Anne was furious, and Bolingbroke advised that the request be refused.

Accordingly the request was granted, but the Elector himself, who had not been consulted by his mother, rejected the proposal and recalled his agent Schutz, whose impolitic handling of the affair had caused the Hanoverian interest to suffer and had made Oxford's dismissal more likely than ever.

Every recorded request by Thomas for a delay in a flank movement or an advance was to gain time to take care of his horses.

However, the Attorney General of California, at the request of the Secretary of Labor, sought to have the jurisdiction over the issue removed to the Federal District Court, on grounds that it was predominantly a Federal issue since the validity of the Secretary's Regulation was being challenged.

Should any slave change his mind and request to leave earlier, Giffen was to provide passage at once.

This method of countin' was usually done at the request, and in the presence, of a representative of the bank that held the papers against the herd.

Bellows made the request while the all-woman jury was out of the courtroom.

The jury, which was locked up in a motel overnight, was canvassed at the request of Walker after the verdict was announced.

One of the first moves made after a cabinet decision was to request the United States to establish a full-fledged military assistance group instead of the current civilian body.

A note making the request was handed to U.S. Ambassador Winthrop G. Brown.

Downtown and art theater managers and owners, contacted Friday night for comment on the COAHR request, said they had no knowledge of such a letter, and that it was not in the Friday mail.

she was already considering putting in rebellious requests for duty at San Diego, Bremerton, the Great Lakes, Pensacola -- any place the Navy had a hospital -- with a threat to resign her commission if the request were not granted.

The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.

Apollo granted the request by turning him into the Cypress named after him, which was said to be a sad tree because the sap forms droplets like tears on the trunk.

This request was immediately approved in a meeting presided by Carlos Bowers, who had proposed the name " Alumni " to the original football team 50 years before.

At Emerson's request, Alcott helped arrange Thoreau's funeral, which was held at First Parish Sanctuary in Concord, despite Thoreau having disavowed membership in the church when he was in his early twenties.

This request was also turned down.

Hasan Ali Shah was on a hunting trip at the time, but he sent a messenger to request permission of the monarch to go to Mecca for the hajj pilgrimage.

This request was granted and Anna then manifested her true theatrical and manipulative capabilities:

Alarums and Excursions ( A & E ) is an amateur press association started in June 1975 by Lee Gold ( at the request of Bruce Pelz, who felt that discussion of Dungeons & Dragons was taking up too much space in Apa-L, the APA of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society ).

Extensions are not granted as a matter of course, and the reasons for your request must be substantial.

" He had been " un-baptized " in 2000, and ten years later he demanded to have his name stricken from the baptismal records, a request granted by a judge in Normany, a decision appealed by the church.

Suiko's refusal to grant Soga no Umako's request that he be granted the imperial territory known as Kazuraki no Agata in 624 is cited as evidence of her independence from his influence.

The US granted a request from the Palestinian National Authority for recognition of the West Bank and Gaza as a Country in view of developments including the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements.

* if a Prime Minister advises a dissolution of the House of Representatives, the Governor-General may refuse that request, or request further reasons why it should be granted.

Their request was granted and support arrived.

On Tiberius ' request, Germanicus was granted proconsular power and assumed command in the prime military zone of Germania, where he suppressed the mutiny there and led the formerly restless legions on campaigns against Germanic tribes from 14 to 16 AD.

King Baldwin agreed to the request, and granted space for a headquarters in a wing of the royal palace on the Temple Mount, in the captured Al-Aqsa Mosque.

A recipient of the Ordre National du Mérite recently requested from the order's Chancery the permission to call herself " chevalière ," and the request was granted ( AFP dispatch, Jan 28, 2000 ).

On 7 May 1960, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union granted Voroshilov's request for retirement and elected Leonid Brezhnev chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council ( the head of state ).

In 1568, despite a request from Saxony, no royal monopoly was granted because there was no yew to cut, and the next year Bavaria and Austria similarly failed to produce enough yew to justify a royal monopoly.

In 1726, Ibrahim Muteferrika convinced the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha, the Grand Mufti, and the clergy on the efficiency of the printing press, and later submitted a request to Sultan Ahmed III, who granted Muteferrika the permission to publish non-religious books ( despite opposition from some calligraphers and religious leaders.

At Lothair ’ s request, Cardinal Gherardo and two bishops then sent word to Rome to obtain Honorius ’ confirmation of the election, which he granted.

On 9 December 2009, the European Union, upon Italian request, granted Traditional Speciality Guaranteed ( TSG ) safeguard to traditional Neapolitan pizza, in particular to " Margherita " and " Marinara ".

All four Gospels state that, on the evening of the crucifixion, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus, and that, after Pilate granted his request, he wrapped Jesus ' body in a linen cloth and laid it in a tomb.

This time Henry granted his request.

Their request was granted, and a new king arrived with 200 young men.

The church in which he preached, the Église de Notre Dame la Neuve — now known as the Auditoire de Calvin — had been granted by the municipal authorities, at Calvin's request, for the use of the English and Italian congregations.

Livy also has Scipio Africanus make a self-deprecatory request for victories in Spain in 206 BCE — without much expectation, because although he had been an aedilis curulis, his command rights in Spain had been granted by a special vote of the people.

This was treated as an application for the position of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, an office of profit under the Crown, the traditional method of leaving Westminster as plain resignation is not possible, and granted as such even though Adams had not explicitly made the request.

A post office was established in 1884, and Ocean Point was renamed Cedarhurst, partly at the request of the Hunt Club.

They request that visitors do not climb the rock, partly due to the path crossing a sacred traditional Dreamtime track, and also due to a sense of responsibility for the safety of visitors.

* A brief biography of Delambre, partly from the 1880 Encyclopædia Britannica, including an account of Delambre's intervention to request liberation ( from French imprisonment ) of James Smithson, who went on to endow the foundation of the Smithsonian Institution, national museum of the United States of America

At Aitken's grandparents ' request, Betjeman visited partly to check that he was not being indoctrinated to Catholicism.

The request was declined by the Directors Guild of America, partly because they would not allow a DGA member to be replaced by someone who was not one of its members, and partly because they, in the wake of events on the set of The Outlaw Josey Wales, had instituted a ban on any cast or crew members taking over as director during production of a film.

Congress did not wait long in granting the request of the citizens, partly encouraged by the promise of vast mineral wealth in the region.

This was partly at the request of the Germans, and partly due to the influence of magazines such as Cheval.

Escape from the Newsroom, which included a fourth wall-breaking plot digression in which the characters directly addressed the idea of reviving the series, was meant partly as a sarcastic response to that request.

Long then began to look for an assistant so he could spend more time with Kristal, eventually revealing Vickie Guerrero as his new assistant on May 25, 2007, an appointment made partly at Kristal's request.

Rhodes was included on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list in 2003, to his own bemusement and frustration, partly because of Granta's selection methods (" It's one thing to judge a writer by stuff they've written, but to judge them on stuff they're going to write is lunacy ") but also because some of the others on the list failed to respond to his request to sign a joint statement protesting against the Iraq war.

In 1765, at the request of Governor Tomás Vélez Cachupin of New Mexico, he led an expedition from Santa Fe northward through present-day Utah and Colorado, partly in search of gold but also to help thwart the expansion of other European powers in the region.

On sending the typescript to Warburg, Orwell stated that he had written the " long autobiographical sketch " partly as a " sort of pendent " to the publication in 1938 of Enemies of Promise, an autobiographical work by Cyril Connolly, and at Connolly's request.