John Francis Wilson thinks it possible to have been a pagan bronze statue whose true identity had been forgotten ; some have thought it to be Aesculapius, the God of healing, but the description of the standing figure and the woman kneeling in supplication is precisely that found on coins depicting the bearded emperor Hadrian reaching out to a female figure symbolizing a province kneeling before him.

Wilson would forever recall standing for a moment at Robert E. Lee's side and looking up into his face.

When Wilson was eight, he visited London and a later-to-be-famous photograph was taken of him standing on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street.

Image of President Woodrow Wilson created by 21, 000 standing soldiers at Camp Sherman, Ohio | Camp Sherman in Chillicothe, 1918

Although some in the Conservative party agreed with Wilson ( and Jo Grimond, the Liberal leader ) that the Conservatives would have won the 1964 election if Butler had been Prime Minister, The Times observed, " it should not be overlooked that in October 1963 Home took over a Government whose morale was shattered and whose standing in the opinion polls was abysmal.

Wilson was finally confirmed as Secretary of Defense by a Senate vote of 77 to 6, and began his duties in the Pentagon with his standing somewhat diminished by the confirmation debate.

Wilson also tried his hand at national politics, standing unsuccessfully as a federal candidate for the Conservatives in 1908, before managing to be elected in 1917.

Image: Henry Hughes Wilson, British general, photo portrait standing in uniform. jpg | General Henry Wilson

Clarke was the choice of both Woodrow Wilson and Attorney General James Clark McReynolds, who felt that the position required a " first rate appointment " to deal with the backlog in the court's docket, and that Clarke's high standing before the Ohio bar marked him out as a man of " decided ability ".

Wilson as a representativeAs of the 111th Congress, Wilson serves on three standing committees and various subcommittees overseeing specific areas of legislation.

Falkender claims that she first met Wilson when he offered her a lift when she was standing at a bus stop.

Wilson announced in February 2008 that she would not be standing for re-election in 2008, and was considering " academia " rather than a diplomatic posting.

Wilson initially gave the plan tepid support, but Garrison ran into opposition from both those who felt his plan went too far in creating a large standing army, as well as from those who felt it did not go far enough.

The leader of the Jokerz, Terminal, is actually an honor student named Carter Wilson, and Max's standing is higher than his, outperforming him academically ; at the current rate, she will be valedictorian instead of him.

The last visitors to the school while it was still standing were alum and long-time Uni teacher, Danny Wilson, accompanied by two of the students who had worked on the school's official documentary in the past year.

Brian stood instead for Bangor West seat on North Down Council, as an Independent standing against both his wife ( Anne Wilson, Alliance Party ) and the Green Party candidate.

Left to right: Wesley Merritt, David McM. Gregg, Sheridan, Henry E. Davies ( standing ), James H. Wilson, and Alfred Torbert.

At a meeting of the Monday Club in 1968, Donnelly received a two minute standing ovation, and then told members " Mr Wilson should resign and leave public life ".

The episode featuring Sally standing Brad Armstrong up on their wedding day earned the episode's writer Margaret Wilson an Australian Writer's Guild award in 2008.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

Wilson was told that it was a sort of hotel for white people, which seemed to him rather queer.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

Henry Hall Wilson, a student at the music camp 25 years ago and now on the President's staff as liaison representative with the House of Representatives, turned guest conductor for a Sousa march, the `` Stars and Stripes Forever ''.

Legally recognized good reasons for consent include ; surgery, activities within the rules of a game ( Mixed martial arts, wrestling, boxing, or contact sports ), bodily adornment ( R v Wilson ), or horseplay ( Jones and others ).

* 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U. S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

Carnegie's empire grew to include the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works, ( named for John Edgar Thomson, Carnegie's former boss and president of the Pennsylvania Railroad ), Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Works, the Lucy Furnaces, the Union Iron Mills, the Union Mill ( Wilson, Walker & County ), the Keystone Bridge Works, the Hartman Steel Works, the Frick Coke Company, and the Scotia ore mines.

After thirty days of working with Wilson, Smith drank his last drink on June 10, 1935, the date marked by AA for its anniversaries.

While Wilson and Smith credited their sobriety to working with alcoholics under the auspices of the Oxford Group, a Group associate pastor sermonized against Wilson and his alcoholic Groupers for forming a " secret, ashamed sub-group " engaged in " divergent works ".

By 1946, as the growing fellowship quarreled over structure, purpose, and authority, as well as finances and publicity, Wilson began to form and promote what became known as AA's Twelve Traditions, guidelines for an altruistic, unaffiliated, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical structure that limited AA's purpose to only helping alcoholics on a non-professional level while shunning publicity.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

But in 1952, when General Motors president Charles E. Wilson, nominated for a cabinet post, told Congress "... what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa ," he inspired one of Capp's greatest satires — the introduction of General Bullmoose, the robust, ruthless, and ageless business tycoon.

He has served as scholar in residence at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D. C. and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

His first real efforts, however, did not come until 1832, during the great crisis over the Reform Bill, when he contributed to an anti-Whig pamphlet edited by John Wilson Croker and published by Murray entitled England and France: or a cure for Ministerial Gallomania.

" The British did not know quite what to make of President Woodrow Wilson and his conviction ( before America's entrance into the war ) that the way to end hostilities was for both sides to accept " peace without victory.

He currently teaches at the University of Minnesota and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

Helton and Wilson — virtually the only experienced players on the team — struggled as well ; Helton hit just 20 homers, the fewest of his career, and missed the All-Star Game for the first time since 1999 and also went on the disabled list for the first time in his career.

* In 2005 Colin and Alma Powell were awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution.

Anticipating the arrangement of the British Commonwealth, by 1774 American writers such as Samuel Adams, James Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson were arguing that Parliament was the legislature of Great Britain only, and that the colonies, which had their own legislatures, were connected to the rest of the empire only through their allegiance to the Crown.

An admirer of Parliament, Wilson favored a parliamentary system for the United States.

Although Ms. May was the first elected Member of Parliament, the first seat was gained in the Canadian House of Commons on August 30, 2008 when sitting Independent MP Blair Wilson joined the party.

Entering Parliament in 1945, Harold Wilson was appointed the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works and rose quickly through the ranks, becoming the Secretary for Overseas Trade two years later and finally being appointed to the Cabinet as the President of the Board of Trade in 1947.

Anthony Neil Wedgwood " Tony " Benn PC ( born 3 April 1925 ), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a retired British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for 50 years and a Cabinet Minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.

Beckett was first elected to Parliament in 1974 and held junior positions in the governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.

The sisters ’ father, Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson, approved of the match between his eldest daughter Margaretta and Lord Arden, who was wealthy and already a Member of Parliament and a Lord of the Admiralty.

After briefly serving as a Member of Parliament, Wilson was assassinated by two IRA gunmen in 1922 whilst returning home from unveiling a war memorial at Liverpool Street station.

Brock Millman argued that the threat to stand for Parliament was blackmail to get a military job out of Lloyd George, but Keith Jeffery rejects this, arguing that Wilson would have been no threat as a new MP but as a military adviser was a useful rival to Robertson, whom by July 1917 French was telling Wilson Lloyd George wanted to remove.

Wilson attended a special conference ( 29 December ) along with Macready, Tudor and John Anderson ( Head of the Civil Service in Dublin ) at which they all advised that no truce should be allowed for elections to the planned Dublin Parliament, and that at least four months ( Wilson thought six ) months of martial law would be required to restore order – the date for the elections was therefore set for May 1921.

On August 30, 2008, independent MP Blair Wilson joined the Green Party and became its first Member of Parliament.

On August 30, 2008, Vancouver area MP Blair Wilson became the first-ever Green Member of Parliament, after sitting for nearly a year of the 39th Canadian Parliament as an Independent.

* Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson was once a Member of Parliament for Huyton, incorporating Prescot

* Harold Wilson, former Labour Prime Minister ( 1964-70 & 1974-76 ) was Member of Parliament for the former Huyton constituency.

In Grollo v Palmer ( 1995 ) and Wilson v Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs ( 1998 ), the court developed the persona designata doctrine, and in Kable v DPP ( 1997 ), the court rejected attempts by the Parliament of New South Wales to establish a system of preventative detention, and found that the states do not have unlimited ability to regulate their courts, given the place of the courts in the Australian court hierarchy.

* Robert John Wilson, Member of Parliament for Jarrow

He was first elected to Parliament in 1970 for Oldham West, reversing his previous defeat, and served as a junior minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan ( Under-Secretary for Industry, 1974 – 75, Under-Secretary for Health and Social Security, 1975 – 79 ).

However, the judges of the Supreme Court of Canada, the majority of them ( 7 out of 9 ) appointed by Trudeau ( Bora Laskin, Robert Dickson, Jean Beetz, Willard Estey, William McIntyre, Bertha Wilson, Antonio Lamer ), ruled in the Patriation Reference and the Quebec Veto Reference that neither Quebec nor any other province had a veto to prevent the federal government from petitioning the British Parliament to pass the Canada Act 1982, and that the new constitution applied to all provinces notwithstanding their disagreement.

David Wilson Boyd Burnside ( born 24 August 1951 ) is a Northern Ireland politician, and was Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament for South Antrim.

However, on appealing to the more philanthropic members of London society, the plans were adopted and, with the help of two Members of Parliament ( Thomas Wilson and George Hibbert ), the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck was founded in 1824.

He was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw in a by-election in 1968, when he did well to hold the constituency at a time when the Harold Wilson government was highly unpopular and the previous MP ( Fred Bellenger ) had held a substantial personal vote.