So that the said Aaron Lopez nor any other of said religion is not liable to be chosen into any office in this colony nor allowed to give vote as a free man in choosing others .” Lopez persisted by applying for citizenship in Massachusetts, where it was granted.

Schmidt's victory was seen by Kohl's supporters as a vindication of their man, and though the rivalry between Kohl and Strauss persisted for years, once the CDU / CSU was able to take power in 1982, it was Kohl who became Chancellor.

Nain Singh was a man of strong character – where others admitted defeat, he persisted.

A man of legendary toughness, Taylor lost an eye in action during the First World War, and spent more than a year in a German prisoner of war camp, but persisted in playing football in the 1920s.

He opposed Te Kooti but was firm in his belief that the King Country was sacrosanct Maori territory even to the extent of executing one man who persisted in entering the area.

For a long time, legend persisted that a young man by the name of Epiphanes was the leader of the Monadic Gnosticism who died age 17.

As in Scandinavia, when belief in the old gods disappeared, remnants of the mythos persisted: Holda, a " supernatural " patron of spinning ; the Lorelei, a dangerous Rhine siren derived from the Nibelung myth ; the spirit Berchta ( also known as Perchta ); the Weisse Frauen, a water spirit said to protect children ; the Wild Hunt ( in German folklore preceded by an old man, Honest Eckart, who warns others of its approach ); the giant Rübezahl ; changeling legends ; and many more generic entities such as the elf, dwarf, kobold and erlking.

While the foundations of the faith in the future perfectibility of man changed, the faith itself persisted.

The allegations persisted when a witness in February 2001 refused to name a man he said had fired at soldiers.

She turned him down at first — she was seeing another young man — but Benny persisted.

" Nonetheless, formal requests for debaptisms are made ; in France, a man sued the French catholic church for " its refusal to let him nullify his baptism.

The climactic ending of the mime may signify not a pathetic defeat, but a conscious rebellion, man ’ s deliberate refusal to obey.

In 1924, Kinloch became the first community in Missouri to elect a black man to its school board: the Reverend Walter Johnson, who later became a vocal critic of Kinloch's refusal to build a high school for its black students.

Sitting Bull's refusal to adopt any dependence on the white man meant that at times he and his small band of warriors lived isolated on the Plains.

Background music was entrusted to one man, Philip Scheib, and Terry's refusal to pay royalties for popular songs forced Scheib to compose his own scores.

Waldeck was undoubtedly a man of talent and accomplishments, but his love of self promotion and refusal to let the truth get in the way of a good story leave some aspects of his life in mystery.

Martineau became a candidate, and despite strong support from some quarters, potent opposition was organised by the anti-clerical George Grote, whose refusal to endorse Martineau resulted in the appointment of George Croom Robertson, then an untried man.

As one professor puts it “… Lupino ’ s cinematic tenure can be understood as a varied and complex attempt to control both image and image reception .” She even credited her refusal to renew her contract with Warner Bros. under the pretences of her domesticity, claiming “ I had decided that nothing lay ahead of me but the life of the neurotic star with no family and no home .” She wanted to seem unthreatening in a male dominated environment, which is made clear by a statement she made in which she says, “ That ’ s where being a man makes a great deal of difference.

I acted as coldly and reasonably as a man who has made an offer, received a refusal, and has nothing left but to go.

Bjartur is a stubborn man, often callous to the point of cruelty in his refusal to swerve from his ideals.

In December 2006, judgment in the ' KAL Case ' ( see below ), the Irish High Court held that marriage as defined in the Irish Constitution was between a man and a woman and that there was no breach of rights in the refusal of the Revenue Commissioners to recognise foreign same-sex marriages.

' There are three things free to every man, Briton or foreigner, the refusal of which no law will justify ; water from spring, river or well ; firing from a decayed tree, a block of stone not in use.

The following year, it upheld the conviction of a man who refused to register despite his argument that this refusal constituted a political protest.

Another man of the clan, Donald Nicolson from Raasay, also helped to protect the Young Pretender during his flight after the defeat, and was recorded by Bishop Robert Forbes in The Lyon in Mourning as suffering torture for his refusal to reveal the whereabouts of the prince after arrest by government troops.

However, he began to come into conflict with the local party leadership over his refusal to teach Nazi racial theories, which, as a man of science, he did not believe.

Andreas Grassl ( born 25 October 1984 ) is a German man found in England in April 2005, who remained unidentified for a long time due to his refusal to speak, communicating instead through drawing and playing the piano.

Under public censure for his refusal to sign the Stamp Act protest as Massachusetts representative to the 1765 Stamp Act Congress, Ruggles might have arranged the marriage on January 15, 1766, for his daughter to Joshua Spooner, but no documentation has yet turned up to explain why Bathsheba Ruggles married a man she very soon came to hate.

Agreement grants the person riches ; refusal to return the possessions or to be faithful brings the man ill fortune.

With all respect to a fine young man, Mr. Roy is not able to provide these necessaries ''.

Alma and one of his converted followers, Amulek, provide important teachings about the atonement of Christ, overcoming pride and the natural man, retaining conversion, the resurrection of all men, and judgment day.

The purpose of a moral code, Rand held, is to provide the principles by reference to which man can achieve the values his survival requires.

Another potential security vulnerability in using asymmetric keys is the possibility of a " man-in-the-middle " attack, in which the communication of public keys is intercepted by a third party ( the " man in the middle ") and then modified to provide different public keys instead.

Like pottery, the typology of the stone tools combined with the relative sequence of the types in various regions provide a chronological framework for the evolution of man and society.

Others have argued that natural evils are the result of the fall of man, which corrupted the perfect world created by God ; or that natural laws which are prerequisite for the existence of intelligent free beings ; or again that natural evils provide us with a knowledge of evil which makes our free choices more significant than they would otherwise be, and so our free will more valuable.

Under cloak of confession and a most spotless conscience, a lady, enamored of a young man, induces a dim-witted friar unwittingly to provide a means to the entire gratification of her passion.

Thus, the ensuing revival of Augustinian theology, stating that man cannot be saved by his own efforts but only by the grace of God would erode the legitimacy of the rigid institutions of the church meant to provide a channel for man to do good works and get into heaven.

" Magna Carta itself immediately became part of the " law of the land ", and Clause 61 of that charter authorized an elected body of twenty-five barons to determine by majority vote what redress the King must provide when the King offends " in any respect against any man.

As Catherine the Great ’ s advisor Potemkin posited, this adoration was due to the fact that she was “ the only woman who looked truly fine, and completely a man … As she was tall and powerful, male attire suited her .” Though the balls were by far her most personally beloved and lavish events, Elizabeth often threw children ’ s birthday parties and wedding receptions for those affiliated with her Court, going so far as to provide dowries for each of her ladies-in-waiting.

It holds a doctrine or theology " built on esoteric truths of the ancient past ", which, " concealed from the average man, provide insight into nature, the physical universe and the spiritual realm.

When Robert Goulden refused to provide a dowry for his daughter, the man withdrew his offer of marriage and Pankhurst returned, miserable, to Manchester.

Agent Polk is actually Hickey, a con man, running a con atop Gondorff's con to divert Snyder and provide a solid " blow off " to Gondorff's con.

The King consents and agrees to provide this land to the dwarf man.

They also mentioned how SWAT team advisors for the film related a similar true incident in Toronto in which a man ( Henry Masuka ) took an ER hostage after it wouldn't provide immediate service to his infant son on New Year's Eve, 1999.

With escapism becoming popular in the culture during the depth of the Depression, the S. H. Kress & Co. building, built to " provide luxury to the common man ," opened in downtown Meridian, as did the Temple Theater, which was used as a movie house.

* Ann Wroe's Pontius Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man is an attempt to provide the obscure official with a biography suitable to the man who is so influential to the Christian story.

Several man made lakes, including Sheridan Lake provide fishing and swimming.

Voted on by California Nov. 4, 2008, it amended the California Constitution to provide that " Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

Beckett was once asked if he could provide an explanation that ‘ the man in the street ’ could understand:

Northwestern State University established The Long Purple Line in 1990 to provide recognition and appreciation to former N. S. U. students whose career accomplishments or service to their fellow man have enhanced the reputation of the university.

In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the second of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, it is revealed that the Galactic President, supposed leader of the Galaxy, is nothing more than a decoy meant to provide an illusion of democracy, while the real power is held by an old man who lives alone on a deserted planet and does not believe anything really exists outside his imagination.

Adding fuel to the fire, Faye Leung, a colourful Chinese-Canadian entrepreneur and the woman who brokered the deal, thought that Vander Zalm was a " bad man " since the day she first met him and secretly recorded conversations she had with him, and was happily willing to speak to the media and provide copies of her audio tapes.

Leslie ( who is actually a man ) agrees to make the dress, with Bear, also offering to provide strippers for Jim's bachelor party.