While in government work, he helped develop the metric system to secure uniformity of weights and measures throughout France.

With the label's co-founder Jake Riviera he generated a body of creative work that helped to secure Stiff's reputation as an exciting new independent label.

Despite its unpopularity, the Rump was a link with the old constitution, and helped to settle England down and make it secure after the biggest upheaval in its history.

This run helped them secure the fifth playoff seed in the Western Conference.

Agustín de Iturbide, the general who helped secure Mexican independence from Spanish rule, was proclaimed Emperor Agustín I in 12 July 1822, but was overthrown by the Plan of Casa Mata the next year.

The fashion for all things Scottish was maintained by Queen Victoria, who helped secure the identity of Scotland as a tourist resort, with Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire becoming a major royal residence from 1852.

As a result of this friendship, Byrd's family helped Brown secure an early release on June 14, 1952 after serving three years of his sentence.

The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.

It helped destroy three Allied Air Forces and secure the defeat of France in just over six weeks.

The following spring, the Luftwaffe helped its Axis partner, Italy secure victory in the Balkans Campaign and continued to support the Italians in the Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatres until May 1945.

Her work and association with Petrie helped secure employment at University College as a junior lecturer.

Hellman helped Tarantino to secure funding from Richard Gladstein at Live Entertainment ( which later became Artisan ).

These women helped secure the bridge that translated radical protest for racial equality over to the struggle for women ’ s rights ; by witnessing the discrimination and oppression to which the black population was subjected, they were able to gain strength and motivation to do the same for their fellow women.

During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army ; after the war, Truth tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves.

Warren Skaaren, then head of the Texas Film Commission, helped secure the distribution deal with Bryanston Pictures.

His popularity as governor, and Indiana's status as a critical swing state, helped him secure the Democratic vice presidential nomination on a ticket with Wilson in 1912 and win the subsequent general election.

The Widney Alumni House, the campus ' first building The University of Southern California was founded following the efforts of Judge Robert M. Widney, who helped secure donations from several figures in early Los Angeles history: a Protestant nurseryman, Ozro Childs, an Irish Catholic former-Governor, John Gately Downey, and a German Jewish banker, Isaias W. Hellman.

However, this victory helped secure British supremacy of the sea which gave the British a stronger negotiating position when it came to the peace talks that ended the war.

The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.

Beginning in 1917, German-Jewish philosopher Edmund Husserl championed Heidegger's work, and helped him secure the retiring Husserl's chair in Philosophy at the University of Freiburg.

During the War as a member of CEMA ( Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts ) Keynes helped secure government funds to maintain both companies while their venues were shut.

It was finally entered into law in 1964 when President Lyndon Johnson helped secure its passage and signed the Civil Rights Act.

The following year passage of the Voting Rights Act helped secure suffrage for all citizens.

In 1159 there was a disputed election to the papacy, and Henry II's support helped to secure recognition of Pope Alexander III.

Since this office was a stepping stone to higher office and the Senate, it helped to ensure that only wealthy individuals ( mostly landowners ) would win election to high office.

At the end of his presidency, Clinton moved to New York and helped his wife win election to the U. S. Senate there.

At the time, he admired Ramsay MacDonald and helped MacDonald get elected as Labour Party leader at the 1922 Labour leadership election.

The presidential election of 1808, which Madison won, showed that the Federalists were regaining strength, and helped to convince Congress that the Embargo would have to be repealed.

The unified support from the conservative base helped propel Hoffman to frontrunner status and effectively killed Scozzafava's campaign, forcing her to drop out of the race several days before the election.

A prominent lawyer in Indiana, he became an active and well known member of the Indiana Democratic Party by stumping across the state for other candidates and organizing party rallies that later helped him win election as the 27th Governor of Indiana.

Gregory's earliest pontifical letters clearly acknowledge this fact, and thus helped defuse any doubt about his election as immensely popular.

A poll at the time suggested that 74 % of the UK population agreed with the Powell's opinions and his supporters claim that this large public following that Powell attracted may have helped the Conservatives to win the 1970 general election, and perhaps cost them the February 1974 general election, at which Powell turned his back on the Conservatives by endorsing a vote for Labour, who returned as a minority government in early March following a hung parliament.

Unlike the election of 1884, the power of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City helped deny Cleveland the electoral votes of his home state.

In vain, the King urged Conservative leaders Balfour and Lord Lansdowne to pass the Budget ( Lord Esher advised that this was not unusual, as Queen Victoria had helped to broker agreement between the two Houses over Irish disestablishment in 1869 and the Third Reform Act in 1884 ), although on Asquith's advice he did not offer them an election ( at which, to judge from recent by-elections, they were likely to gain seats ) as a reward for doing so.

Following his victory in the 1970 election ( and helped by de Gaulle's fall from power in 1969 ), the new prime minister Edward Heath negotiated Britain ’ s admission to the EC, alongside Denmark and Ireland in 1973.

The presidential election of 1808, in which James Madison defeated Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, showed that the Federalists were regaining strength, and helped to convince Jefferson and Madison that the Embargo would have to be removed.

Gilles Duceppe helped Pauline Marois campaign in the 2008 Quebec provincial election, she did not win and the Liberals gained a slight majority.

To Le Pen's advantage, the election campaign had increasingly focused on law and order issues, helped by media attention on a number of violent incidents.

The first group it helped co-establish was the European Right after the 1984 election, which also consisted of the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), its early inspiration, and the Greek National Political Union.

He was appointed Spanish ambassador to the Soviet Union and Mongolia in 1977, immediately after the restoration of diplomatic relations between the countries: this post helped him to gain the support of the Soviet bloc countries in the election to the presidency of the IOC, held in Moscow in 1980.

This prediction was foiled by Strom Thurmond's candidacy as a splinter States ' Rights Democrat, but Clifford's strategy nonetheless helped win Truman election in his own right and establish the Democratic Party's position in the Civil Rights Movement.

The political content of his broadcasts and his hopes of a new and different England after the war influenced the politics of the period and helped the Labour Party gain its landslide victory in the 1945 general election.

His election was successful and helped push legislation for the formation of the new county.

The superannuation scheme he helped design became law in 1974, but was disestablished by Robert Muldoon almost as soon as the National Party won the 1975 election.

Jean Duceppe also helped found the New Democratic Party branch in Quebec, which later separated from the federal NDP and merged into the Union des forces progressistes ( UFP ), which gathered 1. 0 % of the vote during the 2004 election ).