The results supported the veracity of her statements ; Thomas declined the test.

He firmly declined all of the offers and many believed he was foregoing his only opportunity to be president ; Thomas E. Dewey was considered the other probable winner, would presumably serve two terms, and Eisenhower, at age 66 in 1956, would then be too old.

Thomas refused to align himself with them and declined to sign their manifesto.

At first, Thomas, who was the head cook at the restaurant, and the Clausses declined Sanders ' offer, but the Colonel persisted and the Clauss family franchised their restaurant with KFC and later also owned many other KFC franchises in the Midwest.

By the end of the 15th century was widely professed and taught in many theological faculties, but such was the influence of the Dominicans, and the weight of the arguments of Thomas Aquinas ( who had been canonised in 1323 and declared " Doctor Angelicus " of the Church in 1567 ) that the Council of Trent ( 1545 – 63 )— which might have been expected to affirm the doctrine — instead declined to take a position.

In 1912, the world ’ s fourth estate reported that Tesla had declined to accept the Nobel Prize in Physics, which he was to share with Thomas Edison, even though he was facing financial difficulties.

Moving to California, he was approached by conservatives to challenge moderate Republican Thomas Kuchel for his seat in the United States Senate in 1968, but he declined.

In 1646, Thomas Francis was put in command of the French expedition sent south to take the Tuscan forts, after which he was to advance further south to Naples, drive out the Spanish and put himself on the throne of the kingdom ; but the expedition set off late, and when he besieged Orbetello, the supporting French fleet was defeated by the Spanish and he was forced to raise the siege and conduct a difficult retreat, which he performed so poorly that Cardinal Mazarin subsequently despised his command ability, viewed him as incompetent, and declined to appoint him to the expedition that France sent to support the Naples revolt late in 1647 ( this did not stop Mazarin from considering him as a potential candidate for a French-backed King of Naples, though Paris was so slow to move on this that Henry II, Duke of Guise was adopted by the Neapolitans instead ).

In 1646, Thomas was put in command of the French expedition sent south to take the Tuscan forts, after which he was to advance further south to Naples, drive out the Spanish and put himself on the throne of the kingdom ; but the expedition set off late, and when he besieged Orbetello, the supporting French fleet was defeated by the Spanish and he was forced to raise the siege and conduct a difficult retreat, which he performed so poorly that Cardinal Mazarin subsequently despised his command ability, viewed him as incompetent, and declined to appoint him to the expedition that France sent to support the Naples revolt late in 1647 ( this did not stop Mazarin from considering him as a potential candidate for a French-backed King of Naples, though Paris was so slow to move on this that Henry II, Duke of Guise was adopted by the Neapolitans instead ).

The port of Portsmouth declined, but the city survived through its Victorian doldrums, a time described in the works of native son Thomas Bailey Aldrich, particularly in his 1869 novel The Story of a Bad Boy.

Pelosi's brother, Thomas D ' Alesandro III, also a Democrat, was mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971, when he declined to run for a second term.

Hotspur declined any terms and Thomas Percy spoke to the King, trading insults.

He declined Thomas Jefferson's offer to appoint him a justice of the Supreme Court.

The Cambridge press was proposing a new edition of Thomas Stanley's Aeschylus, and the editorship was offered to Porson ; but he declined to reprint Stanley's corrupt text and incorporate the variorum notes.

Although Thomas declined his invitation, Catesby again invited him in February the next year.

The Labour Party, led by Thomas Johnson from 1917, as successor to such organisations as D. D. Sheehan's ( independent Labour MPs ) Irish Land and Labour Association, declined to contest the 1918 general election, in order to allow the election to take the form of a plebiscite on Ireland's constitutional status ( although some candidates did run in Belfast constituencies under the Labour banner against Unionist candidates ).

" Richard Snell was executed on April 19, 1995 after Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas declined to hear further appeal, the same day as the bombing of the federal building was carried out.

While he declined to participate in the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars, Harvard awarded honorary degrees to Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein in 1935.

In 1782, he obtained a silk gown, and was so far cured of his early modesty that he declined accepting the king's counselship if precedence over him were given to his junior, Thomas Erskine, though the latter was the son of a peer and a most accomplished orator.

Judges of the Superior Court were John Bartow Prevost ( 1804 – 1808 ), Ephraim Kirby ( 1804 ) ( died en route to New Orleans ), Peter Stephen Duponceau ( 1804 ) ( declined President Thomas Jefferson's appointment ), William Sprigg ( 1805 – 1807 ), George Mathews, Jr. ( 1805 – 1813 ), Joshua Lewis ( 1807 – 1813 ) and Francois Xavier Martin ( 1810 – 1813 ).

President Thomas Jefferson appointed him as Secretary of the Navy in July, 1801 after William Jones declined the position.

In October 1777, Dickinson's friend, Thomas McKean, appointed him Brigadier General of the Delaware Militia, but again Dickinson declined the appointment.

Among those invited were Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, both of whom declined the opportunity for various reasons.

When his flag captain pointed out to Byng that by standing out of his line, he could bring the centre of the enemy to closer action, he declined because Thomas Mathews had been dismissed for so doing.

His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

In 1997 Hill published her autobiography, Speaking Truth to Power, in which she chronicled her role in the Clarence Thomas confirmation controversy and wrote that creating a better society had been a motivating force in her life.

In the 13th century Saint Thomas Aquinas aimed to recapture the teachings of the Church Fathers on the role of the Holy Trinity in the economy of salvation.

In 1928, a division of biology was established under the leadership of Thomas Hunt Morgan, the most distinguished biologist in the United States at the time, and discoverer of the role of genes and the chromosome in heredity.

In the United States, Enlightenment philosophy ( which itself was heavily inspired by deist ideals ) played a major role in creating the principle of religious freedom, expressed in Thomas Jefferson's letters and included in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In 1976 he earned acclaim for his first major film role, portraying Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien from a dying planet, in The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nic Roeg.

However, by 1985, several company business decisions, including an awkward new breakfast menu and loss in brand awareness due to fizzled marketing efforts, caused the company ’ s new president to urge Thomas back into a more active role with Wendy's.

Thomas began to visit franchises and espouse his hardworking, so-called “ mop-bucket attitude .” In 1989, he took on a significant role as the TV spokesman in a series of commercials for the brand.

After more than 800 commercials, it was clear that Thomas played a major role in Wendy ’ s status as the country's third most popular burger restaurant.

Elizabeth's government did much to consolidate the work begun under Thomas Cromwell in the reign of Henry VIII, that is, expanding the role of the government and effecting common law and administration throughout England.

Davenant cast Thomas Betterton in the eponymous role, and he continued to play the Dane until he was 74.

However, Paramount studio heads wanted to give the role to Danny Thomas in the hope that Thomas would have his own production company throw in its lot with Paramount.

Moore modeled anonymously on the covers of a number of record albums and auditioned for the role of the older daughter of Danny Thomas for his long-running TV show, but was turned down.

Professor Caleb Nelson, a former clerk for Justice Thomas and law professor at the University of Virginia, has elaborated on the role of stare decisis in originalist jurisprudence:

The Supreme Commander of operations was the United States General Douglas Macarthur, with Australian General Thomas Blamey taking a direct role in planning and operations being essentially directed by staff at New Guinea Force headquarters in Port Moresby.

“ Thomas Arnold, the leader and classic model of English educators ,” wrote Coubertin, “ gave the precise formula for the role of athletics in education.

* 1571 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.

In 1989, Waits appeared in his final theatrical stage role to date, appearing as Curly in Thomas Babe's Demon Wine, alongside Bill Pullman, Philip Baker Hall, Carol Kane, and Bud Cort.

Thomas Hunt Morgan ( September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945 ) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries relating the role the chromosome plays in heredity.

This promoted the rapid expansion of the legal profession, and dominant role of lawyers in politics was apparent by the 1770s, as attested by the careers of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, among many others.

In the South, the party vanished, but as Thomas Alexander has shown, Whiggery as a policy orientation persisted for decades and played a major role in shaping the modernizing policies of the state governments during Reconstruction after 1865.

Thomas Boller and others proposed that the vacuole participates in the destruction of invading bacteria and Robert B Mellor proposed organ-specific forms have a role in ' housing ' symbiotic bacteria.

Based on the 1913 play, " The Land of Promise ," this was a remake of the 1917 film of that name, with Thomas Meighan reprising his role as protagonist Frank Taylor.