The army spent the next three months eliminating Austrian opposition from the remaining fortified towns in the duchy.

In spite of the tangible benefits of the program, it met with stiff opposition from the regional socialist party and from the Austrian central bank, which opposed the local currency as an infringement on its powers over the currency.

Austrian forces put up some opposition to the invading Italians, to little effect.

Despite opposition from the local Ethnic Germans it was subsequently recognized by the Austrian Government as the official flag of Carniola.

Under the occupation, Oltenia was the only part of the Danubian Principalities ( with the later exception of Bukovina ) to experience Enlightened absolutism and Austrian administration, although these were met by considerable and mounting opposition from conservative boyars.

Bethlen was placed on the throne by the Ottomans in opposition to the wishes of the Austrian Habsburg emperor, who preferred a prince who would incline more toward Vienna than toward Ottoman Constantinople.

After the 2006 elections the Greens gained four seats and ended up with 21 seats and became the third largest party in Parliament however did not have enough mandates to form a coalition government with either the Austrian People's Party ( ÖVP ) or Social Democratic Party ( SPÖ ) and became the largest opposition party while the SPÖ and ÖVP formed a coalition government.

Austrian economics, anti-federalism, opposition to war, Misesian libertarianism, and anarcho-capitalism heavily influenced the movement's attitudes toward ideas on trade, commerce, immigration and the state.

This view is often characterized by economists as being in opposition to Say's Law, which is popular with many Austrian economists.

In spring of 1916 Haller became a member of the Colonels ’ Council, which incorporated the heads of Legions ’ military units, and functioned in opposition to Legions ’ Headquarters, which advocated Austrian policy.

Scotland continued to contest regular friendly matches against European opposition and enjoyed wins against Germany and France before losing to the Austrian Wunderteam and Italy in 1931.

Jay Lovestone happened to be in Austria at the time of the anchluss in early March 1938 at the invitation of a group called De Funke and was able to arrange eight fake passports for eight leaders of the Austrian opposition.

His vehement opposition to all half-hearted measures brought him frequently into conflict with his superiors, but contributed materially to the unusual energy displayed by the Austrian armies in 1742 and 1743.

Napoleon had not expected to encounter opposition, and the bridges linking the French troops at Aspern-Essling to Lobau were not protected with palisades, making them highly vulnerable to Austrian barges that had been lighted on fire.

Luckily for the French, General of Cavalry Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein's 20, 000 troops found no opposition on the Austrian right.

The attraction of the party to some of its voters lay in its opposition to both the catholic clericalism of the Austrian People's Party and to the Marxism of the Social Democratic Party of Austria.

Herman was able to maintain only minimal control in the duchies, failing ultimately to defeat the opposition of the Austrian aristocracy.

However, this was prevented by the opposition of the Austrian Government, the Allies, Swiss liberals, the Swiss-Italians and the Swiss-French.

The Austrian government received wide criticism from the opposition parties for its failure to secure a deal with Maria Altmann at an earlier stage.

The capital was seized with little opposition, but it was a Pyrrhic victory since the Austrian commander diverted most of his forces there at the expense of other fronts.

Leopold was to face Swiss opposition to Austrian administration.

The Social Democrats remained in opposition and concentrated on their Red Vienna stronghold, while the Austrian political climate polarized over the next years.

Anne made the final treaty ending the Hundred Years ' War, the Treaty of Etaples and, in 1491 ( despite Austrian and English opposition ), arranged the marriage of her brother Charles to Anne, Duchess of Brittany, in order to annex Brittany to the French crown.

Here he distinguished himself by his outspoken criticism of the Austrian government, leading the opposition of the duchy to the exactions of the central power.

The name meitnerium ( Mt ) was suggested in honor of the Austrian physicist Lise Meitner, a co-discoverer of protactinium ( with Otto Hahn ), and one of the discoverers of nuclear fission.

** 109. meitnerium, Mt, named after Lise Meitner, an Austrian physicist who was one of the earliest scientists to become involved in the study of nuclear fission ( 1982 ).

" In an interview with the Austrian newspaper Der Standard Morris argues for a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Iran as the only alternative left to stop the Iranian nuclear program.

While the Austrian Green movement began in 1978 with the successful campaign to prevent the opening of the nuclear power plant in Zwentendorf ( which had been favoured by Bruno Kreisky's government ), the Green Party was born in 1984 during the successful sit-in protests which prevented the Danube power plant at Hainburg from being built.

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Robert Jungk ( May 11, 1913 – July 14, 1994 ), also known as Robert Baum and Robert Baum-Jungk, was an Austrian writer and journalist who wrote mostly on issues relating to nuclear weapons.

Category: Austrian anti – nuclear power activists

* Hans E. Suess ( 1909-1993 ), Austrian physical chemist and nuclear physicist

The place attained public attention as the site of the only Austrian nuclear power station, which was completed but never went into operation.

* The newspaper organises regular campaigns and, at the same time, starts or supports referendums on issues such as animal protection, protests against the Czech nuclear power station Temelín, or the purchase of fighter jets by the Austrian government.

In 2004, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( AIAA ) awarded the winning paper in the nuclear and future flight field to a retired Austrian patent officer named Walter Dröscher and Jochem Häuser, a physicist and professor of computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Salzgitter, Germany.

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* Lise Meitner ( 1878 – 1968 ), Austrian nuclear physicist, daughter of Philipp

Following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the associated nuclear emergency, the episode was pulled from an Austrian network due to jokes about nuclear meltdowns.

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Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victories over the Austrian Empire in Northern Italy – helping to secure France victory in the War of the First Coalition in 1797 – Great Britain remained the only major European power still at war with the French Republic.

Dollfuss modeled Austrofascism after Italian fascism juxtaposed to Catholic corporatism and anti-secularism, dropping Austrian pretences of reunification with Germany as long as the Nazi Party remained in power.

During the 16th century, the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs were the dominant power in Europe.

Royalists and their allies still dreamed of restoring the monarchy to power, while the Prussian and Austrian crowns did not accept their territorial losses during the previous war.

The Austrian domain was thus a major European power in its own right, ruling over some eight million subjects.

France and Spain, the two Bourbon powers, attempted to check the power of the Austrian Habsburgs in western Europe, as did the Kingdom of Prussia ; whilst in the East, Saxony and Russia mobilized to support the eventual Polish victor.

Stanisław was supported in his bid to regain the throne by his son-in-law, King Louis XV of France, who hoped to renew France's traditional alliance with Poland as a way to balance Russian and Austrian power in northern and eastern Europe.

France's prime minister, Cardinal Fleury, saw the Polish struggle as a chance to strike at Austrian power in the west without seeming to be the aggressor.

While he cared little for who should become King of Poland, the cause of protecting the King's father-in-law was a sympathetic one, and he hoped to use the war as a means of humbling the Austrians, and perhaps securing the long-desired Duchy of Lorraine from its duke, Francis Stephen, who was expected to marry Emperor Charles's daughter Maria Theresa, which would bring Austrian power dangerously close to the French border.

The French, not wishing to provoke Britain, carefully chose not to campaign in the Austrian Netherlands and avoided campaigning in parts of the Holy Roman Empire that might draw either power into the conflict.

His forced conversions or evictions carried out in the midst of the Thirty Years ' War, which with the later general success of the Protestants therefore had greatly negative consequences for Habsburg control of the Holy Roman Empire itself, while these campaigns within the Habsburg hereditary lands were largely successful in religiously purifying his demesnes, leaving the Austrian Emperors thereafter with much greater control within their hereditary power base — although Hungary was never successfully re-Catholicized — but one much reduced in population and economic might while less vigorous and weakened as a nation-state.

Other powers, particularly the Austrian Habsburgs, who had the next closest claims, objected to such a vast increase in French power.

The duke's expected marriage to Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI's daughter, Maria Theresa, would bring Austrian power dangerously close to the French border.

The Chancellor is " primus inter pares " (" first among equals ") in the Austrian government, they chair the government meetings but do not possess the power to direct, appoint or dismiss Ministers.

The ultras found themselves back in power in favourable circumstances: Berry's wife, the duchesse de Berry, gave birth to " miracle child ", Henri, seven months after the duc's death ; Napoleon died on Saint Helena in 1821, and his son, the duc de Reichstadt, remained interned in Austrian hands.

During the Second Stadtholderless Period the Dutch Republic had more or less abdicated its pretences as a major power and this became painfully evident to the rest of Europe during the War of the Austrian Succession.

Archduke Charles, brother of the Austrian Emperor, had started to reform the Austrian army in 1801 by taking away power from the Hofkriegsrat, the military / political council responsible for decision-making in the Austrian armed forces.

When the War of the Polish Succession broke out in 1733, France used it as an opportunity to seize Lorraine, since France's prime minister, Cardinal Fleury, was concerned that, as a Habsburg possession, it would bring Austrian power too close to France.

Charles ' unfitness for rule meant he was often ignored and power during his reign became the subject of court intrigues and foreign, particularly French and Austrian, influence.

When the War of the Austrian Succession approached, his sympathies were entirely with Maria Theresa -- mainly on the ground that the fall of the house of Austria would dangerously increase the power of France, even if she gained no accession of territory.

Archduke Charles, brother of the Austrian Emperor, had started to reform the Austrian army in 1801 by taking away power from the Hofkriegsrat, the military-political council responsible for decision-making in the Austrian armed forces.