With the initial encouragement of Russian agents, a series of agreements was concluded between Serbia and Bulgaria in March 1912.

With the encouragement of his Protestant advisers, James summoned Parliament in 1624 so that he could request subsidies for a war.

With Phelps's encouragement, including a list of Phelps ' contacts in Nashville and some of his credit cards, Brooks traveled to Nashville to pursue a recording contract ; he returned to Oklahoma within 24 hours.

With encouragement from the United States Agency for International Development ( AID ), the Honduran government began to decentralize Cohdefor beginning in 1985.

With the encouragement of the " F Street Mess ", Douglas met with them and Phillips to ensure that the momentum for passing the bill remained with the Democratic Party.

* 1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.

With Brazilian encouragement, López had dropped Francia's policy of neutrality and began meddling in Argentine politics.

With the encouragement of the French king, the cardinals returned to Avignon and in 1378 elected a French pope, the antipope Clement VII.

With the encouragement of McConnell ( who received $ 50 for each transferee ), Anastasio and Fishman relocated in mid-1986 to Goddard College, a small school in the hills of Plainfield, Vermont.

With the encouragement of Maxim Gorky, Stalin decided to grant Zamyatin's request.

* November 4 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent from Colombia.

With the encouragement of Histiaeus ( his father-in-law and former tyrant of Miletus ), Aristagoras, governor of Miletus, induces the Ionian cities of Asia Minor to revolt against Persia, thus instigating the Ionian Revolt and beginning the Greco-Persian Wars between Greece and Persia.

* With much legal strife and the encouragement of Sir Francis Bacon, Chief Justice Edward Coke is dismissed from the King's Bench, and the royal prerogatives of King James I triumph over English common law.

With the encouragement of the Soviet Union, Manchuria was then used as a staging ground during the Chinese Civil War for the Communist Party of China, which emerged victorious in 1949.

With Soviet encouragement, the Chinese Communists used Manchuria as a staging ground until the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949.

With Man Ray, you were free to do what your imagination conjured, and that kind of encouragement was wonderful.

With Russell's encouragement and financial backing, Barbour wrote an outline of their views in Three Worlds and the Harvest of This World, published in 1877.

* With the encouragement of Alcibiades, the Athenians take the island of Melos ( which has remained neutral during the Peloponnesian War ).

With his mother's encouragement, Webb learned piano and organ, and by the age of 12 was playing in the choir of his father's churches, accompanied by his father on guitar and his mother on accordion.

With his teacher's encouragement, Toledo was able to continue his schooling by working nights and weekends, becoming the first person in his family to attend high school.

With encouragement from Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge, however, Barclay redeems himself and helps to uncover the cause of a critical multi-system failure on the Enterprise-D in time to avert the ship's destruction.

With encouragement from Cage, Feldman began to write pieces that had no relation to compositional systems of the past, such as the constraints of traditional harmony or the serial technique.

With the encouragement of his mentor, Danny Thomas ( who had a lot in common with him ), he decided to become an actor.

With the encouragement of a young congressman, Lyndon B. Johnson, LCRA used the hydroelectric power from its dams to launch in 1938 a public power program that served communities and electric cooperatives in Central and South Texas.

With the backbone of the area, the railroads, prospering, citizens of the community looked into the future with hope and encouragement.

With the money all but in hand, however, the Administration indicated that, instead of the 225,000 more men in uniform that President Kennedy had requested, the armed forces would be increased by only 160,000.

With support from Argentina, imperial forces deposed President Atanasio Aguirre from office and instated general Venancio Flores in his place.

With such conflicting perspectives, it can be argued that a certain polarization between both supporters and opponents of President Uribe seems to be forming both inside and outside the country.

With President Ronald Reagan | Reagan, 1984

With the signing of the Geneva Accords, President Najibullah unsuccessfully sought to end the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan's isolation within the Islamic world and in the Non-Aligned Movement.

With the permission of President Thomas Jefferson, Astor established the American Fur Company on April 6, 1808.

With the White House still under construction, she advised as to its furnishings and sometimes served as First Lady for ceremonial functions for President Thomas Jefferson, a widower and their friend.

With President Bill Clinton's assistance, on 30 April 1994 Latvia and Russia signed a troop withdrawal agreement.

With the exceptions of the Presidential elections of 1956 and 2008, Missouri voters have elected the next President of the United States in every election since 1904.

With a Communist insurgency threatening Greece, and Britain financially unable to continue its aid, the President announced his Truman Doctrine on 12 March 1947, " to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures ", with an aid request for consideration and decision, concerning Greece and Turkey.

President Kennedy established the current decoration in 1963 through Executive Order 11085, with unique and distinctive insignia ( it was the first civilian neck-decoration and, in the grade of Awarded With Distinction, is the only U. S. sash and star decoration ), vastly expanded purpose, and far higher prestige ( some have likened the PMOF to a U. S. equivalent of a knighthood ).

When the medal With Distinction is awarded, the star may be presented depending from a neck ribbon and can be identified by its larger size than the standard medal ( compare size of medals in pictures below ; President Reagan's was awarded With Distinction ).

With support from the United States, the Organization of American States, and other countries in the region, the Paraguayan people rejected an April 1996 attempt by then Army Chief General Lino Oviedo to oust President Wasmosy, taking an important step to strengthen the Paraguayan Republic.

With permission from Empress Dowager Longyu, Yuan Shikai began negotiating with Sun Yat-sen, who decided that his goal had been achieved in forming a republic, and that therefore he could allow Yuan to step into the position of President of the Republic of China.

With the hope of negotiating a peace settlement, on 7 November 1998, President Andrés Pastrana granted FARC-EP a safe haven meant to serve as a confidence building measure, centered around the San Vicente del Caguán settlement.

With the 18th amendment to the constitution in 2010, the President has no term limit, which previously stood at 2.

With Milošević's second and last legal term as Serbian President expiring in 1997, he ran for, and was elected President of Yugoslavia in 1997.

With the crisis over, President Durling nominates Ryan as vice-president during a joint session of Congress.

With then President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, in 2002.

President Wilson felt obliged to acknowledge the boy as theirs and sent the couple a note that simply said, " With congratulations to the baby.

With these victories, President Abraham Lincoln promoted Grant to major general of volunteers.

With deep fissures in the party on this question, the anti-slavery faction prevented the re-nomination of its own incumbent President Fillmore in the 1852 presidential election ; instead, the party nominated General Winfield Scott.

** The Great Depression officially ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to WWII-related employment, U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration