The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

In September 1862, the Confederate campaign in Maryland ended in defeat at the Battle of Antietam, which dissuaded the British from intervening.

The momentous defeat was widely recorded in the British press, which praised the Australians for their plentiful " pluck " and berated the Englishmen for their lack thereof.

It was Australia's second consecutive innings defeat in a wet summer, and the hosts were in strong positions in the two drawn Tests, in which half the playing time was washed out.

* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).

Hence it took a prominent part in the Peloponnesian War until the crushing defeat at Idomene ( 426 ) which crippled its resources.

The Danish fleet was able to defeat Alfred's fleet which may have been weakened in the previous engagement.

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.

In the summer of 1329, Andronikos III launched a relief attempt which culminated in a defeat at the Battle of Pelekanon on 10 June and in 1331, the city fell.

After arriving at the Tines homeworld and allying with Woodcarver to defeat Steel, Pham initiates the Countermeasure, which extends the " Slow Zone " – the inner region of the galaxy where the highest technologies, such as artificial intelligence and superluminal travel, are impossible – by thousands of light-years to enclose the Blight.

Strategic points, he says, not the defeat of the enemy's army, decide the fate of one's own country, and must constantly remain the general's main concern, a maxim which was never more remarkably disproved than in the war of 1809.

The baneful influence of these antiquated principles was clearly shown in the maintenance of Königgratz-Josefstadt in 1866 as a strategic point, which was preferred to the defeat of the separated Prussian armies, and in the strange plans produced in Vienna for the campaign of 1859, and in the almost unintelligible Battle of Montebello in the same year.

Early travelers in Asia sometimes describe a kind of military amok, in which soldiers facing apparently inevitable defeat suddenly burst into a frenzy of violence which so startled their enemies that it either delivered victory or at least ensured what the soldier in that culture considered an honourable death.

Greek officers, revolting in August 1909, had secured the appointment of a progressive government under Eleftherios Venizelos which they hoped would resolve the Cretan issue in Greece's favour and reverse their defeat of 1897 by the Ottomans.

Despite the outstanding victories, Germany was near defeat, which meant that Bulgaria would be left without its most powerful ally.

The Macedonian king had suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of the Romans in the Second Macedonian War ( 200-197 BC ), which had reduced him from a powerful Hellenistic monarch to the status of a petty client-king with a much-reduced territory and a tiny army.

Thus, in 250-1, the Bastarnae were probably involved in the Gothic and Sarmatian invasions which culminated in the Roman defeat at the Battle of Abrittus and the slaying of the emperor Decius ( 251 ).

Bonaparte's army was trapped in Egypt, and Royal Navy dominance off the Syrian coast contributed significantly to its defeat at the Siege of Acre in 1799, which preceded Bonaparte's return to Europe.

However the French ships were hampered by their inadequate deployment, reduced crews and the failure of the rear division under Villeneuve to meaningfully participate, all of which contributed to their defeat.

The Jurchen-founded Jin Dynasty was defeated by the Mongols, who then proceeded to defeat the Southern Song in a long and bloody war, the first war in which firearms played an important role.

The defeat by the British Empire in the First Opium War ( 1840 ) led to the Treaty of Nanjing ( 1842 ), under which Hong Kong was ceded and opium import was legitimized.

We have seen the cause of democracy, which is, in our view, the cause of civilisation and humanity, receive a terrible defeat ... The events of these last few days constitute one of the greatest diplomatic defeats that this country and France have ever sustained.

The board of trustees offered to turn Throop over to the state, but the presidents of Stanford University and the University of California successfully lobbied to defeat the bill, which allowed Throop to develop as the only scientific research-oriented education institute in southern California, public or private, until the onset of the World War II necessitated the broader development of research-based science education.

The National Front system itself eventually began to be seen as a form of political repression by dissidents and even many mainstream voters, especially after wljhhat was apparently later confirmed as the fraudulent election of Conservative candidate Misael Pastrana in 1970, which resulted in the defeat of the relatively populist candidate Gustavo Rojas.

As the story follows, he must defeat the evil powers around him that keep growing.

The marriage of his daughter Kunigunde of Austria to Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, was another result of intrigues and deception, but must be counted as a defeat for Frederick.

The fortresses at the end of the stages are labyrinths with non-scrolling rooms, in which the player must find and defeat a gatekeeper boss.

Since the autumn of 1914 he had insisted that " from the standpoint of the working class and of the labouring masses from the lesser evil would be the defeat of the Tsarist Monarchy "; the war must be turned into a civil war of the proletarian soldiers against their own governments, and if a proletarian victory should emerge from this in Russia, then their duty would be to wage a revolutionary war for the liberation of the masses throughout Europe.

In Stalin's view, the state must be powerful enough to defeat counterrevolutionary elements.

The ship is taken over by Borg-like invaders and Wilco must defeat them.

The player must defeat a Sentinel before they can challenge the final boss and main antagonist Luis Reyes.

Fighting games often include a single player campaign or tournament, where the player must defeat a sequence of several computer controlled opponents.

Ten bombus bombs must be collected in order to defeat the king of vegetables to win the game.

Pacini himself was the first to recognize his apparent defeat noted in memoirs: " I began to realize that I must withdraw from the field.

" After George Armstrong Custer's defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Sherman wrote that " hostile savages like Sitting Bull and his band of outlaw Sioux ... must feel the superior power of the Government.

In both cases, to defeat the law the no votes must not only outnumber the yes votes, they must also number at least 30 % of the electorate.

Obi-Wan, however, believes that Vader has completely consumed Anakin Skywalker, and must be destroyed in order to defeat the Empire.

This is orchestrated by the player entering into " battle ", where the player, in accordance with the item that machine is based on, must " defeat " a certain enemy or foe in order to earn another kakuhen.

Trotsky argued that the defeat of the German working class and the coming to power of Hitler in 1933 was due in part to the mistakes of the Third Period policy of the Communist International and that the subsequent failure of the Communist Parties to draw the correct lessons from those defeats showed that they were no longer capable of reform, and a new international organisation of the working class must be organised.

Following the defeat of Nastrond, it was decided to take steps to prevent what must otherwise be his eventual return.

This defeat must have inflicted a severe blow on the prosperity of Thurii, while the continually increasing power of the Lucanians and Bruttians, in their immediate neighborhood would prevent them from quickly recovering from its effects.

To rescue Nozomi, Ryo must first fight Guizhang, then team up with Guizhang to defeat all seventy members of the Mad Angels gang.

Playing as Yoshi, the player must defeat each of his friends in order to remove the curse.

" A huge newspaper ad for this play proclaimed: " Invasion will definitely end in defeat ; peace must be won at a price.

Up to 1939 it must have seemed possible to some that Japan would be moderate and reasonable in its expansion in the Far East – that the Mr. Motos would defeat the Japanese military fanatics.

The player must defeat enemies and rescue the Flickies inside by bringing them back to their own dimension through the use of giant Rings.

This mini-game is called the Star Dust Battle in which the player must hit the Millennium Star 3 times ( 6 times on Normal difficulty, and 9 times on Hard difficulty ) with stars in order to defeat story mode.