This time, the Conservative and other right-wing / Eurosceptic parties share their opposition to the treaty with Leftist parties who believe that the treaty will cement the Classical reCapitalist economic model that they believe the EU follows.

To cement his position, Perdiccas tried to marry Alexander's sister Cleopatra.

In 1440 he was elected German king as Frederick IV and in 1452 crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III by Pope Nicholas V. In 1452, at the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta Eleanor, daughter of King Edward of Portugal, whose dowry helped him to alleviate his debts and cement his power.

Henry Tudor succeeded Richard to become Henry VII and sought to cement the succession by marrying the Yorkist heiress Elizabeth of York, Edward IV's daughter and Richard III's niece.

* To cement their reconciliation Octavian agreed to marry Clodia, a daughter of Antony's wife Fulvia by her former husband Publius Clodius Pulcher.

* In the Masters of Rome novels of Colleen McCullough, Brutus is portrayed as a timid intellectual who hates Caesar for personal reasons, foremost of them the fact that his marriage arrangement with Caesar's daughter, Julia, whom Brutus deeply loved, was dissolved in Caesar's political gamble to give his daughter's hand to Pompey to cement with him an alliance.

Warwick's daughter, Anne Neville, was married to Margaret's son Edward, Prince of Wales, in order to cement the alliance, and Margaret insisted that Warwick return to England to prove himself before she followed.

Clarence lost faith in the earl when Warwick defected to the Lancastrians and married off his other daughter, Anne, to their prince in order to cement his new allegiance.

Karim and the daughter were both married to Abdul Hakim's children to cement an alliance in 1779.

To cement the peace between the two religious parties, Catherine planned to marry her daughter Margaret to the Protestant prince Henry of Navarre ( the future King Henry IV ).

Heraclius married off his daughter ( according to traditions, his grand daughter ) Manyanh to Yazdegerd III, an old Roman tradition to cement the alliance.

Fifteen years later, Tushratta married his daughter to his ally Amenhotep III to cement their two states alliances in Year 36 of Amenhotep III's reign ( 1352 BC ).

To cement his control of the Empire after deposing Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, Paul takes Shaddam's daughter, the Princess Irulan as his wife.

King Henry's sister, Philippa of Lancaster, had married King John I of Portugal, and to further cement the alliance between England and Portugal, Fitzalan married Beatrice, the illegitimate daughter of King John.

He married Duathathor-Henuttawy, a daughter of Ramesses XI, to cement his relations with the other powerful families of the period.

To cement the alliance with Huige, Emperor Suzong also gave his daughter Princess Ningguo in marriage to Yaoluoge Moyanchuo.

Also in 920, Qian Liu and Ma Yin entered into a marriage arrangement where Qian's son Qian Chuansu ( 錢傳璛 ) married a daughter of Ma's, to cement a relationship between Wuyue and Chu.

Also in 917, Liu Yan gave his niece, Liu Hua, the daughter of his brother Liu Yin, whom he had created the Princess Qingyuan, in marriage to Wang Yanjun, a son of his northeastern neighbor Wang Shenzhi the Prince of Min ( who remained a Later Liang vassal ), to cement a relationship between the two states.

In 2 AD Wang Mang decided to cement his position by having his daughter married to Emperor Ping.

At the war's conclusion, Mavia's daughter, Princess Chasidat, was married to a devout Nicene commander in Rome's army, Victor, to cement the alliance.

The Ferrarese house of Este and the Milanese house of Sforza had always been on friendly terms and in 1480, in order to cement an alliance, Ludovico Sforza formally asked Ercole d ' Este to give him the hand of his daughter in marriage.

But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.

This method was demonstrated with an adobe blend heavily impregnated with cement to allow even drying and prevent major cracking.

The houses were built of unmortared stone, which means that no cement or mortar was used to hold the stones together.

The Calendar of Saints states that her first husband was poisoned by the holder of real power, his successor, Berengar of Ivrea, who attempted to cement his political power by forcing her to marry his son, Adalbert ; when she refused and fled, she was tracked down and imprisoned for four months at Como.

Brick and mortar bridges were built after the Roman era, as the technology for cement was lost then later rediscovered.

The difference between the two is that the Solkan Bridge was built from stone blocks, whereas the Friedensbrücke was built from a mixture of crushed stone and cement mortar.

A method for producing Portland cement was patented by Joseph Aspdin on 1824.

English masonry worker Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement in 1824 ; it was named because of its similarity in color to Portland limestone, quarried from the English Isle of Portland and used extensively in London architecture.

The word " cement " traces to the Romans, who used the term opus caementicium to describe masonry resembling modern concrete that was made from crushed rock with burnt lime as binder.

The technical knowledge of making hydraulic cement was later formalized by French and British engineers in the 18th century.

Most famous was Parker's " Roman cement ".

It was, in fact, nothing like any material used by the Romans, but was a " Natural cement " made by burning septaria – nodules that are found in certain clay deposits, and that contain both clay minerals and calcium carbonate.

In 1824, Joseph Aspdin patented a similar material, which he called Portland cement, because the render made from it was in color similar to the prestigious Portland stone.

The first cement to consistently contain alite was made by Joseph Aspdin's son William in the early 1840s.

This was what we call today " modern " Portland cement.

Johnson ) have claimed precedence in this invention, but recent analysis of both his concrete and raw cement have shown that William Aspdin's product made at Northfleet, Kent was a true alite-based cement.

In the US the first large scale use of cement was Rosendale cement a natural cement mined from a massive deposit of a large dolostone rock deposit discovered in the early 19th century near Rosendale, New York.

Rosendale cement was extremely popular for the foundation of buildings ( e. g., Statue of Liberty, Capitol Building, Brooklyn Bridge ) and lining water pipes.

But in the early 1930s it was soon discovered that, while Portland cement had a faster setting time it was not as durable, especially for highways, to the point that some states stopped building highways and roads with cement.

In 1197, Alfonso IX married his second cousin, Berengaria of Castile, to cement peace between León and Castile.

After the heads of Sebastianus and Jovinus arrived at Honorius ' court in Ravenna in late August, to be forwarded for display among other usurpers on the walls of Carthage, relations between Ataulf and Honorius improved sufficiently for Ataulf to cement them by marrying Galla Placidia perhaps at Narbo in early 414, but Jordanes says he married her in Italy, at Forlì ( Forum Livii ).

Julius Caesar's only legitimate child to survive to adulthood, married strategically to Pompey to cement the First Triumvirate, died in childbirth in 54 BC.

His sister, Agläié, was married to the duc de Guîche at a young age, helping to cement the Polignac family's position as one of the leaders of high society at Versailles.

In 1995 her father married Dorothy Oremus, a Chicago attorney who along with other members of her family owned the largest cement company in the Midwest.

In 40 BC Octavian, in order to cement a peace with Sextus, married the sister of Scribonius, Scribonia, who was much older than he was.

As part of this process of expansion, he married women from powerful Nejdi and other Arabian families to cement his control over all parts of his new domain.