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Many members of the movement are also aware of this, and argue that, as long as they have a common opponent, they should march together-even if they don't share exactly the same political vision.
He was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War and political movements such as McCarthyism, and he helped pay for the successful defense of a soldier accused of " fragging " ( murdering ) another soldier during the war.
The propaganda of the Reds and Whites utilized the terror acts of the opponent effectively, which increased the local political violence and the spiral of revenge.
Pompey was appointed sole consul as an emergency measure, and married the daughter of a political opponent of Caesar.
Randolph had been President Jefferson's political opponent in the House.
Citizen Kane launched the film careers of the Mercury Players, including Agnes Moorehead ( who played Kane's mother ), Ruth Warrick ( Kane's first wife ), and Ray Collins ( Kane's political opponent ).
He was probably the best known Haredi opponent of all forms of modern political Zionism.
Eysenck's political views related to his research: Eysenck was an outspoken opponent of what he perceived as the authoritarian abuses of the left and right, and accordingly he believed that, with this T axis, he had found the link between nazism and communism.
The term political sabotage is sometimes used to define the acts of one political camp to disrupt, harass or damage the reputation of a political opponent, usually during an electoral campaign.
In 1900, a political opponent, J. F.
** Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, is sentenced to death by hanging for ordering the assassination of a political opponent.
Nuclear warfare ( sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare ), is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is used to inflict damage on an opponent.
The reigning duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, was the chief political opponent of Maximilian's father Frederick III.
Roosevelt's Republican opponent was Governor Alf Landon of Kansas, a political moderate.
Nonetheless, she had ceased to be involved in German political affairs and with an opponent on the throne, her future there did not promise anything significantly worthwhile.
He argued that Ernst Hirsch Ballin should not be allowed to hold a high office because of his Jewish heritage and said he was not saddened by the sudden death of political opponent Ien Dales.
During the 1876 presidential election, Tilden won the popular vote over his Republican opponent, Rutherford B. Hayes, proving that the Democrats were once again competitive in the American political process following the Civil War.
In March 1975 he was made a freeman of the city of Dublin, along with his old political opponent Éamon de Valera.
Some commentators < sup > who ?</ sup > advance the view that the story of Moab's incestuous conception found its way into the text as part of a political polemic of the time to denigrate Israelites ' opponent and relegate the Moabites to a lesser status.
Despite this setback, he continued to prepare for the Mt Tantiss campaign, removing Ackbar, his most formidable opponent, via political intrigue.
He served in the Conservative shadow cabinet during the Wilson government, and built up his practice at the Bar where one of his clients was the Prime Minister and his political opponent, Harold Wilson.
In this latter sense, the term is often used as a means of attacking an opponent in political debate, by branding his or her policies as Orwellian.

political and lifetime
Despairing of the opportunity to remain directly involved in political matters, after a time Machiavelli began to participate in intellectual groups in Florence and wrote several plays that ( unlike his works on political theory ) were both popular and widely known in his lifetime.
Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning in 1948 and the Banshees ' Silver Lady Award 1959.
Sappho's lifetime witnessed a period of political turbulence on Lesbos and saw the rise of Pittacus.
Thoreau's political writings had little impact during his lifetime, as " his contemporaries did not see him as a theorist or as a radical, viewing him instead as a naturalist.
However, most modern scholars believe that the ancestors attributed to Harald Hardrada's father, along with other parts of the Fairhair genealogy, are inventions reflecting the political and social expectations of the time of the authors ( around two centuries after Harald Hardrada's lifetime ) rather than historical reality.
During her husband's lifetime Marie showed little sign of political acumen, and her abilities scarcely improved after she assumed the regency.
It was named for Dr. Hugh J. Glenn, who was the largest wheat farmer in the state during his lifetime, and a man of great prominence in political and commercial life in California
Gaunt enjoyed great political influence during his lifetime, but upon his death in 1399, his lands were confiscated by Richard II.
Throughout the project's lifetime it was subject to continual debate and much political rhetoric.
Due to this, and like other people imprisoned for political activities under the military government, Lula was awarded a lifetime pension after the regime fell.
While the Zionist movement was not founded during his lifetime, it is clear from his responses to Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, and in several places in his commentary to the Bible and Siddur, that although he had a deep love for the land of Israel, he opposed a movement to wrest political independence for the land of Israel before the Messianic Era.
As in Serling's 1963 screenplay for the political thriller, Seven Days in May, in which a highly moral minor character is named Art Corwin, the appellation of Carney's " Night of the Meek " character, Henry Corwin, was a tribute to Serling's idol, legendary television, film and, most memorably for Serling, radio writer Norman Corwin whose lengthy career, in contrast to Serling's relatively brief 50-year lifetime, had spanned over seven decades.
Recipient of the 2006 Lifetime Emmy Award, " Bill Moyers has devoted his lifetime to the exploration of the major issues and ideas of our time and our country, giving television viewers an informed perspective on political and societal concerns ," according to the official announcement, which also noted that " the scope of and quality of his broadcasts have been honored time and again.
Speaking in 1853 of the political issues of the spiritual philosophy which he had taught during his lifetime, he says ,--" It conducts human societies to the true republic, that dream of all generous souls, which in our time can be realized in Europe only by constitutional monarchy.
Christian Herter's lifetime reputation was as an internationalist, especially interested in improving political and economic relations with Europe.
During his lifetime, Banana brought together two of the country's political parties, the Zimbabwe African National Union ( ZANU ) and the Zimbabwe African People's Union ( ZAPU ), became a diplomat for the Organisation of African Unity, and headed the religious department of the University of Zimbabwe.
She points out that after The Swineherd, he never again wrote a tale colored with political satire, but, within months of the gift, began composing " The Ugly Duckling ", a tale about a bird born in a henyard who, after a lifetime of misery, matures into a swan, " one of those royal birds ".
During Quiroga ’ s lifetime, he managed to keep political and ecclesiastical power in Pátzcuaro despite the viceroy ’ s and encomenderos ’ objections.
B. von Platen ( Stockholm, 1886 ); and his own Minnen ( Stockholm, 1892 ), an autobiography, invaluable as a historical document, in which the political experience and the matured judgments of a lifetime are recorded with singular clearness, sobriety and charm.
Born into a class that identified closely with British rule, her conversion to cultural nationalism, as evidenced by her writings, was emblematic of many of the political struggles to occur in Ireland during her lifetime.
His political views changed over his lifetime, and, in the last decades of his career, he became well known as a staunch Federalist and was impeached for allegedly letting his partisan leanings affect his court decisions.
He was quoted as saying he needed a lifetime to fulfill his political work.
During his lifetime, he held several political posts, especially in Nigeria.

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