The O ' Malleys were a powerful seafaring family, who traded widely and refused to submit to English rule.

By seeking close alliances with powerful noble families, Alexios put an end to the tradition of imperial exclusivity and coopted most of the nobility into his extended family and, through it, his government.

Sometime between 1763 and 1764 Salieri suffered the death of both parents and was briefly taken in by an anonymous brother, a monk in Padua, and then for unknown reasons in 1765 or 1766 he became the ward of a Venetian nobleman named Giovanni Mocenigo ( which Giovanni is at this time unknown ), a member of the powerful and well connected Mocenigo family.

In the meantime, Cleomenes helped install a pro-Spartan tyranny under Isagoras in Athens, in opposition to Cleisthenes, the leader of the traditionally powerful Alcmaeonidae family, who considered themselves the natural heirs to the rule of Athens.

The Colonna family is an Italian noble family ; it was powerful in medieval and Renaissance Rome, supplying one Pope and many other Church and political leaders.

Their first target was the lands of the Trencavel, powerful lords of Albi, Carcassonne and the Razes — but a family with few allies in the Midi.

Although genealogy information described in Shaku Nihongi leaves room for discussion, many scholars acknowledge the blood relationship with the Okinaga clan, a powerful local ruling family or the collateral line of the Imperial family-governed Oumi region ( a part of present-day Shiga Prefecture ).

The first of what would become a powerful line of Fujiwara regents, Yoshifusa had numerous family ties to the imperial court ; he was Ninmyō's brother in law ( by virtue of his sister who became Ninmyō's consort ), the second son of sadaijin Fuyutsugu, and uncle to the new crown prince.

A turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family, and numerous religious and republican revolutions.

The Fujiwara clan ( 藤原氏 Fujiwara-shi ), descending from the Nakatomi clan, was a powerful family of regents in Japan.

As the most powerful family, the Fujiwara governed Japan and determined the general affairs of state, such as succession to the throne.

Thanks to Lawrence's connection to the powerful Fairfax family, at age 17 in 1749, Washington was appointed official surveyor for Culpeper County, a well-paid position which enabled him to purchase land in the Shenandoah Valley, the first of his many land acquisitions in western Virginia.

The powerful influence of his family opened him a public career early in life.

Galileo, seeking patronage from his now-wealthy former student and his powerful family, used the discovery of Jupiter ’ s moons to gain it.

His son James II ( reigned 1437 – 1460 ), when he came of age in 1449, continued his father's policy of weakening the great noble families, most notably taking on the powerful Black Douglas family that had come to prominence at the time of the Bruce.

More powerful 486 iterations such as the OverDrive and DX4 were less popular ( the latter available as an OEM part only ), as they came out after Intel had released the next generation P5 Pentium processor family.

Baldwin betrothed eight-year-old Isabella to Humphrey IV of Toron, stepson of the powerful Raynald of Châtillon, thereby removing her from the influence of the Ibelin family and that of her mother.

This was a highly prestigious Japanese family, so lofty that the older and more powerful noble, Saionji Kinmochi, addressed the young student as " your Excellency " when he first met him.

More extensive microcoding has also been used to allow small and simple microarchitectures to emulate more powerful architectures with wider word length, more execution units and so on ; a relatively simple way to achieve software compatibility between different products in a processor family.

The trail leads Case and Molly to a powerful artificial intelligence named Wintermute, created by the plutocratic Tessier-Ashpool family.

He reportedly led an extremely dissolute life and allegedly had few qualifications for the papacy other than connections with a socially powerful family, although in terms of theology and the ordinary activities of the Church he was entirely orthodox.

The head of the Nationalist party, which pushed Franco as their candidate for the papacy when Otto the Great was still in power, was the powerful Crescentii family.

These views, and his chronic intervention in " temporal " affairs, led to many bitter quarrels with the Emperor Albert I of Habsburg, the powerful Colonna family of Rome, King Philip IV of France, and Dante Alighieri, who wrote his essay De Monarchia to dispute Boniface's claims of papal supremacy.

Diodorus Siculus mentions Gangaridai to be the most powerful empire in India whose king possessed an army of 20, 000 horses, 200, 000 infantry, 2, 000 chariots and 4, 000 elephants trained and equipped for war.

Thus Agrippa became one of the most powerful princes of the east ; the territory he possessed exceeded that which was held by his grandfather Herod the Great.

Slick's recruitment proved pivotal to the Airplane's commercial breakthrough — she possessed a powerful and supple contralto voice that complemented Balin's and was well-suited to the group's amplified psychedelic music, and as a former model, her good looks and stage presence greatly enhanced the group's live impact.

Among them was an explanation of why the natives of Krypton perished if they had possessed super powers on their native world ( as was the case in the earliest versions of Krypton outlined above, although this only became a problem once Superman — and by extension anyone from Krypton — was portrayed as increasingly powerful, able to withstand nuclear explosions, contrasted with his original power level in which a bursting mortar shell could penetrate his skin ).

Bobby Jr. also possessed a powerful shot, but lacked the scoring touch of his father and brother Brett.

Strong, fast and possessed of a powerful will, Ross was soon a Golden Gloves Champion and went on to dominate the lighter divisions as a pro.

In the penultimate issue of Season Eight, Angel is possessed by a powerful mystical entity known as Twilight, and while under its influence, murders Giles, after Giles deliberately put himself in harm's way to provoke Buffy to action.

In size they were between a modern leopard and a lion, most being about the size of a jaguar ( 70 cm tall and up to 120 kg ), medium-sized but powerful cats that possessed two prominent sabre teeth.

Even though Becker possessed powerful shots from both wings, this strategy was often criticized by commentators.

The players in this version represented either Order or Chaos and possessed 4 adepts that could cast powerful spells.

He has a number of similarities with later characters created by Lovecraft, in particular Joseph Curwen, the villain of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: Both were improbably old, such that no one remembered when they were young ; possessed vaguely defined but powerful abilities oriented around storing the dead in peculiar objects and calling them forth to serve them ; and had access to ancient coinage of precious metals ( as do the Whateleys in The Dunwich Horror ).

He works towards humanity's destruction by starting a religion centered around himself ( his possessed human bodies ), gradually becoming “ the most powerful ruler in the two universes .”

However it is clear that he possessed a powerful navy in addition to his army.

The massive ribcage was made up of overlapping ribs and the animal possessed a stronger skeletal structure, a more rigid spine, and forelimbs apparently powerful enough to pull the body from the water.

Dr. Octopus has possessed a total of three different harnesses during his career: the original titanium harness, a more powerful adamantium harness, and a carbonanium harness with tentacles bearing an octopus-like motif.

At this conference Truman informed Stalin that the United States possessed a powerful new weapon.

Desperate to conquer Constantinople, Simeon planned a large campaign in 924 and sent envoys to the Fatimid caliph Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah, who possessed a powerful navy which Simeon needed.

Before the Meitoku Rising ( ran ) in 1391, the Yamana family possessed eleven provinces in western and central Japan which made them the most powerful shugo family in the country.

This is apparently a genetic trait, as the other members of his family are just as powerful, possessed of the same disproportionately small legs, and, by admission of the Scotsman himself, are even rowdier than he is.

He also possessed a powerful artifact, a mirror named Wicked, that permitted him to gain insight into the Nameless One.

Many ( or all ) Merk possessed powerful fusionkasting.

As Lake possessed no ministerial experience before this point, his immediate appointment to one of the most powerful ministerial posts was remarkable.

Trained in opera and a former chorister at St Paul's Anglican Church, Vancouver, when she was a child, De Carlo possessed a powerful contralto voice.

The First Core was possessed by the Bentusi: a powerful and enigmatic race of traders who assisted the Exiles during the first game.