During the 2008 United States presidential election, she branded the Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as " stupid " and a " disgrace to women ".

During this so-called Republican Era, many features of a modern, functional Chinese state emerged and developed.

* 1920 – During the U. S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U. S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U. S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase " smoke-filled room ".

During Reconstruction, Davis remained silent ; however, he privately expressed opinions that federal military rule and Republican authority over former Confederate states was unjustified.

During the 1984 Convention, with Trent Lott as Republican Party Platform Committee Chairman, Congressmen Kemp and Newt Gingrich claimed control of the party platform to the consternation of G. O. P.

During the campaign, Kemp expressed the opinion that the Republican party leaders did not stand behind the ticket wholeheartedly.

During his time as head of the Moral Majority, Falwell consistently pushed for Republican candidates and for conservative politics.

During the French Revolution, nationalism was a policy of the Republican Left.

During Reconstruction after the Civil War, Republican state governments had militias composed almost entirely of freed slaves and populist whites.

During the First Boer War, the city was besieged by Republican forces in December 1880 and March 1881.

During the 1996 election, the party ran hundreds of candidates for seats in the United States House of Representatives, against both Democratic and Republican incumbents.

During the Lincoln Administration ( 1861 – 65 ), ex-Whigs dominated the Republican Party and enacted much of their so-called " American System ".

During Harding's western travels, historian Samuel H. Adams claims that Harding's own political views began to expand and became more independent from established Republican Party agenda.

During Washington's short second term, the Eddies fell from power: Vrdolyak became a Republican, Kelly was removed from his powerful parks post, and Burke lost his power as finance chair.

During Taft's administration, a rift grew between Roosevelt and Taft as they became the leaders of the Republican Party's two wings: the progressives, led by Roosevelt, and the conservatives, led by Taft.

" During a speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention, Eastwood talked to an empty chair as if President Barack Obama were sitting in it.

During his time as a senator, he was also a member of the Electoral Commission that decided the 1876 Presidential election in favor of Republican Rutherford B. Hayes.

During the 1952 campaign Stewart Alsop, a powerful Connecticut Republican, labeled Stevenson an " egghead ", based on his baldness and intellectual air.

During the Spanish Civil War, NKVD agents, acting in conjunction with the Communist Party of Spain, exercised substantial control over the Republican government, using Soviet military aid to help further Soviet influence.

During the post-Civil-War period, leaders such as George T. Ruby and Norris Wright Cuney, who headed the Texas Republican Party, promoted African-American civil rights helping to drastically improve educational and employment opportunities for blacks in Galveston and in Texas.

During the Civil War, the Radical Republican leaders argued that slavery and the Slave Power had to be permanently destroyed, and that all forms of Confederate nationalism had to be suppressed.

During the debate over the 2006 extension, some Republican members of Congress objected to renewing the preclearance requirement ( the Act's primary enforcement provision ), arguing that it represents an overreach of federal power and places unwarranted bureaucratic demands on Southern states that have long since abandoned the discriminatory practices the Act was meant to eradicate.

* During the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the Provisional Irish Republican Army were known to administer punishment beatings to petty criminals and drug dealers in order to deter crime.

During the Spanish Civil War, Minorca stayed loyal to the Republican Spanish Government, while the rest of the Balearic Islands supported the Nationalists.

During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.

During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.

During this time, the Port Adelaide won a record four national club championships.

During the Civil war, soldiers from different parts of the United States played baseball together, leading to a more unified national version of the sport.

During the military government ( 1973 – 1990 ) of Augusto Pinochet, the Verse III was officially incorporated because of his praise of the armed forces and the national police ( Carabiners ).

During the 1870s and 1880s, Chicago attained national stature as the leader in the movement to improve public health.

During the national census in 2003 the following censuses were conducted at the same time: National Population and Housing Census and National Agricultural Census.

During the crucial period of July – August 1960, Joseph-Désiré Mobutu built up " his " national army by channeling foreign aid to units loyal to him, by exiling unreliable units to remote areas, and by absorbing or dispersing rival armies.

During the many 20th century spy scandals, much information became publicly known about national spy agencies and dozens of real-life secret agents.

During the peak of the age of sail, beginning in the early 17th century, it has been customary ( and later a legal requirement ) for ships to carry flags designating their nationality ; these flags eventually evolved into the national flags and maritime flags of today.

During the 1970s and ‘ 80s rural poverty did decline, particularly in the Malayan Peninsula, but critics of the government ’ s policy contend that this was mainly due to the growth of overall national prosperity ( due in large part to the discovery of important oil and gas reserves ) and migration of rural people to the cities rather than to state intervention.

During the antifascist national liberation war, the Albanian people fought against Italy and Germany, which occupied the country.

During the period of 1960 to 1970, the average annual rate of increase of Albania's national income was 29 percent higher than the world average and 56 percent higher than the European average.

During the years that the Seventh and Eighth Revisions of the ICD were in force, the use of the ICD for indexing hospital medical records increased rapidly and some countries prepared national adaptations which provided the additional detail needed for this application of the ICD.

During the drafting and ratification of the constitution, he favored a strong national government, though later he grew to favor stronger state governments, before settling between the two extremes late in his life.

During a national speaking tour, Howard had criticized the FBI's failure to thoroughly investigate the racially motivated murders of George W. Lee, Lamar Smith, and Emmett Till.

During the hearings, Landis admonished the parties, " Both sides must understand that any blows at the thing called baseball would be regarded by this court as a blow to a national institution ".

During 13 years as head coach, Rockne led his " Fighting Irish " to 105 victories, 12 losses, five ties, and three national championships, including five undefeated seasons without a tie.

During the departure ceremonies, Gen. Ali Habib, Syria's chief of staff, said that Syria's president had decided to recall his troops after the Lebanese army had been " rebuilt on sound national foundations and became capable of protecting the state.

During the following administrations, since 1928, many of the revolutionary ideals were put into effect, among them the free distribution of land to peasants and farmers, the nationalization of the oil companies, the birth and rapid growth of the Social Security Institute as well as that of Labor Unions, and the protection of national industries.

During this time, Bob Costas had taken over the lead job and called the Finals after Marv's arrest for sexual assault had brought him national disgrace.

During his time on NBC, Albert continued as lead play-by-play man for the New York Knicks on local MSG Network telecasts and began calling national games for TNT in 1999 as well.

During the second russification period, at the start of the First World War, the Dowager Empress, travelling by her special train through Finland to Saint Petersburg, expressed her continued disapprobation for the russification of Finland by having an orchestra of a welcoming committee to play the March of the Pori Regiment and the Finnish national anthem " Maamme ", which at the time were under the explicit ban from Franz Albert Seyn, the Governor-General of Finland.

During the seven-day state funeral, Nancy, accompanied by her children and military escort, led the nation in mourning by keeping a strong composure, traveling from her home to the Reagan Library for a memorial service, then to Washington, D. C., where her husband's body lay in state for 34 hours prior to a national funeral service in the Washington National Cathedral.

During the 1990s, Pakistan began an ongoing project to rebuild all national highways throughout the country specifically to important financial, cargo and textile centers.