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.

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.

To counter political corruption, he secured campaign laws in 1906 and 1907 that limited political contributions by corporations and forced candidates to account for their receipts and expenses, legislation that was quickly copied in fifteen other states.

Ortega was arrested for political activities at the age of 15, and quickly joined the then-underground Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ).

Both the Portuguese Empire and Spanish Empire quickly grew into the first global political and economic systems with territories spread around the world.

More recent theories view the nomadic confederacies, such as the Huns, as the formation of several different cultural, political and linguistic entities that could dissolve as quickly as they formed, entailing a process of ethnogenesis.

Venizelos quickly established himself as a powerful political figure, and his allies won the August 1910 elections.

A collection of communists moved quickly after World War II to subdue all potential political enemies in Albania, break the country's landowners and minuscule middle class, and isolate Albania from western powers in order to establish the People's Republic of Albania.

He moved quickly to release political prisoners and lift some controls on freedom of speech and association.

Baldwin brought with him an Armenian wife, traditionally named Arda ( although never named such by contemporaries ), whom he had married to gain political support from the Armenian population in Edessa, and whom he quickly set aside when he no longer needed Armenian support in Jerusalem.

As before independence, the sedentary lifestyle of these groups made them more receptive to and useful in state formation, and they quickly came to dominate state administration, even if the Moorish groups built up by the French remained in charge of the political process.

He also quickly purged the government of political enemies, notably Ziauddin and national airline chief Shahid Khaqan Abbassi.

The National Convention believed that the Committee needed to rule with " near dictatorial power " and the Committee was delegated new and expansive political powers to quickly respond to popular demands.

It quickly becomes a center for exploration, interstellar trade, political maneuvering, and eventually open conflict.

He quickly became passionately interested, and involved, in the attendant political machinations.

Although on the surface an entertaining escapist romance, alert contemporary readers would have quickly recognized the political subtext of Ivanhoe, which appeared immediately after the English Parliament, fearful of French-style revolution in the aftermath of Waterloo, had passed the Habeas Corpus Suspension acts of 1817 and 1818 and other extremely repressive measures and when traditional English Charter rights versus revolutionary human rights was a topic of discussion.

Under any circumstance, during the end of the 13th century, Stockholm quickly grew to become not only the largest city in Sweden, but also the de facto Swedish political centre and royal residence.

These ideas about rights reflected those of the political thinker John Locke and they quickly became popular in England.

The term of " Alania " quickly became popular in Ossetian daily life through the names of various enterprises, a TV channel, political and civic organizations, publishing house, soccer team, etc.

“ Germans threw themselves into their clubs, voluntary associations, and professional organizations out of frustration with the failures of the national government and political parties, thereby helping to undermine the Weimar Republic and facilitate Hitler ’ s rise to power .” In this article about the fall of the Weimar Republic, the author makes the claim that Hitler rose to power so quickly because he was able to mobilize the groups towards one common goal.

The most famous of all of Ingres's portraits, depicting the journalist Louis-François Bertin, quickly became a symbol of the rising economic and political power of the bourgeoisie.

Initial hopes for a unified, independent Korea quickly evaporated as the politics of the Cold War and opposition to the trusteeship plan from anti-communists resulted in the 1948 establishment of two separate nations with diametrically opposed political, economic, and social systems.

After Throckmorton's death in 1571 there quickly evolved a political alliance between the Earl of Leicester and Sir Francis Walsingham, soon to be Secretary of State.

The small number of party members were quickly won over to Hitler's political beliefs.

Both the extreme right and the extreme left now disagreed with the government and increased political violence quickly turned into a civil war.