In an attempt to blunt that reaction and reunite the Democratic party, presidential hopeful Stephen A. Douglas developed the Freeport Doctrine of popular sovereignty in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.

On 19 August 1978 — the anniversary of the US backed pro-Shah coup d ' état which overthrew the nationalists and popular Iranian prime minister, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh — the Cinema Rex, a movie theatre in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze by four Islamic Revolution sympathizers in an attempt to help the cause of Iran's Islamic Revolution.

Another popular strategy is for the runner to attempt a steal while the hitter is instructed to swing at the pitch if it is at all hittable.

Although he sought to slow or contain the New Deal and other federal programs, he did not attempt to repeal them outright and in doing so was popular among the liberal wing of the Republican Party.

This dual rôle allowed the Committee, to which Clarke and MacDermott added themselves shortly afterward, to promote their own policies and personnel independently of both the Volunteer Executive and the IRB Executive — in particular Volunteer Chief of Staff Eoin MacNeill, who supported a rising only on condition of an increase in popular support following unpopular moves by the London government, such as the introduction of conscription or an attempt to suppress the Volunteers or its leaders, and IRB President Denis McCullough, who held similar views.

This Wöhler Myth, as historian of science Peter J. Ramberg called it, originated from a popular history of chemistry published in 1931, which, " ignoring all pretense of historical accuracy, turned Wöhler into a crusader who made attempt after attempt to synthesize a natural product that would refute vitalism and lift the veil of ignorance, until ' one afternoon the miracle happened '".

The news of the brazen attempt to usurp the episcopal throne aroused the anger of the local populace among whom Gregory was popular.

Among measures taken by Conte to try and shore up his support within the military after 2007 was the transfer of the ' popular Sékouba Konaté to Conakry to head the parachute Autonomous Battalion of Airborne Troops ( French acronym BATA ) in an attempt to calm the troops.

It is very possible that this later story was a later attempt to defame his character, as Hadrian, though popular among a great many across the Empire, was not universally admired, either in his lifetime or afterwards.

A popular game using karaoke is to type in a random number and call up a song, which participants attempt to sing.

Although the university since planted trees around the park's perimeter in an attempt to make it a more popular place for students to gather, this has been unsuccessful .< ref >

", an attempt to make the programme palatable to BBC officials by connecting it with the popular group of theatre comedians known as The Crazy Gang.

King Bhumibol — who has been on the throne since 1946 — commands enormous popular respect and moral authority, which he has used on occasion to attempt to resolve political crises that have threatened national stability.

An attempt to hold a popular convention to write a new constitution was declared insurrection by the charter government, and the convention leaders were arrested.

Similarly, his attempt to write a popular novel in collaboration with Tadeusz Kępiński turned out to be a failure.

Civil society, opposition parties, and many members of the ruling party complimented widespread popular opposition to exert sufficient pressure on Chiluba to force him to back away from any attempt at a third term.

( In such cases, a head of government may seek a parliamentary dissolution from the Head of state and attempt to regain support by popular vote ).

One popular attempt is the Marguerite ( daisy ) positions, two versions of which are displayed on the left and on the right.

The 1969 book Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex ( But Were Afraid to Ask ) by Dr. David Reuben was a more popular attempt at answering the public's curiosity regarding such matters.

Though inspiration for this act might have come from the hostility his parents had shown the Jews in France ( his father was famous for his devout Christianity ) it was also an attempt to make himself popular in his new domains for the removal of usury.

When these results were first reported in 2002, the popular media sensationalized the story and exaggerated the risk, while the manufacturer continued to attempt to minimize the degree of risk.

In an attempt to capitalize on his renewed success, WB Records released the album Negotiations and Love Songs in November 1988, a mixture of popular hits and personal favorites that covered Simon's entire career and became an enduring seller in his catalog.

In an early attempt at defining some basic questions operative in examining folk tales, < noinclude > in 1925 characterised the folk legend as " a popular narrative with an objectively untrue imaginary content " a dismissive position that was subsequently largely abandoned.

This book had wide critical and popular acclaim, but several critics considered it racist and " a deliberate attempt to steal the meaning of a man's life.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

Then suddenly there was a tremendous revulsion of popular feeling.

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

He was especially popular with women, for, like the romantic poetry he wrote, he was personally gracious, gallant, and chivalrous.

Since Rhode Island at that time did not have such sanction, his opinion was not popular.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

In the middle of the century, with a circulation of 90,000, the Post was one of the most popular weeklies in the country.

he knows that he was never more popular than at the time of the Russo-American `` honeymoon '' of 1959.

For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.

He was criticized for his curtness and abruptness -- and he answered: `` I am not working to become popular ''.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

It was merely a rationalization and ordering of new institutions of popular government.

For an instant his men hesitated, unable to believe that their lieutenant, the most popular officer in the regiment, was dead.

not long ago `` Denver Mud '' was most popular.

Uncle John Vinnicum Morse was the immediate popular suspect.

From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century it was a popular practice to flood the piazza in the summer, and the aristocrats would then ride around the inundated square in their carriages.

I was curious about the impact of this political assassination on Negroes in Harlem, for Lumumba had -- has -- captured the popular imagination there.

Not only in popular thought but in that of the highly educated as well was this true.

Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective, the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever.