Finally, he was cooking, washing dishes, bathing the children, and even ironing -- and still his wife refused to have relations as often as he desired them.

In Germany, the actress Hedwig Niemann-Raabe refused to perform the play as written, declaring that " I would never leave my children!

After she refused to pay the ransom, they started to threaten Chaplin's youngest children with violence.

Two women made a pact to eat their children ; after the first mother cooked her child the second mother ate it but refused to reciprocate by cooking her own child.

Now 19 years old, Eugene applied directly to Louis XIV for command of a company in French service, but the King – who had shown no compassion for Olympia's children since her disgrace – refused him out of hand.

Himmler ordered that those who refused to be classified as ethnic Germans should be deported to concentration camps, have their children taken away, or be assigned to forced labour.

" They also refused to serve in the military or attend Lutheran schools, choosing instead to teach their children at home.

His parents did not allow much room in their household for " feelings, religion, or enjoyment ", and also refused to make any rules for their children, with complex results for von Trier's personality and development.

Moses turned down the opportunity to have the Israelites completely destroyed and a great nation made from his own offspring, and instead he told the people that they would wander the wilderness for forty years until all those twenty years or older who had refused to enter Canaan had died, and that their children would then enter and possess Canaan.

" It notes that, " when the first direct evidence of infant Baptism appears in the second century, it is never presented as an innovation ," that 2nd-century Irenaeus treated baptism of infants as a matter of course, and that, " at a Synod of African Bishops, St. Cyprian stated that ' God's mercy and grace should not be refused to anyone born ', and the Synod, recalling that'all human beings ' are ' equal ', whatever be ' their size or age ', declared it lawful to baptize children ' by the second or third day after their birth '.

While ill, he asked Saladin to pay him a visit to request that he take care of his young children, but Saladin refused, fearing treachery against the Abbasids, and is said to have regretted his action after realizing what al-Adid had wanted.

" In 1969, the YMCA refused to allow two black children to its summer camp, and the SPLC sued on behalf of the children's parents.

As Proetus refused to accept these terms, the madness of his daughters not only increased, but was communicated to the other Argive women also, so that they murdered their own children and ran about in a state of frenzy.

Elizabeth publicly refused to leave London or send the children to Canada, even during the Blitz, when she was advised by the Cabinet to do so.

Cistercian abbeys also refused to admit children, allowing adults to choose their religious vocation for themselves – a practice later emulated by many of the older Benedictine houses.

Caroline was originally allowed to stay with their children, but refused as she believed her place was with her husband.

The marriage ended eight years later, after Addams, who hated small children, refused to adopt one.

The Oraibi people did not support the school and refused to send their children away from their villages.

Seeing that few students were enrolled, they returned with federal troops who threatened to arrest the Hopi parents if they refused to send their children to school.

Most of the village was conservative and refused to allow their children to attend school.

The “ hostiles ” refused to let their children attend school.

Although the school was within the village, the traditional parents still refused to allow their children to attend.

A 2005 measles outbreak in Indiana was attributed to children whose parents refused vaccination.

The children of the Duchess refused to meet with her after they had learnt of her second marriage.

However, his desperate need of cash, with a wife and seven children, caused him to accept jobs with the Moran gang as a mechanic.

The operation established an orphanage for children of the 6, 000 dead, helped to acquire lumber for rebuilding houses, and teamed with the New York World newspaper to accept contributions for the relief effort.

The children of HRH The Princess Royal and of HRH Princess Alexandra have no titles, because Mark Phillips and Sir Angus Ogilvy did not accept hereditary peerages upon marriage.

In western countries, cases of bribery and other forms of corruption in all possible fields exist: under-the-table payments made to reputed surgeons by patients attempting to be on top of the list of forthcoming surgeries, bribes paid by suppliers to the automotive industry in order to sell low-quality connectors used for instance in safety equipment such as airbags, bribes paid by suppliers to manufacturers of defibrillators ( to sell low-quality capacitors ), contributions paid by wealthy parents to the " social and culture fund " of a prestigious university in exchange for it to accept their children, bribes paid to obtain diplomas, financial and other advantages granted to unionists by members of the executive board of a car manufacturer in exchange for employer-friendly positions and votes, etc.

The Burgundians were now sick of war, and unwilling to accept the rule of Maximilian as regent for his son, the 4-year old Duke Philip, or even as guardian of the children.

Under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, which was adopted and signed in 2002, National armed forces can accept volunteers into their armed forces below the age of 18, but " States Parties shall take all feasible measures to ensure that members of their armed forces who have not attained the age of 18 years do not take a direct part in hostilities ".

Four of his surviving children, Gail, Deana, Ricci and Gina, were on hand to accept on his behalf.

Other children tease her for having a " retard " as a father, and she becomes too embarrassed to accept that she is more intellectually advanced than Sam.

Compulsory education ( leerplicht ) in the Netherlands starts at the age of five, although in practice, most schools accept children from the age of four.

However, Adelaide seemed the ideal candidate: amiable, home-loving, and willing to accept William's illegitimate children as part of the family.

However, the man was a good Christian ; he pretended to accept the deal and, while he had one of his children scream desperately as though his heart were being taken out, he killed a pig and took out its heart, which is very similar to that of a human being.

He tries to read and answer all his mail by himself and finds that the volume is too much and he needs to rely on secretaries ; he is exasperated with his ministers and has them arrested, but soon realises that he does not know enough to govern by himself, and is forced to release the ministers and institute constitutional monarchy ; when a war breaks out he does not accept being shut up in his palace, but slips away and joins up, pretending to be a peasant boy-and narrowly avoids becoming a POW ; he takes the offer of a friendly journalist to publish for him a " royal paper "-and finds much later that he gets carefully edited news and that the journalist is covering up the gross corruption of the young king's best friend ; he tries to organise the children of all the world to hold processions and demand their rights – and ends up antagonising other kings ; he falls in love with a black African princess and outrages racist opinion ( by modern standards, however, Korczak's depiction of blacks is itself not completely free of stereotypes which were current at the time of writing ); finally, he is overthrown by the invasion of three foreign armies and exiled to a desert island, where he must come to terms with reality – and finally does.

With time, he gains the respect and attention of Claudine ’ s children when they finally decide to accept him into their family.

We can never accept opening fire at our children who pose no danger at all.

As Thomas and Elizabeth were married between 1498 and 1499, if Thomas is to be believed this indicates that all five Boleyn children, including the two who failed to reach adulthood, were born between 1500 and 1504, and if we accept as the evidence suggests that George was born in 1504 this is persuasive evidence for suggesting he was the youngest Boleyn child.

In exchange, the United States agreed to accept the presence of Japanese immigrants already residing in America, and to permit the immigration of wives, children and parents, and to avoid legal discrimination against Japanese children in California schools.

Matthias's empire collapsed after his death, since he had no children except for an illegitimate son, John Corvinus, whom the noblemen of the country did not accept as their king.

… She ( God's holy church ) does not accept the husband of one wife if he is still co-habiting with her and fathering children.

Her open-mindedness led her to accept a triangular relationship, and from early 1926 Laura Riding lived with her and Graves in London The marriage eventually broke down, as Graves increasingly favoured Riding, leaving Nancy to bring up the four children of the marriage alone, in a succession of locations, including Cumberland and a further spell on Boars Hill.

Unlike many of today's politicians and churchleaders, she refused to accept that the breakdown of the family was inevitable and she invested every effort into standing up for the interests of vulnerable children.

# That there is a people who, as little children ( Luke 18: 17 ), accept the Word of the New Testament as a message from heaven ( Heb.

With the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism, the Rhön community moved its draft-age men and children to Liechtenstein around 1934 because of their conscientious refusal to serve in the armed forces and to accept Nazi teachers.