By 1276, Count Radbot's seventh generation descendant, Rudolph of Habsburg, had moved the family's power base from Habsburg Castle to the Archduchy of Austria.

Her execution also marked the end of the Howard family's power within the court.

" He believed in the power of radio advertising since his family's " La Palina " cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio.

Sorich, McCarthy and Slattery lived in the 11th Ward, the Daley family's longtime power base, and had strong ties to the 11th Ward Democrats, led by the mayor's brother John Daley.

They were able to bring Florence under their family's power, allowing for an environment where art and humanism could flourish.

Morganatic marriages limited the pool of potential heirs, slowing further diminution of the family's power.

The Emperors of Eastern Jin had limited power, with most of it concentrated in the royal family's hands, whilst military power was mostly wielded by non-royals.

Apart from the bastard eunuch Basil Lekapenos, who was appointed parakoimomenos, Theophylact was the only son of Romanos I to retain his high office after the family's fall from power in 945.

When Emmanuel Philibert came to power in 1553 most of his family's territories were in French hands, so he offered to serve France's leading enemy the House of Habsburg, in the hope of recovering his lands.

The Seymour family's power grew during Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn, to whom Jane Seymour was a lady in waiting.

Although he held no formal executive position, he wielded immense unofficial power, exercising personal command of both the ARVN Special Forces ( a paramilitary unit which served as the Ngô family's de facto private army ) and the Cần Lao political apparatus ( also known as the Personalist Labor Party ) which served as the regime's de facto secret police.

In 1963, the Ngô family's grip on power became unstuck during the Buddhist crisis, during which the nation's Buddhist majority rose up against the pro-Catholic regime.

Interpersonal feuding weakened the family's hold on power, and by 1980, political opponents had begun to win local elections.

But it is unusual that the Medici family's position of Papal power is openly named as something that should be used as a personal power base, as a tool of secular politics.

Indeed takes the Borgia family's recent and very controversial attempts to use church power in secular politics, often very brutally executed, as a positive example.

By now, he has mostly retired from the Mafia, leaving the Corleone family's criminal interests in the hands of enforcer Joey Zasa ( Joe Mantegna ), and is using his tremendous wealth and power to restore his reputation via numerous acts of charity.

To this picture of the family's success one could add political power as well, as James ' uncle Alexander Gilmore Cattell represented New Jersey in the United States Senate.

The results of those examinations was supplemented by a brief vita of the saint-to-be, and together with the testimony of Elizabeth's handmaidens and companions ( bound in a booklet called the Libellus de dictis quatuor ancillarum s. Elizabeth confectus ), proved sufficient reason for the quick canonization of Elizabeth on 27 May 1235 in Perugia — no doubt helped along by her family's power and influence.

The family's power lay in the west of Wessex.

When Gotti Sr died in prison in 2002, his brother Peter took over as boss, allegedly alongside D ' Amico, but the family's fortunes have dwindled to a remarkable extent given their power a few short decades ago, when they were considered the most powerful criminal organization on earth.

It also examines the beginnings of the family's power and its links to the Barbarossa clan.

Cavalcante was head of the Conservative Party in Pernambuco and a network of kinship ties extended the family's power.

In the family's own words ( during the third of twelve visits ), they had `` reached the crisis peak -- either the situation will give or we will break ''!!

Training to become an engineer was beyond the family's financial resources, but he reached his goal via a path that alternated education with paid employment.

As Altman reached adulthood, the family's financial situation had become secure enough that he was able to pursue a college education.

Supporters of Al-Arian said the agreement was reached in part to end his family's suffering and to reunite them.

Between 1931 and 1932 the global economic crisis reached France at the same time he left both the Racing Club de France and, to his family's disapproval, his apprenticeship at Cadres Van Hoof.

" One trend is that fewer homeowners are inclined to do fix-up jobs, perhaps because of time constraints, perhaps because of lack of interest ; one reporter commented " my family's fix-it gene petered out before it reached my generation.

There was restitution paid in 1951 to the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization, but this was done without the family's consent and none of the money ever reached the family.

During this period Foligno flourished and reached the height of its wealth and, especially in the 15th century, was a center of art thanks to the family's patronage of arts ( exemplified by the Palazzo Trinci ).

In June 2009, Diadora reached an agreement with Italian shoe-making company Geox's founder and chairman Mario Moretti Polegato to buy its assets through his family's investment arm, LIR.

Politically, the family's influence reached a peak with Sir John Giffard, who died in 1556.

In September 2005, the Terre Haute Tribune-Star newspaper reported that an agreement had been reached between a new local limited liability corporation, Seventh & Wabash, LLC, and Terre Haute Realty Corporation ( the Hulman family's real-estate holding company, which managed the Terre Haute House and several of the family's other properties ).

In return, the Al ash-Sheikh support the Al Saud's political authority thereby using its religious-moral authority to legitimise the royal family's rule.

The terms of the settlement are confidential, but it was reported that under its terms Davis purchased the McGah family's interest in the Raiders ( approximately 31 percent ), which gave him for the first time a majority interest, speculated to be approximately 67 percent of the team.

The Ottonian dynasty Ottonen was a dynasty of Germanic Kings ( 919 – 1024 ), named after its first emperor but also known as the Saxon dynasty after the family's origin.

In return, the Al ash-Sheikh support the Al Saud's political authority thereby using its religious-moral authority to legitimize the royal family's rule.

The log has to burn all night and it is believed that its warmth and light symbolise the coming of Christ as well as providing a warm welcome to Virgin Mary and the family's ancestors who are believed to be guests at the table according to traditions in some regions.

Gamal Abdel Nasser's daughter, Hoda, said she was not informed of her family's lineage, but suspects the claim of its Arabian descent to be accurate.

After leaving school, he was apprenticed to his family's engineering business, becoming a qualified engineer, and finally its business manager.

In 1982, it was sold to the same family's Titan Sports company, which later changed its name to World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, before becoming World Wrestling Entertainment in 2002, and simplified to WWE in 2011.

Regina's brother Oscar has married Birdie, his much-maligned, alcoholic wife, solely to acquire her family's plantation and its cotton fields.

The East block was a self-contained country house in its own right, containing all the rooms for the family's private use, and the identical West block contained the kitchens and all other domestic rooms and staff accommodation.

The Center opened in 1990 with the Deines family's donation of its building, the Deines engravings, and a cash endowment to the city of Russell.

She donated the money needed to purchase the house and make it a museum, agreed to make significant contributions each year for its upkeep and also gave many of the family's belongings to help establish what became a popular museum that still draws thousands of visitors each year to Mansfield.

She donated the money needed to purchase the house and make it a museum, agreed to make significant contributions each year for its upkeep and also gave many of the family's belongings to help establish what became a popular museum which still draws thousands of visitors each year to Mansfield.

Stock in the family's oil companies is a major part of the foundation's assets, beginning with Standard Oil and now with its corporate descendants, including Exxon Mobil.

In the narrower sense of the term, a family history is a biography of a single family over several generations, based on a tested genealogy and fleshed out with the fuller story of the family's place in society, the dramas of its achievements or failures and its acquisition or loss of wealth and rank.

The Clark family's former mansion and its estate at the edge of the town are now owned by Millfield School, an independent co-educational boarding school, well known for its sporting prowess.

Reports that the only crew members who were compensated for their work in the film were Jackey Neyman and her family's dog, who received a bicycle and a large quantity of dog food, respectively, would seem to indicate that even with its extremely low budget, the film failed to break even financially.

The Omotesenke school's annual memorial takes place at the family's headquarters each year on March 27, and the Urasenke school's takes place at its own family's headquarters each year on March 28.

The village now takes great pride in its " world famous Croghan Bologna ", produced and sold at the Campany family's meat market, and was a center of the pure maple syrup industry before a microburst in the mid-1990s which brought extremely high winds, destroying many of the older, larger trees.

Because of the criminal family's aid to Wo Mai, the city of Kai Shan to this day retains its autonomy and the ruling criminal family grew into what is known today as the Triad or Tsui Tong.

He had been awarded a scholarship at Duke, but not at Princeton ; the Ivy League does not allow its members to award athletic scholarships, and Bradley's family's wealth disqualified him from receiving financial aid.