During his time as Speaker, Reed assiduously and dramatically increased the power of the Speaker over the House ; although the power of the Speaker had always waxed ( most notably during Henry Clay's tenure ) and waned, the position had previously commanded influence rather than outright power.

John Finch, the Speaker of the House of Commons, announced that he had been commanded to interrupt any Member of Parliament who should insult or cast aspersion on a Minister of State, such as the Duke of Buckingham.

" In doing this he is carrying out herem as commanded by Yahweh in Deuteronomy 20: 17: " You shall not leave alive anything that breathes.

" Similarly, Irenaeus wrote that the Christian " will not be commanded to leave idle one day of rest, who is constantly keeping sabbath ", and Tertullian argued " that we still more ought to observe a sabbath from all servile work always, and not only every seventh-day, but through all time ".

Anne was commanded to leave the Court on 24 June, and on 6 July she was informed of her husband's decision to reconsider the marriage.

This had left Oxford exposed to a sudden threat from the Parliamentarian armies commanded by the Earl of Essex and Sir William Waller and forced the King to leave the city in haste and head to Worcester, where he was still in danger.

Knyphausen, on the east bank of the Brandywine, launched an attack against the weakened American center across Chadds Ford, breaking through the divisions commanded by Wayne and William Maxwell and forcing them to retreat and leave behind most of their cannon.

She also commanded him to leave the Tower and go home, but Jane insisted that he remain at court, at her side.

As such, he is commanded by his foster father to leave the house immediately after being given a sum of £ 500.

Here his evangelistic fervour attracted multitudes to his preaching, including Roman Catholics, but at the same time excited the anger of his opponents ; and the result of their opposition was that after a ministry of fifteen months he was commanded by the civil authorities ( September 27, 1691 ) to leave Erfurt within forty-eight hours.

However, on 18 June 1858, in Kotah-ki-Serai near the Phool Bagh of Gwalior, a squadron of the 8th ( King's Royal Irish ) Hussars, under Captain Heneage, fought the large Indian force commanded by Rani Lakshmibai trying to leave the area.

This so enraged the king that he immediately deprived Wolff of his office, and commanded him to leave Prussian territory within 48 hours or be hanged.

On 13 October 1378, the priors of Florence enacted a statute against the Fraticelli ; on 8 July 1381, the city council of Florence commanded them to leave the city in two days or face the tribunal of the Inquisition.

Barring the same type of circumstances which might leave a lower grade officer in temporary command, divisions were commanded by major generals and corps were commanded by lieutenant generals.

He therefore ordered the battleships HMS Howe and HMS King George V and their six escorting destroyers, commanded by Vice Admiral Arthur Power, to leave their base in Malta and join the flotilla.

On account of representations from the court of Versailles he was commanded to leave that country, and, returning to England, was apprehended, and in January 1788 was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment in Newgate and some harsh additional conditions.

When the Nephites were commanded to leave their historic homeland of Lehi-Nephi to flee from the Lamanites, the exiled remnants discovered the city of Zarahemla to their north.

When a favourable wind came for Haakon to leave, he commanded the clergymen to return ashore.

The fort's garrison of 110 men, commanded by Pierre-Jacques Payen de Noyan et de Chavoy, surrendered and were allowed to leave.

He commanded the 1st Australian Infantry Brigade as a temporary brigadier-general at the Battle of Lone Pine and was one of the last officers to leave the peninsula, he was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath ( CB ) on 1 January 1916, and received a further Mention in Despatches on 28 January 1916.

Meanwhile, the units commanded by Amilkar Kosiński, which had been fighting against regular Prussian troops since December, won the battle of Koronowo and marched to Świecie, forcing the enemy to leave the town and securing this place of concentration for the newly created division.

In Islamic tradition, Ibrahim ( Abraham ) was commanded by God to leave his wife Hagar and their infant son alone in the desert, with only basic provisions, to test their faith.

Following negative fan reactions to Carter's cancelled leadership within the team ( she commanded SG-1 throughout season 8 ), Browder noted the production difficulties that came with Amanda Tapping's maternity leave, and claimed that new leaders are brought in routinely into units in military reality.

He briefly commanded the XVIII Corps before going on sick leave, but his service being too valuable, he returned to command the newly created XXIV Corps in the Army of the James.

Until 1882, except for periods of leave and detached duty, Benteen commanded Troop H of the 7th Cavalry.

According to Ivinskaya, People who arrived in Peredelkino early in the morning on the day of the funeral told us that militiamen, commanded by very senior officers, were already stationed at the approaches to the village.

I was very sorry at this in my mind, and went with tears in my eyes to Titus, and told him of them ; so he immediately commanded them to be taken down, and to have the greatest care taken of them, in order to their recovery ; yet two of them died under the physician's hands, while the third recovered.

To make matters worse, one Swedish detachment, commanded by General Roos, had not been told about the overall plan and became isolated in the Russian defensive redoubts when a column of about 4, 000 Russian reinforcements reoccupied the fortified positions, trapping Roos and his 2, 600-man force at 6: 15 a. m. With over 1, 000 casualties and ammunition running low, Roos was forced to surrender his command at 9: 30 a. m.

Yahweh told Abraham not to be distressed but to do as his wife commanded because not only would Isaac carry the Abrahamic line, but a nation would come from the line of Ishmael as well.

" Smith said he was told that no religious denomination " was acknowledged of God as his church and kingdom " and that he was " expressly commanded to ' go not after them.

was carried again to the stake where feeling the heat of the fire again would have recanted, but for all his crying the sheriff told him he should cost him no more and commanded faggots to be set to him whence roaring, he was burned to ashes.

Fortuitously for the CIA, that failed scouting trip coincided with the first US state visit of Anastasio Somoza García, the President of Nicaragua ( 1937 – 47, 1950 – 56 ), who told the Truman Administration ( 1945 – 53 ) of the existence of a small, Guatemalan rebel-group commanded by Col. Castillo Armas.

General von Vormann, who commanded the relief attempt of the XXXXVII Panzer Corps, bitterly noted that " The troops who took part were astonished and unbelieving when they were told they had won a great victory at Cherkassy in the Ukraine in 1944.

Nicholson, who was well known for his temper, told the officer " I rather would see the Towne on fire than to be commanded by you ".

Obsidian, now possessed by a cosmic entity known as the Starheart, tells the heroes that the Shade would have told them his " secrets ", and that the Starheart commanded that he and Fate silence him.

On 14 February 1942 in the Java Sea, off Malaya, HMS Li Wo, a patrol vessel, formerly a passenger steamer, commanded by Lieutenant Wilkinson, sighted two enemy convoys, one escorted by Japanese warships, The lieutenant told his crew he had decided to engage the convoy and fight to the last in the hope of inflicting some damage, a decision that drew resolute support from the whole ship's crew.

The show mentions three such battles, including the Battle of Du-Khang in 2510 ( featured in " The Message ") and a long winter campaign in New Kashmir ( as told by Zoe in " War Stories ") where he commanded a platoon.

Gregory by 1924 – 25 was no longer able to " frighten batsmen with sheer speed " but he still commanded respect and Jack Hobbs specifically told Sutcliffe to exercise caution against Gregory at the start of an innings.

In his introduction, Alfred explains that he gathered together the laws he found in many " synod-books " and " ordered to be written many of the ones that our forefathers observed — those that pleased me ; and many of the ones that did not please me, I rejected with the advice of my councillors, and commanded them to be observed in a different way.

Papal troops had invaded the Neapolitan kingdom, but Alfonso corrupted the cardinal Giovanni Vitelleschi, who commanded them, and his successes waned.

Mark Antony and Gellius Publicola commanded the right wing of the Antonian fleet, while Marcus Octavius and Marcus Insteius commanded the centre, with Cleopatra's squadron positioned behind them.

One of them said that all the women in the empire would hear that " The King Xerxes commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

Caius commanded them to take down their scaffolds, that the poor people might see the sport without paying anything.

" He gives the Great Commission: " Therefore go and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you ;" Jesus will be with them " to the very end of the age.

Now master of Jezreel, Jehu wrote to the chief men in the capital Samaria, and commanded them to count the heads of all the royal princes of the kingdom.

(" The apostles in the memoirs which have come from them, which are also called gospels, have transmitted that the Lord had commanded ...").

In 1564, Portugal commanded the trade of India, Japan, and China, though their pride was deeply shocked at the supreme indifference with which the Chinese treated them.

They see as giving exclusive instructions about who is to be baptized: " Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you " ( verses 19-20, NKJV ).

In early June 1781, Cornwallis dispatched a 250-man cavalry force commanded by Banastre Tarleton on a secret expedition to capture Governor Jefferson and members of the Assembly at Monticello but Jack Jouett of the Virginia militia, thwarted the British plan by warning them.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

:" I have been requested by one of my oldest and best friends in the Company's service to introduce to your and kind offices John Campbell of the Ship Scotia which vessel he has commanded since she was launched, but owing to change of owners and other he is now out of employ with a numerous family and very slender means to provide for them.

" I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandment unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.

He was indiscreet enough to claim the sympathy of Gregory VII, who commanded him to acknowledge his errors and to pursue them no further.

Meanwhile the British Eighth Army, commanded by General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, simultaneously pushed them westward, effectively squeezing the Germans and Italians into a smaller and smaller portion of Tunisia and out of North Africa altogether by mid-May.