Wanting a well-known actor to tackle the controversial material, Lear had approached Jackie Gleason and Mickey Rooney to play Archie ; both declined.

Wanting to play snooker, he turned down a place at Grammar School to become a miner at Ty Trist Colliery aged 14, following in the footsteps of his father.

Wanting to show off his play, he offers to bring Johnson and Smith to a rehearsal.

Wanting to keep present at the major international football tournaments, the Portuguese team attempted to top their qualifying group in a tight group with favourites Italy, Malta, Sweden and Switzerland.

Wanting to try something different after their use of regional American music and the pop song format on their previous two albums, Little Creatures and True Stories, Talking Heads decided to record their final album in Paris with a group of international musicians.

Wanting to gain a more international profile, Giardino approached former Rainbow singer Doogie White to record an English version of the Forgotten Kingdom album in 2009.

Wanting to maximize the area under its direct control, contain an Arab Syria centered on Damascus, and insure a defensible border, France established the Lebanon-Syrian border to the " Anti-Lebanon " mountains, on the far side of the Beqaa Valley, territory which had belonged to the province of Damascus for hundreds of years, and was far more attached to Damascus than Beirut by culture and influence.

Wanting to complete the line-up with someone they knew well and whose musical skill and style was compatible with their own, New Order invited Morris's girlfriend, Gillian Gilbert from Macclesfield, to join the band during the early part of October 1980, as keyboardist and guitarist.

During the 5-month court case, the band recorded both " Just a Little " and the next single, " Got to Have Your Love " ( the original third single, " Wanting Me Tonight " was cancelled during this period ).

Wanting to keep the ' APU ' abbreviation, a suggestion put forward by the governors was ' Anglia Prior University ' ( after a former Chancellor ), but the Governors decided to keep ' polytechnic ' in the title.

Wanting a name short and memorable, a childrens spelling book with three-letter words such as cat, bat, dog, and the like was consulted.

Wanting to improve relations with China and to rid Japan of the wokou threat, Yoshimitsu accepted a relationship with the Chinese that was to last for half a century.

Wanting to profit off of the new buzz suddenly surrounding Davies, a solo LP was slated for release some time in 1968 or 1969.

Wanting to become a teacher, he was sent to an institution kept by brethren of the same order in Paris.

" Wanting to give his Batman comic books sex appeal and someone who could appeal to female readers as a female Batman, Kane and writer Bill Finger created a " friendly foe who committed crimes but was also a romantic interest in Batman's rather sterile life.

Wanting to return to gameplay of the original games, the team began developing a storyline that was conducive to squad-based missions, the highlight of the original games.

Wanting it, he was willing to buy it from Dudley and agreed in 1611 to pay £ 14, 500, with Dudley to hold the office of constable of the castle for his lifetime.

Wanting to complete their line-up with someone they knew well and whose musical skill and style was compatible with their own, New Order invited Gilbert to join the band during the early part of October 1980, as keyboardist and guitarist.

Wanting to further his career, Walker announced in May 2004 he was moving to Australia to live in Melbourne, following in the footsteps of other champion New Zealand jockeys such as Midge Didham, Greg Childs, Brent Thompson, Shane Dye and the Cassidy brothers who made their names overseas.

Wanting to make something special for the occasion, the Grogg was the first ever to stand on just one leg and took over 6 months to create.

Wanting a more stable job, he was going to quit hockey altogether to go to school full-time, before San Jose enticed him to North America.

Second single " Leave You Wanting More " was released in April 2004 to great acclaim, with British broadsheet The Independent making it their Single of the Week, and describing it as " a sexed-up blast of pounding riffs and art-punk breaks with an amazing amount of textures involved considering they're a mere two-piece ".

Wanting to convey how large a force that was, the program purchased 16, 500 Playmobil toy figures and dressed them up as Roman soldiers, lining them up into columns as they would have appeared in real life.

The track Waiting, Wanting, Holding was featured in the ABC's series Love Is A Four-Letter Word.

Wanting to be a graphic artist, aged 18 he applied and was turned down three times for courses at the Kent Institute of Art & Design.

Wanting to make sure, that other hockey players would not follow his dark path, Sanderson with the help of Bobby Orr organized State Street Global Advisors, where he was Director of the Sports Investment Group that provided professional financial advice to athletes in the 90s.

Wanting to continue coaching, Captain Neyland was appointed Professor of Military Science at the University of Tennessee.

Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, felt that Reyes ' introduction in " This Is Not Happening " was " rather forced ", finding her upbeat personality at odds with the tone of the series at that time ; Shearman and Pearson also felt that the overall use of the character in season nine was " lazy ", with her willingness to believe in anything compromising the tension of episodes such as " 4-D " or " Hellbound ".

Wanting to avoid conflict, he attempted to negotiate with Louis Riel but was unsuccessful leaving the situation in a stalemate.

Wanting to know more about cross-dressing, Warren seeks out Dr. Alton, who narrates for him the story of Glen / Glenda.

Wanting to capitalize on the countries aviation craze, Fox immediately bought Hawks's original story for The Air Circus, a variation of the male friendship plot of A Girl in Every Port about two young pilots.

Wanting to collect a bounty on Solo from Jabba the Hutt, Fett confronts Vader about whether Solo will survive carbon freeze.

Wanting to know more about her, Jay follows her across the streets of London to the grey suburbs where she lives.

Wanting to preview his line of shoes at Market Week at the New York Hilton, but unable to afford the purchase of a hotel room or showroom to display his items, Kenneth Cole inquired about parking a trailer two blocks from the Hilton Hotel.

Wanting to protect his vassal and ally, King Henry raised an army of about 10, 000 men to march on Normandy.

His fifth novel, Wanting ( 2008 ) tells two parallel stories: about the novelist Charles Dickens in England, and Mathinna, an Aboriginal orphan adopted by Sir John Franklin, the colonial governor of Van Diemen's Land, and his wife, Lady Jane Franklin.

Wanting to complete the sequence properly, but worried about a repeat of the earlier response to the radar scan, the crew dispatches a robotic rover to reproduce the completed signal close to the humanoid structure.

Wanting to help Catch heal from his emotional wounds, she tries to talk to him about the accident and takes him to the cemetery to see the graves of his family, but he gets very upset and walks away.

Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated the episode one star out of five, and noted that " there's nothing celebratory " about the entry.

Wanting to be sent to the Madrid front, which meant he " must join the International Column ", he approached a Communist friend attached to the Spanish Medical Aid and explained his case.

Wanting to protect potential new markets, both existing leagues chose to expand from eight teams to ten.

Wanting to obtain his own land in Livonia, he loaned Poland money and then claimed the castles they had pawned as his own instead of using them to pressure Poland.

Wanting to progress further, in 1965 he joined The Rockin ' Vickers who signed a deal with CBS, released three singles and toured Europe, reportedly being the first British band to visit Yugoslavia.

Wanting to progress even further, Lemmy relocated to London in 1967.

Wanting to compete in the Australasian Tasman Series, Bruce approached his employers, but when team owner Charles Cooper insisted on using 1. 5 litre Formula One-specification engines instead of the 2. 5 litre motors permitted by the Tasman rules, Bruce decided to set up his own team to run him and his prospective Formula One team-mate Timmy Mayer with custom-built Cooper cars.

Wanting to make the film historically accurate and unbiased, the producers invited a broadly based Advisory Board, and used scholars, Native Americans, and descendants of the colonists to help tell the story.

Wanting to find one party at fault in a conflict where all parties have engaged in positive and negative actions, this small group believes that Israel is solely to blame for the current conflict.

Wanting to set itself up more like the NFL right before the merger, the AFL expanded the playoffs for the 1969 season, by having the second place teams from each division face the first place teams from the other division ( Western Champion vs. Eastern Runner-Up, and vice versa ).

Wanting to keep the situation private, they instead made a special arrangement with his parents.

Wanting to learn more moves, Martin went to California to attend the dance school at the Franchon and Marco School of the Theatre, and opened her own dance studio in Mineral Wells, Texas.

Wanting to protect Rome from invasion from the South, in 1530, Charles V handed over the island to these Knights.

Wanting to launch a keyboard / bass / drum band, Emerson and Lake sought out a drummer.

Wanting to finally end Serbian interference in Bosnia, Austria-Hungary delivered the July Ultimatum to Serbia, a series of ten demands intentionally made unacceptable, intending to provoke a war with Serbia.

Wanting to avoid complications, Jerry slips into Lucy's bedroom, too.

Wanting to make cartoons with an all-animated look, Disney signed a contract with Universal Studios leading to the creation of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Universal's first cartoon series.

Wanting to honor their request and needing to found new settlements where the quickly-growing population of Salt Lake could expand, Brigham Young sent a party to explore the area in August of that year.