*" Blecher of California's savviest and most experienced litigators " was flabbergasted that this young kid knocked him out of the box, really in the first round, " said litigator and partner Thomas D. Barr to the New York Times Sunday Magazine, June 1, 1986

Following Speed's death, Saunders described himself as ' flabbergasted ' upon hearing the news.

: Mr Praline: ( looks completely flabbergasted ) Well, you can't say Thatcher hasn't changed some things.

He publicly mentioned his homosexuality, passingly and perhaps for the first time, on a broadcast of the programme The Shulman File in the 1970s, taking flabbergasted host Morton Shulman completely by surprise.

After hearing this response, William rode from Normandy to Bruges, found Matilda on her way to church, dragged her off her horse by her long braids, threw her down in the street in front of her flabbergasted attendants and rode off.

Lafayette, who had endured harsh solitary confinement since his escape attempt a year previously, was flabbergasted when soldiers opened his prison door to usher in his wife and daughters on 15 October 1795.

The courtroom erupts and the presiding judge Rayford, the prosecution, and the others in the court room are enraged and flabbergasted at the turn of events, including Gail.

Bambino is flabbergasted and then infuriated to learn that Trinity has given the Major's horses to the Mormons.

Castellano was flabbergasted when he learned the crutch-ridden Gravano personally took part in the hit.

Pakistani-born Mahmood stated that he was " flabbergasted and shocked " after he learned that bin Laden was living in a city with thousands of Pakistani troops, reviving questions about alleged links between al-Qaeda and elements in Pakistan's security forces.

When invited to direct the production, Coward wrote, " I am thrilled and flattered and frankly a little flabbergasted that the National Theatre should have had the curious perceptiveness to choose a very early play of mine and to give it a cast that could play the Albanian telephone directory.

I had never had that much money in my life and I was absolutely flabbergasted.

Upon hearing of his death, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, flabbergasted by the news, repeatedly asked, " Is he really dead?

Hanoi was flabbergasted, believing that it had been duped into a propaganda ploy by Kissinger.

However the Spencers were flabbergasted to learn weeks later that there was barely any physical evidence to prove that her lab ever existed.

Eventually, Holmes solves the mystery, and Holder is flabbergasted to find that his niece was in league with a notorious criminal ( Sir George Burnwell ), although apparently she is unaware of his character.

Then UA moved up the date five weeks, Mingus kept writing even newer music while rehearsals were underway, the musicians were unprepared ( the Coss article suggests that in three previous rehearsals not one piece had been played all the way through ), and the audience-most of whom were apparently expecting a fully rehearsed concert rather than a taping session with false starts, retakes and edit pieces-was flabbergasted.

The entire room was flabbergasted.

I was always amazed when other people did ; I was always sort of flabbergasted when people would suffer angst about it.

The Cadets and others return to find the two men embracing, and are flabbergasted.

" When I got there I was flabbergasted ," Trickle said.

In Kickboxer the lead character of Van Damme is awakened flabbergasted at dawn by a splash of cold water from his master.

It was captured by the Frankish Charles Martel in 731 but immediately reconquered by the duke Odo the Great.

Though a treaty was signed, the prince and duke returned to England in October without the Infanta and immediately renounced the treaty, much to the delight of the British people.

When Cao Mao was summoned to the capital, he acted in accordance with the ceremonies due a duke, rather than putting on imperial pretensions immediately, until he was enthroned.

On hearing his son was imprisoned Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury immediately went to Normandy and put all his castles in a state of readiness against the duke.

Barnim I, Duke of Pomerania, took control of the lands immediately after the Danish withdrawal, but had to yield Pomerelian duke Swantopolk's rights, whose relationship to the Ratiborides was closer.

The Holy Roman Empire in 1528 annexed the Bishopric of Utrecht, and Emperor Charles V immediately ordered the construction of a castle in Utrecht, not only to protect the domain from invasion by the duke of Guelders, but also to retain control over the city's unruly population.

Because the first duke had no surviving sons, the title was allowed ( by a special Act of Parliament ) to pass to his eldest daughter in her own right.

But Fulk le Réchin ( the Cross-looking ), brother of Geoffrey the Bearded, who had at first been contented with an appanage consisting of Saintonge and the châtellenie of Vihiers, having allowed Saintonge to be taken in 1062 by the duke of Aquitaine, took advantage of the general discontent aroused in the countship by the unskilful policy of Geoffrey to make himself master of Saumur ( 25 February 1067 ) and Angers ( 4 April ), and cast Geoffrey into prison at Sablé.

Napoleon used to award that title extensively: during his era, several of his allies were allowed to assume the title of grand duke, usually at the same time as their inherited fiefs were enlarged by additional lands obtained thanks to being his allies.

As confidant of the duke of Cambridge, he was allowed to take a share in framing the Hanoverian constitution of 1833, which remodelled the old aristocratic government in a direction which had become inevitable since the July revolution in Paris ; and when in 1837 the new king Ernest Augustus I of Hanover declared the constitution invalid, it was Dahlmann who inspired the famous protest of the seven professors of Göttingen.

in 492, in conformance with past dynasties ' tradition, Emperor Xiaowen demoted the many princes in the state, unless they were descendants of the dynasty founder Emperor Daowu, to the titles of duke, with two exceptions: Baba Guan ( 拔拔觀 ) the Prince of Shangdang, because of the great accomplishments of his grandfather Baba Daosheng ( 拔拔道生 ), was allowed to remain prince ; and the former Liu Song prince Liu Chang the Prince of Danyang, while having his own rank reduced to Duke of Qi Commandery, was given a special title, which appeared to be non-inheritable, of Prince of Song.

However, the death of Geoffrey I in 1008 allowed for Richard II to intervene directly in Brittany during the minority of his nephew, Alan III, against rebellious counts who would take advantage of a youthful duke.

As a younger son of a reigning duke, the absence of any foreign commitments allowed him to remain permanently in Britain — the Queen's primary concern — and she declared the marriage would go ahead.

Following the Treaty of Lunéville ( 1801 ), the duke of Württemberg was allowed by Napoleon to occupy the town and several other minor states as a compensation for territories on the left side of the Rhine that fell to France.

Indeed, he never allowed the Duke of Ding ' an to rule his dukedom, but effectively put the child duke under house arrest under heavy guard.

After Ziemomysł was expelled by Bolesław the Pious due to his alliance with the Pomerelian duke Sambor II, Leszek also became Duke of Kuyavia in 1273, but allowed his brother to return five years later.

Mikhail was allowed to keep his title of duke but was now a vassal of Moscow.

In 1628-1629 he was allowed to command against the duke of Rohan in Languedoc ; in 1630 he defeated the Piedmontese, and captured Prince Doria, at Avigliana, and took Saluzzo.

inserted agents, Don John surrounded the seething city with his forces until the exhaustion of the insurgents and the follies of their French leader, Henry, duke of Guise allowed him to move in, crush the remains of the revolt and drive out the, by then, despised French.

In the absence of children, the duke was allowed to designate a successor ( libertas affectandi ).

The last duke of Augustenborg, Ernst Günther, allowed Sønderborg County Museum to move into a part of the castle in 1920.

In 2004, the count of Paris allowed his nephew prince Charles Philippe, duke of Anjou to take the position of 49th Grand Master of the order ( Paris / Orléans obedience ).

The grand duke ’ s retirement allowed him to focus solely on his passion for horses.

His son and heir, John, was allowed by the Georgian crown to succeed Liparit IV as a duke.