After nearly becoming extinct in the 1940s and 50s, the Liberal Party revived its fortunes somewhat under the leadership of Jo Grimond in the 1960s, by positioning itself as a radical centrist non-socialist alternative to the Conservative and Labour Party governments of the time.

The success of Parklife ( 1994 ) revived Blur's commercial fortunes.

The manufacture of silk and crepe revived the town's fortunes somewhat, and Shepton's mills manufactured the silk used in Queen Victoria's wedding dress.

In May 1968, Trường Chinh urged " protracted war " in a speech that was published prominently in the official media, so the fortunes of his " North first " fraction may have revived at this time.

By the early 80s, the Kinks revived their commercial fortunes considerably by adopting a much more mainstream arena rock style ; and the band's four remaining studio albums for Arista — Low Budget ( 1979 ), Give the People What They Want ( 1981 ), State of Confusion ( 1983 ) and Word of Mouth ( 1984 )— showcased a decidedly canny and opportunistic approach.

Parklife was released in 1994 and revived Blur's commercial fortunes, with the album's first single, the disco-influenced " Girls & Boys ", receiving acclaim and chart success.

The city's fortunes were revived in World War II, when it became a center of fabric manufacturing for the war effort.

When Arthur's business partner Daniel Doyce returns from Russia a wealthy man, Arthur is released with his fortunes revived, and Arthur and Amy are married.

However, Seaford's fortunes revived in the 19th century with the arrival of the railway connecting the town to Lewes and London.

According to TV Guide, the show " was TV's biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes ".

VH1 revived the band's fortunes in the US in 1998 by featuring them on one of the first episodes of Behind the Music.

Many workers were brought in from British India to build the railway, and the city's fortunes revived.

The economic stimulus provided by the Wall and Septimius's campaigns of conquest in Caledonia appear to have revived London's fortunes somewhat in the early 3rd century.

In 1526 Norfolk's niece Anne Boleyn had caught the King's eye, and Norfolk's political fortunes revived with his involvement in the King's attempt to have his marriage to Queen Catherine of Aragon annulled.

The " sublime " is a term in aesthetics whose fortunes revived under postmodernism after a century or more of neglect.

Herbert Wilcox was bankrupt by 1964, but his wife soon revived his fortunes.

His fortunes later revived after the success of his son, and he was granted a coat of arms five years before his death, probably at the instigation and expense of his playwright son, entitling him to use the honorific " gentleman ", conventionally designated by the title " Master " or its abbreviations " Mr ." or " M ." prefixed to his surname.

During the short reign of Basiliscus ( October 475 – June 477 ) the fortunes of Peter revived.

However, Mishima's fortunes revived strongly only after the Tanna Tunnel was completed in 1934, connecting the town to the Tōkaidō Main Line railway between Tokyo and Shizuoka.

The economic stimulus provided by the wall and Septimius's campaigns of conquest in Scotland appear to have revived Londinium's fortunes somewhat in the early third century.

The fortunes of the Labour Party revived in the later 1990s, as the government of Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka became unpopular amid admissions of womanizing and reports of high-level corruption in his administration.

The Conservatives would have to wait twenty years before their fortunes in Western Canada revived.

London to Brighton road traffic revived the fortunes of Pease Pottage.

The fortunes of the ODI team revived immediately, and Ponting's men won their first series during the tour of South Africa, defeating the team that had won the tournament which ended Waugh's reign.

Major rebuilding took place in the Lower or Middle town area following a fire in 1791 and the fortunes of the town revived with the growth in sea bathing, and by 1851 was becoming a retirement centre.

The fortunes of his house declined in his old age: in 1466, the rebellious Catalonians offered the crown of Aragon to René, and the Duke of Calabria, unsuccessful in Italy, was sent to take up the conquest of that kingdom.

At the age of eighteen he was driven to leave Toulouse for Padua by the poor fortunes of the family patron.

This triggered a revival in the team's fortunes, following the emergence of players like Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina, and the coming of age of players like Irfan Pathan and Yuvraj Singh.

After his return, five years later, his fortunes were wrecked by the French Revolution ; but he undauntedly set to work, and at the age of eighty ( 1796 ) carried off the prize in an open government competition.

Liberal governments implementing unemployment insurance, family allowances, and universal old age pensions stole much of the CCF's thunder with the electorate and one of the reasons that the party's electoral fortunes took a downward turn during the prosperous 1950s.

Nor did his devotion to the justification and glorification of Florence permit him to see in the altered fortunes of his city a repetition of the pattern of decline he had illustrated in the histories of the great dynasties of his age.

He died in England in 1715 at the age of 78, his family fortunes much diminished.

Married at age 20, Ouseley led a wild life that dissipated both his own and his wife's fortunes.

Later, his fortunes declined, possibly because of health issues and certainly because of mounting racism nationwide, and he sold his paintings door-to-door in Rockville, Connecticut, where he died in 1923 in virtual obscurity, around the age of 75.

Shannon Airport was built at a strategic point on the early transatlantic flying route, but with the age of the jet, its fortunes declined, in 1969 Aer Rianta took responsibility of the airport.

Lowe's fortunes had been all but lost, and he lived out his remaining days at his daughter's home in Pasadena where he died at age 80.

Memminger's fortunes changed when, at the age of eleven, he was taken under the care of Thomas Bennett, a prominent lawyer and future Governor.

Unlike so many of Deadwood's residents who left home at a young age to make their fortunes on the wild frontier, Swearengen remained at home well into his adult years, arriving in Deadwood in May, 1876 with his wife, Nettie Swearengen.

At the age of 17, Shirvanzade went to work in the city of Baku whose fortunes were beginning to rise with the boom in oil production.

In her adolescence her family fortunes failed, so she travelled at the age of 22 to Vienna to study voice.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

Australia reached a cricketing peak in the 1990s and early 2000s, coupled with a general decline in England's fortunes.

Rejecting the advice of some army officers to take refuge with the troops in Macedonia, he sailed to Italia to ascertain if he had any potential political fortunes or security.

He then followed the fortunes of his friend Elector Maurice of Saxony, deserted Charles, and joined the league which proposed to overthrow the Emperor by an alliance with King Henry II of France.

Agesilaus II, or Agesilaos II () ( 444 BC – 360 BC ) was a king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid dynasty, ruling from approximately 400 BC to 360 BC, during most of which time he was, in Plutarch's words, " as good as thought commander and king of all Greece ," and was for the whole of it greatly identified with his country's deeds and fortunes.

The team's fortunes started to turn in, ironically with a very unpopular trade.

The 2009 season started on a positive with a road win against Tampa Bay, but fortunes quickly changed as Dallas fell to a 2 – 2 start.

After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which deprived France of almost all her possessions in the Americas other than Guiana and a few islands, Louis XV sent thousands of settlers to Guiana who were lured there with stories of plentiful gold and easy fortunes to be made.

Its fortunes have risen since the Red Sox ' 1967 " Impossible Dream " season, and on September 8, 2008 with a game versus the Tampa Bay Rays, Fenway Park broke the all-time Major League record with its 456th consecutive sellout, surpassing the previous record held by Jacobs Field ( now Progressive Field ) in Cleveland, Ohio.

Such men have openly libelled him, like Dewes and Weldon, whose falsehoods were detected as soon as uttered, or have fastened upon certain ceremonious compliments and dedications, the fashion of his day, as a sample of his servility, passing over his noble letters to the Queen, his lofty contempt for the Lord Keeper Puckering, his open dealing with Sir Robert Cecil, and with others, who, powerful when he was nothing, might have blighted his opening fortunes for ever, forgetting his advocacy of the rights of the people in the face of the court, and the true and honest counsels, always given by him, in times of great difficulty, both to Elizabeth and her successor.

Moreover, the Roman Republic's ability to attract private investments in the war effort to fund ships and crews was one of the deciding factors of the war, particularly when contrasted with the Carthaginian nobility's apparent unwillingness to risk their fortunes for the common war effort.

From the time beginning with the incorporation of the Portuguese Empire in 1580 ( lost in 1640 ) until the loss of its American colonies in the 19th century, Spain maintained the largest empire in the world even though it suffered fluctuating military and economic fortunes from the 1640s.

In 203 BC, after nearly fifteen years of fighting in Italy, and with the military fortunes of Carthage rapidly declining, Hannibal was recalled to Carthage to direct the defense of his native country against a Roman invasion under Scipio Africanus.

* lines 14. 284-302 – Avaricious men are willing to risk their lives and fortunes just to have a few more pieces of silver with someone ’ s face and inscription on them.

Until the late Middle Ages, mages ' fortunes waxed and waned along with their native societies.

Their fortunes began to improve with the arrival of nineteen-year-old pitcher, Walter Johnson, in 1907.

In 1998, the party reached the high-water mark in its fortunes by electing 37 deputies with 5. 1 % of the national vote, thus clearing the critical 5 % threshold required for guaranteed proportional representation and full parliamentary status.

Panama was part of the Spanish Empire for over 300 years ( 1513 – 1821 ) and her fortunes fluctuated with the geopolitical importance of the isthmus to the Spanish crown.

The secular fortunes of the Della Rovere began when Sixtus invested his nephew Giovanni with the lordship of Senigallia and arranged his marriage to the daughter of Federico III da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino ; from this union came a line of Della Rovere dukes of Urbino that lasted until the line expired in 1631.

Rich merchants with official connections built up huge fortunes and patronized literature, theater and the arts.

The Romanovs ' fortunes again changed dramatically with the fall of the Godunov dynasty in June 1605.

This precursor to the effects of the Suez Canal ( 1869 ), coupled with the advent of steam shipping that was not reliant on trade winds led to a gradual reduction in the number of ships calling at St Helena and to a decline in its strategic importance to Britain and economic fortunes.