Casement had gone there from the United States the previous year with the support of Clan na Gael leader John Devoy, and after discussions with the German Ambassador in Washington, Count von Bernstorff, to try to recruit an " Irish Brigade " from among Irish prisoners of war and secure German support for Irish independence.

After Trenton, Washington asked Stark to return to New Hampshire to recruit more men for the Continental Army.

While incarcerated at Deuel Washington began to recruit young African American inmates into the Crips, much to the disapproval of established black prison groups like the Black Muslims and the Black Guerrilla Family ( also known as the BGF ).

Stu Hart claimed he ran into Toots by chance while wrestling in New York City and that Mondt said he received his first wrestling lesson in 1916 from Jack Taylor, and Mondt tried to recruit Hart into a territory in Washington D. C.

He continued to recruit stable owners and eventually placed teams in larger cities by moving the Dayton Triangles to become the Brooklyn Tigers in 1930, establishing the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles in 1933, moving the Portsmouth Spartans to become the Detroit Lions, establishing the Cleveland Rams in 1937, and the Washington Redskins in 1937 after that franchise moved franchise from Boston.

When he proposed to remove the less than dependable Beardslee device and recruit training telegraphers into the Signal Corps, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton removed him from his post as chief signal officer on November 15, 1863, and reassigned him out of Washington, D. C., effectively exiling him.

Private Washington-area schools recruit at NOVA also, including American University, Georgetown, Trinity Washington University, and George Washington University, as well as out-of-area and out-of state schools such as Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, West Virginia University, and even the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

During the summer, Conley pitched semi-professional baseball in Walla Walla, Washington, in which scouts from almost every Major League Baseball team came to recruit him.

He next sailed to Washington, D. C., where President Abraham Lincoln issued him a colonel's commission with the authority to recruit the 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment ( Union ).

The corps was so reduced by its losses that it was ordered into the defenses of Washington to rest and recruit, remaining there during the Maryland Campaign, and hence was not present at the Battle of Antietam.

The University of Washington ( UW ), like many other universities, was eager to recruit Hood, but had neither the space nor the money to accommodate Hood's large laboratory.

During the McCormack – Dickstein Committee hearings, Butler testified that Gerald C. MacGuire attempted to recruit him to lead a coup, promising him an army of 500, 000 men for a march on Washington, D. C., and financial backing.

A March 1779 letter from Washington to Scott, still on furlough in Virginia, ordered him to recruit volunteers in Virginia and join Washington at Middlebrook on May 1.

When it became clear to both the legislature and Washington that Collier and Mathew intended only to raid supplies, not to invade, they concluded that the local militia would be able to sufficiently protect Virginia's interests and that Scott should continue to recruit men to reinforce the south.

The song gave international exposure to the underground New Romantic movement when Bowie visited the London club " Blitz "— the main New Romantic hangout — to recruit several of the regulars ( including Steve Strange of the band Visage ) to act in the accompanying video, renowned as one of the most innovative of all time.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Stone's role as Chief Design Critic and Associate Professor of Architecture at the Yale University School of Architecture gave him the opportunity to recruit many skilled young staff members for his office.

In August 2012, just days after Allegiant Air announced flights between Rochester and Phoenix, the United States Department of Transportation gave the airport $ 500, 000 and the city of Rochester gave the airport $ 250, 000 to help recruit more airlines and non-stop destinations.

They include financier George Soros who gave $ 1. 46 million to MoveOn. org Voter Fund ( in the form of matching funds to recruit additional small donors ); Peter B. Lewis, chief executive of the Progressive Corp., who gave $ 500, 000 to MoveOn. org Voter Fund ; and Linda Pritzker, of the Hyatt hotel family, and her Sustainable World Corp., who gave $ 4 million to the joint fundraising committee.

Clark commissioned Captain William Bailey Smith as a major, and gave him £ 150 to recruit four companies in the Holston River valley and then meet Clark in Kentucky.

The aspiring chairman gave Domenech carte blanche to recruit whichever player he saw fit to help the team reach the first division.

With the approach of the 2005 elections for municipal offices, Bloomberg gave the Newman-controlled Manhattan branch of the Independence Party $ 250, 000 to fund a phone bank seeking to recruit volunteers for Bloomberg's re-election campaign.

By means of his " Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain ," Fors Clavigera ( 1871 – 1884 ), he sought to recruit " Companions " ( the name he gave to members of the Guild ) to join him in an effort to establish “ a National Store instead of National Debt ".

Anti-Japanese sentiment among Malayan Chinese gave the party with a great opportunity to recruit members and raise funds under the banner of defence of China.

At the same time, several members felt neither Talia nor Cassandra were up to the role, and, after failing to recruit Black Canary's adopted daughter Sin, gave the leadership to the Sensei, who recently reappeared in the Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul storyline.

In 1954 the Federal Government announced amendments to the Stevedoring Industry Act which gave stevedoring employers the right to recruit non-union wharf labour.

Willow has called forth Anya's boss D ' Hoffryn, using the amulet he gave her while trying to recruit her as Anya's replacement.

In 1914 Prime Minister H. H. Asquith gave a speech entitled the War, using the occasion to recruit from the all-male audience.

Alcott had high expectations but was often away when the community most needed him as he attempted to recruit more members.

To carry out his orders, Carson asked that the government recruit Utes to assist him.

Davis was particularly fond of Rollins and tried several times, in the years that preceded his meeting with John Coltrane, to recruit him for a regular group.

In the 1870s, Furnivall unsuccessfully attempted to recruit both Henry Sweet and Henry Nicol to succeed him.

Following the House of M, Madrox's newfound wealth from winning a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?- style game show allowed him to recruit several of his former colleagues from the Paris branch of the now defunct X-Corporation.

In Ancien Régime France, a nom de guerre ( a French phrase meaning " war name ") would be adopted by each new recruit ( or assigned to him by the captain of his company ) as he enlisted in the French army.

Fonda's successes led Ford to recruit him to play " Tom Joad " in the film version of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ).

To start earning, Mr. X has to recruit others like him who will also make one payment each.

They commissioned him as a Lieutenant Colonel and authorized him to recruit and train a battalion of Confederate Mounted Rangers.

Dole had been a star high school athlete in Russell, and influential Kansas basketball coach Phog Allen traveled to Russell to recruit him to play for the basketball team.

Tadg advised him to recruit his grandfather's brother Lugaid Láma.

The club had gone to great lengths to recruit the young Barassi, and coach Norm Smith took him under his wing after his mother moved to Tasmania.

Coach Kleats often tries to recruit him for various school teams, usually without longterm success.

Boheman was arrested upon an attempt to recruit the monarch, who accused him of revolutionary agendas and expelled him.

Miles away in Kansas, the Schofield Kid ( Jaimz Woolvett ), a boastful young man, visits the pig farm of William Munny ( Clint Eastwood ), seeking to recruit him to kill the cowboys.

Gaz and Dave see Gerald and his wife, Linda, at a dance class and recruit him to teach them some actual dance moves.

In the episode, Speedy serves as Green Arrow's sidekick, and is possessed by both Deadman and the spirit of Batman, in order to recruit him and Green Arrow into a battle against the undead army raised by Gentleman Ghost.

Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce.

Rundstedt was aware of these plots, and Beck tried to recruit him to the plotters ' ranks, knowing of his disdain for the Nazi regime.

Even after this, two of Rundstedt's friends, Generals Erwin von Witzleben and Erich Hoepner, remained involved in anti-Hitler plots and continued to try to recruit him.

Rundstedt had resisted all attempts to recruit him to the various conspiracies against Hitler that had been operating inside the German Army since 1938.