Lincoln spent many hours a week talking to politicians from across the land and using his patronage powers — greatly expanded over peacetime — to hold the factions of his party together, build support for his own policies, and fend off efforts by Radicals to drop him from the 1864 ticket.

The traditional culture of farming, cheesemaking, and woodworking still exists in Alpine villages, although the tourist industry began to grow early in the 20th century and expanded greatly after World War II to become the dominant industry by the end of the century.

The new constitution of 1995 greatly expanded the powers of the executive branch and gives it much more influence over the judiciary and municipal officials.

Administrative law expanded greatly during the twentieth century, as legislative bodies worldwide created more government agencies to regulate the increasingly complex social, economic and political spheres of human interaction.

All of these brains contain the same set of basic anatomical components, but many are rudimentary in the hagfish, whereas in mammals the foremost part ( the telencephalon ) is greatly elaborated and expanded.

This description in reference to the Act of Union 1801 which expanded the United Kingdom of Great Britain to include Ireland, has since been greatly expanded, although the primary date of UK Independence is now given as 1927.

The PPT won the May 1957 pre-independence elections thanks to a greatly expanded franchise, and Lisette led the government of the Territorial Assembly until he lost a confidence vote on 11 February 1959.

The bilateral FTA has inaugurated greatly expanded U. S .- Chilean trade ties, with total bilateral trade jumping by 154 % during the FTA's first three years.

Marvin Minsky expanded the model to two or more tapes and greatly simplified the tapes into " up-down counters ", which Melzak and Lambek further evolved into what is now known as the counter machine model.

Ready availability of computers and peripherals such as monitors, plotters, printers, scanners ( remote and document ) and analytic stereo plotters, along with computer programs for visualization, image processing, spatial analysis, and database management, have democratized and greatly expanded the making of maps.

It was during this time he greatly refined and expanded his mathematical, astronomical and surveying skills under the tutelage of Hudson's Bay Company surveyor Philip Turnor.

Their work was greatly expanded upon by Michael Faraday in 1833.

The island was greatly expanded with land reclamation between 1892 and 1934.

In the American colonies the First Great Awakening of the 1740s greatly expanded the movement ; it was based on revivals led by Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards and Methodist George Whitefield.

The discovery of fullerenes greatly expanded the number of known carbon allotropes, which until recently were limited to graphite, diamond, and amorphous carbon such as soot and charcoal.

Though women did not gain the right to vote as a result of the Revolution, they still greatly expanded their political participation and involvement in governing.

Marshall Plan funding helped overcome bottlenecks in the surging economy caused by remaining controls ( which were removed in 1949 ), and Marshall Plan business reforms opened up a greatly expanded market for German exports.

On his orders, by spring 1942 the camp at Auschwitz had been greatly expanded, including the addition of gas chambers, where victims were killed using the pesticide Zyklon B.

The RFC had minimal impact at the time, but was adopted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and greatly expanded as part of his New Deal.

Mahathir greatly expanded the number of secondary schools and universities throughout the country, and enforced the policy of teaching in Malay rather than English.

Mahathir also greatly expanded educational opportunities for Malay women – by 2000 half of all university students were women.

His reign saw the French royal domain and influence greatly expanded.

On 6 May 1682, the royal court moved to the lavish Palace of Versailles, which Louis XIV had greatly expanded.

Moscow's leadership in Russia was now firmly based and by the middle of the 14th century its territory had greatly expanded through purchase, war, and marriage.

He directed the preparation of the star maps of the Academy ( 1830 – 1859 ); beginning in 1830, he edited and greatly improved the Astronomisches Jahrbuch ; and he issued four volumes of the Astronomische Beobachtungen auf der Sternwarte zu Berlin ( Observations of the Berlin observatory, 1840 – 1857 ).

In his later years, Ogasawara and Hosokawa supported Musashi greatly — an atypical course of action for these Tokugawa loyalists, if Musashi had indeed fought on behalf of the Toyotomi.

Folklorist Sabina Magliocco supported this idea, noting that a great many of those Californian Pagans whom she interviewed claimed that they had been greatly interested in mythology and folklore as children, imagining a world of " enchanted nature and magical transformations, filled with lords and ladies, witches and wizards, and humble but often wise peasants.

During this Austrian period the University was greatly supported by Maria Theresa of Austria and saw a great renaissance that eventually led to a second renaissance due to the presence of leading scientists and humanists like Ugo Foscolo, Alessandro Volta, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Camillo Golgi among others.

Subsequently, the Parliament Bill for social reform and Irish Home Rule, which Lloyd George strongly supported, was passed and the veto power of the House of Lords was greatly curtailed.

She greatly distrusted her nephew, German Emperor Wilhelm II, and supported her son during World War I, in which Britain and its allies fought Germany.

The system, developed after World War II, led to greatly reduced transport costs, and supported a vast increase in international trade.

Johnson was greatly supported by the Democratic Party and as President, he was responsible for designing the " Great Society " legislation that included laws that upheld civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, aid to education, and his " War on Poverty.

Elizabeth supported her friend Queen Isabella when she invaded England, and she benefited greatly from the reign of Isabella's son, King Edward III of England.

The cytopharynx takes the form of a straight tube, supported by rods or nematodesmata, which dilates greatly during ingestion.

It is a little known fact, that Simon Marius was greatly supported in his work by his fellow astronomers Patricius Blunt and Michaelus Cornicus, who shared his love for stargazing.

Although they doubtless consolidated republicanism in France and contributed greatly to the secularism and the sense of nationhood that have marked all French republican regimes to this day, their methods discredited the Revolution in the eyes of many who had previously supported it.

While not directly supported by CP / M, the extra memory could be used to implement a ram disk, caching of the operating system image ( to greatly improve warm boot time ), or a print spooler.

Bayard Rustin, while not a father of the organization, was, Farmer and Houser later said, " an uncle to CORE " and supported it greatly.

This army, supported by the CIA proprietary airline Air America, Thailand, the Royal Lao Air Force, and a covert air operation directed by the United States ambassador to Laos, fought the People's Army of Vietnam, the National Liberation Front ( NLF ), and their Pathet Lao allies to a seesaw stalemate, greatly aiding U. S. interests in the war in Vietnam.

During the 1964 presidential election, Spellman supported Lyndon B. Johnson, whose Higher Education Facilities Act and Economic Opportunity Act had greatly benefited the Church.

The Swedish king was greatly angered and threatened to banish Ragnvald from his kingdom, but Ragnvald was supported by his foster-father Thorgny Lawspeaker.

It now supported a complete keyboard, a " chiclet " design similar to the ones used on early models of the Commodore PET, and greatly improved the display with the addition of the Burroughs Self-Scan 32-character display.

The main sport competed in Bolsover is football with Bolsover Town and the greatly supported Sunday Club, Bolsover Old Boys playing their games at the ' Field of Dreams ' on Mooracre Lane.

His decision greatly angered the acting prime minister William Watt, but he was strongly supported in Western Australia.

In this, he was greatly supported by his long relationship with Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, the often-controversial stage director who began his association with SFO in 1957.

His students supported him during this time, greatly encouraging him.

The town was renamed Giżycko in 1946 in honor of the Masurian folklorist Gustaw Gizewiusz, a 19th century Evangelical-Lutheran pastor in southern East Prussia, who had greatly supported Polish language and Polish culture.

Primary and secondary education were boosted greatly. He specially supported the polytechnic university.

The position was strongly held by greatly superior numbers of Germans, Austrians and Ottomans, supported by well-placed artillery, but the garrison was seen burning stores and evacuating camps.

The school cares for children described as having complex learning difficulties, many on the autism spectrum, and was greatly supported by Bob Monkhouse during his lifetime.