He was also devoted to the interests of Prussia's people, rejoicing in the nicknames of l'avocat du pauvre and le roi des gueux (poor man's advocate and king of the beggars).
Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, who enters his 45th year in the music industry in 2008, is made an MBE, as is Martin Mills, founder of the Beggars Group of independent labels.
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Opponents say the spend "beggars belief" and claim it is designed to promote the mayor's national political ambitions.
Andy Heath, chairman of UK Music and director of the record company Beggars Group, denied that HMV had been "slaughtered" by the internet, but did admit that the firm had been "wounded very badly".
They also provide a barrier between the affluent and beggars, junk collectors, basket sellers, fishmongers and job seekers that trawl up and down the streets daily ringing bells and knocking on doors looking for handouts, some on foot and some on horse cart.
She came to India to see places such as the Taj Mahal, and although she encountered beggars on the street, she never would have walked through Paharganj by herself.
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Andy Heath, the chairman of UK Music and director of the record company Beggars Group, told today presenter John Humphrys that "it's very very sad to see HMV go into administration".
The DUP's Peter Weir said the UUP position "beggars belief" claiming this concern was "synthetic" as the UUP had its fingerprints on the plan.
Dayana was the youngest victim -- it beggars belief that adults in the lifeboat refused to give up their seats for a girl who'd only just started school.
Of the 58, 570 beggars counted, 5, 003 were interviewed in depth.
The city was full of beggars, and respectable people were organizing neighborhood soup kitchens just to have something to put into their stomachs.
In thicker and thicker waves, beggars arrive from the four corners of the city and compete with carters and onlookers for hypothetically free spaces.
Although critics decry these as low-wage jobs, in a city with an unemployment rate of 7.8% (and very much higher in the inner wards), beggars cannot be choosers.
What many in Mr Berlusconi's ruling majority appear not to realise is that the free-movement directive, which came into force two years ago, gives EU citizens (beggars and crooks included) essentially the same rights as locals.
Until recently, private-equity bosses regarded sovereign-wealth funds as competitors in the hunt for assets, but beggars for capital cannot be choosers.
"How this arrangement was allowed to occur beggars belief, " the judge said.
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He looked at me with a mix of contempt and sympathy, the way people often look at beggars, and I would have been smart to heed his warning.
The scheme would see all street beggars being offered an assessment of their needs and a range of support services aimed at helping them develop an alternative lifestyle.
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The head is indubitably Cromwell's: though the provenance is a little cloudy in the early 18th century, it beggars belief that a fraudster of that era would be able to fool forensic science many years later.
The story is a bit of fluff, its charming characters engaged in a mix-up so contrived it beggars even theatrical suspension of disbelief: The penniless Count and Countess Waldner hope to marry their daughter Arabella to a wealthy man, and since they can't afford to launch younger daughter Zdenka into society at the same time, they have her dress as a boy.
Mr Cameron has said this "beggars belief", while the Liberal Democrats called the scandal a "sleazy affair".
The land proposed for development is off Beggars Lane and borders Leicester Forest East, Enderby and Braunstone Town.
Outside London, car owners in Dorset say a planned tripling of park-and-ride prices near the Weymouth and Portland sailing venues "beggars belief".
It is said that no-one in the city goes to bed hungry, and this is one of the reasons why there are so many beggars.
Many of the alleged victims were housed in caravans at Beggars Roost site in Staverton, near Cheltenham.
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The report entailed the fullest survey ever conducted of Delhi's beggars.
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