The Harcourt regime governed from the centre and, although it ran a unified slate with COPE, with the cooperation and support of the VDLC, Harcourt's small party of Civic Independents would sometimes vote with the NDP and the remaining TEAM councilors against COPE's more radical policies.

Whereas Harcourt's first two years in government were characterized by a notably social democratic policy agenda, the government took a dramatic turn to the right in 1993 with Harcourt's famous province-wide televised address in which he lashed out against " welfare cheats, deadbeats and varmints ".

While unpopular with the province's anti-poverty movement and the then-marginal BC Green Party, Harcourt's reforms were well received by the vast majority of British Columbians.

Although largely continuing Harcourt's policy agenda, Clark's government appeared rudderless with the campaign behind it and the Premier's scrappy style began to further alienate parts of the NDP coalition outside of the core group of labour activists who had masterminded Clark's campaign.

On the same night the Cato Street conspirators had designed the murder of the cabinet ministers at the house adjoining Harcourt's, where the ministers had agreed to dine with Lord Harrowby.

McDougal Littel was merged with Harcourt's Holt, Rinehart & Winston to form Holt McDougal.

On July 27, 2009, the Irish Independent newspaper reported that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's controlling shareholder EMPG was in the process of a re-structuring negotiations with its unsecured-debt holders that would lead to the conversion of the debt into equity.

On August 15, 2009, the Financial Times newspaper reported in an interview with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's CEO at the time, Barry O ' Callaghan, that the refinancing had received approval of more than 90 % of lenders.

The effect of Harcourt's aborted Local Veto Bill, which would have given parishes the right to vote on the closure of all local public houses, on the election was seen not only in his defeat at Derby, which gave the signal for the Liberal rout, but in the set-back it gave to temperance legislation.

Gladstone also opposed Chancellor Sir William Harcourt's proposal to implement a graduated death duty.

It should be emphasised that Harcourt did not receive the confession directly ( he was nine at the time that Macleod died ) but that it passed ( if it did ) from Macleod's sister to the wife of Henry Ponsonby, the Queen's private secretary, and thence to Harcourt's father Sir William Harcourt, the then Home Secretary.

The latter held out, while Prince Thomas had to surrender on 17 September 1640, a fourth army which had invested Harcourt's lines being at the same time forced to retire.

Simon Fraser University's City Program has a podcast of Harcourt's presentation about the book.

Again his memory came into good use — when William Harcourt accused Law of misquoting him, Law was able to precisely give the place in Hansard where Harcourt's speech was to be found.

In the ' Brief Life ' of Father Harcourt, Aubrey notes that one Roydon, a brewer living in Southwark, was reputed to be in possession of Harcourt's petrified kidney.

In early 2007, Meiko performed at the Sundance Film Festival and caught the ear of Paste Magazine editor Josh Jackson, who declared her a " big success story " waiting to happen, predicting it was " only a matter of time " before she found her way onto Nic Harcourt's influential “ Morning Becomes Eclectic ” radio program on KCRW.

The crew has caught on to Billy's sailor disguise, and Moon and Reno create a new disguise for him from a stolen pair of trousers, a drunk's jacket, and hair cut from Mrs. Harcourt's Pomeranian and made into a beard.

However the one significant legacy of the government was the introduction of a high uniform rate of death duties in Harcourt's 1894 budget.

Though returned for West Monmouthshire ( 1895, 1900 ), Harcourt's speeches in debate only occasionally showed his characteristic spirit, and it was evident that for the hard work of opposition he no longer had the same motivation as of old.

His main rival was Harcourt's father William.

Harcourt's diaries contain a report that one of Queen Victoria's chaplains, Reverend Norman Macleod, made a deathbed confession repenting of his action in presiding over Queen Victoria's marriage to her servant, John Brown.

The Band-rumped Storm Petrel, Madeiran Storm Petrel, or Harcourt's Storm Petrel ( Oceanodroma castro ) is of the storm petrel family Hydrobatidae.

* Dorothy Harcourt's Secret: Sequel to a " A Deed Without a Name.

The 76th Regiment of Foot was originally raised as Lord Harcourt's Regiment on 17 November 1745 and disbanded in June 1746.

Lord Harcourt raised the 76th and as was the custom at that time named it Lord Harcourt's Regiment.

He was at length arrested on November 3 under charges of insubordination and treason, and held briefly in Warren, Texas, but his resignation was accepted on November 11 and he was allowed to return to Arkansas.

Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.

Page remained dominant in the party until 1939 and briefly served as an interim Prime Minister between the death of Joseph Lyons and the election of Robert Menzies as his successor, but Page's refusal to serve under Menzies led to his resignation as leader.

When Taki was briefly imprisoned for cocaine possession Moore refused to accept his resignation, explaining publicly: " We expect our High Life columnist to be high some of the time.

James Oliver Eastland ( November 28, 1904 February 19, 1986 ) was an American politician from Mississippi who briefly served in the United States Senate as a Democrat in 1941 ; and again from 1943 until his resignation December 27, 1978.

At the outset of World War I, the Prime Minister, Asquith, quickly had Lord Kitchener appointed Secretary of State for War ; Asquith had been filling the job himself as a stopgap following the resignation of Colonel Seeley over the Curragh Incident earlier in 1914, and Kitchener was by chance briefly in Britain on leave when war was declared.

Quie was briefly considered for Vice President of the United States in 1974 after Gerald Ford became president upon the resignation of Richard Nixon.

Following Nixon's resignation, he briefly left government service, but was soon appointed as ambassador to Yugoslavia by President Jimmy Carter, a post he held from 1977 to 1980.

Diego Martínez y Barrio ( 25 November 1883, Seville – 1 January 1962 ) was a Spanish politician during the Second Spanish Republic, Prime Minister of Spain between 9 October 1933 and 26 December 1933 and was briefly appointed again by Manuel Azaña after the resignation of Santiago Casares Quiroga, on July 19, 1936-three days after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

He had also briefly served as the Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesman, following the resignation of Mark Oaten.

This has not occurred since the title has been created as a portfolio, however the previous unofficial deputies Arthur Fadden and Frank Forde both briefly served as Prime Minister on this basis ( following Robert Menzies ' resignation and John Curtin's death, respectively ).

: Medusa is a senior member of the Sorority, and briefly serves as Vice-President after Mona Lisa's resignation.

With the resignation of Harry Redknapp, he was briefly joint-caretaker manager of the club with Dave Bassett.

Politically associated with fellow merchant and governor John Hancock, he remained lieutenant governor until his death in 1788, briefly serving as Acting Governor in 1785 between the resignation of Hancock and the election of James Bowdoin.

Nicholas Francis ( French: Nicolas François de Lorraine ; 12 December 1612 – 25 January 1670 ), also known as Nicholas II, was briefly Duke of Lorraine and Duke of Bar for a few months in 1634, spanning the time between the abdication of his older brother and his own resignation.

He also served briefly as the Speaker of the House, from Schuyler Colfax's resignation on March 3, 1869, until the session was adjourned sine die.

When Chrétien announced his resignation, Dhaliwal briefly considered running in the 2003 Liberal leadership campaign, but decided against it.

In 1952, Moawad was briefly arrested and detained in Aley for participating in the national uprising that forced the resignation of President Bechara El Khoury, Lebanon's first post-independence leader.

McDiarmid retained the Land and Natural Resources / Mines portfolios for the entirety of his time in cabinet, and was also Provincial Secretary from November 28, 1939 to February 14, 1946, Railway Commissioner and Minister of Industry and Commerce from November 4, 1940 to June 30, 1953, and ( briefly ) acting Labour Minister following the resignation of CCF leader Seymour J.

While it regained government briefly under Hall, it was Playford's resignation as LCL Leader that acted as the spark for the party's problems to emerge in public spats, culminating in the formation of the Liberal Movement.

Mills was the managing editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine beginning in 1948 and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from its inception in 1949 ; he took over as editor upon the resignation of Anthony Boucher in 1958 ; while EQMM was sold by publishers Mercury Press in 1958 to B. G. Davis, Mills briefly remained on staff there during the transition and continued to edit Mercury Mystery Book-Magazine till its folding.

He was briefly Minister for Trade, Commerce and Tourism in October 1982 following the resignation of Des O ' Malley to challenge for the leadership of the party.

In 1935, Mihalache briefly took charge of the party upon Maniu's resignation, and steered it to the Left, charging Mihai Ralea and the PNŢ's Study Circle ( Constantin Rădulescu-Motru, Mihail Ghelmegeanu, Ernest Ene, and Petre Andrei ) with drafting a new party program that adapted Poporanist ideals.

Richard W. Johnson briefly commanded the corps after Palmer's resignation in August 1864.