placer managed to stand on her feet financially speaking.

Pilar is initially fearful of Antonio, but they are brought together when, in spite of Ana's protestations, Gloria, their mother, invites Antonio to Juan's birthday celebration.

In 1248 Rhys Fychan ap Rhys Mechyll's mother Matilda de Braose, to spite her son, granted the castle to the Norman English, but before the English took possession of it Rhys captured the castle.