Albrecht Altdorfer's depiction of the moment in 333 BC when Alexander the Great routed Darius III for supremacy in Asia Minor is vast in ambition, sweeping in scope, vivid in imagery, rich in symbols, and obviously heroic — the Iliad of painting, as literary critic Friedrich Schlegel suggested In the painting, a swarming cast of thousands of soldiers surround the central action: Alexander on his white steed, leading two rows of charging cavalrymen, dashes after a fleeing Darius, who looks anxiously over his shoulder from a chariot.

He was a vociferous left-wing socialist critic of the Labour governments of 1964 – 70 and 1974 – 79, and during the 1980s, he was the leading intellectual light of the movement against nuclear weapons in Europe.

The head of Albania's Economic Planning Commission and one of Hoxha's allies, Nako Spiru, became the leading critic of Yugoslavia's efforts to exert economic control over Albania.

Thoreau was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist.

Thoreau was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist.

In the Brahms camp were his close friends: Clara Schumann, the influential music critic Eduard Hanslick, and the leading Viennese surgeon Theodor Billroth.

Lindsay Gordon Anderson ( 17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994 ) was an Indian-born, British feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave.

Frey, a leading animal rights critic, who wrote in 1983 that, if forced to choose between abandoning experiments on animals and allowing experiments on " marginal-case " humans, he would choose the latter, " not because I begin a monster and end up choosing the monstrous, but because I cannot think of anything at all compelling that cedes all human life of any quality greater value than animal life of any quality.

Voice-over commentary by a leading critic, historian, or by the production personnel themselves is often a prominent feature of the release of feature films or documentaries on DVDs.

Henry David Thoreau ( July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 ) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.

Breggin, chief editor of the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, is a leading critic of ECT who believes the procedure is neither safe nor effective.

But in his later years, Wittgenstein wrote works which are often interpreted as conflicting with his positions in the Tractatus, and indeed the later Wittgenstein is mainly seen as the leading critic of the early Wittgenstein.

He has been his own most unsparing critic .” Ravel conducted most of the leading orchestras in the U. S. from coast to coast and visited twenty-five cities.

Ignacy Krasicki ( 3 February 173514 March 1801 ), from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia ( in German, Ermland ) and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno ( thus, Primate of Poland ), was Poland's leading Enlightenment poet (" the Prince of Poets "), a critic of the clergy, Poland's La Fontaine, author of the first Polish novel, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist, and translator from French and Greek.

Meanwhile he became a leading critic of both the Nixon-Kissinger détente condominium, as well as McGovern's pacifism.

Brzezinski was a leading critic of the George W. Bush administration's " war on terror ".

A leading critic called him " the great shining star of his Canadian literary generation " and a pivotal figure in the country's history.

Roger Ebert, a leading critic, described it as " perfect.

He is a staunch critic of the Warren Commission and offered $ 1 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the assassin of John F. Kennedy.

After the Sharpeville massacre of 1960, Israel became a harsh critic of apartheid, leading to a break in its relations with Pretoria.

Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said, " It was inevitable that the constant grind of touring, writing, promoting, and recording would grate on the Beatles ," leading to the inclusion of several cover versions after the all-original A Hard Day's Night ; the band's visible weariness on the album's cover is noted by narrator Malcolm McDowell during The Compleat Beatles.

The late British poet, critic and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, called Vallejo "... the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language.

Trent Johnson was a leading critic of Russian literature during this time.

A leading Russian literary critic of the 20th century Viktor Shklovsky, in his book, Zoo, or Letters Not About Love, wrote, " Russian literature has a bad tradition.

More recently, critic Dennis Schwartz wrote, " Scarlet Street is a bleak psychological film noir that has the same leading actors as his 1944 film The Woman in the Window.

He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.

If the Southerners were sufficiently aroused, they could very well cut the Kennedy legislative program to ribbons from their vantage point of committee chairmanships, leaving Sam Rayburn leading a truncated, unworkable party.

This type of farmer-labour co-operation became common throughout Western Canada, leading to the creation of the short-lived Progressive Party of Canada in the 1920s, and the more durable Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( Farmer-Labour-Socialist ) in Calgary, Alberta, in 1935, precursor to Canada's modern-day social democratic party, the New Democratic Party.

As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.

Although he was a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative Party after 1844, Disraeli's relations with the other leading figures in the party, particularly Lord Derby, the overall leader, were often strained.

Lloyd George still claimed to be leading a Liberal government, but he was increasingly under the influence of the rejuvenated Conservative party.

In particular, the successful entrapment of Graham Riddick and David Tredinnick in the " cash for questions " scandal, the contemporaneous misconduct as ministers by Neil Hamilton ( who lost a consequent libel action against The Guardian ), Tim Smith, and the convictions of former Cabinet member Jonathan Aitken and former party deputy chairman Jeffrey Archer for perjury in two separate cases leading to custodial sentences damaged the Conservatives ' public reputation.

This active base would develop the cadre, a core of " professional revolutionaries ", consisting of loyal communists who would spend most of their time organising the party toward a mass revolutionary party capable of leading a workers ' revolution against the Tsarist autocracy.

However, the vote received by the PP declined, leading them to create an expanded party, the Greek Rally, under the leadership of the charismatic General Alexandros Papagos.

Jed tried to blackmail Tony, leading to a confrontation on Christmas Eve in Underworld when Tony strangled Jed in a fit of rage, just before the Christmas party.

leading to a structure which has been called " one party, two factions ".

Since a witness called by the opposing party is presumed to be hostile, cross-examination does permit leading questions.

This was opposed by certain leading party members and a week later ; the Declaration of the Forty-Six was issued, which condemned Stalin's centralisation policies.

Khrushchev was able to consolidate his powers within the party machine after Malenkov's resignation, but Malenkov remained the de facto leading figure of the Party.

The nomenklatura system came under attack ; several delegates asked why the leading party members had rights to a better life, at least materially, and why the leadership was more-or-less untouchable, as they had been under Leonid Brezhnev, even if their incompetence was clear to everyone.

Stripped of its leading role in society the party lost its authority to lead the nation or the cohesion that kept the party united.

In the resulting February 1990 elections, Violeta Chamorro and her party the UNO won an upset victory of 55 % to 41 % over Daniel Ortega, even though polls leading up to the election had clearly indicated an FSLN victory.

* 1989 – Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state.

In 1996, over 300, 000 people attended, leading to ticketing of the main street party in later years, with a limit of 100, 000 tickets.

Holt's disappearance at the end of 1967 forced the party to choose a " wild card " successor from the Senate after the leading contender, deputy Liberal leader William McMahon, was unexpectedly eliminated from the contest due to a dispute with their Coalition partners, the Country Party.

Preliminary talks to set up conditions for official negotiations began between leading negotiators from both parties on July 10, and on July 22, the three party leaders met for the first time in Harare to express their support for a negotiated settlement of disputes arising out of the presidential and parliamentary elections.

A party examining a hostile witness may question the witness as if in cross-examination, thus permitting the use of leading questions.