The Fascists met little serious resistance from authorities and proceeded to take over several northern Italian cities.

His men met no serious opposition from the more decentralized Union cavalry, coincidentally commanded by his father-in-law, Col. Cooke.

In 1856 he returned to Genoa to organize a series of uprisings: the only serious attempt was that of Carlo Pisacane in Calabria, which again met a dismaying end.

Lombard met and began a serious affair with crooner Russ Columbo.

The film was subsequently universally panned by critics but met a receptive late night audience as a curious example of a cult film where all the unintended hilarity came from the overly serious approach, " cheesy " production values and ludicrous plot.

He met the first serious love of his life, Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, in 1910, when he was 26.

The AAH has received little serious attention or acceptance from mainstream paleoanthropologists, has been met with significant skepticism and is not considered a strong scientific hypothesis.

President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair met in the Azores for an " emergency summit " over the weekend of March 15 – 16, 2003, after which Bush declared that, despite Blix's report, " diplomacy had failed " to compel Iraq to comply with UN Resolution inspection requirements, and stated his intention to use military force to attack Iraq in what was, according to the Bush administration, compliance with the threat of " serious consequences " in UN 1441.

By 2003 allegations of ritual abuse were met with great skepticism and belief in SRA is no longer considered mainstream in professional circles ; although the sexual abuse of children is a real and serious problem, allegations of SRA were essentially false.

When the museum announced the 2011 exhibition " The Luminous Interval ", a show of artwork belonging to Greek businessman Dimitris Daskalopoulos, who is also a museum trustee, this met with criticism of, among other things, too much curatorial power for a serious benefactor.

Shortly after his enrollment in the University of Texas, Whitman met and courted a fellow student named Kathleen Frances Leissner ; a teaching student two years his junior to whom he had been introduced by Francis Schuck, Jr. Leissner was Whitman's first serious girlfriend, and he reportedly went to great lengths to both attract and keep her attentions.

Much more serious difficulties met his attempts to introduce equality in the pressure of the taxes on the various classes.

Pelosi met with Uribe and later released a statement that she and other members of Congress had " expressed growing concerns about the serious allegations " of links between Paramilitary groups and Colombian government officials.

His forces met the Russian attack, but they were amazed to find that the new Russian army gave them a serious fight.

Her cabaret and nightclub appearances appearances led to more serious stage work and it was in a play by Arnold Bennett called Mr. Prohack ( 1927 ) that Elsa first met another member of the cast, a rising actor named Charles Laughton.

He then began to issue his prophetical almanacs and other works, which met with serious attention from some of the most prominent members of the Long Parliament.

In the 1970s, Krishnamurti met several times with then Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, with whom he had far ranging, and in some cases, very serious discussions.

Stopes had a serious relationship mainly through correspondence with Japanese botanist Kenjiro Fujii, whom she met at the University of Munich in 1904 whilst researching her Ph. D.

Law then met with Edward Carson, and afterwards expressed the opinion that " the men of Ulster do desire a settlement on the basis of leaving Ulster out, and Carson thinks such an arrangement could be carried out without any serious attack from the Unionists in the South ".

At Aberdeen he met and worked with a Johns Hopkins physicist, Robert W. Wood, under whose influence Loomis's long-standing interest in inventing and gadgetry evolved into the serious pursuit of experimental and practical physics.

" Carnera met his first serious heavyweight contender, Young Stribling, in 1929, and won when Stribling fouled him.

The report was met with scepticism by the British public, and criticism by British newspapers such as The Guardian, Independent, and the Daily Mail, though others said it exposed serious flaws within the BBC.

Both joined the Cambridge Apostles, a secret debating society which met every Saturday night during term to discuss, over coffee and anchovy sandwiches, serious questions of religion, literature and society.

Meanwhile, in Paris, a group of serious men met and talked.

He had done nothing to foster good relations with the newly independent United States: both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson complained of his obstructive attitude and " aversion to having anything to do with us ". Subsequently he took little part in politics: in 1792, hearing rumours that a new coalition might be formed, he unwisely offered himself as its head and met with a firm rebuff from both Pitt and the King.

He also wished to talk to the jailed African leaders, but was met with a rebuff from Welensky.

The earlier New Haven development was public housing, so it easily leaped over the problems met in a private venture.

Chauncey Depew, one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met.

In the evening the former Oregon State science teachers met for dinner at the New Tokyo Restaurant where I had my first raw fish and found it good.

For example, early in my life, when one of my editorial workers wanted to find out how churches and philanthropic organizations met the needs of New York's down-and-outers, he didn't just ask questions.

Lincoln's first romantic interest was Ann Rutledge, whom he met when he first moved to New Salem ; by 1835, they were in a relationship but not formally engaged.

Maurice Ravel met Gershwin in New York during Ravel's tour of the United States.

According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

The owners of these western clubs accompanied Hulbert and Spalding to New York where they secretly met with owners from New York, Philadelphia, Hartford, and Boston.

DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York, to Elizabeth and Dante DiFranco, who had met while attending MIT.

For the 2005 tour to New Zealand the Lions management commissioned a song, " The Power of Four ", although it met with little support amongst Lions fans at the matches and was not used on the 2009 Tour.

In June 1958, he met Maria Elena Santiago, a receptionist for Murray Deutch, an executive for New York publisher Peer-Southern Music.

The two never met again, and with many other occupants of New Providence, Hornigold accepted the King's pardon from Woodes Rogers in June the following year.

DeMille's parents met while they were both members of a local music and literary society in New York.

The large eastern coyotes in Canada are proposed to be actually hybrids of the smaller western coyotes and wolves that met and mated decades ago, as the coyotes moved toward New England from their earlier western ranges.

Yale, together with Rutgers, Princeton and Columbia met on October 20, 1873 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City to agree a set of rules and regulations that would allow them play a form of football that was essentially Association football ( today often called " soccer " in the US ) in character.

In the beginning Charles Alston's mural work was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, the latter who he met when they did mural work in New York.

An area within the region where both fiscal and social conservatism do coincide and where the federal Reform Party and Canadian Alliance have met success is in the central-western part of New Brunswick, in the St. John River valley north of Saint John and south of Grand Falls.

Its four-year colleges offered a high quality, tuition-free education to the poor, the working class and the immigrants of New York City who met the grade requirements for matriculated status.

A group from New York met with a group from Philadelphia on 22 October 1936 in Philadelphia.

The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.

When he moved to Salisbury, Allen met Thomas Young, a doctor living and practicing just across the provincial boundary in New York.

In Atlantic City, New Jersey, a group met for the first time called " The Essentialist's Committee for the Advancement of Education ".