As of his latest promotion, his full name and title is ; " His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh ; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes ": When serving as Ambassador for Ankh-Morpork, he is also referred to simply as " His Excellency ", and is also nicknamed " Blackboard Monitor Vimes ," and " Vetinari's Terrier " ( or hammer ): According to his wife, Sybil, Vimes is recognised by many as Lord Vetinari's right-hand man.

Vimes often has to go to report to Lord Vetinari, although most of the time he keeps a poker-face and answers very simply to avoid Vetinari's probing questions.

The Thieves ' Guild was established early in Lord Havelock Vetinari's rule of Ankh-Morpork.

* The Discworld novel Making Money features a character who believes himself to be Lord Vetinari, imitating Vetinari's mannerisms and entertaining delusions of grandeur.

As of Unseen Academicals the aristocracy of the city appear to have undertaken an experiment in representative democracy, much to Lord Vetinari's amusement.

According to the books, Quirm is a quiet and peaceful town, and for this reason is a popular holiday destination, as well as where Morporkians go when they retire ( including Lord Vetinari's aunt, Lady Roberta Meserole ).

* Thomasina Coverly: The 13 year-old ( later 16-year-old ) daughter of Lord and Lady Croom, Thomasina is a precocious young genius.

Shaw describes the text as " a meditation of our Lord as Messiah in Christian thought and belief ", and despite his reservations on Jennens's character, concedes that the finished wordbook " amounts to little short of a work of genius ".

During his tenure on the show, Alan hit a child genius, unknowingly took cocaine, bribed rent boys, lost his wife's car in a bet, was openly homophobic, forced the resignation of a junior government minister and, in the series finale, his guest Lord Morgan of Glossop died of an apparent heart attack.

According to Allahabad Prasasti's exaggerated picture, ' Samudragupta was man of many sided genius, who put to shame the preceptor of the Lord Gods and Tumburu and Narada and others by his sharp and polished intellect and Chorla-skill and musical accomplishment.

A few weeks later the king offered the most liberal terms to induce Pitt to form or join an administration ; and " a ministry directed by that great statesman ," says Lecky, " would have been beyond all comparison the most advantageous to the country ; it had no serious difficulty to encounter, and Pitt himself was now ready to undertake the task, but the evil genius of Lord Temple again prevailed.

It was widely felt that he could have become Prime Minister after the death of Henry Pelham, but it would have " set genius in a false environment ", and he declined all opportunities to return to politics except as Lord Chief Justice.

They meet with Lord Downey, head of the Assassin's Guild, and commission the services of Mr Teatime, whose particular brand of insane genius makes him an ideal candidate for the assassination of the Hogfather and other anthropomorphic personifications.

He intended for Lord Fear and the other villains to conquer the world so that his " genius " would be know.

Although Lord Mount Stephen is generally credited as the genius that created the CPR empire, with his banking and administrative experience Angus was an indispensable lieutenant.

His alien compatriots include an orphan earthling boy genius named Parcival, a shape-changing blob named Pike, a dinosaur named Leon, a cyborg named Lord Baethan, and Tivia, a black ninja princess from another world populated by women after the males became extinct.

Allegiance is owed both to the Sovereign as a natural person and to the Sovereign in the political capacity ( Re Stepney Election Petition, Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 17 QBD 54 ( per Lord Coleridge CJ )).

This act was unpopular with the right wing of the Conservative Party, most notably Lord Cranborne ( later the Marquess of Salisbury ), who resigned from the government and spoke against the bill, accusing Disraeli of " a political betrayal which has no parallel in our Parliamentary annals.

" God knows I go with a heavy heart ," he wrote six days later to his friend and political ally in England, Lord Godolphin, " for I have no hope of doing anything considerable, unless the French do what I am very confident they will not … " – in other words, court battle.

Given these connotations, dandyism can be seen as a political protestation against the rise of levelling egalitarian principles, often including nostalgic adherence to feudal or pre-industrial values, such as the ideals of " the perfect gentleman " or " the autonomous aristocrat ", though paradoxically, the dandy required an audience, as Susann Schmid observed in examining the " successfully marketed lives " of Oscar Wilde and Lord Byron, who exemplify the dandy's roles in the public sphere, both as writers and as personae providing sources of gossip and scandal.

The defeat of the Liberal government in the following year terminated Lord Aberdare's official political life, and he subsequently devoted himself to social, educational and economic questions.

Cedric had planned to marry her to the powerful Lord Aethelstane, pretender to the Crown of England through his descent from the last Saxon King, Harold Godwinson, thus cementing a Saxon political alliance between two rivals for the same claim.

Explicitly recognising two hundred years ' of ambivalence, the act states that it intended " To give statutory recognition to the existence of the position of Prime Minister, and to the historic link between the Premiership and the office of First Lord of the Treasury, by providing in respect to that position and office a salary of ..." The Act made a distinction between the " position " ( Prime Minister ) and the " office " ( First Lord of the Treasury ), emphasising the unique political character of the former.

He then left for Cambridge University for a few months where he met Lord Goring, who led him into political trouble.

Under the leadership of Cardinal Wolsey ( the Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor ) and Thomas Cranmer ( the Archbishop of Canterbury ) ( 1515-1529 ), the Court of Star Chamber became a political weapon for bringing actions against opponents to the policies of King Henry VIII, his Ministers and his Parliament.

" Instead, Wilde may have transposed his apprehension into Lord Chiltern's ( non-sexual ) blackmailing situation in the darker, political play, An Ideal Husband.

Pitt's commanding officer and political mentor Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham | Lord Cobham.

In 1839, Jardine successfully persuaded the British Foreign Minister, Lord Palmerston, to wage war on China, giving a full detailed plan for war, detailed strategic maps, battle strategies, the indemnifications and political demands from China and even the number of troops and warships needed.

The other group were the followers of Lord Chatham, who, as the great political hero of the Seven Years ' War, generally took a stance of opposition to party and faction.

The association of Toryism with the Lord North's government was also influential in British North America, and writings of British political commentators known as the Radical Whigs did much to stimulate colonial republican sentiment.

The Serigne ( also spelled Sëriñ, " Lord ") of Ndakaaru is still recognized as the traditional political authority of the Lebou by the Senegalese State today.

That subsidies were actually given was very much out of character for the political times ; Peel's successor, Lord John Russell, received more criticism than Peel on Irish policy.

Lord Raymond, who came to renown for his exploits in the war between Greece and Turkey, has returned to England in search of political position, and soon Perdita and Evadne both fall in love with him.

The individuals who had brought about Walpole's impeachment in 1712 were now themselves attacked for purely political reasons: Lord Oxford was impeached, and Lord Bolingbroke suffered from an act of attainder.

In 1724 the primary political rival of Walpole and Townshend in the Cabinet, Lord Carteret, was dismissed from the post of Southern Secretary and once again appointed to the lesser office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Walpole, a polarising figure, had many opponents, the most important of whom were in the Country Party, such as Lord Bolingbroke ( who had been his political enemy since the days of Queen Anne ) and William Pulteney ( a capable Whig statesman who felt snubbed when Walpole failed to include him in the Cabinet ).

Even her movements could pose a political problem, as Francis Walsingham explained: " I see not her Majesty disposed to use the services of my Lord of Leicester.

For the first 30 years of Elizabeth's reign, until Leicester's death, he and Lord Burghley were the most powerful and important political figures, working intimately with the Queen.

Here " Vishnuyasha " could mean that the father of Lord Kalki would be a great devotee of lord Vishnu, " Sumati " may refer to the pure thinking of his mother and Shambhala village, may indicate a place having the existence of the great temple of Lord Shiva.

Actually, the perfection of yoga system means when you are in samadhi, always thinking of the Visnu form of the Lord within your heart, without being disturbed ...

In 1889 Gladstone recounted a story to Lord Rendel of when " a Frenchman, thinking to be highly complimentary, said to Palmerston: ' If I were not a Frenchman, I should wish to be an Englishman '; to which Pam coolly replied: ' If I were not an Englishman, I should wish to be an Englishman.

He then proceeded to knock Moe the bartender out after mistakenly thinking that he was proclaiming Pitt the Elder as being better than Lord Palmerston.

Sam Cooke was packing out churches at the same time as me, but when he was singing sacred songs, the young girls were thinking, ' Lord, Jesus, if I could just get with that Sam Cooke.

" His political thinking was greatly influenced by Canning, but he became the protégé of Canning's rival Lord Castlereagh, who appointed him his under-secretary at the War Office in May 1809.

" It shall be sufficient for Royal Proclamations to be published in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes ; but if the Lord President of the Council, thinking it expedient, directs that copies of such proclamations shall in addition be sent to such High Sheriffs, Sheriffs, Lord Mayors and Mayors in England and Wales and to such Sheriffs Principal in Scotland as he thinks fit, the contents of such proclamations shall thereupon be made known in the manner accustomed ".

Lord Cadogan is generally regarded as an effective and successful property developer / landlord being responsible, together with his management team, for bringing all of the fashion labels to Sloane Street, and also forward thinking developments on his own account at Duke of York Square on Kings Road, at Peter Jones and on Sloane Street.

Smith-Dorrien, along with Lord Roberts, Sir Ian Hamilton and others, doubted that cavalry could often be used as cavalry, i. e. that they should still be trained to charge with sword and lance, instead thinking they would be more often deployed as mounted infantry, i. e. using horses for mobility but dismounting to fight.

* O Lord, now keep me under Your protection, encourage my followers to flourish intellect and wisdom and destroy my enemies ( negative thinking ).

Although highly regarded, Wyndham did have one peculiar run-in with a fan: author Annie Gilbert, in the book All My Afternoons, noted that Wyndham was mildly assaulted when an enraged fan, fed up with Rachel's scheming ways and thinking Wyndham was her character, attempted to punch her at a Lord & Taylor store in New York City, all the while screaming " I hate you!

The " rotten " connection, with a twist, is propounded by R V Jones who relates the tale that, due to a misunderstanding between the original developers and Lord Cherwell, development of the technology was delayed, the engineers thinking that Lord Cherwell wasn't keen on the idea.

* Elephant ( Lord Sunday ) — Arthur's stuffed elephant which, while Arthur was trying to break free from a clock face and thinking of the elephant, was animated by residual powers of the Fifth and Sixth Keys and grew to the size of a large dog with sharp tusks.

The book also spoke about the very deep moral basis of this Teaching and disproved one of the main stereotypes Western thinking of the time, namely, that the men of Buddhism are insignificant and forgotten by the Lord creature.

Saunders claimed that after 11 years of thinking about the project, she had drawn up a comprehensive blueprint and sought finance after reading Psalm 37: " Commit thy way unto the Lord ; trust also in him ; and he shall bring it to pass.

In Bellings ' case, this was true, he married Lord Mountgarret's daughter, and was thus related to the Ormonde dynasty and privy to the thinking of peers such as Ormonde himself, Mountgarret and Viscount Muskerry.

Unni bought some salted mangoes and curd from a neighborhood vendor, thinking that the Lord would prefer this, mixed the curd with rice and offered it again.

Is Peter Lord right to draw Poirot's attention to evidence that someone watching through the window might have poisoned the sandwich, thinking that it would be eaten by Elinor?

Swami Desikan was conferred the title of Sarva Tantra Swatantra ( one with the capacity for independent thinking and originality in any field ), by Ranganayaki thaayar Herself, and Swamy was adorned with the title Vedantacharya by the Lord of Sri Rangam Sri Ranganatha, Himself.

Lord Lindsey, who was an old comrade of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, the commander of the Parliamentarian forces, knew that he would follow the tactics they had both together studied in Holland, little thinking that one day they should be arrayed one against the other in their own native England.

He was instantly surrounded by the rebels on horseback ; but his son, Lord Willoughby, seeing his danger, flung himself alone among the enemy, and forcing his way forward, raised his father in his arms thinking of nothing else, and unheeding his own peril.