On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for " the appalling way he was treated ".

On the death of Alexander, around 242 BC, Olympias assumed the regency on behalf of her sons, and married Phthia to Demetrius.

" On the publication of the Saville report the British prime minister, David Cameron, made a formal apology on behalf of the United Kingdom.

On May 5, 1993, Gregory M. Herek, associate research psychologist at the University of California at Davis and an authority on public attitudes toward lesbians and gay men, testified before the House Armed Services Committee on behalf of several professional associations.

He says that Afer and Julius Africanus were the best orators he had heard, and that he prefers the former to the latter, Quintilian refers to a work of his On Testimony, to one entitled Dicta, and to some of his orations, of which those on behalf of Domitilla, or Cloantilla, and Volusenus Catulus seem to have been the most celebrated.

On the other hand, the Republic of Ireland has not been able to sign the Charter on behalf of the Irish language ( although a minority language ) as it is defined as the first official language of the state.

On 4 December he was shocked that Cecil, who had encouraged him to undertake the Danvers suit on the Crown's behalf, had now withdrawn his support for it.

On 17 March 1649 a French expedition of 203 men from Martinique, led by Jacques Dyel du Parquet who had been the Governor of Martinique on behalf of the Compagnie des Iles de l ' Amerique ( Company of the Isles of America ) since 1637, landed at St. Georges Harbour and constructed a fortified settlement, which they named Fort Annunciation.

On Hitler's behalf, Himmler formed the Einsatzgruppen and built extermination camps.

On July 23, 1996, a North Carolina jury threw out a class action suit brought on behalf of more than 160, 000 onetime supporters who contributed as much as $ 7, 000 each to Bakker's coffers in the 1980s.

On 4 December 1941, the Japanese Ambassador General Hiroshi Ōshima told Ribbentrop that Japan was on the verge of war with the United States, which led to Ribbentrop promising him on behalf of Hitler that Germany would join the war against the Americans.

On November 3, 2010 he was invested as an honorary CBE by Prince Charles at Clarence House, on behalf of the Queen, for services to drama.

On 5 May 1955, union delegates gathered in New York on behalf of 16 million workers, to witness and support the merger of The American Federation of Labor and The Congress of Industrial Organization.

Then a Canon to the Theotokos is chanted, entitled, " On behalf of a man whose soul is departing, and who cannot speak ".

On the journey he was interviewed on behalf of the Associated Press, which quoted him describing his trip as a " new crusade.

On behalf of Pacelli, Prelate Ludwig Kaas, the outgoing chairman of the Centre Party, negotiated first drafts of the terms with Papen.

On Pirithous ' behalf they travelled to the underworld, domain of Persephone and her husband, Hades.

On March 3, G. V. Chichern signed the new peace terms on behalf of the Bolsheviks.

On May 12, 1921, just two months into Harding's presidency, violence was initiated near Matewan, West Virginia, between private detectives, on behalf of the Stone Mountain Coal Company, and United Mine Workers union members who had been fired from their jobs and were being evicted from company-owned housing.

On 14 March 2010 a statement was issued on behalf of Winnie Mandela claiming that the interview was a " fabrication ".

On 2 January 1897 Gladstone wrote to Francis Hirst on being unable to write a preface to a book on liberalism: " I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism ".

On the elevation of Innocent VII to the papal throne in 1404, Matthew greeted him on behalf of Ruprecht.

On July 8 the Congress adopted a petition to the king in the hopes that he would intervene in Parliament on behalf of the colonies.

* On Charity and Humor, discourse on behalf of a charitable organisation

On the evening of December 27th, Esther noticed my pallid look and rasping voice.

On the contrary it is my duty to make my own decision as between the two ''.

On September 16, Sam Rayburn will have served as Speaker twice as long as any predecessor and I am proud to join with others in marking this date, and in expressing my esteem for that notable American, Sam Rayburn.

On that view, nothing good or bad happened in the case until I came on the scene and made my remark.

On my way out I told her, `` If you should eh just happen to see your husband, get him to give himself up.

On my first Guy Fawkes Day here, I found Catholics as well as non-Catholics celebrating with the traditional fireworks and bonfires, and was told that most Englishmen either do not know or are not concerned with the historical significance of the day.

On my way to the elevator, I ran into Pete.

On the other hand, I have chosen one thing or another because I am a musician, because I needed it, and because with my venerable authors I can't delete or dispute anything.

This was rejected by the Khan of Kalat who, upset by the claim, issued a communiqué: " On the night of March 27, All India Radio, Delhi announced that two months ago Kalat State had approached the Indian Union to accept its accession to India and that the Indian Union had rejected the request … It had never been my intention to accede to India … It is, therefore, declared that from 9 pm on March 27th – the time when I heard the false news over the air, I forthwith decide to accede to Pakistan, and that whatever differences now exist between Kalat and Pakistan be placed in writing before Mr Jinnah, the Governor-General of Pakistan, whose decision I shall accept ".

On June 14, 1940, the day Paris was declared an open city by the French and occupied by German troops, Riefenstahl wrote to Hitler in a telegram, “ With indescribable joy, deeply moved and filled with burning gratitude, we share with you, my Führer, your and Germany's greatest victory, the entry of German troops into Paris.

On 4 August 1933, the Courier published as a full news item the assertion of a London man, George Spicer, that a few weeks earlier while motoring around the Loch, he and his wife had seen " the nearest approach to a dragon or pre-historic animal that I have ever seen in my life ", trundling across the road toward the Loch carrying " an animal " in its mouth.

" To make clear my exposition in writing this brief commentary on painting ," Alberti began his treatise, Della Pittura ( On Painting ), " I will take first from the mathematicians those things with which my subject is concerned.

" On the other hand, in Letter 153 he said, " I tried to show allegorically how might come to be taken up into Creation in some plane in my ' purgatorial ' story Leaf by Niggle.

On the threshold, I take off my work clothes, covered in mud and filth, and I put on the clothes an ambassador would wear.

On another occasion he stated somewhat more defensively, " I do not refuse my dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion.

On the early phonograph's reproductive capabilities he writes " It sounded to my ear like someone singing about half a mile away, or talking at the other end of a big hall ; but the effect was rather pleasant, save for a peculiar nasal quality wholly due to the mechanism, though there was little of the scratching which later was a prominent feature of the flat disc.

On her marker in a garden setting is inscribed, " Music is my life's breath.

On ' Country Boy ' I had my bass and drums playing a straight swing rhythm and wrote out that ' rumba ' bass part for the saxes to play on top of the swing rhythm.

Meyer Berger recalled that, as a child, " On Saturday mornings, I used to venture from Brooklyn with my father to Radio Row on Cortlandt Street in Lower Manhattan, where he and hundreds of other New York men moved from stall to stall in search of the elusive tube that would make the radio work again.

But after finding that his book On Writing had more useful and observant things to say about the craft than any book since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, I have gotten over my own snobbery.

On October 16, 2007, Raimi stated that: " I don't have any news on ' The Shadow ' at this time, except that the company that I have with Josh Donen, my producing partner, we've got the rights to ' The Shadow.

As the happy couples embrace — Jack and Gwendolen, Algernon and Cecily, and even Dr. Chasuble and Miss Prism — Lady Bracknell complains to her newfound relative: “ My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality .” “ On the contrary, Aunt Augusta ”, he replies, “ I ’ ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of being Earnest .”