Lord Curzon, British Viceroy of India, rejected the loan, suspicious that the Russians had an acquisitive eye on Britain ’ s precious Indian colony, provoking stark protest from Sazonov against the accusation.

Sazonov grew frustrated with Britain ’ s inability to compromise on a route incorporating India, and threatened to proceed with the northern route.

When Pourtalès, the German Ambassador in St. Petersburg reported that the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Sazonov warned him that Germany “ must reckon with Europe ” if she supported an Austrian attack against Serbia, Wilhelm wrote on the margin of Pourtalès ’ s dispatch “ No!

At the same time, Grey met with opposition from the Russian Ambassador who warned that a conference with Germany, Italy, France, and Britain serving as the mediators between Austria and Russia would break apart the informal Triple Entente. Sazonov accepted Grey ’ s proposal for a conference despite his reservations about the dangers of splitting the Triple Entente, Grey wrote to Sazonov that: “ I do not consider that public opinion here would or ought to sanction our going to war over a Serbian quarrel.

On July 26, in St. Petersburg, the German Ambassador von Pourtalès told Sazonov to reject Grey ’ s offer of a summit in London, stating that the proposed conference was “ too unwieldy ”, and if Russia were serious about saving the peace, they would negotiate directly with the Austrians.

Sazonov replied that he was willing to see Serbia accept almost all of the Austrian demands, and following von Pourtalès ’ s advice, rejected Grey ’ s conference proposal in favour of direct talks with the Austrians.

The German military attaché in Russia reported that: “ I have the impression that they Russians have mobilized here from a dread of coming events without aggressive intentions and are now frightened at what they have brought about .” At the same time, Nicholas ’ order for a partial mobilization met with protests from both Sazonov and the Russian War Minister General Vladimir Sukhomlinov, who insisted partial mobilization was not technically possible, and that, given Germany ’ s attitude, a general mobilization was required.

The cancellation of general mobilization led to furious protests from Sukhomlinov, Sazonov, and Russia ’ s top generals, all urging Nicholas to reinstate it.

The next day, Austrian Ambassador Czernin approached Russian Foreign Minister Sazonov with the idea that the instigators of the plot against Franz Ferdinand needed to be investigated within Serbia, but he too was rebuffed.

While the extremist agents like Nicholas Hartwig aspired to solidify the conflicting South Slavic states into a confederacy under the aegis of the Tsar, there is no indication that Sazonov personally shared or encouraged these views.

Sazonov told the Austrian ambassador “ I know what it is.

It is imperative that the responsibility for any extension of the conflict to the Powers not directly concerned should under all circumstances fall on Russia alone .” At the same time, the German Ambassador to Russia, Portalés, reported that, based on a conversation with Sazonov, Russia was prepared to make “ astonishing ” concessions by promising to pressure Serbia to agree to most of the Austrian demands to avoid a war.

On 15 July 1904 a bomb was thrown into Plehve's carriage by Yegor Sazonov, in Saint Petersburg, killing him.

On February 8, 2010, Edward Sazonov, Physical Activity Innovations LLC, was awarded the title of Bluetooth Innovator of the Year for 2009.

Sazonov received this recognition at a ceremony held at the Wearable Technologies Show at ispo 2010, a trade show for sporting goods.

Prior to the departure of Sykes to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Sazonov in Petrograd on 27 February 1916, Sykes was approached with a plan by Herbert Samuel, who had a seat in the Cabinet as President of the Local Government Board and was strongly sympathetic to Zionism.

The 7N1 was developed by V. M. Sabelnikov, P. P. Sazonov and V. M. Dvorianinov.

* Between 23rd and 30th July, Sazonov having declared that Russia would not tolerate an attack on Serbia, all attempts to mediate the crisis were rebuffed by Germany.

However, the final step needed to initiate the project was the support of the British, who wanted to restore financial stability in Iran but did not wish to be involved in the Trans-Iranian Railway Consortium through the proposed four to six million pound loan, proposed by Alexander Izvolsky, Imperial Foreign Minister 1906 – 10, and Sergey Sazonov, Foreign Minister 1910 – 16.

Sazonov continued to urge for the loan, believing it to be the solution to prevent Persia from bankruptcy.

Sazonov suggested that appointing a strong Iranian leader would aid the financial aspect of the railway project.

Sergei D. Sazonov.

Sergei Dmitrievich Sazonov GCB ( Russian: Сергей Дмитриевич Сазонов, 10 August 186025 December 1927 ) was a Russian statesman who served as Foreign Minister from September 1910 to June 1916.

Of lesser noble background, Sazonov was the brother-in-law of Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin who did his best to further Sazonov's career.

Having graduated from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, Sazonov served in the London embassy, and the diplomatic mission to the Vatican, of which he became the chief in March 1906.

On 26 June 1909 Sazonov was recalled to St. Petersburg and appointed Assistant Foreign Minister.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another ’ s welfare ".

Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one ’ s own welfare.

One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one ’ s own life and existence ".

Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people ’ s business.

* David Firestone-When Romney ’ s Reach Exceeds His Grasp-Mitt Romney quotes the song

" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.

Critics differ about Swift ’ s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.

Charles K. Smith argues that Swift ’ s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.

Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.

Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.

Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".

Swift uses the proposer ’ s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.

In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).

James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.

He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".