Testifying to his importance, a character named " Henry James " appears in at least a half-dozen novels, as noted above, the best-known of which is The Master by Colm Toibin.

Testifying before the HSCA, Witt said " I think if the Guinness Book of World Records had a category for people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing, I would be No. 1 in that position, without even a close runner-up.

Testifying to his growing political influence, the South Carolina legislature asked Butler to represent the state at the Constitutional Convention that met in Philadelphia in 1787.

Testifying at a January 29, 2008 House Judiciary Committee hearing on reform of the state secrets privilege, EFF attorney Kevin Bankston contended that the administration's interpretation of the privilege was overly broad, and failed to properly consider the evidentiary procedures provided for by Section 1806 ( f ) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Testifying in court was also difficult ; George Fox, Quakers ' founder, famously challenged a judge who had asked him to swear, saying that he would do so once the judge could point to any Bible passage where Jesus or his apostles took oaths.

Testifying before the British-appointed education commission, Sir Syed controversially exclaimed that " Urdu was the language of gentry and Hindi that of the vulgar.

Testifying on behalf of Schiavo's parents, Hammesfahr told a court that, contrary to majority medical opinion, which stated that Schiavo was in an irreversible persistent vegetative state, she was in a minimally conscious state and might recover.

Testifying in the Pitcairn Supreme Court in Papakura, New Zealand, specially constituted for the trial with New Zealand judges, Christian rejected the claims of the defendants that, saying that islanders were well-educated, well-travelled, and well-aware of what was legal and what was not.

" Testifying in a court case in Ireland in 2003, Dr Declan Fitzgerald of University College Dublin said he believed that the OCA " impinged on people's self-esteem and was highly manipulative.

Testifying before the House of Commons Ethics Committee on December 13, 2007, Mulroney said the cash payments were for lobbying foreign leaders to buy armored vehicles from Thyssen industries, a company Schreiber represented.

Testifying about the gunfight itself, he said he saw " the marshal go up and speak to this other party.

In 1511, Titian painted three scenes of Miracles from the life of Saint Anthony: The Miracle of the Jealous Husband, which depicts the murder of a young woman by her husband ; A Child Testifying to Its Mother's Innocence ; and The Saint Healing the Young Man with a Broken Limb.

Testifying in his own defence, Bokassa stated: " I'm not a saint.

Testifying, Zeta-Jones said the threats left her so shaken she feared a nervous breakdown.

Testifying is not the same thing as swearing.

Testifying before the same committee two days later, Director of CSIS Jim Judd said that O ' Brian " may have been confused " and " venturing into a hypothetical ", and would send the committee a clarifying letter.

Testifying in support of H. R.

Testifying in self-defense, Bülow denied any such act but remarked that he had heard unsavory rumors about Eulenburg.

Testifying before the United States Congress in 2010, Neil Armstrong opposed an administrative scrap of Constellation, stating " a return to the Moon would be a most productive path to expanding the human presence in the Solar System.

The New York Times published Miller's first-person account, " My Four Hours Testifying in the Federal Grand Jury Room ", on October 16, 2005.

Testifying before the state Senate Judiciary committee, Nigel Payne, CEO of Sportingbet and owner of Paradise Poker, pledged to relocate to the state if the bill became law.

Testifying before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Chicago, President Reidy claimed, " The simple fact is that there is just too much transportation available between the principal cities we serve.

Testifying before a U. S. House committee on March 6, 1942, Olson, a longtime supporter of nearly every Roosevelt position on economics, politics and foreign policy, supported the move wholeheartedly.

Testifying against Moltke were his former wife of nine years, Lili von Elbe, a soldier named Bollhardt, and Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld.

The power and prestige that Offa attained made him one of the most significant rulers in the Early Medieval British Isles, though no contemporary biography of him survives.

As was the norm, he soon relinquished the position and leadership of the Taira clan, with the goal of maintaining the social and political prestige of having attained the highest office in the land, but being free of the attendant duties.

At this time, the university also attained great prestige in the fields of mathematics, physics, and astronomy.

Hit after hit followed on Broadway, and the Broadway theatre attained the highest level of international prestige in theatre.

Chetham's school was refounded in 1969 as Chetham's School of Music, which rapidly attained international prestige as Britain's leading music academy for pre-university students.

Nevertheless, though the festival has remained a small affair, and has little value as a market, its programming has attained a certain prestige, especially among younger or more experimental filmmakers.

In the years up to and through the First World War the Volksoper attained a position as Vienna's second prestige opera house.

She had attained the lofty status of Tafa ‘ ifā during her lifetime and both her son ( by Tapumanaia ) and her daughter ( by Alapepe ) inherited high rank and prestige through her.

The 700 series was introduced in 1982 with the luxurious 760, followed two years later by the more reasonably priced 740 which capitalized on the prestige attained by the very similar 760.

He had used topical materials throughout his series, but in 1959, his Starship Troopers was considered by the Scribner's editorial staff to be too controversial for their prestige line, and they rejected it ; Heinlein found another publisher, feeling himself released from the constraints of writing novels for children, and he began to write " my own stuff, my own way ", and he wrote a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including his best-known work, Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).

He went on to handle such prestige pictures as Room at the Top ( 1959 ), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ), Sons and Lovers ( 1960 ), and The Innocents ( 1961 ), which he regarded as one of the best films he shot.

When the winter tour began at Los Angeles last January there was no one in sight to challenge Palmer's towering prestige.

The Black Hand took over the terrorist actions of Narodna Odbrana, and worked deliberately at obscuring any distinctions between the two groups, trading on the prestige and network of the older organization.

As a personal challenge to Octavian's prestige, Antony tried to get Caesarion accepted as a true heir of Julius Caesar, even though the legacy did not mention him at all.

The authors of the U. S. Army's Area Handbook series said at the time that '.. the Army and Gendarmery ( sic ) were effective forces in being, but the Navy and Air Force were token forces primarily for prestige and with little actual defense value.

David Holbrook, who has written three books about Thomas, stated in 1962, " the strangest feature of Dylan Thomas's notoriety-not that he is bogus, but that attitudes to poetry attached themselves to him which not only threaten the prestige, effectiveness and accessability to English poetry, but also destroyed his true voice and, at last, him.

In 1921 the prestige of Nicolai Hartmann the Neo-Kantian, the Professor of Philosophy at Marburg, was added to the Movement ; he " publicly declared his solidarity with the actual work of die Phänomenologie.

In the 1950s ( see 1950s in film ) the industry began to retreat slightly from the prestige productions which had made British films successful worldwide, and began to concentrate on popular comedies and World War II dramas aimed more squarely at the domestic audience.

Orson Welles had notorious problems with financing, but his three film noirs were well budgeted: The Lady from Shanghai ( 1947 ) received top-level, " prestige " backing, while both The Stranger, his most conventional film, and Touch of Evil, an unmistakably personal work, were funded at levels lower but still commensurate with headlining releases.

While at the close of the First World War the Foreign Legion's prestige was at a high, the Foreign Legion itself had suffered greatly in the trenches of the First World War.

The division into conventional periods is, as with all such periodisations, relatively arbitrary, especially since at all periods, Ancient Greek has enjoyed high prestige, and the literate borrowed heavily from it.

He participated little in the debates ( though he did vote for or against the various articles ), but his high prestige maintained collegiality and kept the delegates at their labors.

There is also a strong probability that for most or all of the period the temple at Bethel in Benjamin replaced that at Jerusalem, boosting the prestige of Bethel's priests ( the Aaronites ) against those of Jerusalem ( the Zadokites ), now in exile in Babylon.

Nationalist rivalries and prestige were at play.

Jerusalem looked again towards the Byzantine Empire for help, and Emperor Manuel was looking for a way to restore his empire's prestige after his defeat at the Battle of Myriokephalon in 1176 ; this mission was undertaken by Raynald of Châtillon.

Although now acclaimed and widely influential as an urban design feature, Mies had to convince Bronfman's bankers that a taller tower with significant " unused " open space at ground level would enhance the presence and prestige of the building.

Following Pearl Harbor, officials grew apprehensive that the film could project an unduly negative image of the US internationally, and although a prestige opening was held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1942, the film was never authorized for general release.

Roosevelt was a powerful campaign asset for the Republican ticket, which defeated William Jennings Bryan in a landslide based on restoration of prosperity at home and a successful war and new prestige abroad.

While this solved the problem at hand, it ultimately had the effect of lowering the prestige of the Vice Presidency, as the office was no longer for the leading challenger for the Presidency.

However, in some sports the Olympic title carries at least as much prestige.

The opera was first performed in Milan at La Scala on 25 March 1868, and prestige productions in most other Italian opera houses followed, but it did not become a popular success.

Several colleges host annual independent competitions, many of which hold varying degrees of prestige, such as the Contest of Champions at Middle Tennessee State University, which is the longest running high school band contest in the United States.

However, Turrell V. Wylie states that censorship in the Mingshi in favor of bolstering the Ming emperor's prestige and reputation at all costs obfuscates the nuanced history of Sino-Tibetan relations during the Ming era.

Her policies, therefore, may be seen as desperate measures to keep the Valois monarchy on the throne at all costs, and her patronage of the arts as an attempt to glorify a monarchy whose prestige was in steep decline.