Pope Leo XIII in his " Magna Carta "— Rerum Novarum — spoke against the atrocities workers faced and demanded that workers should be granted certain rights and safety regulations.

When the German chancellor Leo von Caprivi in the 1890s reduced the protective duties on imports of grain, these landed magnates demanded and obtained his dismissal ; and in 1902, they brought about a restoration of such duties on foodstuffs as would keep the prices of their own products at a high level.

Bohemond III demanded its return to the Templars and, when Leo refused, complained to Saladin.

She demanded to know why she did not remember Leo leaving her, and Leo told her that he used his powers to make her forget and not feel as much pain.

Leo Deuel sardonically described baksheesh as " lavish remuneration and bribes, rudely demanded but ever so graciously accepted by the natives in return for little or no services rendered.

When Leo Gorcey demanded double his weekly salary from Katzman in 1945, Katzman refused and pulled the plug on The East Side Kids series.

The Byzantine emperor Leo III after his victory over Arab besiegers in 740 renamed the city Nicopolis ( Greek for " city of victory ").

The emperor Leo III issued a decree in 726 against images, and ordered the destruction of a statue of Christ over one of the doors of the Chalke, an act that was fiercely resisted by the citizens.

The emperor invited Pope Leo I to preside.

* 457 – Majorian is crowned emperor of the Western Roman Empire and recognized by pope Leo I.

* 457 – Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

They first appear in the Tactica of emperor Leo VI the Wise, who claims to have invented them.

Hoping to avoid the sack of Rome herself, Emperor Valentinian III sent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Trigetius, as well as the Bishop of Rome Leo I, who met Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of Mantua, and obtained from him the promise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the emperor.

In that year the iconoclast Byzantine emperor Leo III, angered by archbishops of the region because they had supported Rome in the Iconoclastic Controversy, detached the church of the province from the Roman pope and placed it under the patriarch of Constantinople.

* 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor.

In 775, Leo ( son of Tzitzak ) was crowned as the sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

Leo entered Constantinople on 25 March 717 and forced the abdication of Theodosios III, becoming emperor as Leo III.

When Leo III crowned Charlemagne ( 800 ), he established the precedent that, in the West, no man would be emperor without anointment by a pope.

Two days later, on Christmas Day 800, Leo crowned Charlemagne as Roman emperor.

His defiance of the Byzantine emperor Leo III the Isaurian as a result of the iconoclastic controversy in the Eastern Empire prepared the way for a long series of revolts, schisms and civil wars that eventually led to the establishment of the temporal power of the popes.

Tensions between Gregory and the imperial court began around 722, when emperor Leo III attempted to raise taxes on the papal patrimonies in Italy, draining the Papacy ’ s monetary reserves.

The armies discussed electing their own emperor and marching on Constantinople, but were dissuaded by Pope Gregory from acting against Leo.

In a court run by a bishop and a representative of the emperor, and in the presence of Gregory, Ingoald, the Abbot of Farfa, claimed that the Frankish emperors had granted them the lands, and that Popes Adrian I and Leo III had taken possession of the land illegally.

Stephen also raised Bishop Theodulf of Orléans to the rank of Archbishop, and had Louis release from their exile all political prisoners originally from Rome who had been held by the emperor resulting from the conflict that plagued the early part of Pope Leo III ’ s reign.

He had his fleet concentrate on Rhodes with orders not only to resist the approach of the enemy, but to destroy their naval stores, and dispatched an army under Leo the Isaurian, afterwards emperor, to invade Syria.

* 866 – Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine emperor ( d. 912 )

* 800: Charlemagne is crowned emperor of Rome by Pope Leo III.

* The Byzantine general Leo ( the future emperor Leo III ) recovers Abasgia for the Byzantine Empire from the Arabs.

Cardinal Leo Joseph Suenens, a moderator of the ecumenical council, questioned, " whether moral theology took sufficient account of scientific progress, which can help determine, what is according to nature.

Those present employ titles such as " the most holy and beloved of God " and " ecumenical archbishop and patriarch of great Rome " to address Pope Leo.

Pope Leo I, whose delegates were absent when this resolution was passed and who protested against it, recognized the council as ecumenical and confirmed its doctrinal decrees, but rejected canon 28 on the ground that it contravened the sixth canon of Nicaea and infringed the rights of Alexandria and Antioch.

Dale drew fire for the his participation in the ecumenical effort of the St. Leo Catholic Church because he offered no criticism of the doctrines or practices of the Catholic Church while assisting them in their effort.

In reply to the Papal bull Exsurge Domine of Pope Leo X ( 1520 ), Martin Luther burned the document and appealed for a general council.

The situation continued to deteriorate, with Leo demanding the convocation of a new council and Emperor Theodosius II refusing to budge, all the while appointing bishops in agreement with Dioscorus.

The Emperor asked Leo to preside over the council, but Leo again chose to send legates in his place.

Paschasinus refused to give Dioscorus ( who had excommunicated Leo leading up to the council ) a seat at the council.

The second session of the council ended with shouts from the bishops, " It is Peter who says this through Leo.

That same year Gregory wrote to Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople, giving the patriarch his support, and when Germanus abdicated, Gregory refused to acknowledge the new patriarch, Anastasius, nor the iconoclast rulings of a council summoned by Leo.

In June 1055, Victor met the Emperor at Florence and held a council, which reinforced Pope Leo IX's condemnation of clerical marriage, simony, and the loss of the church's properties.

After Leo had notified the Emperor that the decrees of the council had been confirmed, he made them known to the nations of the West.

Regarding the decision of the council, Leo wrote once and again in approbation of the decision of the council and in condemnation of Honorius, whom he regarded as one who profana proditione immaculatem fidem subvertare conatus est ( roughly, " one who by betrayal has tried to overthrow the immaculate faith ").

On 9 December 1513, the fifth Lateran council, which had been reopened by Leo in April, ratified the peace with Louis XII and officially registered the conclusion of the Pisan schism.

Its three main objectives, the peace of Christendom, the crusade ( against the Turks ), and the reform of the church, could be secured only by general agreement among the powers, and either Leo or the council, or both, failed to secure such agreement.

Leo closed the council on 16 March 1517.

During his father's life-time he had been beaten by Gervais de Château-du-Loir, bishop of Le Mans ( 1038 ), but later ( 1047 or 1048 ) succeeded in taking the latter prisoner, for which he was excommunicated by Pope Leo IX at the council of Reims ( October 1049 ).

One of the cardinals, Leo Joseph Suenens of Belgium, urged the council to take on social responsibility for Third World suffering, International peace and war, and the poor.

Leo was now no longer desirous of having a council, especially since it was not to be held in Italy.

According to a letter to the Empress Pulcheria collected among the letters of Leo I, Hilarius apologized for not delivering to her the pope's letter after the synod, but owing to Dioscurus of Alexandria, who tried to hinder his going either to Rome or to Constantinople, he had great difficulty in making his escape in order to bring to the pontiff the news of the result of the council.

When the council had concluded, the decrees were sent to Rome where they were confirmed by Agatho's successor, Pope Leo II The subsequent Byzantine tradition came to interpret the decrees in line with the teaching of Maximus the Confessor, which brilliantly combined a recognition ( shared with the monotheletes ) that all Christ's individual actions were directed by his divine will with an insistence that his human will nevertheless possessed true spontaneity, in virtue of its intrinsic drive ( as created ) to obey its Creator.

However, in subsequent documents, in particular the letter of confirmation from the Council to Pope Leo II, it becomes evident that the intent of the council was not to criticize Pope Honorius for his error of belief, but rather his " imprudent economy of silence ".

J. Barmby, Hormisdas made several demands: ( 1 ) The emperor should publicly announce his acceptance of the council of Chalcedon and the letters of Pope Leo ; ( 2 ) the Eastern bishops should make a similar public declaration, and in addition anathematize Nestorius, Eutyches, Dioscorus, Aelurus, Peter Mongus, Peter the Fuller, and Acacius, with all their followers ; ( 3 ) everyone exiled in this dispute should be recalled and their cases reserved for the judgment of the Apostolic See ; ( 4 ) those exiles who had been in communion with Rome and professed Catholicism should first be recalled ; and ( 5 ) bishops accused of having persecuted the orthodox should be sent to Rome to be judged.

State Representative Leo Berman of Tyler formerly resided in Arlington and served on the city council, including a stint as mayor pro tempore from 1979 to 1985.