Considers problems facing the British Conservative Party and its leader, William Hague, as it slips in the public-opinion polls in late 1998. The difficulty in rallying around an issue; Prospects for popular support of the monetary policy of the Tories, in defense of the British pound against ...
William IWilliam I, statue in The Hague.(more) By May 1567 order was everywhere restored. Nevertheless, in August Alba entered Brussels at the head of a well-trained army and inaugurated a reign of terror. In September a special court, theCouncil of Troubles, was set up to try all cases...
platforms as Heyrick and other women who favoured an immediate end to slavery. His biographer,William Hague, claims that Wilberforce was unable to adjust to the idea of women becoming involved in politics "occurring as this did nearly a century before women would be given the vote in Britain"...
A crowd of people stood and stared. They’d seen his face before. Nobody was really sure If he was from the House of Lords. Paul Matthews May 8, 2015, 9:28 am David, thanks, fair point. Also of course, after suitable adjustments have been applied to the data, the results are ...
1785 changed that and from then onwards he approached politics from a position of strict Christian morality. In 1786 he carried through the House of Commons a bill for amending criminal law which failed to pass the Lords, a pattern which was to be repeated during his abolitionist career. The...
married Barbara Chiffinch, had two sons and one daughter. Edward was Master of the Horse to Queen Mary II, Lord Chamberlain to King William III and Queen Anne, Ambassador at The Hague, Ambassador in Paris, Secretary of State for the Southern Department, and one of the Lords Justi...
3It is also clear from this that the true divinity of the Son is not excluded by the words of the Apostle: “Which in His times He shall show who is the Blessed and only Mighty, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.” In these words the Father is not named, but that which is...
Such was my Processe, And of the Canibals that each others eate, The Antropophague, and men whose headsGrew beneath their shoulders. These things to heare, Would Desdemona seriously incline:But still the house Affaires would draw her hence: Which euer as she could with haste dispatch, She...
Comments on the Labour Party's handling of the ban on fox-hunting in Great Britain. Rejection of the hunting bill by the Great Britain House of Lords; Drawbacks provided by fox-hunting to the Labour Party; Change in Tories leader William Hague's public image.Anderson...
Hague-Visby rulesIt is somewhat surprising that, until February 2005, the true status of a straight bill of lading providing for delivery of goods to a named consignee and not to order or assigns or bearer, and so not transferable by endorsement, had not been authoritatively settled by an ...