Siletsky delivers Sobinski's message and invites Maria to dinner, hoping to recruit her as a spy for the Nazis.

The Americans sent top leaders, including Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams and Albert Gallatin, while the British send minor officials who kept in close touch with their superiors in London.

She claimed she convinced Bleicher, and through him, his superiors, to send her to London to infiltrate the SOE.

* The police superiors discussing a plan to send Jackie Chan's character on an undercover mission.

After talking to his superiors, Hammond allows O ' Neill to send a tissue box through the Stargate.

He founded St. Paul Jesuit College ( Macau ) and requested the Order's superiors in Goa to send a suitably talented person to Macau to start the study of Chinese.

After being consulted by her superiors at the CIA about whom to send on the mission, Valerie E. Wilson, according to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, suggested that she ask Ambassador Wilson, her husband, whom she had married in 1998, whether or not he might be interested in making such a trip.

Immediately after graduation, Parkinson's superiors offered to send him to study in MIT's “ Course Sixteen ” a well-known aeronautics and astronautics program.

Once again Eugene's courage earned him recognition from his superiors who granted him the honour of personally conveying the news of victory to the Emperor in Vienna.

Historian Brian Loring Villa concluded that Mountbatten conducted the raid without authority, but that his intention to do so was known to several of his superiors, who took no action to stop him.

Barzun states that, contrary to myth, Rousseau was no primitivist ; for him: The model man is the independent farmer, free of superiors and self-governing.

Not wanting to seem ignorant, his superiors kept giving him commendations and promotions, until he reached the dizzy heights of commodore.

He was removed both times when his superiors found him incapable of command.

His superiors did not want to make him an officer because they suspected he had communist leanings.

His scandalized superiors ordered him out of Zealand and held him in the priory at Viborg under close confinement until he should come to his senses.

Groves ' superior wrote a critical report on him, but the Chief of Engineers, Major General Edgar Jadwin, interceded, attributing blame to Groves ' superiors instead.

Stockdale said his superiors ordered him to keep quiet about this.

In late January, unable to obtain funds from his superiors, Dake went to San Francisco where he persuaded the Wells, Fargo & Co. to loan him $ 3000, assuring them that the Department of Justice would honor the loan.

During the war, Rathbone displayed a penchant for disguise ( a skill which he coincidentally shared with what would become perhaps his most memorable character, Sherlock Holmes ), when on one occasion, in order to have better visibility, Rathbone convinced his superiors to allow him to scout enemy positions during daylight hours instead of during the night, as was the usual practice in order to minimize the chance of detection by the enemy.

During basic training, his superiors find out that he is a phenomenal marksman and decide to promote him to corporal.

Woolley is sympathetic towards Hacker but as Appleby reminds him, his civil servant superiors will have much to say about the course of his future career, while ministers do not usually stay long in one department.

Mar-Vell eventually wearies of his superiors ' malign intent and allies himself with Earth as the Kree Empire brands him a traitor.

Two journeys to Rome on business of the Order afforded him the opportunity of traveling over most of Italy ; and after his final return he saw much of France, while acting as secretary to various provincial superiors of his Order.

Each employee receives a salary and enjoys a degree of tenure that safeguards him from the arbitrary influence of superiors or of powerful clients.

Thompson, who handed the cashier a note, gave the cashier an hour to get approval from superiors to give him keys to the vault.

To facilitate this Harlan's superiors in Eternity allow him to pursue his study of " prehistory ", which is history prior to the Eternity's creation that, because Eternity had not yet been created then, cannot be traveled to nor changed.

He argued with superiors who he felt were discriminatory against him, and refused to fight exhibitions when he was told African American soldiers were not allowed to watch them.

There is also usually another main character who is on a par with him in terms of intelligence and serves as someone for him to play games of one-upmanship with, such as Lord Melchett and Captain Darling, but these characters are typically sycophantic toadies who suck up to their superiors like Queenie and General Melchett, whom Blackadder himself is also forced to reluctantly serve.

It is hinted in several books that the deals done by Williams were responsible for him being overlooked for promotion and that Williams was unhappy his efforts were not recognised by Butler, but were instead hidden from superiors.

On 22 September, cut off from his superiors, he decided to aid besieged Warsaw.

With his own army stopped on the Vistula River and facing Warsaw itself, and without first consulting his Soviet superiors, Berling may have independently issued orders to engage the German enemy and to come to the aid of the Polish resistance.

Brian Urquhart — who had done so much to warn his superiors about the dangers of Arnhem and later became Undersecretary-General of the United Nations — described the British general's actions as both grotesque and shameful.

Instead, without telling anyone of what Catesby planned, he wrote to his superiors in Rome and urged them to warn English Catholics against the use of force.

When he learns, however, of a plot by the Soviet military to take control of the Soviet space weapon and use it against an American Space Shuttle, Priabin is forced to ally himself with Gant in order to warn his civilian superiors in Moscow.

There, one of Stauffenberg's superiors was General Friedrich Olbricht, a committed member of the resistance movement.

In 1940, Pilecki presented to his superiors a plan to enter Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp at Oświęcim ( the Polish name of the locality ), gather intelligence on the camp from the inside, and organize inmate resistance.

In 1940, Witold Pilecki, a member of Polish resistance, presented to his superiors a plan to enter Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp, gather intelligence on the camp from the inside, and organize inmate resistance.

His superiors had emphasized that marines tortured others for the sheer pleasure.

His superiors had also preached this, saying it was the way for eternal honor.

His superiors had said that all marines were depraved.

`` Your superiors will certainly beat you for your desertion, besides the dishonor of it.

At first it was employed as a respectful title for any monk, but it was soon restricted by canon law to certain priestly superiors.

Examples among the Egyptian monks of this submission to the commands of the superiors, exalted into a virtue by those who regarded the entire crushing of the individual will as a goal, are detailed by Cassian and others, e. g. a monk watering a dry stick, day after day, for months, or endeavoring to remove a huge rock immensely exceeding his powers.

Twice in the year the superiors of the several coenobia met at the chief monastery, under the presidency of an archimandrite (" the chief of the fold ," from miandra, a sheepfold ), and at the last meeting gave in reports of their administration for the year.

The people, who felt the severity of his laws, at the same time acknowledged their justice and found themselves protected from the rapacity of their superiors who had grown corrupt under the safety and opulence of Manuel I rule.

During this time, Montgomery faced serious trouble from his military superiors and the clergy for his frank attitude regarding the sexual health of his soldiers, but was defended from dismissal by his superior Alan Brooke, commander of II Corps.

Lauded as a hero by the Neapolitan court, Nelson was later to dabble in Neapolitan politics and become the Duke of Bronté, actions for which he was criticised by his superiors and his reputation suffered.

Boxing Day is traditionally the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradespeople would receive gifts from their superiors or employers.

In discussing the relationship between a king and his subject ( or a father and his son ), he underlined the need to give due respect to superiors.

The superiors of these houses always remained subordinate to Columbanus.

Subsequently the French Celestines, with the consent of the Italian superiors of the order, and of Pope Martin V in 1427, obtained the privilege of making new constitutions for themselves, which they did in the 17th century in a series of regulations accepted by the provincial chapter in 1667.

To divert attention from their underpinning of privilege, the superiors point to the low-caste and say: " Look, they are the dull-witted, the incapable, we are the well-born, the fittest.

This division of labor was understood and expected, and women typically felt unable to challenge their position or male superiors.

During this time he wrote regular dispatches to his superiors in Florence, many of which have survived and are published in Machiavelli's Collected Works.

Submissive individuals will make " pant-grunts " towards their superiors.

His new expertise in tank warfare was strengthened by a close collaboration with George S. Patton, Sereno E. Brett, and other senior tank leaders ; their leading-edge ideas of speed-oriented offensive tank warfare were strongly discouraged by superiors who considered the new approach too radical and preferred the tank continue to be used in a strictly supportive role for the infantry.

The governor became responsible for his decisions first to his immediate superiors, as well as to the more distant office of the Emperor.

The " don't ask " part of the DADT policy specified that superiors should not initiate investigation of a servicemember's orientation without witnessing disallowed behaviors, though credible evidence of homosexual behavior could be used to initiate an investigation.