McCay's employer, William Randolph Hearst, was displeased with McCay's success outside of the newspapers, and used his contractual power to reduce McCay's stage activities.

Emperor Ling's mother, Grand Empress Dowager Dong, and her nephew Dong Chong ( 董重 ) were displeased at the Hes ' power grab, and Grand Empress Dowager Dong often argued with Empress Dowager He, once threatening to have Dong Chong decapitate He Jin.

If the ulema was displeased with a Sultan a decree known as a fetva would be issued and the Sultan would be removed from power.

The fleet, now stationed at Chios, was in poor condition, Spartans at home were discouraged, and supporters of Callicratidas were displeased by the notion that his rival Lysander would rise to power again if the war were to continue ( Sparta's allies in the Aegean were demanding his return ).

Although Osborn was displeased with Gargan's new power, he nevertheless watched with glee as the assembled villains converged on the hopelessly outnumbered Spider-Man and Black Cat.

Emperor Ling's mother, Grand Empress Dowager Dong, and her nephew Dong Chong ( 董重 ) were displeased at the Hes ' power grab, and Grand Empress Dowager Dong often argued with Empress Dowager He, once threatening to have Dong Chong decapitate He Jin.

As licenser, Mabbot had the power to withhold a license to publish from those newsbooks which displeased him ; however, he was progressively less successful.

Desks were placed against walls, and the Master's desk was raised, a practice that displeased Gladman, who remarked " Fixing the master thus, deprived him of much of his power ; he would do more good in passing from class to class, and teaching.

The Calendar of Saints states that her first husband was poisoned by the holder of real power, his successor, Berengar of Ivrea, who attempted to cement his political power by forcing her to marry his son, Adalbert ; when she refused and fled, she was tracked down and imprisoned for four months at Como.

Abd al-Rahman's alleged favorite son was his choice for successor, and would later be known as Hisham I. Abd ar-Rahman's progeny would continue to rule al-Andalus in the name of the house of Umayya for several generations, with the zenith of their power coming during the reign of Abd al-Rahman III.

The growth of the population of ancient civilizations, the formation of ancient empires concentrating political power, and the growth in commerce and manufacturing led to ever greater capital cities and centres of commerce and industry, with Alexandria, Antioch and Seleucia of the Hellenistic civilization, Pataliputra ( now Patna ) in India, Chang ' an ( now Xi ' an ) in China, Carthage, ancient Rome, its eastern successor Constantinople ( later Istanbul ).

Constantius and his successor had expanded the power of Bishops placing them on the same level as civic elites.

Cuauhtémoc took power in 1520 as successor of Cuitláhuac and was a cousin of the former emperor Moctezuma II, and his young wife, who would later be known as Isabel Moctezuma, was one of Moctezuma's daughters.

In the reign of Philip's developmentally disabled son and successor Charles II ( 1665 – 1700 ), Spain was essentially left leaderless and was gradually being reduced to a second-rank power.

In 774, Duke Arechis II of Benevento, whose duchy had only nominally been under royal authority, though certain kings had been effective at making their power known in the south, claimed that Benevento was the successor state of the kingdom.

Vladimir Lenin said that cinema was “ the most important of the arts .” His successor, Joseph Stalin, also recognized the power of cinema in efficiently spreading Communist Party doctrine.

The death of Mao eventually saw the Deng Xiaoping politically outmaneuver Mao's chosen successor to power in the People's Republic of China.

As Qing power expanded north of the Great Wall in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the Banner system was expanded by Nurhachi's son and successor Hong Taiji to include mirrored Mongol and Han Banners.

Tamil National Alliance, formed in October 2001 is the current successor of these Tamil political parties which had undergone much turbulences as Tamil militants ' rise to power in late 1970s.

In 1980, President Senghor retired from politics, and handed power over to his handpicked successor, Abdou Diouf, in 1981.

In addition, unlike the other successor states of the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia did not normalize relations with the " Federal Republic of Yugoslavia " ( Serbia and Montenegro ) until after the passing from power of Slobodan Milošević ; although the Slovenes did open a representative office in Podgorica to work with Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović's government.

After a brief and tumultuous year in power, a revolt by members of the Praetorian Guard compelled him to adopt the more popular Trajan as his heir and successor.

The pre-existing notion of consortium imperii, the sharing of imperial power, and the notion that an associate to the throne was the designated successor ( possibly conflicting with the notion of hereditary claim by birth or adoption ), was to reappear repeatedly.

Hideyoshi's underaged son and designated successor Hideyori lost the power his father once held, and Tokugawa Ieyasu was declared Shogun following the Battle of Sekigahara.

Garner's successor, Henry Wallace, was given major responsibilities during the war, but he moved further to the left than the Democratic Party and the rest of the Roosevelt administration and was relieved of actual power.

Five bishops are immediately consecrated by the Patriarch of Alexandria, and the successor to Abuna Qerellos IV is granted the power to consecrate new bishops, who are empowered to elect a new Patriarch for their church.

* June 29 – WWII: Hitler, s second-in-command Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring appointed as Hitler, s successor in a written decree. The decree will come into effect should Hitler die in the middle of the war. The decree later became void after Göring tried to assume power while Hitler was very much alive leading to Göring being expelled from the party.

* January 1 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia temporarily gives power to Crown Prince Abdullah, his legal successor, due to illness.

The peaceful reign of Aldfrith, Ecgfrith's half-brother and successor, did something to limit the damage done, but it is from this point that Northumbria's power began to decline, and chronic instability followed Aldfrith's death in 704.

As the DC's role was ended, the 1919 PPI strongholds and the DC's traditional heartlands were to become Lega Nord's power base, while the successor parties of the DC continued to be key political actors only in the South, where the clientelistic way of government practised by the Christian Democrats and their allies had left a mark.

Although William's successor Anne had considerable Tory sympathies and excluded the Junto Whigs from power, after a brief and unsuccessful experiment with an exclusively Tory government she generally continued William's policy of balancing the parties, supported by her moderate Tory ministers, the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Godolphin.

Before his death, he is thought to have named Aurelian as his successor, although Claudius ' brother Quintillus briefly seized power.

In 1061, Abu Bakr ibn Umar made a division of the power he had established, handing over the more-settled parts to his cousin Yusuf ibn Tashfin, as viceroy, resigning to him also his favourite wife Zainab.

At the time of his accession and the elimination of Abu ' l Fazl, his father's chief minister and architect of his eclectic religious stance, a powerful group of orthodox noblemen had gained increased power in the Mughal court.

Medina was the power base of Islam in its first century, being where the early Muslim community ( ummah ) developed under the Prophet's leadership, then under the leadership of the first four caliphs of Islam: Abu Bakr, Omar, Othman and Ali.

Around 1058, a revolt on the island of Bahrain led by two Shi ' a members of the Abd al-Qays tribe, Abul-Bahlul al -' Awwam and Abu ' l-Walid Muslim, precipitated the waning of Qarmatian power and eventually the ascendancy to power of the Uyunids, an Arab dynasty belonging to the Abdul Qays tribe.

Hafez was supported by patronage from several successive local regimes: Shah Abu Ishaq, who came to power while Hafez was in his teens ; Timur at the end of his life ; and even the strict ruler Shah Mubariz ud-Din Muhammad ( Mubariz Muzaffar ).

Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the only two emirates to have veto power over critical matters of national importance in the country's legislature.

Although it appears that Abu al -' Abbas trusted him in general, he was wary of his power, limiting his entourage to 500 men upon his arrival to Iraq on his way to Hajj in 754.

It seems that this dislike was mutual, with Abu Muslim aspiring to more power and looking down in disdain on al-Mansur, feeling al-Mansur owed Abu Muslim for his position.

Aladdin, Abu, Jasmine and the Genie discover the Oracle, who has the power to answer a single question about absolutely anything to any individual.

The 23 year-old Khadaffy Janjalani then took power of one of Abu Sayyaf's factions in an internecine struggle.

He then worked to consolidate his power within Abu Sayyaf, causing the group to appear inactive for a period.

Fujairah's economy is based on subsidies and federal government grants distributed by the government of Abu Dhabi ( the seat of power in the UAE ).

Then, in 1314, Mohammed Khodabanda ( also known as Muhammad Khodabandeh, or most commonly, Öljaitü ) died and power passed to his son, Abu Sa ' id.

When Garad Abogne was in power, he was defeated and killed by Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad, In 1554, under the initiative of Sultan Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad, Harar became the capital of Adal.

The quality of construction of the Abu Sir pyramids is inferior to those of the Fourth Dynasty – perhaps signaling a decrease in royal power or a less vibrant economy.

The real founder of Shaybanid power was Muhammad Shaybani-grandson of Abu ' l Khair.

* Abu Zayyan Muhammad II ibn Uthman ruled in 1360, 1370-1372, 1383-1384 and 1387 during times when Abu Hammu II was forced from power.

Likewise, the Banu Salama, removed from power in Huesca and Barbitanya ( Barbastro ) at the end of the 8th century, may have derived from Abu Salama.

The amendment, which critics said had no power to stop the U. S. military from torturing terrorist suspects, followed years of reports of torture in overseas prisons, such as the abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison.

Therefore, in 931 Abu Tahir handed over power to a young Persian man whom he believed to be the awaited mahdi.

The Caliph of Baghdad, al-Muqtadi, had given power to his vizier, Abu Shuja, imposed that each male Jew should wear a yellow badge on his headgear.