The family attended a Separate Baptists church, which had restrictive moral standards and opposed alcohol, dancing, and slavery.

From the 1860s until the present, the party has supported strong central government, and supported the Catholic Church, especially its role as protector of the sanctity of the family, and opposed separation of church and state.

There are kennels which specialize in breeding hunting dachshunds, the so-called jagdliche Leistungszucht (" performance breed "), as opposed to breeding family dogs.

Louis XVI, egged on by Marie Antoinette and other members of his family, opposed the course of the Revolution, but rejected the potentially treacherous aid of the other monarchs of Europe.

Habibullah, Abdur Rahman's son and successor, was assassinated in 1919, possibly by family members opposed to British influence.

On 21 April, in the Commons the Bill went virtually unopposed ( 204 in favour, 59 opposed, and 250 abstained ), the Lords acquiesced, and Charles, fearing for the safety of his family, signed on 10 May.

This war was probably prompted by family connections of Mieszko's in Germany who opposed Emperor Conrad II.

Therefore, Innocent III favoured Otto, whose family had always been opposed to the house of Hohenstaufen.

In 1201, the pope openly espoused the side of Otto IV, whose family had always been opposed to the house of Hohenstaufen.

Amanullah's minister of war, General Muhammad Nadir Khan, a member of the Musahiban branch of the royal family, opposed these changes, preferring instead to recognize tribal sensitivities.

They are strong advocates of marriage and believe the Conservative Party should back the institution with tax breaks and have opposed Labour's alleged assault on both traditional family structures and fatherhood.

He was called up for service on the Republican side but opposed the Republican government due to their treatment of his family.

Whatever Edward's wishes, it was likely that any claim by William would be opposed by Godwin, the Earl of Wessex, a member of the most powerful family in England.

Knox attempted to obtain the consent of the Bowes family, but Robert and Richard were opposed to the marriage.

Isabella Thorpe: A manipulative and self-serving young woman on a quest to obtain a well-off husband ; at the time, marriage was the accepted way for young women of a certain class to become " established " with a household of their own ( as opposed to becoming a dependent spinster ), and Isabella lacks most assets ( such as wealth or family connections to bring to a marriage ) that would make her a " catch " on the " marriage market ".

Isabella had begun to build up her own supporters at court, principally the de Beaumont family, itself opposed to the Lancastrians ; originating, like her, from France, the senior member of the family, Isabella de Vesci, had been a close confidant of Queen Eleanor ; supported by her brother, Henry de Beaumont, Isabella de Vesci became a close friend of Isabella in turn.

His father opposed the Vietnam War and brought his family to live in Canada.

He also had Jurchen leaders who opposed him murdered, even those in his own Wanyan family clan.

She became engaged to engineer and novelist Arthur Gundaccar Freiherr von Suttner ( who died on 10 December 1902 ), but his family opposed the match, and she answered an advertisement from Alfred Nobel in 1876 to become his secretary-housekeeper at his Paris residence.

" He begged her to elope with him, but her family opposed the match because Crane lacked money and prospects, and she declined.

Further sense denotations of “ bourgeois ” describe ideologic concepts such as “ bourgeois freedom ”, which is opposed to substantive forms of freedom ; “ bourgeois independence ”; “ bourgeois personal individuality ”; the “ bourgeois family ”; et cetera, all derived from owning capital and property.

Hortense, who was opposed to the marriage at first, was persuaded by her mother to marry Louis for the sake of the family, and she did so.

His manipulations of family and others are portrayed as spontaneous and emotional as opposed to the well-thought out stratagems of Eleanor, and the cold, calculating machinations of Geoffrey.

The harsh immigration statutes of the Giscard Government were reversed, while an immigration law was passed ( 1981 ) to limit the grounds for expelling foreigners to facilitate family reunions and amnesty 130, 000 illegal immigrants.

After being granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, he travels to the West Coast fishing village of Paternoster to visit Daniel's family and ask for their forgiveness.

The homes, property, places and abodes of persons who have been active in attempting to: suppress Scientology or Scientologists are all beyond any protection of Scientology Ethics, unless absolved by later Ethics or an amnesty ... this Policy Letter extends to suppressive non-Scientology wives and husbands and parents, or other family members or hostile groups or even close friends.

Under an amnesty, the Prussian government allowed his return to Choryń in 1870 where he remained with his family until his death nine years later.

The ideal home, they agreed, would be a small private house or a city apartment of four to five rooms, just enough for a family consisting of husband, wife, and two children.

No one wanted a larger family or no children, and none hoped for a castle or said that living in less settled circumstances would be satisfactory.

The family was Protestant, but for me it was only irksome and I let it go.

We consider a rural community as an assemblage of inhabited dwellings whose configuration is determined by the location and size of the arable land sites necessary for family subsistence.

She wrote gay plays about the girls for family entertainments, like `` Oh, What Fun!!

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

The Peter family proved wonderful and helpful friends in the following days, Mrs. Peter, little Esther, and Raoul, who generously lent me his sleeping bag for my `` Watch on the Rhine ''.

At the same time, a major proportion of these young men and women see religion as a means of personal adjustment, an anchor for family life, a source of emotional security.

And Lilly's whole family seemed to be an apology for Mr. Banks.

Engaged as it is in a battle for world trade as a condition of national survival, this country can have little patience with labor's family feuds.

Toys he has can be made to act as substitutes for family temptations such as refrigerator and gas stove.

There is little doubt if they had a secret ballot, they would vote for food for their family, in place of ideological purity out on the farm.

For it is the family that, in China, has always provided social security for the indigent, the sick, the down-and-out members of the clan.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

Times Square, when I ascended to it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks swarming with celebrants, with bundled up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey.

The basement of such an apartment building may provide as much natural protection as the specially constructed concrete block shelter recommended for the basement of a family dwelling.

The Peace Corps should not pay the expenses of a wife or family, unless the wife is also accepted for full-time Peace Corps work on the same project.

In recognition of the growing trend for second homes, or vacation cottages, we have designed this one specifically with the family handyman in mind.

You can also see that the greater the proximity of the pool to your main living quarters, the greater the chance for violation of family privacy, annoying noise and the let's-make-your-house-our-club attitude.

Eight years ago while we were going through the mud-sweat-and-tears construction period, we were each solaced by the vision of early morning dips and evening home-comings to a cool family collected around the pool with a buffet table laid out nearby for the lord and master's delectation.

Follow pool-care instructions to the letter, and be sure that one person ( in the family or not ) is regularly responsible for each aspect of the job, with no chance for claiming, `` It wasn't my turn ''.