But you know Bang-Jensen launched an active campaign against us in the press.

The Mayor is finding it awkward to campaign against his own record.

The Conference called for a vigorous campaign against the open or secret sale of contraceptives.

Johnston was to provide the defense of the Texas border against Mexican invasion, and in 1839 conducted a campaign against Indians in northern Texas.

Later on, when he became king in 1509, Henry VIII is supposed to have commissioned an English translation of a Life of Henry V so that he could emulate him, on the grounds that he thought that launching a campaign against France would help him to impose himself on the European stage.

Of the shorter poems, besides the greeting to Pippin on his return from the campaign against the Avars ( 796 ), an epistle to David ( Charlemagne ) incidentally reveals a delightful picture of the poet living with his children in a house surrounded by pleasant gardens near the emperor's palace.

* 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.

A campaign against the Lullubi led to the carving of the famous " Victory Stele of Naram-Suen ", now in the Louvre.

In 1114 he joined Henry on campaign in Wales against Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd.

Johnson won a second Congressional term in 1845 against his perennial opponent, Wiliam G. Brownlow ; in this second campaign, Johnson particularly took up the mantle as defender of the poor against the aristocracy.

In 1876, a vigorous campaign against the Carlists, in which the young king took part, resulted in the defeat of Don Carlos and the Duke's abandonment of the struggle.

From 1125 to 1126, he was on campaign against Granada, where he was trying to install a Christian prince, and Córdoba, where got only as far as Motril.

However, instead of a Crusade, Andrew led a campaign against the neighbouring provinces and occupied Zahumlje and Rama.

In the beginning of 1235, Andrew made a campaign against Austria and enforced Duke Frederick II to make a peace.

While Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Islamist extremist enjoying the backing of neighboring Pakistan, pushed for continued violent struggle against the Afghan government, Massoud and Rabbani advocated for a peaceful political campaign lobbying officials working for the government and armed forces.

By 1919, the SANNC was leading a campaign against passes but then became dormant in the mid-1920s.

In 927, Abd-ar-Rahman also launched a campaign against the rebel Banu Qasi clan, but was forced to break it off by the intervention of King Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona.

High medieval sources mention the assassination of King Demetrius Zvonimir ( 1089 ), dying at the hands of his own people, who objected to a proposition by the Pope to go on a campaign to aid the Byzantines against the Seljuk Turks.

The Polish Home Army conducted a regular campaign of assassinations against top Nazi German officials in occupied Poland.

Regarded as a capable soldier by the emperor, Albert ( in 1475 ) took a prominent part in the campaign against Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and in 1487 led an expedition against Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, which failed owing to lack of support on the part of the emperor.

To stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Albanians by nationalist Serbs in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's province of Kosovo, Clinton authorized the use of American troops in a NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, named Operation Allied Force.

Zimmerman, winner of a $ 10 million state lottery in 1988, immediately put up a $ 5, 000 reward for the perpetrators, told the press that “ Beavis and Butt-Head ” was responsible for the death, and started a letter-writing campaign against the show.

In 2007, IWW branches in Glasgow and Dumfries were a key driving force in a successful campaign to prevent the closure of one of Glasgow University's campuses, ( The Crichton ) in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire.

Despite the short-lived threat of closure to the University of Glasgow part of the campus in 2006, a campaign by students, academics and local supporters ensured that the University of Glasgow remained open in Dumfries.

Spurred on by the closure of Monmouth's last grocery store, and a general decline of its retail sector, three local men ( John Oberst, Paul Sieber, and Chuck Sheffield ) led a referendum campaign to allow the sale of beer and wine.

Only two weeks before his death, on 28 April, Smith had visited the same accident and emergency department to campaign against its proposed closure.

In July 2011, the City of Los Angeles launched a massive media campaign under the title " Carmageddon " to warn drivers about a major closure on the 405 Freeway during the weekend of July 15 – 17.

It has been threatened with closure numerous times but services are still offered in part due to a strong local campaign.

Violent incidents at the Haçienda led to a campaign against it by Greater Manchester Police, and contributed to its closure in 1997.

The campaign uncovered evidence that British Rail had mounted a dirty tricks campaign against the line, exaggerating the cost of repairs (£ 6 million for Ribblehead Viaduct alone ) and diverting traffic away from the line in order to justify its closure plans, a process referred to as closure by stealth.

During 2004 Crass Agenda were at the forefront of a campaign against the closure of the Vortex jazz club, which has now relocated to Hackney.

Compensation by Tesco to Chiltern is believed to have cost at least £ 8. 5m and the retailer pledged to fund a media campaign to win back passengers lost by the closure of its route.

In February 2008 a campaign was initiated to save the baths from closure.

A campaign against the planned closure of Warton Street Post Office, serving the eastern end of Lytham, met with more immediate success.

* supporting the Burberry workers in their 2006-2007 campaign to prevent the closure of their Treorchy factory ; she secured the support of international Welsh baritone, Bryn Terfel and led the picketing of the flagship Burberry store in London.

The campaign calls for changes in senior management, especially since the " Investing in Excellence " paper was released, suggesting what is felt to be the closure of the Chemistry department.

In April 2010, the band's 2005 song " Joy Division Oven Gloves " from Achtung Bono was the subject of a Facebook campaign to get it to No. 6 on the chart for 12 April 2010, in response to the rumoured closure of indie station BBC 6 Music.

In 1997, after a ten-month campaign, they caused the closure of Consort Kennels, which bred beagles for animal research.

Working with its network of retired military leaders as well as a growing public constituency, Human Rights First initiated its Elect to End Torture ’ 08 campaign, which worked to reframe the national debate about torture and ultimately helped bring about the executive orders signed on January 21, 2009, that banned torture, ordered the closure of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, and ended the CIA ’ s use of secret prisons.

It faced closure during the 1980s, however, it remained open following a campaign by the school.

Moran has represented the $ 200 million salmon farming industry in Atlantic Canada ; was a strategist behind a lobbying campaign in response to the closure of a Canadian Forces Base that enabled the community obtain operating control of a valuable economic asset ; led a Federal / Provincial Government Industrial Adjustment Committee to deal with the closure of the Campbell Soup plant ; managed a hospital restructuring study for the Ontario Ministry of Health ; developed a strategic plan to position the telecommunications industry as an important voice in the lobby for competition in long distance telephone services ; managed a Feasibility Study – Business Plan Report prepared to preserve a historic Canadian Pacific Railway Station ; and developed a strategic plan to position a not-for-profit recycling business as a leading edge environmental and sustainable development company.

They received the co-operation of Dublin Police Commissioner, General William Murphy, and the campaign ended with 120 arrests and the closure of the brothels following a police raid on 12 March 1925, its financial viability having already been seriously undermined by the withdrawal of soldiers from the city following the Anglo-Irish Treaty ( December 1921 ) and the establishment of the Irish Free State ( 6 December 1922 ).