Assessments of De Valera's career have varied ; he has often been characterised as a stern, unbending, devious, and divisive Irish politician.

On de Valera's original birth certificate, his name is given as George De Valero and his father is listed as Vivion De Valero.

De Valera's minister for Foreign Affairs and lifelong political confidant Frank Aiken also dismissed Haughey's political motives as being entirely selfish, and being motivated to hold power for its own sake and not duty.

" The quid pro quo for this indulgence of the Catholic Church's interests in Ireland was the degree of respectability which it conferred on De Valera's formerly denounced republican faction and its reputation as the ' semi-constitutional ' political wing of the ' irregular ' anti-treaty terrorist minority.

De Valera's government insisted that owing to the principle of popular sovereignty, provided it was approved by the people in a plebiscite, it was not necessary for the new constitution be adopted legally under the terms of the old.

De Valera's reluctance to recognise a difference between World War II and previous European wars was illustrated by his reply to a radio broadcast by the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill on V-E Day.

De Valera's solution was Article 44.

In 1966 a forest was planted in De Valera's honour at Kfar Kana near Nazareth.

He is all for the Treaty and blames De Valera's doings here as much as he had admired them in America.

De Valera's government repudiated the 1922 Constitution as an unrepublican, foreign imposition and so deliberately provided that the new constitution would be adopted by in a manner outside the terms of the 1922 Constitution.

Nationalists also established a number of anti-partition groups campaigning against the border, starting with De Valera's National League of the North ( 1928 ) which was renamed the Irish Union Association and then the Anti-Partition League in 1938.

De Klerk is best known for engineering the end of apartheid, South Africa's racial segregation policy, and supporting the transformation of South Africa into a multi-racial democracy by entering into the negotiations that resulted in all citizens, including the country's black majority, having equal voting and other rights.

In 2006, Gerd Leers, then mayor of the border city of Maastricht, on the Dutch-Belgian border, criticised the current policy as inconsistent, by recording a song with the Dutch punk rock band De Heideroosjes.

In this, he criticised the " solitary practice of the power " and summarised his position towards De Gaulle's policy by a " yes, but ...".

De Gray's chief policy in Ireland was to extend English rule, to which end he was involved in battles on the River Shannon and in Fermanagh.

The De Taeye Act of 1948 organised fiscal rebates, credit facilities, and premiums for social dwellings built either on private or public initiative, while the Brunfaut Act of 1949 established a central budgeting organisation for governmental social housing policy, shifted the financial burden of infrastructural works to the state, and organised the financing of the two National Housing Societies.

Aspects of any given empire, such as the British Empire and its relation to its domestic businesses that were owned by a wealthy minority of individuals, such as the East India Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, and De Beers, manifest an observed relationship between a minority of individuals influencing Empire or State policy, such as the Child's War in India, the Anglo-Mysore Wars in India, the Anglo-French conflicts on Hudson Bay in Canada, and the Second Boer War in South Africa, follow a pattern where the Empire allocates resources pursuing and sustaining policies that financially profit the Empire's domesitc business's owners.

Legal obstacles to services trade can have legitimate policy reasons, but can also be an effective tool for large scale corruption ( De Soto, Hernando.

The policy of the Bond is best summarised by an excerpt from De Patriot, a paper published in the colony and an avowed supporter of the Bond.

The former Christian-Democratic Prime Minister Dries van Agt and former leader of the parliamentary party, De Vries, criticized the cabinet for its anti-social policy.

De Valera was anxious about accepting these measures as government policy due to opposition from the Catholic Church.

In 1961 Bidault became President of the Executive Council of the Rally for French Algeria and opposed De Gaulle's policy of Algerian independence.

Jan De Zutter criticized Elst for being too close with the Vlaams Belang, as in June 1992, Koenraad Elst gave a speech directed against Islam at the Vlaams Blok Colloquium where the party proposed its first version of its 70 point anti-immigration policy Elst said that he spoke there because it was the only party where the " problem of Islam " was brought up, but that he also explicitly said that he did not agree with the party's solution for that problem, and disapproved of their xenophobia.

* Jensen, De Lamar Diplomacy and Dogmatism: Bernardino de Mendoza and the French Catholic League Mendoza's role in Philip II's intervening foreign policy.

In 2003, the foreign policy of the Netherlands was largely determined by De Hoop Scheffer and Balkenende.

After the failed ratification in the French National Assembly, the EC member states tried to create foreign policy cooperation in the De Gaulle-sponsored Fouchet Plan ( 1959-1962 ).

Individuals like Pressman and De Caux would not have considered working for the CIO if the CP had not shifted its position from sectarian purity to first a united front and later a popular front policy that favored alliances with other " progressive forces.

On 12 May 2008, Geert Wilders ( PVV ), who previously saw the reunification of Netherlands as " a Nazi and old-fashioned policy ", said in De Telegraaf that he was interested in the possibility of a merger between the Netherlands and Flanders.

" De Gasperi ’ s policy is patience ," according to the foreign news correspondent for the New York Times, Anne McCormick.

He was named president of the Community in 1954, and although the project eventually failed, De Gasperi helped develop the idea of the common European defence policy.

" The roots of a ' statesman ': De Gasperi's foreign policy ," Modern Italy Nov 2009, Vol.

That same year he published a pamphlet in French entitled De la Politique et du droit chrêtien au point de vue de la question italienne, with the object of inducing Napoleon III to continue his pro-Italian policy.

For example, despite its Catholic and conservative ties, De Standaard was critical of American policy in southeast Asia.

De Rossa has been a member of the European Parliament, with a strong pro-integration approach from a distinctly Social Democratic perspective, as well as a keen interest in foreign policy and social policy.

Like several other younger members of the cabinet, De La Warr found himself disagreeing over the government's foreign policy, and contemplated resigning over the Munich Agreement but decided not to do so.

De Valera was a leader of Ireland's struggle for independence from Britain in the War of Independence and of the anti-Treaty opposition in the ensuing Irish Civil War ( 1922 – 1923 ).

In the ensuing battle, Pang De led the vanguard to charge the enemy, who was by the time trying to cross a shallow point.

De Lacy's time in the nation's capital was short-lived, however, as he was defeated by Republican Homer Jones in the ensuing election of 1946.

* March 7 – Charles De Gaulle asks U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson for negotiations about the state of NATO equipment in France.

The French negotiator Melchior de Polignac taunted the Dutch with the bon mot De vous, chez vous, sans vous, meaning that negotiations would be held " about you, in your country, without you.

De la Rúa instituted austerity measures and reforms to improve the economy ; taxes were increased to reduce the deficit, the government bureaucracy was trimmed, and legal restrictions on union negotiations were eased.

" Brian De Palma was under negotiations to direct before he left United Talent Agency in March 1994.

De León promised to defend public freedoms and the rule of law, as well as make progress in the negotiations with the guerrillas, and purge the armed forces of their bad apples.

De Jong had agreed to be suited with a microphone in order to assist with a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) documentary on the convention, but forgot he was wearing it and inadvertently allowed back-room negotiations with fellow candidate Dave Barrett to be recorded.

One of the main reasons was that the Irish Government thought that the UK would lose the war and did not want to be on the losing side: during the negotiations Walshe had produced two memoranda for De Valera ( one entitled Britain's Inevitable Defeat ) predicting the isolation of Britain, the dismemberment of its empire, and finally its inevitable crushing by Germany.

De Bernis took an important part in the delicate negotiations between France and Austria which preceded the Seven Years ' War.

* Cesare De Sanctis ( 1824 – 1916 ), musician, composer, conductor and negotiations, born in Albano

Boland's death affected Collins and may have spurred him towards peace negotiations with De Valera.

On November 15, the Belgian newspaper De Standaard reported that BNP Paribas had re-opened the negotiations on October 8, and had demanded to decrease the agreed-on price.

* In an analysis of January 31, De Standaard reported that in the three-party negotiations, BNP Paribas refused to budge even slightly, not yielding anything.

De Vio was employed in several other negotiations and transactions, being as able in business as in letters.

SACU is also involved in negotiations for a free trade agreement-the Economic Partnership Agreements ( EPA's )-with the EU, and the organisation has corresponded with EU Trade Commissioner, Karel De Gucht, between February and March 2010, to request that the EU did not demand the ratification and implementation of the EPA ’ s at the next round of negotiations without the concerns of the SACU countries being addressed.

Grand Master Armand de Périgord had been taken prisoner at the Battle of La Forbie in 1244, and after negotiations for his release failed two years later, De Sonnac was proposed as a replacement.

De Sonnac related this to the French King, who ordered him to cease any negotiations without gaining Royal permission first.