Amathus still flourished and produced a distinguished patriarch of Alexandria, St. John the Merciful, as late as 606-616, and a ruined Byzantine church marks the site ; but it declined and was already almost deserted when Richard Plantagenet won Cyprus by a victory there over Isaac Comnenus in 1191.

It was reported that in 2006 Fiji's Prime Minister Qarase asked Australia's Prime Minister John Howard for military assistance should a coup take place, but Howard declined.

As the Civil War went on, Booth increasingly quarreled with his brother Edwin, who declined to make stage appearances in the South and refused to listen to John Wilkes ' fiercely partisan denunciations of the North and Lincoln.

From the end of World War II until 1971, when John Rawls published A Theory of Justice, political philosophy declined in the Anglo-American academic world, as analytic philosophers expressed skepticism about the possibility that normative judgments had cognitive content, and political science turned toward statistical methods and behavioralism.

Gilbert consented and offered to write the book ; but Sondheim declined, having already had collaborator John Weidman in mind.

John Rhys-Davies declined the tattoo, but his dwarf body double got it in his place.

The Senate subsequently confirmed President Adams's nomination of John Jay to replace Ellsworth, but Jay declined to resume his former office, citing the burden of riding circuit and its impact on his health, and his perception of the Court's lack of prestige.

Harrison's Vice President, John Tyler, asserted that he had succeeded to the full Presidential office, powers, and title, and declined to acknowledge documents referring to him as " Acting President.

During this period he declined to meet a Cambridge academic colleague, Glyn Daniel, for a drink or dinner as he was devoting his limited leisure time to studying the poet John Donne.

Powell's opinion of Thatcher had declined after she endorsed John Major at the 1992 election, which he believed to be a repudiation of her fight against European integration after the Bruges speech.

Walter Wade and John Underwood, the first Director and Superintendent respectively, executed the layout of the gardens, but, when Wade died in 1825, they declined for some years.

Seeking a New Englander for a running mate, the caucus initially chose New Hampshire governor John Langdon to balance the ticket, but after Langdon declined due to his age, a second caucus nominated Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts for the Vice Presidency, which had been vacant since George Clinton's death a month earlier.

In an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court declined to overturn the electioneering communications limits in their entirety, but established a broad exemption for any ad that could have a reasonable interpretation as an ad about legislative issues.

A period of fraught negotiations followed, but ultimately the Danes refused to quit St. John, and the British declined to use force to seize it.

John Wayne, who had declined a role in the film, sent a letter to Eastwood soon after the film's release in which he complained that, " the townspeople did not represent the true spirit of the American pioneer, the spirit that made America great ".

He was offered, but declined, the position of poet laureate in 1984, following the death of John Betjeman.

In 1870, he was nominated by President Ulysses S. Grant, and confirmed by the Senate, as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom to succeed John Lothrop Motley, but declined the mission.

Gilbert consented and offered to write the book ; but Sondheim declined, having already had collaborator John Weidman in mind.

His influence in ecclesiastical matters was considerable until it declined in the 1580s under Archbishop John Whitgift.

She then tried to persuade Paschal to change his vote, but convinced he had a fair shot with John, he and Neleh declined her offer.

They are also available to other important people such as presidential and vice-presidential candidates ( though Senator John Kerry, a pilot, declined TFRs during the 2004 election ).

John Boot offered his close friend and business associate John Harston the opportunity of going into business with him, but Harston declined, feeling the venture was not worth investing in.

Axouch wisely declined and his influence ensured that Anna's property was eventually returned to her and that John I and his sister became reconciled, at least to a degree.

In 1798 President John Adams nominated Henry as special emissary to France, but he declined due to failing health.

In his honour, the European Society for Evolutionary Biology has an award for extraordinary young evolutionary biology researchers named The John Maynard Smith Prize.

* In England, king John raises £ 100, 000 from church property as an extraordinary fiscal levy ; the operation is described as an “ inestimable and incomparable exaction ” by contemporary sources.

Musician Henry Purcell wrote " They that go down to the sea in ships " to be sung by extraordinary voice of John Gostling to commemorate it.

* John Kuriyan, 1980, 2005 winner of the Richard Lounsbery Award for extraordinary scientific achievement, Howard Hughes Investigator and Chancellor's Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of California Berkeley.

And John Adams ' Nixon in China ( 1985-7 ) features a surreal version of Madam Mao's Red Detachment of Women to extraordinary effect, illuminating the ascendence of human values over the disillusionment of high politics in the meeting.

The two collaborations were St Luke Old Street ( 1727 – 33 ) and St John Horsleydown ( 1727 – 33 ), to which Hawksmoor's contribution seems to have been largely confined to the towers with their extraordinary steeples.

I thought Nick Frost was absolutely extraordinary as John Self.

The military historian John Keegan has praised Irving for his " extraordinary ability to describe and analyse Hitler's conduct of military operations, which was his main occupation during the Second World War ".

* Mount Stuart House, Isle of Bute: One of the most splendid and extraordinary houses in Britain, built in 1878-1900 for the wealthiest man in Britain, John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute.

John XXIII is to be considered as an extraordinary expression of that same ' Lex orandi '".

Saint John Vianney attributed to her intercession the extraordinary cures that others attributed to himself.

Those Catholics who worship in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite use this calendar of John XXIII, while certain schismatic groups use an even older one.

The 1962 version, whose use is authorized by the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, divides liturgical days into I, II, III, and IV class days, as decreed by Pope John XXIII in 1960.

He was sent first to the village school at Bacton, kept by John Woodrow, and afterwards to that of Happisburgh kept by Mr Summers, where his extraordinary powers of memory and aptitude for arithmetic were soon discovered.

* John Robbins ' Healthy at 100 garners evidence from many scientific sources to account for the extraordinary longevity of Abkhasians in the Caucasus, Vilcabambans in the Andes, Hunzas in Central Asia, and Okinawans.

" His death ," writes John Evelyn, " was an extraordinary losse to the poore church at this time ".

The Methuen treaty was negotiated by John Methuen ( c. 1650-1706 ) who served as a member of Parliament, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Privy Councilor, envoy and then ambassador extraordinary to Portugal where he negotiated the " Methuen " Treaty of 1703 ; the Treaty cemented allegiances in the War of Spanish Succession.

* The Life of John Milton, containing, besides the history of his works, several extraordinary characters of men, of books, sects, parties and opinions.

John Paul II, for example, clarified that the reservation of ordination to males only is infallible by the infallibility of the ordinary magisterium, without going so far as issuing a separate extraordinary dogmatic definition.

It has been suggested that the reason that John Paul did not simply define it extraordinarily was in order to not weaken the understanding that the ordinary magisterium is also infallible, to remind Catholics that it is not merely the extraordinary definitions that are infallible and irreversible as if doctrine were positivistic — that it holds " only if the pope says so with a particular formula ".

* John Scally, I Was Cured at Knock-The extraordinary story of an extraordinary woman, Knock 2005, 127 p.

The Gang later played an important role in the confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito, as they asserted that neither met the " extraordinary circumstances " provision outlined in their agreement.

An extraordinary shareholders ' meeting in March 2008 rejected any proposal to sell the company, but a New Zealand newspaper article said that John MacLennan who has been the CEO for 22 years had previously been in contact with directors of the Singapore-based shipping line PIL and had asked if they were interested in acquiring Pacific Forum The PFL ships include Forum Rarotonga and Thor Elisabeth ; revenue was $ 59 million and net assets $ 15. 6 million.