William A. Redding asserted that if the case had been heard in open court under rules of evidence, the testimony would have been completed in sixty days instead of five years.

William of Normandy, Harald III of Norway ( aided by Harold Godwin's estranged brother Tostig ) and Sweyn II of Denmark all asserted claims to the throne.

Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. asserted that " if there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.

and Francis Beaumont were among the members ( although it is often asserted that William Shakespeare and Sir Walter Raleigh were members of this club, there is no documented evidence to support this claim ).

However, William claimed ultimate possession of virtually all the land in England over which his armies had given him de facto control, and asserted the right to dispose of it as he saw fit.

Conein asserted that " I have it on very good authority of very many people, that Big Minh gave the order ", as did William Colby, the director of the CIA's Far Eastern division.

William Butterfield, the original architect, a High Churchman himself, produced a vigorous masterpiece of Victorian Gothic, among his few secular buildings, which Sir Nikolaus Pevsner characterized as " manly ", and which, Charles Eastlake asserted, defied criticism, but which only slowly gained adherents during the later 20th century.

As to religion, reformed Calvinist Frederick William III — as Supreme Governor of the Protestant Churches — asserted his long-cherished project ( started in 1798 ) to unite the Lutheran and the Reformed Church in 1817, ( see Prussian Union ).

Other missionaries who have asserted the influence of Jonathan Edwards's biography of Brainerd on their lives include Henry Martyn, William Carey, Jim Elliot, and Adoniram Judson.

" William Hawkins of the New York World-Telegram said that Merman was " bright as a whip, sure as her shooting, and generously the foremost lady clown of her time " and asserted that the show itself was comparable to those of Rodgers and Hammerstein, proclaiming, " For verve and buoyancy, unslackening, there has seldom if ever been a show like it ... the girls in Annie have the beauty and character of looks one associates with a Rodgers and Hammerstein show.

The two main provisions of the Bill were severe penalties for anyone who spoke or printed asserted or implied that William and Mary were monarchs only " in fact " and not " of right ", and a new oath for all who held offices of profit under the Crown in which they had to swear to defend the government against the exiled king James and his adherents.

In 1960, Murray filed a lawsuit against the Baltimore City Public School System, in which she asserted that it was unconstitutional for her son William to be required to participate in Bible readings at Baltimore public schools.

A contemporary Parliamentarian newspaper asserted that it was the Royalist Prince Rupert who had given Cromwell the nickname after Rupert's defeat at Marston Moor in July 1644: Munday we had intelligence that Lieutenant-Gen. Cromwell alias Ironside ( for that title was given him by P. Rupert after his defeate neere York ) Battle of Marston Moor | at Marston Moor was about Redding ( sic ) with 2500 horse marching towards Sir William Waller.

However, Canadian anger gradually subsided, and almost two decades would pass before the Government of Canada fully asserted its independence in setting foreign policy, as signified by the Dominion being separate signatory at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, and the first articulation of a distinct foreign policy by the government of William Lyon Mackenzie King during the Chanak Crisis in 1922.

Local folklore asserted that this was punishment for the crimes committed by William when he created his New Forest ; a 17th century writer provides exquisite detail:

He had two illegitimate children by Rosina Eliabeth Swan: a son, Richard Harold St. Maur, who asserted that his parents had been married and claimed his father's titles ; and a daughter, Ruth Mary St. Maur, a women's suffragist and socialist, who married ( William George ) Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck.

Psychologist Dr. William Colson asserted in 1998 that D. A. R. E.

But when the self-proclaimed government arrested a ship's captain for a violation of Wellington law, the Governor William Hobson quickly asserted British sovereignty over the whole of New Zealand, sending a contingent of soldiers to disband the Council in Wellington.

Following his conquest of England in the 11th century, William I of England asserted his control of Northumbria by destructive campaigns throughout the region: " He ordered that crops and herds, tools and food should be burned to ashes.

A few asserted that the remaining Smith brother, William, should become Church President, and William for a time made that claim and gathered a small faction of followers around him.

During the trial of Alberto Fujimori, it was asserted by former Colina member José William Tena Jacinto that at least two of the victims were positively identified as Shining Path members.

" No artist ", asserted Alfred William Rich, " ever came nearer painting a perfect picture than did Peter de Wint ".

The Blythsome Wedding, long attributed to Francis Sempill, has been more recently asserted to be the work of Sir William Scott of Thirlestane.

Presiding over the trial was Sir William Chapple, a senior and respected judge in his early sixties.

* Queensberry House-bought in 1689 by William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry, now incorporated into the new Scottish Parliament Building and housing the office of the Presiding Officer

These included the early church's Presiding Patriarch and Apostle William Smith ( Joseph's only surviving brother ); Book of Mormon witness Martin Harris ( who left and later rejoined the LDS Church in Utah ); Nauvoo Stake President William Marks ; second Bishop of the Church and church trustee-in-trust George Miller, Apostle John E. Page ; former Apostle William M ' Lellin ; and many others.

* The ( Presiding ) High Council of Nauvoo — the church's highest legislative and judicial council — led by William Marks.

* The Most Reverend William White, 1st and 4th Presiding Bishop, 1st Bishop of Pennsylvania

* William B. Preston ( Mormon ) ( 1830 – 1908 ), Presiding Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1884 – 1907

When Hyrum was assassinated in 1844, his youngest brother, the Apostle William Smith became Presiding Patriarch.

William petitioned Joseph III to restore him to the office of Presiding Patriarch of the RLDS church, but the re-appointment never occurred.

After William Smith was excommunicated by Brigham Young, " Uncle " John Smith ( brother of Joseph Smith, Sr .) was called by Young to be Presiding Patriarch of the LDS Church.

There, Joseph Smith formed a new Presiding High Council, led by William Marks, which supervised the High Councils of outlying stakes, under the direction of the First Presidency.

The last of the surviving Smith brothers, William, initially claimed the right to succeed his brothers only as Presiding Patriarch.

James F. Hull followed Philander Chase, who went on to become the first Bishop of Ohio in 1819 ( where he founded Kenyon College ), the first Bishop of Illinois in 1835, and in 1852 he became Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church ; Nathaniel Wheaton ; Francis L. Hawkes ( who was chosen the first president of the University of Louisiana, which later became Tulane University ); Edmund Neville ; William Thomas Leacock, who served Christ Church for 30 years ; Alexander I. Drysdale and David Sessums, who left to become the 4th Bishop of Louisiana, an office he held for 38 years.

The 7th Presiding Bishop was William H. Daw in 1970, followed by Joseph Neth in 1974.

Church President John Taylor called John R. Winder to serve as Second Counselor to Presiding Bishop William B. Preston on April 8, 1887.

* William White ( Bishop of Pennsylvania ) ( 1748 – 1836 ), Episcopal bishop in America, Presiding Bishop and Chaplain of Congress

is the title of a novel by William Faulkner, and refers to the return of Thomas Sutpen's son.

From him it has descended continuously, through fifteen individuals, the title being increased to an Earldom in 1784 ; and in 1876 William Nevill 5th Earl ( b. 1826 ), ( d. 1915 ) an indefatigable and powerful supporter of the Tory Party, was created 1st Marquess of Abergavenny.

The latter title is especially suggestive of his role in forming several Franciscans who later became influential thinkers in the faculty, among them Saint Bonaventure, John of La Rochelle, Odo Rigaldus, William of Middleton and Richard Rufus of Cornwall.

The film's title was inspired by the line, " Bring me my chariot of fire ," from the William Blake poem adapted into the popular British hymn " Jerusalem "; the hymn is heard at the end of the film.

As these were the days when kidnapping an heiress was seen as a viable option for obtaining a title, William had dictated a will on the very day he died, bequeathing his domains to Eleanor and appointing King Louis VI of France as her guardian.

Simpler and cruder examples from the same year occurs in William S. Hart ' sThe Narrow Trail, in which a single shot of the mouth of San Francisco Bay taken against the light ( the Golden Gate ) is preceded by a narrative title explaining its symbolic function in the story.

The earliest known written evidence of the title is from the November 3, 1863, diary entry of William Howard Russell, in which he referred to gossip about " the First Lady in the Land ," referring to Mary Todd Lincoln.

Sir Charles FitzRoy ( Governor of New South Wales from 1846 – 1855 ) and Sir William Denison ( Governor of New South Wales from 1855 – 1861 ) also carried the additional title of Governor-General because their jurisdiction extended to other colonies in Australia.

* William F. Hansen, published 1983, title: Saxo Grammaticus and the life of Hamlet

Although he had ceased acting as a Governor-General, Sir William Denison retained the title until his retirement.

A century later the victorious William of Normandy received the surrender of the surviving senior English Lords and Clergy, at Berkhamsted, resulting in a new Anglicised title of William the Conqueror.

" Its first realization was the 1957 Playhouse 90 teleplay of that title by William Gibson.

The title has influenced Touchstone Magazine: A Journal of Mere Christianity and William Dembski's book Mere Creation.

* William Ury, Getting Past No: Negotiating Your Way from Confrontation to Cooperation, revised second edition, Bantam, January 1, 1993, trade paperback, ISBN 0-553-37131-2 ; 1st edition under the title, Getting Past No: Negotiating with Difficult People, Bantam, September, 1991, hardcover, 161 pages, ISBN 0-553-07274-9

In 1470 William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness ceded his title to James III and the following year the Northern Isles were directly annexed to the Crown of Scotland, a process confirmed by Parliament in 1472.

Stephen's eldest brother was William, who under normal circumstances would have inherited the title of count.

William was probably intellectually disabled, and Adela instead had the title passed over him to her second son, Theobald, who went on to later acquire the county of Champagne as well as Blois and Chartres.

In 1113, Stephen was granted both the title and the honour, although without the lands previously held by William in England.

The book takes the form of Huxley ’ s recollection of a mescaline trip that took place over the course of an afternoon, and takes its title from William Blake's poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

Harold Raymond, at his publisher Chatto and Windus, said of the manuscript, “ You are the most articulate guinea pig that any scientist could hope to engage .” The title was taken from William Blake's poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:

His estimate that the age of the Earth allowed gradual evolution was disputed by William Thomson ( later awarded the title Lord Kelvin ), who calculated that it had cooled in less than 100 million years.

The Pet Shop Boys, Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs have recorded " The Second Threepenny Finale " under the title " What Keeps Mankind Alive?

The title refers to William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

It is the oldest English language university in Canada and one of four schools that claim the title of oldest public university in North America ( the University of Georgia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and The College of William and Mary also claim this title ).