Powell replied: " I am within the judgment of the House, as I am within the judgment of the people of this country, and I am content to stand before either tribunal ".

When a BBC reporter asked Powell to explain his defeat, he replied: " My opponent polled more votes than me ".

" Powell replied, " I'm eighty-one ".

In a 2003 town hall with students, high school student James Doubek asked Secretary of State Colin Powell about the United States support for the coup, to which Powell replied that " it is not a part of American history that we're proud of ".

To this Powell replied, " You know best, captain.

Enoch Powell distanced himself philosophically from Margaret Thatcher ; notably when it was remarked to him that she was a convert to Powellism, Powell replied:

Pickford was registered with the Republican Party and in October 1960 she appeared with Ginger Rogers, Cesar Romero, Laraine Day, Dick Powell and John Payne in a Nixon-Lodge bumper sticker drive in Los Angeles.

Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Caron, and Janet Leigh were among those that she competed with for roles at MGM.

Powell also attributed Thatcher's success to luck, saying that she was faced with " supremely unattractive opponents at the time ".

" Powell pointed out that Britain's nuclear weaponry " is negligible in comparison with that of Russia: if we could destroy 16 Russian cities she could destroy practically every vestige of life on these islands several times over.

Powell said that Thatcher's " most significant point was when she went on to say that we must aim at a conventional forces balance.

After Thatcher resisted further European integration at a meeting at Strasbourg in November Powell asked her parliamentary private secretary Mark Lennox-Boyd to pass to her " my respectful congratulations on her stand ... she both spoke for Britain and gave a lead to Europe –- in the line of succession of Winston Churchill and William Pitt.

Since she resigned on 22 November, Powell never rejoined the Conservatives.

It focuses on a soldier ( Dick Powell ) who falls in love with a general's daughter ( Ruby Keeler ) during the general's brief stop in Hawaii, but she leaves with her father for the Philippines before their relationship can blossom.

From Terry's expensive clothing and her photograph of her elderly grandfather, Jean assumes she has obtained the former from her sugar daddy, just as fellow resident Linda Shaw ( Gail Patrick ) has from her relationship with influential theatrical producer Anthony Powell ( Adolphe Menjou ).

Professor Barry Powell has suggested she was Minoan Crete's Snake Goddess.

According to Albright's memoirs, she once argued with Colin Powell for the use of military force by asking, " What ’ s the point of you saving this superb military for, Colin, if we can't use it?

She made four films in close succession with William Powell: Libeled Lady ( 1936 ), which also starred Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy, The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), in which she played Billie Burke opposite Powell's Florenz Ziegfeld, the second " Thin Man " film, After the Thin Man with Powell and James Stewart, and the romantic comedy Double Wedding ( 1937 ).

In 1975, Powell married his girlfriend, the Pan's People dancer Babs Lord, quickly and quietly, partly because he was about to start filming for Jesus of Nazareth, and partly to overcome problems if she flew out to see him on location in Morocco.

In 1991, the party's strongest showing was 4. 4 % in Rossland-Trail ; in 1996, 11 % in Nelson-Creston, in 2001 and 2005, in Adriane Carr's riding of Powell River-Sunshine Coast where she received 27 % and 25 % respectively, and in 2009 in West Vancouver-Sea-to-Sky with 22 %.

When she left Paramount, her initial studio, for Warner Brothers ( along with Kay Francis and William Powell ), it was noted that the brothers Warner needed an infusion of " class ".

Per her last wishes she was interred next to her husband, Mel Powell, in the Masonic Cemetery in her native Jamesport.

Her all-talking film debut was The Canary Murder Case ( 1929 ), in which she co-starred opposite William Powell and Louise Brooks.

In 1952 she appeared in radio, print, and magazine ads in support of Dwight D. Eisenhower and was in attendance at his inauguration along with Anita Louise, Louella Parsons, Jane Russell, Dick Powell, June Allyson, and Lou Costello, among others.

On Robertson's death in 1961, the film critic and Greek scholar Dilys Powell took her place until the show finished, when she was in her ninetieth year.

On her return to Britain Powell was appointed film critic on The Sunday Times, and in 1941 she found war work with a Greek connection in the Political Warfare Executive, which oversaw Britain's propaganda in occupied Europe.

Powell was one of the founder members of the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) from 1954, despite initial concerns about her possible conflicts of interest ( she wrote for a newspaper that was backing one of the ITV franchises, but its bid was eventually withdrawn ).

Powell quoted a letter he received from a woman in Northumberland, about an elderly woman living in a Wolverhampton street where she was the only white resident.

Margaret Thatcher thought that although some of Powell's speech was " strong meat " she sympathised with his overall message and said to Heath when he telephoned her to inform her Powell was to be sacked: " I really thought that it was better to let things cool down for the present rather than heighten the crisis.

He looked around in surprise, then noticed that Fred Powell was clutching his chest.

The field was pioneered by staff of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, men such as John Wesley Powell and Frank Hamilton Cushing.

Andrew Powell appeared as arranger of orchestra ( and often choirs ) on all albums except Vulture Culture, when he was composing the score of Richard Donner's film Ladyhawke.

When in December 1978 there was media speculation that Prince Charles might marry a Roman Catholic, Powell defended the provision that excludes Roman Catholics from ascending the throne, claiming his objection was not rooted in religious bigotry but in political considerations.

Steam coal was subsequently found in the Rhondda and further west, but many of the great companies of the Welsh coal industry's Gilded Age started operation in Aberdare and the lower Cynon Valley, including those of Samuel Thomas, David Davies and Sons, Nixon's Navigation and Powell Duffryn.

" One notable pupil was Enoch Powell.

The Widgery Tribunal, held in the immediate aftermath of the event, largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame — Widgery described the soldiers ' shooting as " bordering on the reckless "— but was criticised as a " whitewash ", including by Jonathan Powell.

Another Charlton legend, Chris Powell was appointed manager of the club in January, winning his first game in charge 2 – 0 over Plymouth at the Valley, Charlton's first win since November.

* In 1991, Powell was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George H. W. Bush.

* In 1991, Powell was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP.

* In 1991, Powell was inducted into the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, which " honors the achievements of outstanding individuals in U. S. society who have succeeded in spite of adversity and of encouraging young people to pursue their dreams through higher education.

* On September 30, 1993, Powell was awarded his second Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton.

* On November 9, 1993, Powell was awarded the second Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, by President Ronald Reagan.

* On December 15, 1993, Colin Powell was created an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

* The 2002 Liberty Medal was awarded to Colin Powell on July 4 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* The Coat of Arms of Colin Powell was granted by the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh on February 4, 2004.

* Colin Powell was initiated as an honorary brother in Sigma Phi Epsilon.

On July 5, 2009, Colin Powell told CNN said that the policy was " correct for the time " but that " sixteen years have now gone by, and I think a lot has changed with respect to attitudes within our country, and therefore I think this is a policy and a law that should be reviewed.

Edwin Powell Hubble ( November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953 ) was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the field of extragalactic astronomy and is generally regarded as one the most important observational cosmologists of the 20th century.

Hubble was born to an insurance executive, John Powell Hubble, and Virginia Lee James in Marshfield, Missouri, and moved to Wheaton, Illinois, in 1900.

David Lean was also rapidly becoming a force in world cinema with Brief Encounter and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger would experience the best of their creative partnership with films like Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes.

The Fifth Monarchists were also a significant opponent to the Rump Parliament and leading Fifth Monarchists like Vavasor Powell were annoyed at the Rump's failure to renew certain pieces of legislation, such as the Propagation of the Gospel in Wales, because they believed that the Rump was not fulfilling what the Fifth Monarchists perceived to be its aim, that is to turn England into a more ' godly ' nation.

The arrest of Feake and Powell was sufficient for a time to dampen their ardour, but many of the delegates to Barebone's Parliament were from congregations with Fifth Monarchist sympathies.

Meanwhile he was still writing reviews of books and plays and at this time met the novelist Anthony Powell.