Powell Sentence Examples

In 1650 parliament appointed a commission "for the better propagation and preaching of the gospel in Wales," and Powell acted as one of the principal advisers of this body.

Powell wrote several treatises and also some hymns, but his chief gifts were those of a preacher.

Nine days later, while lying ill at his home at Washington, he was attacked by one Lewis Powell, alias Payne, a fellow-conspirator of John Wilkes Booth, at the same time that Lincoln was assassinated.

Henry, " Richmond on the James " in Historic Towns of the Southern States (New York, 1900), edited by Lyman P. Powell; and Samuel Mordecai, Richmond in By-Gone Days (Richmond, 1856; 2nd ed., 1860).

Powell, rightly conceived that it was necessary to produce good topographical maps before a geological survey could be pursued with advantage.

But at the time of the Presbyterian defection in 1647, Poyer and his lieutenant-governors, Laugharne and Powell, declared for Charles and held the castle in the king's name.

Poyer, Laugharne and Powell were accordingly brought to London, but finally only Poyer was executed.

He then joined Cavendish, Birch, Hampden, Powell, Lyttleton and others in vehement antagonism to the court.

In January 1680 Russell, along with Cavendish, Capell, Powell, Essex and Lyttleton, tendered his resignation to the king, which was received by Charles "with all my heart."

In a later example at the Bargold pit of the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company a mixed arrangement is adopted with horizontal high-pressure and vertical low-pressure cylinders.

Brown and by Wilfred Powell, and in 1882 Dr Otto Finsch, whose name is well known in connexion with scientific work in New Guinea, made valuable explorations in the neighbourhood of Port Moresby and the Loluki river.

Powell also thinks that man lived in America before he acquired articulate speech.

It is on this basis of sentential elements that Powell has arranged the linguistic families of North America.

Powell contends that in a proper sense none of the Indian tribes was nomadic, but that, governed by water-supply, bad seasons and superstition (and discomfort from vermin must be added), even the Pueblo tribes often tore down and rebuilt their domiciles.

Powell sets forth the laws of real and artificial kinship among the North American tribes, as well as tribal organization and government, the formation of confederacies, and the intricate rules of artificial kinship by which rank and courtesy were established.

Rowland, Williams and John Powell - afterwards of Llanmartin - (clergymen), Harris, John Humphreys and John Cennick (laymen) were present.

Powell, formerly director of the U.S. Geological Survey, and owns the Torrance Mine at the foot of Socorro Mountain, 2 m.

Despite the fierce efforts of Vavasor Powell and his brother itinerant preachers to thwart the reception of this South Wales petition at Westminster, Colonel Freeman was able to urge the claims of the petitioners, or " Anti-Propagators " as they were termed, at the bar of the House of Commons, openly declaring that by the late policy of ejectment and destruction " the light of the Gospel was almost extinguished in Wales."

It was discovered by the English captain, Powell, in 1821.

Powell, one of the editors of the Corpus poeticism septentrionale (the best work on the subject), " cannot date earlier " in their present form " than the 9th century," and may be vaguely placed between A.D.

Other experiments, begun by Powell and Lealand, and developed.

There are no fresh injury worries for Watford, with Clarke Carlisle, Chris Powell and Scott Loach remaining the only absentees.

Powell's films are the absolute antithesis of realist cinema.

Powell Picks Addicks Striker Teenage Charlton women's team striker Ann-Marie Heatherson has earned a shock call-up to the England squad.

Wiltshire 93 Under what name did Clive Powell top the pop charts?

Rhyl nearly went ahead when Steve Evans diverted a Stuart Graves corner against his own crossbar under pressure from Mark Powell.

Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants, has personal reasons for feeling favorably disposed toward Britain.

But Mr Powell, the secretary of state, was once again enlisted to smooth the feathers ruffled by his hawkish colleagues.

Student Profile Sophie Powell is raising money for a trekforce expedition to Borneo for her Gap Year.

Provisional index of contents on the front flyleaf by York Powell, annotated by later hands.

Outgoing FCC chairman Michael Powell said it would have been " wholly improper " to force " must-carry " rights on all digital channels.

William Powell Frith was born in Yorkshire, where his father a self-made man had become a prosperous innkeeper in Harrogate.

Powell also jettisoned 75 percent of a separate report on al-Qaida, said the official.

Powell slashed him with his bowie knife before leaping onto Seward's bed and repeatedly stabbed him.

The great glory of the chancel is the triple lancet Holy Trinity window by Dunstan Powell.

Powell goes on to look at the evidence that the Maya also used psilocybin mushrooms.

It tells us more than Powell's prepared text, and more than the probably phoney intercepts.

Powell is widely held as the most influential of bebop pianists, and many who followed were to sound much like him.

Lewis Thornton Powell, the son of a baptist preacher, was born in Randolph County, Alabama, on 22nd April, 1844.

Visitors ' manager, Neville Powell was left looking very rueful after such a poor display from his underperforming team.

The downhill simplex method is not as efficient as Powell's method, and usually requires more function evaluations.

Late in 2004, founding guitarist Andy Powell, bassist Bob Skeat and drummer Ray Weston were joined by Finnish guitar slinger Muddy Manninen.

He was, Powell recalled with affection, a slow starter.

At this time he began using the name Powell Powell had a reputation for having a violent temper.

Matt Davies, Damien Boyle and Ian and Gary Powell were the worthy victors.

Many saw Powell as a true visionary, voicing the concerns which were held at the time.

Powell struck the night's decisive goal four minutes into the second half with a fine dipping volley from the left.

All eyes will now be on the first match at the City of Manchester Stadium, and the first xi selected by Powell.

In 1646, when the victory of the parliamentary cause was assured, Powell returned to Wales, having received a certificate of character from the Westminster Assembly, although he had refused to be ordained by the Presbyterians.

Vigfusson and York Powell (Corpus Poeticum Boreale, Oxford, 1883) see in Yggdrasil not a primitive Norse idea, but one due to early contact with Christianity, and a fanciful adaptation of the cross.

The greed and tyranny of several of the commissioners, and the bigotry and mismanagement of well-meaning fanatics such as Cradock and Powell, soon wrought dire confusion throughout the whole Principality, so that a monster petition, signed alike by moderate Puritans and by High Churchmen, was prepared for presentation to parliament in 1652 by Colonel Edward Freeman, attorney-general for South Wales.

Grimm, in Die deutsche Heldensage (2nd ed., Berlin, 1867), quotes the account given by Jordanes, references in Beowulf, in the Wanderer's Song, Exeter Book, in Parcival, in Dietrichs Flucht, the account given in the Quedlinburg Chronicle, by Ekkehard in the Chronicon Urspergense, by Saxo Grammaticus, &c. See also Vigfusson and Powell, Corpus poeticum boreale, vol.

The downhill simplex method is not as efficient as Powell 's method, and usually requires more function evaluations.

In shed number 9, stunt co-ordinator Gary Powell is finding out what his new star can do.

Powell struck the night 's decisive goal four minutes into the second half with a fine dipping volley from the left.

All eyes will now be on the first match at the City of Manchester Stadium, and the first XI selected by Powell.

Powell's is Portland, Oregon's "legendary independent bookstore."

Powell's Books offers new and used travel guides.

The online home of the Portland, Oregon literary institution Powell's has a terrific selection of used books.

Quality manufacturers include Yamaha, Gemeinhardt, Haynes, Powell, Selmer, Armstrong, and Artley.

William Powell in "The Thin Man" explains that each cocktail has it's own rhythm that it must be shaken in.

Powell's is a huge used bookstore based in Portland, Oregon.

Powell's Bookstore in Chicago is in no way related to the Powell's books in Oregon.

There are two Powell's in Chicago and the stores primarily specialize in academic and scholarly tomes, including a good collection on medieval studies and classics.

Other notable "vintage" performers were Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, and Jane Powell.

You'll need to get off at either Washington and Mason or Powell and California.

Exit at the Powell or Montgomery Street stations to drop into the middle of the festivities.

The square itself is bordered by Geary Street, Powell Street, Post Street and Stockton Street, with shopping areas reaching several blocks in all directions.

Christmas in July describes how William Powell is mistakenly led to believe he has won $25,000 in a jingle writing contest.

The witch hated Betsy Bell's fiancé, Joshua Gardener, and tormented the young couple so much that Betsy eventually broke her engagement to him and married a man the witch approved of, Robert Powell.

Greg Powell, who goes by the nickname Special Greg, is Travis Pastrana's cousin.