Prior to his resignation, Kingsley and the ruling Conservative party disagreed over whether fees paid to attend political conventions should be counted as political donations.

There are two special needs high schools ; Kingsley High School ( Co-ed ) and Shaftesbury High School ( Co-ed ).

In 2006, Leachman's performance alongside Sir Ben Kingsley and Annette Bening in the HBO special Mrs. Harris earned her an Emmy nomination for outstanding supporting actress in a miniseries or TV movie as well as an SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries.

Whilst the platform is now officially open, the lack of signalling at Kingsley & Froghall restricts passenger trains to the down platform except for special events.

Kingsley has given him a note to the caretaker of his vacation home, one Bill Chess.

" The movie " deals with a subject of great importance ... with a mixture of high intelligence and immediate emotional impact ... Ben Kingsley ... gives what is possibly the most astonishing biographical performance in screen history.

Winstone plays " Gal " Dove, a retired and happily married former thief dragged back into London's underworld by a psychopathic former associate ( Ben Kingsley, who received an Oscar nomination for his performance ).

Charleson had a similar high-profile success the following year, in a luminous performance playing Mahatma Gandhi's closest friend and collaborator, the Anglican priest Charlie Andrews, in Gandhi ( 1982 ), opposite Ben Kingsley.

In 1990, she gave a memorable performance as one of the God-fearing gossips in the BBC adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and in 1992, was in television versions of Kingsley Amis's The Old Devils and Angus Wilson's Anglo-Saxon Attitudes.

" Philip Larkin in a letter to Kingsley Amis in 1948, wrote that " no one can ' stick words into us like pins '... like he can ", but followed that by stating that he " doesn't use his words to any advantage ".

After a brief stay with one of his grandmothers in Kingsley, Iowa, Hoover lived for the next 18 months with his uncle Allen Hoover in West Branch.

Notable authors who contributed at one time or another include Kingsley Amis, Alex Atkinson, John Betjeman, Willard R. Espy, A. P.

'" Even his friend, the novelist Charles Kingsley, wrote that he had read " no other book which so staggered and puzzled " him, that he could not believe that God had " written on the rocks one enormous and superfluous lie for all mankind.

In the second edition of January 1860, Darwin quoted Kingsley as " a celebrated cleric ", and added the phrase " by the Creator " to the closing sentence, which from then on read " life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ".

* Kingsley Amis, British writer, one of the Angry young men

The book had been intended in part as a satire, a tract against child labour, as well as a serious critique of the closed-minded approaches of many scientists of the day in their response to Charles Darwin's ideas on evolution, which Kingsley had been one of the first to praise.

Kingsley Amis described her as " one of the best English novelists born in this century "; Antonia Fraser called her " one of the most underrated writers of the 20th century " and Hilary Mantel said she was " deft, accomplished and somewhat underrated.

Kingsley Amis said the novels were " endlessly fascinating " and that Blaise and Garvin were " one of the great partnerships in fiction, bearing comparison with that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.

Within the English Church men with whom he had both personal and religious sympathy rose -- Whately, of whom he said, " We know no living writer who has proved so little and disproved so much "; and Thomas Arnold, " a man who could be a hero without romance "; F. D. Maurice, whose character, marked by " religious realism ," sought in the past " the witness to eternal truths, the manifestation by time-samples of infinite realities and unchanging relations "; and Charles Kingsley, " a great teacher ," though one " certain to go astray the moment he becomes didactic.

She co-starred with Ben Kingsley in the 1990 film The Children, one of her final film appearances.

* In an episode of The Larry Sanders Show ( season 6, episode 1, " Another List "), Jon Stewart guest-hosting for Larry, talks about the doll in one of the monologue jokes, suggesting that co-host Hank Kingsley trade in his old doll and then goes on to suggest that people can save the $ 5, 000 price of the doll and instead go out with Tori Spelling.

English explorer Mary Kingsley, one of the first Europeans to scale the mountain, recounts her expedition in her 1897 memoir Travels in West Africa.

Mechner recently became one of the few video game creators to adapt his own creation as a feature film with Disney's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, directed by Mike Newell, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, and Alfred Molina.

Kingsley Hall became home to one of the most radical experiments in psychology of the time.

Together with Christina Dodwell, Mary Kingsley, Florence Baker, and Alexandrine Tinne, she was one of the five subjects of a book by Margo McLoone, Women explorers in Africa ( 1997 ).

Roger Baker, writing in The Times noted that from one angle Colonel Sun is a " neat, not over-inventive thriller, low on sex, high on violence and more than usually improbable "; however, he noted that once the elements of the re-incarnation of Bond and the writing of Kingsley Amis were taken into account, things were different.

The writer and naturalist Charles Kingsley, following the tradition laid down by Gilbert White in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ( 1789 ), invoked the proverb in favour of knowing completely one small area.

Alton Locke is an 1850 novel, by Charles Kingsley, written in sympathy with the Chartist movement, in which Carlyle is introduced as one of the personages.

After Kingsley left in 2006 to host his own show, Kix Brooks ( one half of the country music duo Brooks & Dunn ) succeeded him in January 2006.

During the Kingsley era, a top radio personality from one of ACC's affiliates filled in as host in Kingsley's absence.

The Whitchurch Town Council maintains a couple of children's playgrounds: one in Kingsley Park, and the other at the bottom of Alliston Way between the schools.

" Charles Kingsley called him " the most beautiful human soul whom God has ever allowed me to meet with.

" His most famous play, Death and the Maiden, describes the encounter of a former torture victim with the man she believed tortured her ; it was made into a film in 1994 by Roman Polanski starring Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley.

Darwin replied that a man " can be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist ", citing Charles Kingsley and Asa Gray as examples, and for himself, " In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God .— I think that generally (& more and more so as I grow older ) but not always, that an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind.

George Kingsley Zipf is the eponym of Zipf's law, which states that while only a few words are used very often, many or most are used rarely,

A most memorable production of the 1970s was Peter Hall's staging for the Royal National Theatre in 1974, with Paul Scofield as Volpone, Ben Kingsley as Mosca, John Gielgud as Sir Politic, and Ian Charleson as Peregrine.

Working with her husband, a respected cardiac surgeon, at Boston Memorial is a dream come true for Dr. Cassandra Kingsley — until a series of mysterious deaths rocks the hospital and Cassandra's most frightening suspicions are realized.

The reports that were drummed up about her voyage however were most upsetting to Kingsley, as the papers portrayed her as a " New Woman ," an image which she did not embrace.

Kingsley distanced herself from any feminist movement claims, arguing that women's suffrage was " a minor question ; while there was a most vital section of men unenfranchised women could wait ".

McGrath has been recognized by some of the most prestigious American poetry awards, including the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award ( for The Bob Hope Poem in Spring Comes to Chicago, his third book of poems ), a Pushcart Prize, the Academy of American Poets Prize, a Ploughshares Cohen Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a MacArthur Foundation " Genius Award.

One of his most distinguished pupils there was Charles Kingsley.

The first was Kingsley Bingham in 1855 and the most recent is the current governor Rick Snyder.

His two most recent films were Transsiberian ( 2008 ), a thriller starring Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer and Ben Kingsley and the horror film Vanishing on 7th Street ( 2010 ), starring Hayden Christensen, John Leguizamo and Thandie Newton.

Three biographies of Leslie Weatherhead have appeared: in 1960, for young people, Dr. Leslie Weatherhead of the City Temple by Christopher Maitland ; in 1975 Leslie Weatherhead: A Personal Portrait by his son A. Kingsley Weatherhead, a professor of English ; and most recently in 1999 Doctor of Souls: Leslie D. Weatherhead 1893-1976 by John C. Travell.

Kingsley also composes classical chamber works and his most recent opera, Raoul, was premiered in Bremen in 2008.

Kingsley is most famous for his influential electronic instrumental composition " Popcorn ".

Sale Sharks director of rugby Kingsley Jones referred to him as ' the most hard done-by player in England ' after he was hardly used during the 2005 Autumn test series.