He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

The followers of Amlici resented the dominant political and religious parties and sought to reestablish the monarchy that the reign of the judges replaced.

The two dominant political parties in Canada have historically been the Liberal Party of Canada and Conservative Party of Canada ( or its predecessors ), and as of the 2011 election the social-democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP ) has risen to prominence.

Some scholars argue that conspiracy theories once limited to fringe audiences have become commonplace in mass media, contributing to conspiracism emerging as a cultural phenomenon in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and the possible replacement of democracy by conspiracy as the dominant paradigm of political action in the public mind.

It formed its first government under parliamentarism in 1889, and continued to alternate in power with the Liberals until the 1930s, when Labour became the dominant political party.

Classical liberalism was the dominant political theory in Britain from the early 19th century until the First World War.

With this, a dominant male is unsure if there has been any " political maneuvering " and must re-establish his dominance.

These African importees have had the most dominant racial influence, and their rich and ancient culture has had an influence second only to that of Europe on the political and cultural character of the modern Dominican Republic.

It is clear from this piece and other writings, that while the political portion of Defoe's life was fairly dominant, it was by no means the only aspect.

The Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ; 民主進步黨 ) is a political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan, and the dominant party in the Pan-Green Coalition.

He remained the dominant political figure during Ecuador's first 15 years of independence.

Since independence, the two Presidents ( Macías and Obiang ) have been the dominant political forces in Equatorial Guinea.

Initially, the President was merely a symbolic figure with the Reichstag dominant ; however, persistent political instability, in which governments often lasted only a few months, led to a change in the power structure of the republic, with the president's emergency powers called increasingly into use to prop up governments challenged by critical or even hostile Reichstag votes.

Some of the characteristics of a presidential system ( i. e., a strong dominant political figure with an executive answerable to them, not the legislature ) can also be found among absolute monarchies, parliamentary monarchies and single party ( e. g. Communist ) regimes, but in most cases of dictatorship, their stated constitutional models are applied in name only and not in political theory or practice.

Society moves from stage to stage when the dominant class is displaced by a new emerging class, by overthrowing the " political shell " that enforces the old relations of production no longer corresponding to the new productive forces.

Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, and dominant political figure in Scotland, 1720s-61.

A new civilization has risen, with three dominant powers: the Ixians, whose no-ships are capable of piloting between the stars and are invisible to outside detection ; the Bene Tleilax, who have learned to manufacture spice in their axlotl tanks and have created a new breed of Face Dancers ; and the Bene Gesserit, a matriarchal order of subtle political manipulators who possess superhuman abilities.

During the Mughal era, the dominant political forces consisted of the Mughal Empire and its tributaries and, later on, the rising successor states-including the Maratha Empire-which fought an increasingly weak Mughal dynasty.

As Rome extended its political dominion over the whole of the Italian Peninsula, Latin became dominant over the other Italic languages, which ceased to be spoken perhaps sometime in the 1st century AD.

The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career which spanned almost half a century.

The new Republican Party, which was created in opposition to the act, aimed to stop the expansion of slavery and soon emerged as the dominant political party in the North, electing its first president, Abraham Lincoln, in 1860.

At the turn of the 19th to 20th century, political machines attempted to gain clout in the city, with the one led by Tom Pendergast emerging as the dominant machine by 1925.

For some adherents it represents a non-papal Catholicism, for others a form of Protestantism though without a dominant guiding figure such as Luther, Knox, Calvin, Zwingli or Wesley.

The Gardners employed an Irish nursemaid named Georgiana " Com " McCombie, who was entrusted with taking care of the young Gerald ; she would subsequently become the dominant figure of his childhood, spending far more time with him than his parents.

In due course, he became a dominant figure in the Albanian media, and his slogans appeared painted in crimson letters on signboards across the country.

In the Western Isles Ketill Flatnose may have been the dominant figure of the mid 9th century, by which time he had amassed a substantial island realm and made a variety of alliances with other Norse leaders.

Van Buren was a key organizer of the Democratic Party, a dominant figure in the Second Party System, and the first president not of British or Irish descent — his family was Dutch.

Fredric Jameson, the major figure in the thinking on postmodernism and culture, calls postmodernism " the cultural dominant of the logic of late capitalism " ( Jameson 1991, 46 ), meaning that, through globalization, postmodern culture is tied inextricably with capitalism ( Mark Fisher, writing 20 years later, goes further, essentially calling it the sole cultural possibility ( Fisher 2009, 4 )).

The vampire is such a dominant figure in the horror genre that literary historian Susan Sellers places the current vampire myth in the " comparative safety of nightmare fantasy ".

Werewolves continue to endure in modern culture and fiction, with books, films and television shows cementing the werewolf's stance as a dominant figure in horror.

* United States President Bill Clinton was a dominant political figure in international affairs during the 1990s known especially for his attempts to negotiate peace in the Middle East and end the ongoing wars occurring in the former Yugoslavia ; his promotion of international action to decrease human-created climate change ; and his endorsement of advancing free trade in the Americas.

Washington was a dominant figure of the African-American community from 1890 to his death in 1915, especially after his Atlanta Address of 1895.

Other states however, make their Prime minister a central and dominant figure within the cabinet system ; Ireland's Taoiseach, for example, alone can decide when to seek a parliamentary dissolution, in contrast to other countries where this is a cabinet decision, with the Prime Minister just one member voting on the suggestion.

Over the centuries, Queen Tamar has emerged as a dominant figure in the Georgian historical pantheon.

In May 1959, Houphouët-Boigny reinforced his position as a dominant figure in West Africa by leading Côte d ' Ivoire, Niger, Upper Volta ( Burkina ), and Dahomey ( Benin ) into the Council of the Entente, a regional organization promoting economic development.

Throughout the 1920s Lloyd George remained a dominant figure in British politics, being frequently predicted to return to office but never succeeding ; this period of his life is covered in John Campbell's book The Goat in the Wilderness.

Clay was a dominant figure in both the First and Second Party systems.

The party's dominant figure from 1950 to 1971, and effective leader of East Germany, was Walter Ulbricht.

The regency lasted until 1388, Philip taking the dominant role: Louis of Anjou was fighting for his claim to the Kingdom of Naples after 1382, dying in 1384, John of Berry was interested mainly in the Languedoc, and not particularly interested in politics ; whilst Louis of Bourbon was a largely unimportant figure, due to his personality ( he showed signs of mental instability ) and his status ( since he was not the son of a King ).

Perhaps as a result, Tony Blair chose to keep him in his job throughout his ten years as Prime Minister ; making Brown an unusually dominant figure and the longest serving Chancellor since the Reform Act of 1832.

For nearly 60 years, 1948 through 2007, the dominant figure in the WCL / SAL was league founder and president John Henry Moss, who started the WCL as a young man in 1948, refounded it in 1960 and then led it into the new century.