Subsequently, however, they succeeded in winning a victory over the Athenian fleet.

Gianfranco Fini was the leader of the party since its foundation in 1995, however he stepped down in 2008 after being elected to the nominally non-partisan post of President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and was succeeded by Ignazio La Russa, who managed to merge the party into The People of Freedom ( PdL ).

No president with military background has however been succeeded by a new military president.

Neriglissar however reigned for only four years, being succeeded by the youthful Labashi-Marduk in 560 BC.

Neither 495 nor 532 may be treated as reliable, however, the latter date relies on the presumption that the Regnal List is correct in presenting the kings of Wessex as having succeeded one another, with no omitted kings, no joint kingships, and that the durations of the reigns are correct as given.

The Crown Prince, however, succeeded in effecting the retreat in good order, and in the decisive Battle of Königgratz ( 3 July 1866 ) he held the extreme left of the Austrian position.

All other firearms held in custody remained there however, until the repeal of the Garda policy following a high court case taken by an Irish shooter ( Frank Brophy ) to obtain a licence for an Olympic target shooting pistol succeeded and the licence was granted.

The next year Henry's ally Władysław III Spindleshanks succeeded Leszek I as High Duke ; however as he was still contested by his nephew in Greater Poland, he made Henry his governor at Kraków, whereby the Silesian duke once again became entangled into the dispute over the Seniorate Province.

One of the first actions however of the Labour Party leader who succeeded them, Ed Miliband, was the rejection of the " New Labour " label.

It succeeded in the first but not the second: in the first Mercury mission on 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space ; however the Soviet Union had put Yuri Gagarin into space one month earlier.

He never succeeded, however, mostly because Rollins was prone to make himself unavailable for months at a time.

Attempts by governor John Skottowe ( 1764 – 1782 ) to regularise the sale of arrack and punch led to some hostility and desertions by a number of troops who stole boats and were probably mostly lost at sea — however, at least one group of seven soldiers and a slave succeeded in escaping to Brazil in 1770.

Within a few years, however, Jamal was assassinated by either disloyal friends or cousins around 1432 or 1433, and was succeeded by his brother Badlay ibn Sa ' ad ad-Din.

Soon after his father's death, however, he turned on his brothers and succeeded in dispossessing them, reuniting thus his father's possessions under his control in 1072.

The injunction ultimately succeeded in ending the strike ; however, tensions remained high between railroad workers and company men for years.

He succeeded, however, in reversing his father's obsequious policy towards Imperial Russia.

At this time, however, the Almohads had triumphed in Africa and invaded the Peninsula, where they were able to check the Portuguese reconquest, although isolated bands of crusading adventurers succeeded in establishing themselves in various cities of Alentejo.

Xerxes, eldest son of Darius and Atossa, succeeded to the throne as Xerxes I ; however, prior to Xerxes's accession, he contested the succession with his elder half-brother Artobarzanes, Darius's eldest son who was born to his commoner first wife before Darius rose to power.

It was, however, actively opposed by the Christian Church, which succeeded in obtaining statutes banning it in the following century.

Success was limited, however, partly owing to personal skirmishes between Johann George, the Field Marshal Hans Adam von Schöning and the imperial commander Caprara ; only the crossing of the Rhine at Sandhofen succeeded.

In 1815, at the formation of the Province of Brandenburg, Potsdam became the provincial capital until 1918, however, interrupted and succeeded by Berlin as provincial capital between 1827 and 1843, and after 1918.

Three years later, however, another Palestinian-Arab film, Paradise Now ( 2005 ), succeeded in getting nominated for the Foreign Language Film Award.

With the help of the Simpsons and an influential doorman, however, Krusty succeeded in passing his bill.

In 1275 Alfonso tried to meet with his nominal imperial vicar in Italy, William VII of Montferrat ( who had succeeded Ezzelino ) and his Ghibelline allies in Piedmont and Lombardy to fight against the Guelph Charles I of Anjou ; he was however halted in Provence by the Pope who, after a long negotiation, obtained Alfonso's renunciation of the title of King of the Romans.

Philibert however died childless in 1504, surprisingly, and now Charles succeeded, at age eighteen.

The artists fought the response through letter writing and four years later succeeded in gaining the right to complete the murals.

" In the first play from scrimmage after the opening kicks, Villanova completed a pass that " succeeded in gaining ten yards.

Henry failed to make royal and Imperial succession hereditary, but in 1196 he succeeded in gaining a pledge that his infant son Frederick would receive the German crown.

The women's rights movement succeeded in gaining for many women the right to vote.

St Theophan the Recluse once remarked that bodily postures and breathing techniques were virtually forbidden in his youth, since, instead of gaining the Spirit of God, people succeeded only " in ruining their lungs.

With support of Senshi, his sister and mother of Ichijō, Michinaga succeeded in gaining power as well the support of majority of the court.

After gaining the throne after palace intrigue and fraternal dispute, succeeded as Sultan on 7 September 1566, Selim II became the first Sultan devoid of active military interest and willing to abandon power to his ministers, provided he was left free to pursue his orgies and debauches.

The hearings were initially set to be heard in camera, but the intervention of 23 non-governmental organisations eventually succeeded in gaining media access to the hearings.

Julius Caesar conquered the tribes on the left bank, and Augustus established numerous fortified posts on the Rhine, but the Romans never succeeded in gaining a firm footing on the right bank.

He only succeeded in gaining control of some of Galloway, with his power diminishing there until 1355.

His election took place during the persecution which caused the banishment of his predecessor Pope Cornelius, and he also was banished soon after his consecration, but succeeded in gaining permission to return.

Julius Caesar conquered the tribes on the left bank, and Augustus established numerous fortified posts on the Rhine, but the Romans never succeeded in gaining a firm footing on the right bank.

Zuccari moved to Rome by age 14, and he succeeded at an early age in gaining a knowledge of painting and in finding patrons to employ him.

Tresckow in particular worked on his Commander-in-Chief of Army Group Centre, Field Marshal Günther von Kluge to persuade him to move against Hitler and at times succeeded in gaining his consent, only to find him indecisive at the last minute.

The party hoped that the elevation of a popular woman as its new leader would improve its position, but Kirner never succeeded in gaining control of the crisis into which the state had plunged.

In conclusion, Jean-Marie Le Pen managed to unify most of the French far-right in the National Front, created in 1972 in the aftermaths of the Algerian War, which succeeded in gaining influence starting in the 1980s.

The Greeks succeeded in gaining his armour ( which was later given as a prize in the funeral games for Patroclus ), but Zeus had Phoebus Apollo rescue the corpse.

In Athens, meanwhile, a party of young oligarchic revolutionaries succeeded in gaining de facto control of the government through assassination and intimidation.

They succeeded in gaining positions within the Government ( and, in Kim Philby's case, within British intelligence itself ), from where they were able to provide the NKVD with sensitive information.

Efforts by Frank Miller, then owner of the Mission Inn in Riverside, California, Hiram Johnson and others, succeeded in gaining War Department approval to construct an airfield at Alessandro Field located near Riverside, an airstrip used by aviators from Rockwell Field on cross-country flights from San Diego.

Finally, as the Interstate Commerce Commission began to realize that railroads needed to be able to compete successfully with trucking and other modes of transportation more than primarily each other, in 1959, the Norfolk and Western succeeded in reaching a merge with the VGN and gaining regulatory approvals, marking what became called the " modern merger era " in North American railroading which eventually resulted in Princeton's current service by Norfolk Southern Railway, one of only 6 large class 1 railroads operating in the United States in the 21st century.

Henri Christophe ( who used the anglicized version of Henry Christopher ) ( 6 October 1767 – 8 October 1820 ) was a former slave and key leader in the Haitian Revolution, which succeeded in gaining independence from France in 1804.

Gregoras remained loyal to the elder Andronicus to the last, but after his death he succeeded in gaining the favour of his grandson, by whom he was appointed to conduct the unsuccessful negotiations ( for a union of the Greek and Latin churches ) with the ambassadors of Pope John XXII ( 1333 ).

In 1768 he was sent to Paris on an embassy to the duc de Choiseul, whose friendship he succeeded in gaining.

So he tried for gaining his brother-in-law Sigismund II Augustus of Poland and finally succeeded, including the then usual expenses.