But other ministers, fearing a loss of power and prestige, moved against him, and the king banished him from the state.
The next Hamas-Fatah meeting is to take place in Jordan, whose king banished Mr Meshal in 1999.
Parliament laid the blame for the disaster on Suffolk, and with great reluctance the king banished the duke from the realm for five years.
Prior to these executions, which David before he had died had requested of Solomon, the new king banished the priest Abiathar of the house of Eli to Anathoth, an act that confirmed the position of Zadok as the principal priest of Jerusalem.
In September, however, Longchamp imprisoned Richard's bastard half-brother, Geoffrey, Archbishop of York, who was attempting to return to England after having been banished by the king.
And so they continued for years, in and out of friendship with each other, till finally their quarrels came to a head and the king banished Wilfrid from Northumbria.
This Tarquinius was the father of the second Tarquinius, the "Superbus," who was the last of the kings and was banished.74 Porsinas, the king of Clusium,75 a Tyrrhenian city, undertook to restore him to the throne by force of arms, but was unable to do so, although he broke up the personal enmity against himself and departed as friend, along with honour and large gifts.
Even before the horrific events in Oklahoma last week, Lee Sandlin's "Storm Kings" banished any notion I may have had that it would be a lot of fun to see a tornado up close.
And although these kings lost their empire, for the reasons and in the manner which we have explained, yet those who expelled them appointed immediately two consuls in place of the king; and thus it was found that they had banished the title of king from Rome, but not the regal power.
Edward's mistress, Alice Perrers, who was seen to hold far too much power over the ageing king, was banished from court.
