During the 2001 Conservative leadership election, she could not find sufficient support amongst Conservative MPs for her leadership candidacy.

During the years of his leadership, membership increased dramatically, from a few individuals to sixty-nine Lodges.

During the 1930s and 1940s Joseph Stalin's NKVD carried out numerous assassinations outside of the Soviet Union, such as the killings of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists leader Yevhen Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, Leon Trotsky, and the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) leadership in Catalonia.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

During the interwar period the Luftwaffe leadership rejected the concept of terror bombing, and confined the air arms use to battlefield support of interdiction operations.

During Vladimir Lenin's leadership of the Communist Party, the Central Committee functioned as the highest party authority between congresses.

During the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, eventual winner David Cameron pledged to withdraw the Conservatives from the EPP-ED coalition, while opponent David Davis argued in a letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph that the current ED arrangement allowed the Conservatives to maintain suitable distance from EPP while still having influence in the largest parliamentary grouping.

During the first part of his reign Honorius depended on the military leadership of the general Stilicho, who had been appointed by Theodosius and was of mixed Vandal and Roman ancestry.

During the period where all of the Congress leadership were in jail, the Muslim League under Jinnah grew in power.

During the season, Woodfull's physical courage, stoic and dignified leadership won him many admirers.

During The Mongol invasion of Europe, Tatars under the leadership of Kadan, experienced a major failure in March 1242 at Klis Fortress in southern Croatia.

During the 1930s and 1940s, the state passed labor laws, implemented agrarian reform, and assumed a role in modernization, influenced in part by the leadership of Juan Domingo Perón in Argentina and Getúlio Dornelles Vargas in Brazil.

During the early part of the 20th century, under the leadership of Harry Payne Whitney, polo changed to become a high-speed sport in the United States, differing from the game in England, where it involved short passes to move the ball toward the opposition's goal.

During the difaqane in Natal, another band of refugees arrived in this area under the leadership of Mzilikazi.

During his leadership projects completed included the first storage reservoir at Lake Minnewanka, a second transmission line to Calgary and the construction of the Kananaskis Falls hydro station.

During this time, struggle for Independence was fought on " constitutionalist " lines under the leadership of D. S. Senanayake.

During his leadership the Bahá ' í religion developed into a global faith.

During the 1920s, he first started to systematize and extend the Bahá ' í administration throughout the world where there existed Bahá ' í communities ; because the Bahá ' í community was relatively small and undeveloped when he assumed the leadership of the religion, he strengthened and developed it over many years to the point where it was capable of supporting the administrative structure envisioned by ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

* During this period of confusion and change amongst Egypt ’ s leadership, armies under the Seleucid king, Antiochus III, make serious inroads into the Egyptian territories in Coele Syria.

During Nicolae Ceaușescu's leadership ( 1965 – 1989 ), much of the historic part of the city was demolished and replaced with Socialist realist development such as the Centrul Civic ( the Civic Centre ), including the Palace of the Parliament, where an entire historic quarter was razed to make way for Ceaușescu's megalomaniac constructions.

During February 1975, after winning the leadership election, Margaret Thatcher refused to offer Powell a Shadow Cabinet place because " he turned his back on his own people " by leaving the Conservative Party exactly 12 months earlier and telling the electorate to vote Labour.

During the long and complicated campaign against Vicksburg, one newspaper complained that the " army was being ruined in mud-turtle expeditions, under the leadership of a drunkard, whose confidential adviser was a lunatic.

During World War II, under the leadership of P. Messori Roncaglia SJ, it became the center of the resistance movement against the Nazis.

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

During the following year, three different men briefly held executive power before Galo Plaza Lasso, running under a coalition of independent Liberals and socialists, narrowly defeated his Conservative opponent in presidential elections.

During Thatcher's only visit to the Conservative Research Department in the summer of 1975, a speaker had prepared a paper on why the " middle way " was the pragmatic path the Conservative Party should take, avoiding the extremes of left and right.

During the 1990s, the bitterness on the right wing of the Conservative Party at the manner in which Margaret Thatcher had been removed from office did not make Major's task any easier.

During his era, Ginzberg influences almost every rabbi of the Conservative Movement in a personal way.

During the war there were at least three attempts by Panamanian Liberals to seize control of Panama and potentially achieve full autonomy, including one led by Liberal guerrillas like Belisario Porras and Victoriano Lorenzo, each of whom was suppressed by a collaboration of Conservative Colombian and U. S. forces under the Mallarino-Bidlack Treaty.

During the Chanak Crisis of 1922, King refused to support the British without first consulting Parliament, while the Conservative leader, Arthur Meighen, supported Britain.

During the campaign the leading Conservative Walter Long had asked Knollys for permission to state that the King did not favour Irish Home Rule, but Knollys refused, as it was not appropriate for the monarch's views to be known in public.

During Wilson's time in office from 1964 to 1970, more new houses were built than in the last six years of the previous Conservative government.

During a debate on the legality on the 11 January 2012, UK Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes Mark Lancaster, Conservative, stated importation of Khat into the UK stands at 10 tonnes every week.

During the 2008 London mayoral election the newspaper and particularly its correspondent Andrew Gilligan published articles in support of Conservative candidate Boris Johnson, including frequent front-page headlines condemning Ken Livingstone.

During the run up to the 2010 General Election, Caine publicly endorsed the Conservative Party, despite claiming to have supported New Labour in 1997.

During this time, Mulroney was still involved in the Conservative youth wing and was acquainted with the President of the Student Federation, Joe Clark.

During the 1993 election, the Progressive Conservative Party was reduced to just two seats, which was seen as partially due to a backlash against Mulroney, as well as due to the fracturing of his " Grand Coalition ".

During the Grunwick dispute — where workers struck over pay, working conditions and the owner George Ward's refusal to recognise their trade union — there was a split in the Conservative Shadow Cabinet between the conciliatory approach of Jim Prior, the Shadow Employment Secretary, and Keith Joseph.

During 1841 Sir Robert Peel became Conservative Prime Minister and Richard Cobden, a major proponent of free trade, was elected for the first time.

During the 2010 general and local elections the Conservative administration was accused by Labour opponents, the media and residents of intending to demolish 3, 300 Council homes leaving many people with no option but to move out of the borough-an allegation described by the Prime Minister as " appalling Labour lies " in the Daily Telegraph, 22 May 2010.

During the January 9, 2006, party leaders ' debate for the 2006 federal election, Paul Martin pledged that a Liberal government would support a constitutional amendment that would prevent section 33 from being invoked by the federal government, and challenged Conservative leader Stephen Harper to agree.

During the interwar period, public fear of extremist ideologies ( communism and Fascism ) restored the Conservative Party to one nationism as it defined itself as the party of national unity and began to support moderate reform.