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Francis was a devoted family man, and a main point in the political testament he left for his son and heir Ferdinand was, " Preserve unity in the family and regard it as one of the highest goods.
Prussia ’ s appetite for the economically and culturally more developed territories of Saxony originated in the old dream of annexation that Frederick II had developed in his political testament of 1752 and had already tried to realize in the Seven Years ' War.
As a testament to the pure political expediency of the purchases, the Princes of Liechtenstein did not set foot in their new principality for over 120 years.
True, in his political testament dated 26 February 1945 Hitler lamented that Churchill was " quite unable to appreciate the sporting spirit " in which he had refrained from annihilating the BEF at Dunkirk, but this hardly squares with the contemporary record.
In one of those coins he is called ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΣ (" Great King Antiochus "), a testament to his political ambitions.
Its successful passage is often seen as a testament to Seddon's political power and influence.
Ironically, but as testament to the pure political expediency of the purchases, the Princes of Liechtenstein did not permanently live in their new principality for over 200 years, moving only in 1938 into the Alpine territory.
Marguerite Young's projected historical biography Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs was to be her social and political testament, tracing the forces that shaped the country and the character of Debs.
It is a testament to the pure political expediency of the purchases that the Princes of Liechtenstein did not set foot in their new principality for over 120 years.
In Hitler's 1945 political testament ( written shortly before his suicide ) he appointed Admiral Karl Doenitz to succeed him, but he named Doenitz as President, not Fuehrer, thereby re-establishing a constitutional office which had lain dormant since Hindenburg's death ten years earlier.
In his absence Pompey had shamefully usurped control over Sulla's children, contrary to the father's testament, and now in Pompeius ' absence the latter's intimate and hereditary political ally Gaius Memmius co-ordinated the opposition to Lucullus ' just claim to a triumph.
He threatened Cuza with his resignation, and was ultimately able to persuade all parties involved, including the opposition leader Kretzulescu, to accept the law's application as of spring 1865 ; a proclamation by Cuza, Către locuitorii săteşti (" To the Rural Inhabitants ") accompanied the resolution, and was described by Kogălniceanu as " the political testament of Cuza ".
His political testament is perhaps the best testimony to his liberal and statesmanlike views.
As a testament to Chandler ’ s bravery and sacrifice during his Vigilance Committee days prior to his probing into the political realm.
Hitler stated that in the event of his death, the contents of the conference were to be regarded as his " political testament ".
Päts still bore the idea in his mind, as testified by his so-called " political testament ", written in July 1940.
That MHS outlived the National Board of Health and emerged in the 1890s reinvigorated is a testament to Hamilton's skills as a political negotiator as well as a bureaucrat.
However, the pair were able to secure only a consignment of copies of the colonel's political testament The Green Book, meaning that the group's financial woes were not alleviated.
She typed Hitler's last private and political will and testament in the Führerbunker a day and a half before his suicide.
In the first issue of its new series, Adevărul carried Brănişteanu's promise of pursuing the same path as Mille, and was accompanied by a reprint of Mille's political testament.
Darány wanted to recur to basis of István Bethlen with the program of the conservation of the constitutional order, but he did not want to turn sharply against Gömbös ' political testament.
It consisted of two separate documents, a will and a political testament.
The last political testament was signed at the same time as Hitler's last will, 04: 00 on 29 April 1945.
All four witnesses to the political testament died shortly afterwards.

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He was perhaps most famous for losing a battle of wills with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's Joan Ruddock over the government's grant to the Citizens Advice Bureau, a battle that cost him his government post and permanently curtailed his political ambitions.

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Hayek also played a central role in Milton Friedman's intellectual development: " My interest in public policy and political philosophy was rather casual before I joined the faculty of the University of Chicago.
My understanding and sympathies were enlarged, and many of my social, political, and economic views were modified as a consequence of increased knowledge.
Her book, My Chicago ( ISBN 0-8101-2087-9 ), was published in 1992, and covers her life through her political career.
As obvious from Umar's own statement regarding his father during his later political rule, Umar said, " My father Al-Khittab was a ruthless man.
She formed a political action committee called It's My Party Too ( IMP-PAC ), intended to help elect moderate Republicans at all levels of government.
" My campaign colleagues jeered at the book — and by the end of the campaign, any lingering interest I might have had in the political left had vanished like yesterday ’ s smoke.
The former Boer general, Jan Smuts, wrote to David Lloyd George in 1919: " My experience in South Africa has made me a firm believer in political magnanimity, and your and Campbell-Bannerman's great record still remains not only the noblest but also the most successful page in recent British statesmanship ".
My own maverick nature was no more suitable to the political left than it had been to the conservative background from which I came.
It is particularly common in political arguments: " My opponent is a conservative who voted against higher taxes and welfare, therefore he will also oppose gun control and abortion.
The words ranged from satires on decadence (" The American Metaphysical Circus ", ".. Wooden Wife ..", ( this title being a parody of the old music hall song, " I Wouldn't Leave My Little Wooden Hut for You " by Tom Mellor and Charles Collins ) to lyrical expressions of longing ( the pastoral " Cloud Song ", the political " Love Song For The Dead Che ").
* 2003-Dude, Where's My Country ?, a book by Michael Moore dealing with corporate and political events in the United States.
In 1996, Bobetko wrote a book titled All My Battles, containing many military maps and commands, on which he said, " My face is clean, and that permits me to leave a written mark on anything I did in more than fifty years of my military and political life.
These riots, which started on October 16, 1968, are now known as the Rodney Riots, and they triggered an increase in political awareness across the Caribbean, especially among the Afrocentric Rastafarian sector of Jamaica, documented in his book, The Groundings With My Brothers.
However, many have also held an unofficial but highly influential role as a political or campaign advisor to their husbands — both Mila Mulroney and Laureen Harper were considered their husbands ' " secret weapons ", whose instinctive sense of campaign optics proved invaluable to their husbands ' careers ; Harper, for example, was credited as the brains behind a public appearance in which her husband, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, appeared on stage at Ottawa's National Arts Centre to sing The Beatles ' " With a Little Help from My Friends ", which was widely perceived as softening the Prime Minister's somewhat stiff and autocratic public image.
White is best known for his songs such as ( James Joyce's Grave, Street Scenes From My Heart ), and noted for the political and literary content of his work.
After the general election, disgruntled right-winger and ex-United Future MP Marc Alexander also voiced repeated criticisms of his former colleagues, in his " Marc My Words " political opinion column for Scoop, a New Zealand news website.
Dunne has summarised his political views in two books, Home is Where My Heart Is ( 2002 ) and In the Centre of Things ( 2005 ).
John Reynolds ( February 26, 1788 – May 8, 1865 ) who was the 4th governor of Illinois, among other political posts, mentions the earthquake in his biography My Own Times: Embracing Also the History of My Life ( 1855 ):
In 2005, when US President George W. Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, political cartoonist Steve Sack drew a cartoon depicting Bush brushing a pony toy with false eyelashes with the title " My Little Crony " shortly after the dismissal of Michael D. Brown for failing to handle the Hurricane Katrina crisis.
During a meeting in Paris on 14 November 2010, she claimed: " My project is not to assemble our political family, or rather is not only to assemble our political family.
Hence, the intellectually restrictive politics of dogmatism (“ My answer is right, and all others are wrong ”), scepticism (“ All answers are equally true or ; everyone has a right to his own truth ”), and eclecticism (“ Each meaning gives a partial view, so the more meanings the better ”) are inappropriate philosophic stances for managing a political term that has more than one meaning.

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