His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

Burnside, against the advice of the president, prematurely launched an offensive across the Rappahannock River and was stunningly defeated by Lee at Fredericksburg in December.

One important piece of advice Yamamoto gave Kurosawa was that a good director needed to master screenwriting.

His advice to Augustine of Hippo on this point was to follow local liturgical custom.

Hushai convinced Absalom to ignore Ahithophel's advice to attack his father while he was on the run, and instead prepare his forces for a major attack.

Furthermore, to aid the conspiracy Maria had adopted Alexios as her son, though she was only five years older than he Maria was persuaded to do so on the advice of her own " Alans " and her eunuchs, who had been instigated to do his by Isaac Komnenos.

It was contrary to Absalon's advice and warnings that Valdemar I rendered fealty to the emperor Frederick Barbarossa at Dole in 1162.

Previously ( from 1992 until 1995 ), the advice was that men should drink no more than 21 units per week, and women no more than 14.

This provision was repealed early in Queen Anne's reign, as many councillors ceased to offer advice and some stopped attending meetings altogether.

David's plan of building a temple for the Ark was stopped at the advice of God ( 2 Sam.

In 1997, a memorandum of understanding between the US and four of the former USSR states was signed and subject to ratification by each signatory, but it was not presented to the US Senate for advice and consent by Bill Clinton.

Jerome Robbins was called in by director George Abbott and producer Hal Prince to give advice and make changes.

The money was devoted largely to developing “ technical advice on the conduct of defoliation and anti-crop activities in Southeast Asia .” By the end of fiscal year 1962, the Chemical Corps had let or were negotiating contracts for over one thousand chemical defoliants.

Hezekiah then took Isaiah's advice and threw himself on the protection of God, and Jerusalem was saved.

The large contingent furnished by Egypt gave her advice as much weight as her personal influence over Antony ; and it appears that this movement was really resolved upon.

This demanded that the inferior must give advice to his superior if the superior was considered to be taking the course of action that was wrong.

He was similarly appreciative of them and gave them due credit for policies where he had used their advice.

Back in the United States, Lynch returned to Virginia, but since his parents had moved to Walnut Creek, California, he was forced to stay with his friend Tony Keeler for a while, before he decided to move to the city of Philadelphia, where, at the advice of Jack Fisk, who was already attending it, he decided to enroll at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, something he preferred far more than his previous art college in Boston, claiming that " In Philadelphia there were great and serious painters, and everybody was inspiring one another and it was a beautiful time there.

The marriage of ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá to one woman and his choice to remain monogamous, from advice of his father and his own wish, legitimised the practice of monogamy to a people whom hitherto had regarded polygamy as a righteous way of life.

His Impressionist contemporaries, however, continued to view his independence as a “ mark of integrity ”, and they turned to him for advice, referring to him as “ Père Pissarro ” ( father Pissarro ).

From there ' the younger Henry, devising evil against his father from every side by the advice of the French King, went secretly into Aquitaine where his two youthful brothers, Richard and Geoffrey, were living with their mother, and with her connivance, so it is said, he incited them to join him '.

In 1886, her mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens ' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind woman, Laura Bridgman, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice.

:" As I am your father, I claim the right of being your counsellor: do not therefore slight my advice, since it is to my countrymen you must owe the conquest of all your enemies.

While Esau was hunting, Jacob, after listening to his mother's advice, deceived his blind father by misrepresenting himself as Esau and thereby obtained his father's blessing, such that Jacob became Isaac's primary heir and Esau was left in an inferior position.

In the first episodes, we trace Telemachus ' efforts to assert control of the household, and then, at Athena ’ s advice, to search for news of his long-lost father.

On 23 March 1492, he was formally admitted into the Sacred College and took up his residence at Rome, receiving a letter of advice from his father.

Her father gave her advice, saying that she was too young to be married.

His father told reporters he regretted his advice and was appalled by the sentence.

Although killing two brothers and deposing his father contradicted the Confucian value of filial piety, Taizong showed himself to be a capable leader who listened to the advice of the wisest members of his council.

Thus, for example, the Crown Prince was unable to contradict the advice of his Chief of Staff, General Leonhard, Count von Blumenthal, for fear of a direct appeal ( in this case ) to his father, the King.

He went ahead with the mansion on Boar's Hill, against the advice of his father, who regarded it as wasteful and useless.

Llywelyn was forced to come to terms, and by the advice of his council sent his wife Joan to negotiate with the king, her father.

According to statements from Joe's brother Tom to biographer Maury Allen, Rosalia's father wrote to her with the advice that Giuseppe could earn a better living in California than in their native Isola delle Femmine, an Italian town in North-Western Sicily, administratively part of the province of Palermo.

Although he was in frequent contact with his father in Liverpool and probably received advice from him, it is difficult not to give the majority of the credit for the design to Robert.

Therefore, following Odysseus's advice, her father Tyndareus made all suitors promise to defend Helen's marriage to the man he chose for her.

In the Biblical account, earlier regulations had specified that property was to be inherited by heirs who were male, but the daughters were the only children of their now deceased father, and so they came to the door of the Tent of Meeting and asked Moses, Eleazer, the tribal chieftains, and the rest of the congregation, for advice on what was to be done, as there were no obvious male heirs ; in the Talmud, opinions vary as to whether this means that the daughters petitioned all of these groups at the same time, with them gathered together, or if it means that the daughters first petitioned the congregation, then the chieftains, then Eleazar, and finally petitioned Moses.

In Islam, Abraham's father is believed to have been a highly evil, ignorant and wicked man, who refused to listen to the constant advice of his wise son.

As a father, Azar required his son's most sincere advice.

When Abraham offered his father the guidance and advice of God, he rejected it, and threatened to stone him to death.

The only advice that his father Umberto ever gave his heir was " Remember: to be a king, all you need to know is how to sign your name, read a newspaper, and mount a horse ".

It has been said that her father tried to delay matters apparently until James, perhaps sensing her reluctance, wrote to her, appealing for her advice and support.