Crawford Sentence Examples

In 1644 he had remonstrated at the removal by Crawford of an anabaptist lieutenant-colonel."

Two and a half miles north is Balcarres House, belonging to the earl of Crawford, where Lady Anne Barnard (1750-1825) was born.

In 1850 the commission accepted the model submitted by Thomas Crawford (1814-1857), an American sculptor, the corner-stone of the monument was laid in that year, and the equestrian statue of Washington, with sub-statues of Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, was unveiled on the 22nd of February 1858.

Soon after her marriage miners had been brought from Lorraine to dig for gold at Crawford Moor, and she now carried on successful mining enterprises for coal and lead, which enabled her to meet the expenses of her government.

Crawford, whom he regarded as the true heir and representative of the old Jeffersonian principles.

With these feelings he consented in May 1824 to stand for the vicepresidency on the Crawford ticket.

Martin Van Buren, then in the Crawford interest, came to the conclusion that the candidate for the second place, by his foreign origin, weakened the ticket, and in October Gallatin retired from the contest.

He crossed over to Angus, and took part in the wedding of his illegitimate daughter with the heir of the earl of Crawford.

These two islands lie parallel to each other, Tamara to the west; they form a sort of basin, in the centre of which is the islet of Crawford.

He was now one of the recognized managers of the Jackson campaign, and a tour of Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia in the spring of 1827 won support, for Jackson from Crawford.

He was assigned for duty to Jefferson Barracks at St Louis, and on reaching this post was ordered to Fort Crawford, near Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

The metal was detected in the mineral strontianite, found at Strontian in Argyllshire, by Cruikshank in 1787, and by Crawford in 17 9 0; and the discovery was confirmed by Hope in 1792 and by Klaproth in 1793.

During the fifty years since Crawford's Tenure of Office Act was passed in 1820, the country had been growing more and more familiar with the spectacle of corruption in high places.

Among its buildings are the Crawford county court-house, the city hospital and a sanatorium.

In 1816 Fort Crawford was erected - it was rebuilt on a different site in 1829 - and in 1820 one of the principal depots of the American Fur Company was established here.

During the Black Hawk War (1832) Zachary Taylor, then a lieutenant-colonel, was in command of Fort Crawford, and to him Black Hawk was entrusted after his capture.

Lennox (June 11, 1568) asked Crawford for his reminiscences, not of Darnley's reports of his talks with Mary, but of Crawford's own interview with her as she entered Glasgow to visit Darnley, probably on the 21st of January 1567.

It follows that Lennox possessed Crawford's written notes of the Darnley and Mary conversations.

If he had not possessed them on the 11th of June 1568, he, must have asked Crawford for his reminiscences of these talks.

Crawford's evidence was all-important, because it corroborated Mary's own account of her interviews with Darnley in Letter II.

That part of the letter then, it is argued by many, is a forged interpolation based on Crawford's notes and memories.

Henderson prefers the hypothesis that Lennox had lost Crawford's notes; and that the identities are explained by the "remarkably good memories of Crawford and Mary, or by the more likely supposition that Crawford, before preparing his declaration for the conference" (at Westminster, December 1568) "refreshed his memory by the letter."

But no human memory of a conversation reported on the 22nd of January 1567, could be so nearly "word perfect" as Crawford's must have been two years later.

If Crawford "refreshed his memory by the letter," he exposed himself, and the entire case, by copying whole passages, often with few verbal changes.

Experiments made by a person who possesses a good memory seem to show that the thing is very possible, especially if Darnley revised Crawford's notes.

But if any one compares Crawford's whole declaration with Letter II.

There remains what looks like absolute proof that, in essence, Crawford's Declaration and Letter Il.are independent documents.

Here Crawford's declaration has, "She asked him why he would pass away in the English ship. He answered that he had spoken with the Englishman, but not of mind to go away with him.

It was in paragraph 7 that she wrote about the English ship; she did not then give Darnley's remonstrances, as Crawford does.

Thus it is certain that Darnley had reported to Crawford his brave words and reproaches of Mary, which Crawford gives in the proper place.

Here is proof positive that Crawford does not copy Letter but gives Darnley's words as reported to him by Darnley - words that Darnley was proud of, - while Mary, returning on the second day of writing to the topic, does not quote Darnley's brave words, but merely contrasts his speaking "very bravely at the beginning" with his pitiful and craven later submission; "he has ever the tear in his eye," with what follows.

In The Mystery of Mary Stuart the evidence for an early forged letter was presented with confidence; the interpolation of forgeries based on Crawford's declaration was more dubiously suggested.

But, on the other hand, as Lennox after meeting Wood wrote to Crawford for his reminiscences of his own interview with Mary (January 21, 1567), and as these reminiscences were only useful as corroborative of Mary's account in Letter II., it seems that Wood had either shown Lennox the letters or had spoken of their contents.

Crawford, was engaged to reorganize the customs; a number of German officers, selected by General von der Goltz, were brought in to reform the army; and the work of restoring the navy to efficiency was entrusted to a British adviser, Rear-Admiral Gamble, and a small British staff.

Forneron, translated by Mrs Crawford (1887).

The Presidential, in the north-eastern part of the region, is separated from the Franconia on the south-west by the Crawford, or White Mountain Notch, about 2000 ft.

General Crawford Chamberlain states that this was Hodson's way of wiping out the debt.

They were to be supported by five bombarding monitors ("Marshal Soult," "Lord Clive," "Prince Eugene," "General Crawford," M24 and M26) and covered by five British destroyers ("Swift," "Faulknor," "Matchless," "Mastiff" and "Afridi"), with three British destroyers and six French torpedo boats attending on the monitors ("Mentor," "Lightfoot," "Zubian," "Lestin," "Capitaine Mehl," "Francis Gamier," "Roux," "Bouclier").

Further evidence was supplied by Thomas Crawford, a retainer of the house of Lennox, tallying so exactly with the text of the casket letters as to have been cited in proof that the latter must needs be a forgery.

The burning of the Barns of Ayr, the quarters of English soldiers, in revenge for the treacherous slaughter of his uncle, Sir Ronald Crawford, and other Scottish noblemen, followed.

In 1816 in the congressional caucus which nominated James Monroe for the presidency Crawford was a strong opposing candidate, a majority being at first in his favour, but when the vote was finally cast 65 were for Monroe and 54 for Crawford.

In 1824, when the congressional caucus was fast becoming extinct, Crawford, being prepared to control it, insisted that it should be held, but of 216 Republicans only 66 attended; of these, 64 voted for Crawford.

During the campaign Crawford was stricken with paralysis, and when the electoral vote was cast Jackson received 99, Adams 84, Crawford 41, and Clay 37.

It remained for the house of representatives to choose from Jackson, Adams and Crawford, and through Clay's influence Adams became president.

Crawford was invited by Adams to continue as secretary of the treasury, but declined.

Involved in secular feuds with Douglas, Livingstone and the earl of Crawford, Kennedy destroyed Crawford with a spiritual weapon, his Curse (23rd of January 1445-1446).

It appears, however, that he was, or was suspected of being, in treasonable alliance with the new earl of Crawford and the ever-turbulent Celtic lord of the Isles.

The king was exonerated by parliament, on the score of Douglas's contemptuous treatment of his safe-conduct, and because of his oppressions, conspiracies and refusal to aid the king against rebels, such as the new " Tiger Earl " of Crawford.

On his death the nobles, notably Fleming, Livingstone, Crawford, Hamilton and Boyd, made a band for securing power and place.

The Percys broke Errol's force; Rothes and Crawford fell, and the king led the centre, through heavy artillery fire, against Surrey.

On the 2nd of April 1571 Mary's party lost Dumbarton castle, which Crawford of Jordanhill took by a daring night surprise; and Archbishop Hamilton, a prisoner, was hanged without trial.

In connexion with petroleum, natural gas has been found, especially in Clark and Crawford counties; in 1906 the state's product of natural gas was valued at $87,211.

As his second term drew to a close, there was a great lack of good feeling among his official advisers, three of whom - Adams, secretary of state, Calhoun, secretary of war, and Crawford, secretary of the treasury - aspired to succeed him in his high office.

Of the other four, Jackson received 99 electoral votes, Adams 84, Crawford 41, and Clay 37; as no one had a majority, the decision was made by the House of Representatives, which was confined in its choice to the three candidates who had received the largest.

Crawford was despatched across the Atlantic on a special mission of inquiry.

Mr Crawford, whose mission to the United States has been already referred to, was in favour of solitary confinement, but he could not deny that several cases of suicide followed this isolation.

Reviewing the merits and demerits of each system, Mr Crawford gave his adhesion to that of unvarying solitude as pursued in the Eastern penitentiary in Pennsylvania.

Mr Crawford came back from the United States an ardent champion of the solitary system.

It is clear that the government endorsed Mr Crawford's views.

Jackson obtained the largest number of votes (99) in the electoral college (Adams receiving 84, Crawford 41 and Clay 37); but no one had an absolute majority, and it thus became the duty of the House of Representatives to choose one of the three candidates - Adams, Jackson and Crawford - who had received the greatest numbers of electoral votes.

At the election by the house (February 9, 1825) Adams was chosen, receiving the votes of 13 states, while Jackson received the votes of 7 and Crawford the votes of 4.

The allegorical decorations here are by Persico and Horatio Greenough; those on the Senate portico are by Thomas Crawford, who designed the bronze doors at the entrances to the Senate and House wings.

Crawford, who had been a member of this cabinet, desiring to ruin Calhoun politically by turning Jackson's hostility against him, revealed to Jackson what had taken place thirteen years before.

Crawford, Andrew Jackson, and John Quincy Adams, he was a candidate for that office.

Near Kilbirnie Place, a modern mansion, are the ruins of Kilbirnie Castle, an ancient seat of the earls of Crawford, destroyed by fire in 1757.

Two illustrated volumes by Oswald Crawford, Portugal Old and New (London, 1880) and Round the Calendar in Portugal (London, 1890) contain much valuable information on agriculture, viticulture and peasant life in the northern provinces.

The Emeline Fairbanks Memorial Library (1882) contained 30,000 volumes in 1910, housed in a building erected in 1903 by Mr Crawford Fairbanks in memory of his mother.

The fortress was often besieged and sometimes taken, the Picts seizing it in 736 and the Northmen in 870, but the most effectual surprise of all was that accomplished, in the interests of the young King James VI., by Thomas Crawford of Jordanhill on March 31, 1571.

Crawford decided to climb the highest point, concluding that,.

Crawford bound him to the ladder and then turned it over and was thus enabled to ascend to the summit..

On the other side the cavalry of the Eastern Association under Lieut.-General Cromwell and that of the Scots under Major-General Leslie (Lord Newark) formed the left, the infantry of the Eastern Association under Major-General Crawford, of the Scots under Lord Leven, and of the Yorkshire Parliamentarians under Lord Fairfax was in the centre and the Yorkshire cavalry under Sir Thomas Fairfax was on the right wing.

Mining was begun in Iron and Crawford counties in the second decade of the 19th century; at Iron Mountain in 1846, and at Pilot Knob in the next year.

In the limestone region of the south there are numerous caves, the most notable being Wyandotte Cave in Crawford county, next to Mammoth Cave the largest in the United States.

The Bedford oolitic limestone quarries in Owen, Monroe, Lawrence, Washington and Crawford counties furnish one of the most valuable and widely used building stones in the United States, the value of the product in 1905 being $2,492,960, of which $2,393,475 was from Lawrence and Monroe counties and $1,550,076 from Lawrence county alone.

In 1907 more than 95% of the coal came from Crawford, Cherokee, Leavenworth and Osage counties, and about 91'5% from the first two.

In 1816 Fort Howard was built at Green Bay, and Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien.

Wisconsin then comprised two counties, Brown (east) and Crawford (west), with county seats at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien.

And there were new personal bests for Beesley, Nick Crawford (60m and triple jump ), Langowski, Jones and Pierpoint.

When he arrived in America he joined with other Swedish dissenters to establish a settlement called Stockholm in Crawford County.

In Scotland the names of William Cunningham and Thomas Crawford no longer exert the influence we wish they did.

Marion Crawford, Queen Elizabeth's governess has told several stories about one particularly ill-tempered Corgi.

In 1755, a new company, with Mr Ronald Crawford at its head, became lessees of the whole mines.

Alexander Robert Crawford was licensed to preach on 1 May 1894 and was ordained in the following year as a presbyterian missionary.

The Crawford report's findings in 1974 still resonate, 30 years on.

Georgia senator William H Crawford's followers added further solidity to the party's base.

Michael Crawford never made an audience squirm quite like Eddie did.

From 1868 to 1873 he was in charge of a private observatory at Aberdeen, and from 1873-6 of Lord Crawford's observatory at Dunecht, organizing from there the expeditions to Mauritius to observe the transit of Venus in 1874 and to Ascension I.

He was educated at the parish school of Crawford, and in 1701 was apprenticed to a wig-maker in Edinburgh.

Thereafter were added sub-statues of Chief-Justice John Marshall and George Mason (1726-1792) by Crawford, and statues of Andrew Lewis (1730-1781) and Thomas Nelson (1738-1789), and six allegorical subjects, by Randolph Rogers (1825-1892), the monument being completed in 1869, at a cost of about $260,000, of which about $47,000 represented private gifts and the interest thereon.

Is it credible that a forger, using Crawford's Declaration, which is silent as to Mary's brother at Stirling, should have superfluously added what is not to any purpose ?

The Crawford report 's findings in 1974 still resonate, 30 years on.

Joan Crawford Joan Crawford 's 5th house Sun rules the midheaven illustrating a career built upon self-expression through the theatrical arts.

Georgia senator William H Crawford 's followers added further solidity to the party 's base.

Joan Crawford drove a '33 Cadillac, with huge whitewall tires.

Along with celebrities like Halle Berry and Cindy Crawford, she models for print ads and appears in commercials for Revlon, and she is also very active in Revlon's campaigns fighting breast cancer.

Cindy Crawford - Supermodel Cindy Crawford appeared twice in Playboy - first in 1988, and then again in 1998 to mark her 10-year anniversary with the magazine.

Sheen played the character Charlie Crawford in 45 episodes, until the series ended in 2002.

Joan Crawford is one of the most memorable actors born in Texas, best known for her scathing portrayals of disturbed, mean, loathsome or just plain crazy women.

Kim Crawford Wines started as a garage winery in 1996.

Crawford acted as a negociant, buying grapes, using various winery facilities, and running all the business operations from their tidy little family home in Auckland, New Zealand.

With such a low price and consistent quality, Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc is a great wine value.

Famous middle children include Cindy Crawford, Tony Blair, Richard Nixon, and David Letterman.

Without blowing your budget, you can nab some of the favorite items that appear in the celeb closets of Debra Messing and Cindy Crawford.

In another, Cindy Crawford's four-year-old daughter was involved in a photo shoot where some referred to the shots as "topless".

Crawford maintains that the shots were not inappropriate and were just taken while a few friends' daughters played together in swimsuits another friend designed.

Crawford's daughter was a model for one the new swimsuit line.

Cindy Crawford was infuriated and claimed that the whole shoot was the picture of innocence.

Pretending you don't care when he mentions that he has two tickets for the hottest show in town, or nonchalantly shrugging when the Cindy Crawford look-a-like says she headed to the local coffee shop "alone".

The Rifleman - Made its debut in 1958 and its series finale in 1963, this popular western television show starred Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford and Paul Fix.

Ida Greenberg (Pat Crawford Brown) was a fixture on Wisteria Lane.

The stage is set for Hough to combine her music and dancing in 2010 when she stars opposite Chace Crawford in a remake of the 80s classic Footloose.

Cindy Crawford's Meaningful Beauty skincare line promises to diminish the visible signs of aging.

Cindy Crawford is perhaps one of the most recognizable faces in the fashion and beauty industry.

Cindy Crawford was discovered at the 1983 Elite Model "Look of the Year" competition.

Throughout her career as a fashion model, Crawford became a spokesperson for many brands, such as Pepsi and Revlon.

His remarkable line did wonders for Crawford's skin, and over time, she asked him to start bottling his concoctions and ship them to her in the United States.

If you're in the market for a new skincare line, the 100 percent guarantee of Cindy Crawford's Meaningful Beauty products may entice you to give this former supermodel's skincare a try.

In 1452 the earl of Huntly crushed the insurrection led by the earl of Crawford at the battle of Brechin Muir, and in 1645 the town and castle were harried by the marquis of Montrose.

The archipelago is of volcanic formation, Tamara and Factory islands forming part of a ruined crater, with Crawford Island as the cone.

Crawford, and received the electoral vote of Georgia for vice-president; but he shrewdly kept out of the acrimonious controversy which followed the choice of John Quincy Adams. He early recognized the availability of Andrew Jackson, however, as a presidential candidate, and after the election sought to bring the Crawford and Jackson followers together, at the same time strengthening his control as a party leader in the Senate.