This position is supported by a scripture which says, " God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ .” Thess 5: 9

From 1954 until 1959 he was the First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, some forty years earlier.

In 1914, due to the growing anti-German sentiments that swept across Europe during the first few months of World War I, Prince Louis of Battenberg was removed from his position as First Sea Lord in the Admiralty and publicly humiliated by King George V and Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.

Mountbatten served his final posting at the Admiralty as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from April 1955 to July 1959, the position which his father had held some forty years prior.

After leaving the Admiralty, Lord Mountbatten took the position of Chief of the Defence Staff.

In 1965, the Menzies conservative government appointed an Australian, Lord Casey, and the position has since been held only by Australians.

However, Lord Russell sometimes liked to use this position to speak for the whole government, as if he were the prime minister.

The story focuses on a " cheap tailor ," Ko-Ko, who is promoted to the position of Lord High Executioner of the town of Titipu.

The Lords of the Isles ruled the Inner Hebrides as well as part of the Western Highlands as subjects of the King of Scots until John MacDonald, fourth Lord of the Isles, squandered the family's powerful position.

The Head of State is the Lord of Mann, which is a hereditary position held by the British monarch ( currently Queen Elizabeth II ).

As Lord Millet, sitting as a non-permanent justice on the Court of Final Appeal, aptly summarised the position in China Field Limited v Appeal Tribunal ( Buildings ),

The prophecies of doom concerning the fall of both the House of Jeroboam and the northern kingdom as a whole (" For the Lord shall smite Israel ..., and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river ") might have been composed retroactively, after the events described had already come to pass ( this position is a secular or non-literal approach to scripture ).

In that work, the position of the figure of Christ appears to pay tribute to that of Melozzo's Christ in the Ascension of our Lord, once in the Santi Apostoli, now in the Quirinal Palace.

Nonetheless, he confirmed the position of Henry as Lord of Ireland in 1172.

His diplomatic position was such that his name is still on the oldest extant piece of English statute law, the Statute of Marlborough of 1267, where the formal title mentions as a witness " the Lord Ottobon, at that time legate in England ".

Apart from achieving its intended purpose – to stabilise the budgetary process – it gave the Crown a leadership role in the Commons ; and, the Lord Treasurer assumed a leading position among Ministers.

In 1905 the position was given some official recognition when the " Prime Minister " was named in the order of precedence, outranked, among non-royals, only by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and the Lord Chancellor.

Explicitly recognising two hundred years ' of ambivalence, the act states that it intended " To give statutory recognition to the existence of the position of Prime Minister, and to the historic link between the Premiership and the office of First Lord of the Treasury, by providing in respect to that position and office a salary of ..." The Act made a distinction between the " position " ( Prime Minister ) and the " office " ( First Lord of the Treasury ), emphasising the unique political character of the former.

Lord Liverpool was Prime Minister for 15 years ; he and Pitt held the position for 34 years.

Davidson comments that " the position of the tree in the centre as a source of luck and protection for gods and men is confirmed " by these rituals to Warden Trees.

He is cited as having been appointed a Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports by 1215, and although the co-joint position of this office to that of the constableship of Dover Castle was not fully established until after the Baron's War, a rather long period seems to have elapsed between the two appointments.

Ballou was also a high-ranking freemason, and he attained the position of Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire in 1811.

Her interference to veto the reappointment of the universally popular Mr Septimus Harding ( protagonist of Trollope's earlier novel, The Warden ) as warden of Hiram's Hospital is not well received, even though she gives the position to a needy clergyman, Mr Quiverful, with 14 children to support.

He was appointed Warden of the East March towards Scotland in 1389, a position he held until his death.

He is regularly referred to in the State Papers in his position as Warden sitting at the Warden's court at Dover.

However, as Warden of the West March, Salisbury was in a position to exert great power in the north-west, in spite of holding only Kendal and Penrith.

The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports is officially head of the castle, in his conjoint position of Constable of Dover Castle, and the Deputy Constable has his residence in Constable's Gate.

Initially this position carried real power, but with the forming of a Royal Navy and the decline of the Cinque Ports, the role of Warden became more of an honorary position bestowed to those who had given distinguished service to the state.

In 1440 he was once more appointed Warden of the West March, and this time held the position until his death.

In 1744 he was elected to the position of Warden of the Company of Barber-Surgeons, and had a role in the separation of the surgeons from the barbers and to the creation of the independent Company of Surgeons in 1745, an organisation that would become later the famous Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Campbell led an army against the insurrection of various Highland chieftains ; a few years later, he joined the court of King James V. He was given the position Lord Warden of the Marches and in 1528, Lord Justice General of Scotland.

He became Warden of the Cinque Ports, a position in which he wielded great power over a large number of seats in Parliament.

Robert de Auberville was appointed to the position of Keeper of the coast, then the name given to the office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in the year 1228.

At this time, the Warden of the Imperial Prison on Kaitain is a woman named Nanee McGarr, who had held the position for over 20 years.

He served in these capacities, and also in the House of Lords, gaining the additional position of Lord Warden and Justice in Eyre until his death in 1742.

Admiral Anderson, Chief of Naval Operations wrote a position paper that helped Kennedy to differentiate between what they termed a " quarantine " of offensive weapons and a blockade of all materials, claiming that a classic blockade was not the original intention.

When it became obvious that a military action in East Pakistan was inevitable, Admiral Ahsan resigned from his position as Martial Law Administrator in protest, and immediately flew back to Karachi, West Pakistan.

Legate is the highest rank in the Cardassian military, and while it resembles the rank of Admiral in some respects, it is more of a political position than a rank.

One way by which this was addressed after the Admiral retired was that only the very strongest, former at-sea submarine commanders have held Rickover's now uniquely eight-year position as NAVSEA-08, the longest chartered tenure in the U. S. military.

Hyperactive, political, blunt, confrontational, insulting, flamboyant, and an unexcelled workaholic who was always demanding of others — without regard for rank or position — as well as himself, Admiral Rickover was a thundering force of nature and lightning rod for controversy.

Admiral Tōgō, by using reconnaissance and choosing his position well, " secured beyond reasonable hazard his strategic objective of bringing the Russian fleet to battle, irrespective of speeds.

He is also the last Grand Admiral promoted by the Emperor ; he earns the rank because of his instrumental role in stopping Grand Admiral Zaarin's attempted coup, receiving the late Zaarin's rank and position as a reward.

The campaign was a complete success, convincing the English people that such a plan really existed ; it was greatly aided by the decision by Charles's brother James, the Duke of York, to lay down his position as Lord High Admiral, which was generally ( and correctly ) interpreted as a sign that James had in secret become a Catholic and was therefore unable to abjure the transubstantiation doctrine, as the Test Act demanded of all officials.

Trevor-Roper declared in The Philby Affair ( 1968 ) that Philby was never in a position to undermine efforts by the Chief of German Military Intelligence Abwehr, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, to overthrow the Nazi regime and negotiate with the British government.

That evening, General Pakenham met with General Keane and Admiral Cochrane for an update on the situation, angry with the position that the army had been placed in.

Rupert was also appointed to the supreme position of " General at Sea and Land ", effectively assuming the wartime powers of the Lord High Admiral.

In the early fifteenth century the Ming Admiral Zheng He had established one of his bases of operation in the port city, so the Chinese could not afford to lose such a strategic position to the Siamese.

Edwin T. Layton ( later Rear Admiral Layton ), chief intelligence officer for Kimmel, and one of the officers who knew Kimmel best, provided support for Kimmel ′ s position in his book And I Was There: Pearl Harbor and Midway — Breaking the Secrets ( 1985 ).

Admiral Kolchak was not successful from the time of his taking the position of Supreme Ruler until his death, though it must be borne in mind that he operated under very difficult circumstances.

He retained the position in the subsequent cabinet of Admiral Okada Keisuke.

After the course of the war turned against Japan, and the decision was made to accept the Potsdam Declaration, Emperor Hirohito appointed Prince Higashikuni to the position of prime minister on 16 August 1945, replacing Admiral Kantarō Suzuki.

Author Hans Pochhammer indicates that there was a long respite for the Germans during the early stages of the battle, as the British attempted unsuccessfully to force Admiral Spee away from his advantageous position.

Per Royal Navy Lieutenant William Ferdinand Tyler, stationed on the Dingyuan, Admiral Ding ordered his ships to change course in such a way that would have exposed his ship, the flagship, but put the rest of the squadron in a good position to fire on the Japanese fleet ; however, that Dingyuan ’ s captain out of cowardice deliberately did not acknowledge this order or pass it on to the rest of the fleet.

In 1649 Gustav unsuccessfully sought the position of Lord High Admiral in succession to Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm, an illegitimate son of his grandfather King Charles IX.

Over sixty Armenians were promoted to the rank of general, and with an additional four eventually achieving the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union: Ivan Bagramyan ( the first non-Slavic commander to hold the position of front commander when he was assigned to be the commander of the First Baltic Front in 1943 ), Admiral Ivan Isakov, Hamazasp Babadzhanian, and Sergei Khudyakov.

In 1729, he became Vice Admiral of Scotland, but lost the position on 5 May 1733, mainly because of his opposition to the Excise Bill of 1733 promoted by Prime Minister Robert Walpole.

In 1638, two of Northumberland's prominent supporters at court — Thomas Wentworth and Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud — used their influence at court to have Northumberland made Lord High Admiral of England, a position which had been vacant since the assassination of the 1st Duke of Buckingham in 1628.

During the subsequent fighting between royalist and parliamentary forces, Northumberland's control of the navy was a crucial factor in securing parliamentary victory As a result, Charles I removed Northumberland from the post of Lord High Admiral in late June 1642 and Northumberland relinquished the position.

Ender has a battle of wills throughout the voyage with Admiral Morgan, who attempts to usurp Ender's lawful position as Governor of Shakespeare, believing Ender to be a foolish child no one would follow.