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served and remind
In either case, it was far too early for such an account, and may have only served to remind Augustus that Claudius was Antony's descendant.
Ciano was amazed at the way that Laval fell in with the German demands, and thought it all typical Ribbentrop that he should remind Laval in a very tactless way how this forest had once served as Napoleon's headquarters.
Several attempted coups served to remind President Félix Pavia ( the former dean of law at the National University ) that although the February Revolution was out of power, it was far from dead.
There are also local legends, such as the " Dish of Spurs " which would be served to a border chieftain of the Charltons to remind him that the larder was empty and it was time to acquire more plunder.
The war with Abyssinia only served to remind them of the impossibility of emigrating to America.
However, Seleucid forces still controlled the Acra, a strong fortress within the city that faced the Temple Mount and served as a symbol to remind the Jews that their land was still occupied.
Finally, the promulgation of the Statutes of Apparel in 1574 may have served to remind some English people of the traditional limits on freedom of dress.
In one interpretation, the display of Tipu's Tiger in South Kensington, served to remind the visitor of the noblesse oblige of the British Empire to bring civilisation to the barbaric lands of which Tipu was king.
The Trooping the Colours, presentation of Freedom of the Town of Fort Erie and the dedication of the Regiment's Memorial Garden all served to remind the Regiment and the community of the service and sacrifice of two centuries.

served and people
I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.
With a large and circumspect 20th-Century technique, he wove the materials of national heroes and events, national folklore and children's fairy tales -- Slavic dances and love songs -- into a solid musical literature which served his people well, and is providing much enjoyment to the World at large.
The great ultimate ends of religion have served as magnificent beacon lights that lured people toward them with an almost irresistible force, mobilizing energies and inducing sacrifices ; ;
We served our national interests, and by so doing we saved the Guatemalan people the ultimate in human misery.
While citizens voting in the assembly were the people and so were free of review or punishment, those same citizens when holding an office served the people and could be punished very severely.
This was perfectly legal in this case, but an example of the extreme severity with which the people could punish those who served them.
Auschwitz I served as the administrative center, and was the site of the deaths of roughly 70, 000 people, mostly ethnic Poles and Soviet prisoners of war.
* Joshua served as the mediator of the renewed covenant between Yahweh and Israel at Shechem ( 8: 30 – 35 ; 24 ), just as Moses was the mediator of Yahweh's covenant with the people at Mount Sinai / Mount Horeb.
" St Sophia was served by 600 people including 80 priests, and cost 20, 000 pounds of gold to build.
Towards the end of the Republic, Cicero ( Murena, 72 – 3 ) still describes gladiator shows as ticketed — their political usefulness was served by inviting the rural tribunes of the plebs, not the people of Rome en masse – but in Imperial times, poor citizens in receipt of the corn dole were allocated at least some free seating, possibly by lottery.
Incorporating many houngans into the ranks of the Macoutes, his public recognition of Vodou and its practitioners and his private adherence to Vodou ritual, combined with his reputed private knowledge of magic and sorcery, enhanced his popular persona among the common people and served as a peculiar form of legitimization.
North Africa served as a transit region for people moving towards Europe or the Middle East, thus, the region's inhabitants have been influenced by populations from other areas.
These inns provided accommodation for people and their vehicles or animals and served as a resting place for people, whether travelling on foot or by other means.
All of this served short-term propaganda ends, but also served to reconcile the German people, particularly the working class, to the regime.
The Jell-O shots can be served in shot glasses or small paper cups ; using the paper cups makes it easier for the people to eat it, but shot glasses are more attractive.
Notably, the pact served as the legal basis for the creation of the notion of crime against peace – it was for committing this crime that the Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced a number of people responsible for starting World War II.
Orlando Bridgman, who upon his submission to Cromwell had been permitted to practice the law in a private manner, and under that colour had served both as spy and agent for his master, was entrusted with the principal management of this tragic scene ; and in his charge to the Grand Jury, had the assurance to tell them ' That no authority, no single person, or community of men ; not the people collectively or representatively, had any coercive power over the King of England.
That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in the war.
Those who defend the atrocities say that even if firebombing Dresden, for instance, served very little military purpose, even the slightest purpose justified it and also, German people bore responsibility for the horrors of the war and that they had to be punished for that.
Spitzer acknowledged that the study sample consisted of people who sought treatment primarily because of their religious beliefs ( 93 % of the sample ), served in various church-related functions, and who publicly spoke in favor of changing homosexual orientation ( 78 %), and thus were strongly motivated to overreport success.
Restaurants range from unpretentious lunching or dining places catering to people working nearby, with simple food served in simple settings at low prices, to expensive establishments serving refined food and wines in a formal setting.
: This concept may be based closely on the soul concepts of the belief system of the people served by the shaman ( online ).

served and Wellington
Lord Aberdeen served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between January and June 1828 and subsequently as Foreign Secretary until 1830 under the Duke of Wellington. He resigned with Wellington over the Reform Bill of 1832.
The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.
( 1778 – 1852 ), who served under Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, was a lifelong Hayes resident
Barbara O ' Keefe has served as mayor of the village of Wellington since 1993.
He was educated at Wellington College and University College, Oxford and served in the Royal West Kent Regiment of the British Army during the Second World War.
Arthur Wellesley: Later became Duke of Wellington, defeated Napoleon I at Waterloo, and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The Anglo-Irish were also represented among the senior officers of the British Army by men such as Field Marshal Lord Roberts, first honorary Colonel of the Irish Guards regiment, who spent most of his career in India ; Field Marshal Lord Gough who served under Wellington, himself a Wellesley born in Dublin to the Earl of Mornington, a prominent Anglo-Irish family in Dublin ; and in the 20th century Alan Brooke and Harold Alexander ( see also Irish military diaspora ).
The first recorded use of the name to describe the region, which until then had no officially sanctioned designation, was in 1820 when the name was given in York, Upper Canada by then Lieutenant-Governor Sir Peregrine Maitland, Maitland was a veteran of the British campaign against the French in Spain, called the Peninsular War, during the Napoleonic Wars where he served under the command of Wellington.
The airport is served by Air New Zealand subsidiary Eagle Airways, with direct flights using Beechcraft 1900D aircraft to Auckland and Wellington
He served as minister of war from 1830 to 1834, as Prime Minister from 1832 to 1834, as ambassador extraordinary to London for the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838 – where the Duke of Wellington reputedly caught him by the arm and exclaimed ' I have you at last!
They served mainly in the Peninsula War against the Duke of Wellington.
He served under the Duke of Wellington, and in 1813 he was promoted to Major-General.
Prior to being awarded a peerage, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, served in the Irish House of Commons as a Member for the rotten borough of Trim in County Meath.
English had joined the National Party in 1980, and had served in administrative capacities for party branches both in Southland and in Wellington.
He served in the Royal Horse Guards and was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington.
He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1818 and served under the Duke of Wellington as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests between 1828 and 1830 and under Sir Robert Peel as Treasurer of the Navy and Vice-President of the Board of Trade between 1834 and 1835.
He was a Tory politician and served under the Duke of Wellington as Captain of the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners from 1828 to 1830 and under Sir Robert Peel as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from 1834 to 1835.
During the Battle of Waterloo he was ADC to the Prince of Orange, and following that man's wounding, served as ADC to Wellington.
Lilburn returned to New Zealand in 1940 and served as guest conductor in Wellington for three months with the NBS String Orchestra.
He was educated at Wellington College and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he served as history tutor until 1941.
Indeed the Duke of Wellington requested that no unit that served in the campaign be sent to him.
He was educated at Wellington College and Oxford, and then served as a war correspondent in both the Spanish Civil War and in World War II.
He served under Henry Addington as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between November 1803-June 1804, under Spencer Perceval and the Earl of Liverpool as Joint Secretary to the Treasury between 1809 and 1823, under Liverpool as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests between 1823 and 1827 and under the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington as First Commissioner of Woods and Forets in 1828 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1828 and 1830.

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