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In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.
While Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Islamist extremist enjoying the backing of neighboring Pakistan, pushed for continued violent struggle against the Afghan government, Massoud and Rabbani advocated for a peaceful political campaign lobbying officials working for the government and armed forces.
Enosis remained an ideological goal, despite being pushed significantly further down the political agenda.
Biafra apparently pushed this issue in court, although there was no hard evidence and the jurors were apparently unconcerned with corporate use of independently produced political music.
With Frick's support, Himmler ( pushed on by his right hand man, Reinhard Heydrich ) took over the political police of state after state.
Charlemagne outlawed the Marklo councils and thus pushed the frilingi and lazzi out of political power.
This proves to be his last act with the CIA, as he is pushed into retirement by Kealty political appointees.
Within anthropology, Eric Wolf pushed political economy towards a neo-Marxist framework which began addressing the role of local cultures as a part of the world capitalist system as opposed to earlier political economists and anthropologists who viewed those cultures as “' primitive isolates '” ( Wolf 1997: 13 ).
" For the historian of the anarchist movement Ronald Creagh, the hippie movement could be considered as the last spectacular resurgence of utopian socialism For Creagh, a characteristic of this is the desire for the transformation of society not through political revolution, or through reformist action pushed forward by the state, but through the creation of a counter-society of a socialist character in the midst of the current system, which will be made up of ideal communities of a more or less libertarian social form.
The great social and political changes that took place after the Velvet Revolution in November 1989 pushed concerns about organizing the Karlovy Vary IFF to the background.
In the aftermath of these unsuccessful talks, the Heath government pushed for a peaceful settlement with the democratic political parties.
She had her own circle of clients and pushed many protégés into political offices, including the grandfathers of the later emperors Galba and Otho.
Once his control over the state's political apparatus was strengthened, Long pushed a number of bills through the 1929 session of the Louisiana State Legislature to fulfill campaign promises.
The political turmoil that followed pushed aside the Gorbachevs ' life from the headlines.
Calypsonians pushed the boundaries of free speech as their lyrics spread news of any topic relevant to island life, including speaking out against political corruption.
As War Minister, Yamagata pushed through the foundation of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff, which was the main source of Yamagata's political power and that of other military officers through the end of World War I.
Johnson's administration also pushed for women's suffrage and the ability of candidates to register in more than one political party, a reform that he believed would cripple the influence of what he viewed as a monolithic political establishment.
In these purges old comrades like Lars Emil Johansen, Moses Olsen, Lars Chemnitz and Emil Abelsen were pushed into the political sidelines.
The political instability pushed many indigenous into the municipality from more rural areas in the latter half of the decade.
The ideas Wollstonecraft ingested from the sermons at NGUC pushed her towards a political awakening.
The legislation that was eventually pushed through ensured full civil rights to those not convicted of crimes beyond political, and officially ended the prosecution of Communards in military courts.
During his second term in office, Happy Chandler issued an executive order creating a merit system that forbade the hiring or firing of state employees for political reasons ; his successor, Bert T. Combs, pushed a new merit system through the legislature, protecting it from abolition by executive order.

pushed and status
Gandhi pushed through a resolution at the Calcutta Congress in December 1928 calling on the British government to grant India dominion status or face a new campaign of non-cooperation with complete independence for the country as its goal.
E. P. Thompson notes that for British workers at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, the " gap in status between a ' servant ,' a hired wage-laborer subject to the orders and discipline of the master, and an artisan, who might ' come and go ' as he pleased, was wide enough for men to shed blood rather than allow themselves to be pushed from one side to the other.
When, by Dynasty XX, the " demonization " of Seth was ostensibly inaugurated, Seth was either eradicated or increasingly pushed to the outskirts, Nephthys flourished as part of the usual Osirian pantheon throughout Egypt, even obtaining a Late Period status as tutelary goddess of her own Nome ( UU Nome VII, " Hwt-Sekhem "/ Diospolis Parva ) and as the chief goddess of the Mansion of the Sistrum in that district.
But in 1897 President William McKinley, a personal friend of Thomas Wilson Bradley of the U. S. Knife Company, pushed through the Dingley Tariff that restored the status quo ante.
This project, on the state of North Carolina transportation hotspots, was recently pushed back into holding status while other projects are re-arranged to better use the new revised budget.
Certain songs were pushed by recording executives and therefore quickly achieved standard status ; this started with the first jazz recordings in 1917, when the Original Dixieland Jass Band recorded " Darktown Strutters ' Ball " and " Indiana ".
Under the Peerage Act of 7 July 1884, pushed through by Hirobumi Ito after visiting Europe, the Meiji government expanded the hereditary peerage with the award of kazoku status to persons regarded as having performed outstanding services to the nation.
Citizens of Denver and Golden pushed for territorial status of the newly settled region within a year of the founding of the towns.
While he pushed deeper into the north — central Balkans, Murad also had forces moving west along the ‘’ Via Ingatia ’’ into Macedonia, forcing vassal status on regional rulers who until that time had escaped that fate.
According to researchers like Ambedkar, the Mahars and similar communities like Malas were actually warriors of some defeated kingdom, they were pushed down in social status, they were disarmed but retained as village servants.
Congressman George Miller pushed for the memorial to be upgraded to national park status in 2002, in the knowledge that such status would help the site " become more competitive for federal funds to upgrade and enhance facilities and education materials ".
Night Ranger's hold solidified with their second album, Midnight Madness, which pushed the band from opening act to headliner status by the summer of 1984.
Although the project was not pushed any further, it created a need to clarify Tibet's status in international law.
Ragusa had some claims to be considered the natural ecclesiastical centre of South Dalmatia but those of Dioclea ( Bar ) to this new metropolitan status were now vigorously pushed especially as the Pope intended Serbia to be attached to Dioclea.
Unfortunately, the goals failed to flow and Hughes was pushed back into midfield where his experience helped Southampton maintain their Premier League status.
With the House under Democratic control, legislation granting Alaska territorial status was pushed through and became effective on August 24, 1912.
" Conversely, when Russian-influenced musicians tried to ban traditional Azerbaijani instruments like the tar, zurna and kamancha, Hajibeyov and his colleagues pushed to incorporate them into the Western orchestra, thereby, giving them an even higher status and ultimately a chance to survive.
He led Stade Malherbe from D3 to the top of D2 in a few seasons, and pushed it to adopt professional status in 1985.
However, this status proved short lived as the loan capture of Jaroslav Drobný during 2006 pushed de Vries aside, and he was told that he would not be offered a new contract.
Pokrovsky, second in command at Narkompros, and top Proletkult leaders about the organization's budget and semi-independent status and pushed through a decision to absorb Proletkult into Narkompros to end the situation of parallelism once and for all.
* Marginalisation-There is where, through language practices ( including positioning and gaps and silences ) a person or group is denied mainstream status and is literally pushed to the margins ".
The singles, " You and I " and " Mary Jane " pushed Come Get It to 2 × Platinum status.
Along with the establishment of the Malayan High School of Science and Malayan Colleges Laguna, the Administration intends to encompass all its educational institutions under the name Malayan Colleges, to be later pushed through to university status as is under the Vision 2020 initiative with Mapúa Institute of Technology as the College of Engineering.

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