Lincoln's Democratic opponents seized on these appointments to accuse him of using the military to ensure his and the Republicans ' political aspirations.

* Political songs: Alcaeus often composed on a political theme, covering the power struggles on Lesbos with the passion and vigour of a partisan, cursing his opponents, rejoicing in their deaths, delivering blood-curdling homilies on the consequences of political inaction and exhorting his comrades to heroic defiance, as in one of his ' ship of state ' allegories.

Clinton's political opponents charge that to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War during his college years, he used the political influence of a U. S. Senator, who employed him as an aide.

His political opponents quickly noted his non-mention of the university's ban on interracial dating.

In East Germany after local election losses, a forced merger of political parties in the Socialist Unity Party (" SED "), followed by elections in 1946 where political opponents were oppressed.

His treatment of opponents, real or imagined, was extremely harsh, filling the prisons with thousands of political prisoners.

Talks with political opponents in early 1996 did not go well, but Déby announced his intent to hold presidential elections in June.

He has played an influential role in each incident, often acting as mediator between disputing political opponents.

Execution of criminals and political opponents has been used by nearly all societies — both to punish crime and to suppress political dissent.

The term " chardonnay socialist " is regularly used by people from throughout the political spectrum to criticise opponents.

This is of course quite different from plain propaganda, or even the simple persecution of political opponents, because its objective is to force individual ideological conversions.

By contrast, the Fascist and Nazi regimes of Italy and Germany tended to confine their coercive activities to purely political aims, without any serious attempt to force the ideological conversion of their opponents.

While the term " liberal " had been used to describe all political forces in Colombia, the conservatives began describing themselves as " conservative liberals " and their opponents as " red liberals ".

With Vladimir Putin's rise to power, the reference to the FSB members as " Chekists " arose, particularly by Putin's political opponents, often with negative connotations.

These troops policed labor camps ; ran the Gulag system ; conducted requisitions of food ; subjected political opponents to torture and summary execution ; and put down rebellions and riots by workers or peasants, and mutinies in the desertion-plagued Red Army.

However, within a month, the Cheka had extended its repression to all political opponents of the communist government, including anarchists and others on the left.

The exact identity of these individuals is confused by the fact that the Soviet Bolshevik government used the term ' bandit ' to cover ordinary criminals as well as armed and unarmed political opponents, such as the anarchists.

( They were not the only sacrifices ; law-breakers of all classes or defeated political opponents were also acceptable as victims.

Dictatorships are often characterized by some of the following traits: suspension of elections and of civil liberties ; proclamation of a state of emergency ; rule by decree ; repression of political opponents without abiding by rule of law procedures ; these include single-party state, and cult of personality.

As a result, it is often also used as a term of abuse for political opponents. The term has also come to be associated with megalomania.

A generalized meaning of genocide is similar to the ordinary meaning but also includes government killings of political opponents or otherwise intentional murder.

And Hamilton, who felt it `` a religious duty '' to oppose Aaron Burr's political ambitions, would have been a better actuarial risk had he shown more literary restraint.

And we had the uneasy sense that the cleavage between the moral and the political progressed amid the events which concern us.

Steele's purpose is to present a general defense of his political writing and a resume of the themes which had occupied him in the Englishman ; ;

One-armed, gruff, frugally honest, Governor Pope had been the ideal man to assume office in Arkansas after the disgraceful antics of political bosses like Crittenden, and he ruled the state with an iron fist, tolerating no nonsense.

`` I thought I knew more than my education had taught me, '' notes the narrator, `` because I had encountered the militant mobs of a political or religious faith ''.

The jails were filled to overflowing with political prisoners who had incurred his displeasure.

With his long service he had a long memory, an excellent thing in a political leader.

But a realization that each group has much of substance to learn from the other also developed, and a strong conviction grew that each had insights and dimensions to contribute to ethically acceptable solutions of urgent political issues.

Sam Rayburn has never had to look back at any of his most devastating fights and ever feel ashamed of his conduct as a combatant under fire or his political manners in the heat of conflicting ambitions.

The incident, aside from reflecting on Welch's political career, had all but wrecked his home life.

At the central level the scrutin uninominal voting system was selected over some form of the scrutin de liste system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political parties.

Essentially this imposed two conditions: First, international law had to recognize and be compatible with an international political system in which a number of states were competitive, suspicious, and opportunistic in their political alignments with one another ; ;

The epic poems, the consolidation of the Greek pantheon, the rise of firm political units, the self-awareness which could permit painted and sculptured representations of men -- all these had to await the progress of following decades.

He was also personally active in ward politics, and by 1924 O'Banion had acquired sufficient political might to be able to state: `` I always deliver my borough as per requirements ''.

I was curious about the impact of this political assassination on Negroes in Harlem, for Lumumba had -- has -- captured the popular imagination there.

Youngish man on the make, Madden labeled him, and was ready to guess that in a correct, not too pushing fashion, the junior partner of the firm had political ambitions ; ;

There was no directive for it -- the Security Council's resolution had not mentioned political matters, and in any case the United Nations by the terms of its charter may not interfere in the political affairs of any nation, whether to unify it, federalize it or Balkanize it.

He believes that greatness is a marriage between the man and the times as was aptly represented by Churchill, who would very possibly have gone down in history as a political failure if it had not been for Hitler's war.

In practice the law had little effect, but it did signal political support for abolishing slavery in the Confederacy

Lincoln arranged for an intermediary to make inquiry into Grant's political intentions, and being assured that he had none, submitted to the Senate Grant's promotion to commander of the Union Army.

Algeria had also won an Oscar for the movie Z, a political thriller directed by Costa Gavras.

Austria underwent a political coup that made it part of the Third Reich ; France had been invaded and Italy was a fascist regime.