He played the leading role in negotiating the treaty with Great Britain that ended the Revolution, and directed America's foreign affairs throughout the Confederation period.

They were stressed in the speeches of Si Mubarak Bekkai when the first Council of Ministers was formed and again when the Istiqlal took a leading role in the second Council.

Dolores Hart, is charming in a leading role, and quite believable.

Scholars place Antoninus Pius as the leading candidate for fulfilling the role as a friend of Rabbi Judah the Prince.

It also found a prominent role in the desktop video, video production, and show control business, leading to affordable video editing systems such as the Video Toaster.

Arnulf took the leading role in the deposition of his uncle, the Emperor Charles the Fat.

In 325, at the age of 27, Athanasius had a leading role against the Arians in the First Council of Nicaea.

The Goths appear to have established a loose political hegemony over the existing tribes in the region, or at least to have played the leading role in a series of major invasions of the empire launched by a grand coalition of lower Danubian tribes from ca.

Love worked with director Alex Cox on her first two films ; she gained a small part in the Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy ( 1986 ), and was then given the leading role in his following film, Straight to Hell ( 1987 ), which caught the attention of artist Andy Warhol.

Other roles include: starring opposite Jim Carrey in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon ( 1999 ); as Joan Vollmer in Beat ( 2000 ) alongside Kiefer Sutherland ; and a leading role in Julie Johnson ( 2001 ) as Lili Taylor's lesbian lover, for which she won an Outstanding Actress award at L. A .' s Outfest.

Conservative rabbis also play a leading role at a number of non-denominational institutions of advanced Jewish learning.

Following Khrushchev's ascension to power, the Central Committee still played a leading role ; it overturned the Politburo's decision to remove Khrushchev from office in 1957.

Stripped of its leading role in society the party lost its authority to lead the nation or the cohesion that kept the party united.

* 1989 – Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state.

Charles Taylor, in his 2007 book A Secular Age, showed the historical role of deism, leading to what he calls an exclusive humanism.

While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, he is best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American TV series I Love Lucy, starring with Lucille Ball, to whom he was married at the time.

Hopper's later work included a leading role in the television series Crash.

" His next order was to turn away by two points, and, in any case, a few minutes later he reversed his fleet's course to fulfill its anticipated role of leading the German forces towards the main British fleet.

During his tenure at the White House, Rohrabacher played a leading role in the formulation of the Reagan Doctrine.

Egypt played an important role in the negotiations leading to the Madrid Conference of 1991, which, under United States and Soviet sponsorship, brought together all parties in the region, including for the first time a Palestinian delegation, to discuss Middle East peace.

Following the 2001 earthquakes, the U. S. Embassy assumed a leading role in implementing U. S. sponsored assistance.

The United States played a facilitative role in the peace talks in Washington during the months leading up to the May 1991 fall of the Mengistu regime.

The common law also continues to play a leading role in American water law, in the doctrines of riparian rights and prior appropriation.

Since independence, Fiji has been a leader in the South Pacific region, and has played a leading role in the formation of the South Pacific Forum.

Coastal Finland consists of broad clay plains where agriculture plays a leading role.

In May 2010, Lineker resigned from his role as columnist for The Mail on Sunday in protest over the sting operation against Lord Triesman that jeopardised England ’ s bid to host the 2018 World Cup.

When Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar in 1978, for her role in Julia, members of the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ), led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, burned effigies of Redgrave and picketed the Academy Awards ceremony to protest against both Redgrave and her support of the Palestinian cause.

On January 26, 2001 a number of activists with Brazil's Movimento dos Sem-Terra ( MST ) reacted in protest to the growing role of Monsanto in global agribusiness, which was considered by the group to be unethically using their seed patents to harm the rights of rural peoples, tore up an experimental plot of transgenic crops in Não-me-Toque, 300 km from Porto Alegre, where the World Social Forum was taking place at the time.

The demonstrators, who were calling for the University to condemn Israel's role in the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict and to cancel a lecture series at Balliol College inaugurated by Shimon Peres, ended their protest after an agreement with the Senior Proctor.

A rally of protesters, estimated between 100, 000 and 200, 000 people, met in front of Belfast City Hall after a campaign dubbed after its slogan " Ulster Says No " to protest the Anglo-Irish Agreement, which gave the Republic of Ireland a consultive role in the affairs of Northern Ireland.

Perhaps the most notable of these was the resignation of program director Don Berns after only two years in the role, in protest of station management's decisions.

In 1992, when Mattel Inc. began selling a Barbie doll that said math class is tough, the voices of protest that started with the Systers list played a role in getting Mattel to remove that phrase from Barbie's microchip.

Douglas also pointed out the legitimate role of symbolic speech in First Amendment doctrine, using examples of a person ripping up a Bible to celebrate the abandonment of his faith or tearing a copy of the Constitution in order to protest a Supreme Court decision, and assailed the previous term's United States v. O ' Brien, 391 U. S. 367 ( 1968 ), which had allowed for the prosecution of a man for burning his draft card.

He had a prominent role in protests in Kabul Jan about Afghanistan-and Islam-related issues, including an anti-American protest in 2003, a hunger strike to protest over beatings of journalists by Afghan security officers in 2006, and another one to protest the 2008 Danish Muhammad cartoons.

SNCC's role was to develop and link sit-in campaigns and to help organize freedom rides, voter registration drives, and other protest activities.

In any case, Leigh was cast — despite public protest that the role was too " American " for an English actress — and eventually won an Academy Award for her performance.

Veterans played a central role in the post-World War I instability of Germany, while in the United States, the Bonus Army of unemployed veterans was one of the most important protest movements of the Great Depression, marching on Washington, DC, to get a claimed bonus that Congress had promised them.

Her breakthrough role was that of Barbara in the unconventional 1968 movie Zur Sache, Schätzchen ( Go for It, Baby ), which captured the spirit of the times in that it presented youthful protest against the German establishment and hinted at the loosening of morals in the wake of the sexual revolution.

Winograd criticized Harman's role as ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee in failing to protest when briefed on the Bush administration's warrantless wiretap program and voting for the Iraq war authorization Then-Vice-President Dick Cheney later confirmed that Harman knew about and approved of the program.

The organisation played a leading role in the student protest movement of the early 1990s.

The election was also the only one in which the New Zealand Party, a protest party, played any substantial role.

He resigned from this role in 1987 in protest at the sacking of two of his colleagues.

He was director of the National Theatre from 1973 to 1988 and was also a member of the Arts Council of Great Britain resigning from the latter role in protest over cuts in public funding.

Bergen further observed the " terrible irony " that a gesture of protest further served the genocidal aims of the regime ; the soldiers who were troubled by the crying of the children waiting for their time to die felt that they had " dealt with " this issue by " doing something ", namely appealing to Father Tewes and Pastor Wilczek, and that they had no further role to play in this matter.

Of the role Reilly said, “ Noah was almost a father figure to Hughes ... Howard would have a scheme, and it was Noah who had to say, ‘ We don ’ t have the money .’ He was one of his few friends .” He reportedly quit the 2005 film Manderlay to protest the on-set killing of a donkey.

He told Magnet Magazine, " I ’ ve always done lots of social commentary that I believe in pretty strongly but I am very uncomfortable with the role of the artist as a meaningful social critic ... my whole generation a confused group of people with an ambivalent way of dealing with protest.

His decision to protest the war was informed by his basic view of history and the role of American mythologies in American life, including and most importantly the mythology of absolute freedom and equality implied by Jeffersonian democracy.