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campaign and opposition
The Republican Party's production of campaign literature dwarfed the combined opposition ; a Chicago Tribune writer produced a pamphlet that detailed Lincoln's life, and sold 100, 000 to 200, 000 copies.
Since the House of Lords no longer had the power to block the bill, the Unionist's Ulster Volunteers led by Sir Edward Carson, launched a campaign of opposition that included the threat of armed resistance in Ulster and the threat of mutiny by army officers in Ireland in 1914 ( see Curragh Incident ).
Simultaneously, the CIA funded opposition media, politicians, and organizations, helping to accelerate a campaign of domestic destabilization.
" After Congressional phone lines were flooded by organized anti-gay opposition, President Clinton backed off on his campaign promise to repeal the ban in favor of DADT.
Although the opposition campaign was hurt by the desire of the Mexican electorate for stability, following the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the intended PRI candidate, and the recent outbreak of hostilities in the state of Chiapas, Zedillo's share of the vote was the lowest official percentage for any PRI presidential candidate up to that time.
Robinson's campaign was boosted by a lack of organisation in the main opposition party: Fine Gael.
It emerged during the campaign that what Lenihan had told friends and insiders in private flatly contradicted his public statements on a controversial effort in 1982 by the then opposition Fianna Fáil to pressure President Hillery into refusing a parliamentary dissolution to then Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald ; Hillery had resolutely rejected the pressure.
Askin's successful opposition campaign centred on warning of a Labor-dominated single house subject to " Communist and Trades Hall influence ".
The APC was also alleged to have been hoarding arms and planning a violent campaign against the opposition parties ahead of multi-party general elections scheduled for late 1992.
The elections of 1990, which had been mandated by the constitution passed in 1987, saw the Bush administration funnel $ 49. 75 million of ‘ non-lethal ’ aid to the Contras, as well as $ 9m to the opposition UNO — equivalent to $ 2 billion worth of intervention by a foreign power in a US election at the time, and proportionately five times the amount George Bush had spent on his own election campaign.
Without meaningful primary opposition, Clinton was able to focus on the general election early, while Dole was forced to move to the right and spend his campaign reserves fighting off challengers.
In the campaign Wilson promoted the " New Freedom ", emphasizing limited federal government and opposition to monopoly powers, often after consultation with his chief advisor Louis D. Brandeis.
Dukakis ' reply, voicing his opposition to capital punishment in any and all circumstances, is later said to have been a major reason for the eventual failure of his campaign for the White House.
During the final weekend of the election campaign Powell gave a speech in London reiterating his opposition to the nuclear hypothesis, calling it " barmy ", and advocating a vote for the Labour Party, which had unilateral nuclear disarmament as a policy.
In 1968 he incited an anti-Zionist propaganda campaign, as a result of Soviet bloc opposition to the Six-Day War.
Edward's problems with the opposition did not end with the Falkirk campaign.
Ultimately, it was a failure in personnel that spelt the end of the opposition against Edward I. Bohun died late in 1298, after returning from the Falkirk campaign.
After Saddam Hussein's regime was removed from power, the Iraq campaign moved into a different type of asymmetric warfare where the coalition's use of superior conventional warfare training, tactics and technology were of much less use against continued opposition from the various partisan groups operating inside Iraq.
However, there was strong opposition from the estates of Saxony, not only because this expensive campaign was exhausting the finances of the Electorate of Saxony but also because they were not pleased at this support for the catholic Emperor, who had often proceeded harshly against Protestants in his own country.
The group became known for an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign, lasting from June 1942 until February 1943, that called for active opposition to dictator Adolf Hitler's regime.
However, in France, the Jansenists conducted a campaign arguing that allowing a papal commission of this sort would be ceding the traditional liberties of the Gallican Church, thus playing on traditional French opposition to ultramontanism.
McEwen's opposition forced McMahon to withdraw from the leadership ballot and opened the way for the successful campaign to promote the Minister for Education and Science, Senator John Gorton, to the Prime Ministership with the support of a group led by Defence Minister Malcolm Fraser.
First, the American Liberty League viewed the act as a threat to freedom and engaged in a campaign of opposition in order to repeal these " socialist " efforts.
" The writer and J. Edgar Hoover biographer Curt Gentry has noted that a similar story about Hall was planted in the media through the FBI's secret COINTELPRO campaign of disruption and disinformation against radical opposition groups.
It was widely alleged that the true purpose of the campaign was to punish the urban poor for supporting the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and to reduce the likelihood of mass action against the government by driving people out of the cities.

campaign and impact
The choice of insecticide has little impact on the total cost of a round of spraying, since product costs are only a fraction of campaign costs.
Onis's argument was that their advertising could be seen in prominent landmarks throughout London, having been already accredited, showing concern about the impact IKEA's campaign would have on the originality of their own.
Eugene McCarthy's brief presidential campaign successfully persuaded a significant minority of young adults to " get clean for Gene " by shaving their beards or wearing longer skirts ; however the " Clean Genes " had little impact on the popular image in the media spotlight, of the hirsute hippy adorned in beads, feathers, flowers and bells.
* Initiating a global campaign to diminish the impact of measles with the American Red Cross, the Centers for Disease Control and UN Agencies ;
Because of the composition of the British Army, at this point a volunteer force with many battalions comprising men from particular localities, these losses ( and those of the campaign as a whole ) had a profound social impact.
This allowed players to directly impact the franchise's story: for instance, the 13th Black Crusade formed the backdrop to 2003's " Eye of Terror campaign.
The campaign made a lasting impact on Mao's ideological perception.
In the last days of the campaign the tape was released and according to the Irish Independent Newspaper, Ms. Burke " said yesterday she found the tape recently but only released it in the last days of the campaign for “ impact .” She said “ it would give people something to think about when they went to the polls.
The issue was given further publicity when The Guardian newspaper reported on the community campaign against the potential impact of the development for the 2012 Summer Olympics on the future of the century-old Manor Garden Allotments.
Marketing lessons of the 1920s, changing economic times, and the impact of World War II led to a more successful marketing campaign for male and female wedding bands, and by the late 1940s, double-ring ceremonies made up for 80 % of all weddings, as opposed to 15 % before the Great Depression.
The precise impact of Kahn's proposal on the Kennedy-Nixon debates during the 1960 presidential campaign is unclear, but his ideas did receive national press exposure.
During the campaign, Chrétien apologized to Atlantic Canadians for the negative impact of employment insurance reforms which had caused hardship in Atlantic Canada.
In Wallace's 1998 obituary, The Huntsville Times political editor John Anderson summarized the impact from the 1968 campaign: " His startling appeal to millions of alienated white voters was not lost on Richard Nixon and other GOP strategists.
The incident embarrassed the administration but had little impact on the campaign in which Johnson led his opponent by large margins.
" Yet the incident disappeared so quickly from the political scene that Theodore H. White, surveying the 1964 election campaign, assessed its impact this way: " Perhaps the most amazing of all events of the campaign of 1964 is that the nation faced the fact fully — and shrugged its shoulders.
" Those who wish to help him will sign an NDA and help him " gain access to a place in the world where a critical situation is occurring and fully document it with photography ; set a date to unveil the pictures and find a series of innovative ways to create powerful impact with them, using novel display technologies and the power of the Internet as well as media ; and use the campaign to generate resources for organizations that are working to address and transform the situation.
In addition, in a leaflet released on his campaign website on 10 September, he pledged to " put more police officers, fully trained, equipped and with the necessary powers out on the street, dealing with violent gun and knife crime ", to take the lead in tackling climate change and minimising the impact on the
Aside from the adverse environmental impact, Metro constitutes a litter problem which requires a public campaign, and additional staff effort to overcome.
One immediately recognizable impact was that, as a result of the so-called stand by your ad provision, all campaign advertisements included a verbal statement to the effect of " I'm < Candidate's Name > and I approve this message.
The new Trollz campaign made no impact in the aisles of toy stores and on USA's children.
In 2006, Tony Wheeler launched a joint awareness campaign with Mark Ellingham ( founder of Rough Guides, another established travel publisher ) on the impact of commercial aviation on climate change.
This forced amalgamation has caused political tension ever since, but a heated and public campaign for the reinstatement of Livingstone Shire as a separate LGA has had little impact or interest from the general public.

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