His consequent unpopularity in the European provinces was utilized by an ambitious man, named Vitalian, to organize a dangerous rebellion, in which he was assisted by a horde of " Huns " ( 514 – 515 ); it was finally suppressed by a naval victory won by the general Marinus.

The fact that he became identified with the attempts to make peace added to his unpopularity at a period when the majority of Englishmen believed victory would be in their grasp if the French could be roundly defeated as they had been in the 1350s.

At the next election in 1967 the unpopularity of the national Labour government produced a massive Conservative victory with 82 seats, to Labour's 18.

He believed the fundamentals of the conflict had not changed ; the South Vietnamese regime's unpopularity remained its " Achilles heel " and he continued to believe victory could be achieved through a combination of uprising against the South Vietnamese regime and a communist offensive against it.

Labour has not come close to winning the seat since, but even Gardner's 1966 victory was partly due to the unpopularity of the Tory MP whom he defeated.

The widespread unpopularity of Emergency rule gave Janata Party and its allied a landslide victory in the election.

Kilpatrick and his opponent Freman Hendrix, both Democrats, initially claimed victory, but as the votes were tallied, it became clear that Kilpatrick had come back from his stretch of unpopularity to win a second term in office.

The opposition Democratic Party ( DP ) capitalized on its unpopularity in the general elections of 1950, thereby achieving a landslide victory against the incumbent Republican People's Party ( CHP ).

This was the greatest victory for any National organisation within the USSR and was a devastating revelation to the Lithuanian Communist Party of its own unpopularity.

However, towards the end of the 1980s, Thatcher's increasing unpopularity and unwillingness to change policies perceived as vote-losing led to her being deposed in 1990 and replaced by John Major who won an unexpected election victory in 1992.

The race was a very friendly one with little to no negative attacks on each other, though Railsback credited his victory to the unpopularity of President Lyndon Johnson.

Conscious of her unpopularity she banished, and afterwards put to death, three Gothic nobles whom she suspected of intriguing against her rule, and at the same time opened negotiations with the emperor Justinian I with the view of removing herself and the Gothic treasure to Constantinople.

This position brought him unpopularity with the " protectionists " of his own party.

Despite its unpopularity, the Rump was a link with the old constitution, and helped to settle England down and make it secure after the biggest upheaval in its history.

Empowered by the president's unpopularity with organized labor, business, and professional organizations alike, Congress unseated Bucaram in February 1997 on grounds of mental incompetence.

Aeschylus gained thirteen victories as a dramatist, Sophocles at least twenty, Euripides only four in his lifetime, and this has often been taken as an indication of the latter's unpopularity with his contemporaries, and yet a first place might not have been the main criterion for success in those times ( the system of selecting judges appears to have been flawed ) and merely being chosen to compete was in itself a mark of distinction.

In joint action with France, the Moroccan territory was recovered ( 1925 – 1927 ), but in 1930 bankruptcy and massive unpopularity left the king no option but to force Primo de Rivera to resign.

John exploited this unpopularity to set himself up as an alternative ruler with his own royal court, complete with his own justiciar, chancellor and other royal posts, and was happy to be portrayed as an alternative regent, and possibly the next king.

His unpopularity swayed the papal conclave not to elect Cardinal Giulio Sacchetti who was closely associated with the Barberini.

The old method of censorship had been limited by the Second Statute of Repeal, and with Mary's increasing unpopularity the existing system was unable to cope with the number of critical works being printed.

Capitalising on the unpopularity of King Richard III, his mother was able to forge an alliance with discontented Yorkists in support of her son, who landed in Pembrokeshire and defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, proclaiming himself King Henry VII.

Mortimer used his power to acquire noble estates and titles, and his unpopularity grew with the humiliation at Stanhope Park and the ensuing Treaty of Edinburgh – Northampton, signed with the Scots in 1328.

George was dismayed at her popularity and his own unpopularity, and felt trapped in a loveless marriage with a woman he loathed.

The reason for this is speculated to be the unpopularity of Soběslav among Czechs as well as Bolesław ’ s unwillingness to further deteriorate his relations with the Holy Roman Empire.

That there was little political reaction to the murder of Michael III is probably due to his unpopularity with the bureaucrats of Constantinople because of his disinterest in the administrative duties of the Imperial office.

McNamara's tendency to take military advice into less account than had previous secretaries and to override military opinions contributed to his unpopularity with service leaders.

The Calvinist party within the Broederbond tried to distance itself from this movement, with very limited success because of the secrecy of the organization, their later confessed complete misunderstanding of the real ambitions of non-Afrikaners and blindness to the agony of ' Coloureds ' and ' Blacks ' under apartheid, and the extreme unpopularity of the apartheid policies in the eyes of non-Afrikaners.

Cumberland's unpopularity, which had steadily increased since Culloden, interfered greatly with his success in politics, and when the death of the Prince of Wales brought the latter's son, a minor, next in succession to the throne, the Duke was not able to secure for himself the contingent regency.

During the second Long Interval ( a time when the Red Star failed to pass close enough to the planet to bring the incursion of Thread ) before the Ninth Pass, however, unpopularity with the only remaining inhabited Weyr, Benden Weyr, had grown to such a point that the Holders were willing to risk combat on highly disadvantageous terms to end the tithe of materials which traditionally supported the Weyrs.

Labour, benefiting both from the unpopularity of the Conservative GLC's transport policy and from the difficulties of the national Conservative government, won a very large majority of 58 seats to 32 for the Conservatives ; the Liberals also won their first two seats on the council.

All Ontario NDP candidates were hurt by the Rae government's unpopularity, and Rodriguez chose to focus on his personal record while de-emphasizing the national campaign.

However, the unpopularity of the national SPD and the Hartz IV reforms appear to have taken a toll.

However, the unpopularity of the national Republican Party and President George W. Bush dragged Ehrlich ’ s re-election chances down.

In general, high German unemployment and the unpopularity of the national SPD and the Hartz IV reforms appeared to have taken a toll.

He tried to collect money by using new instruments, such as introducing new taxes, undermining the currency and leasing his income to Jews and Muslims which increased his unpopularity.

Because of the split in the Conservative Party and because of Disraeli's unpopularity, arising from the budget fight of 1852, which is outlined above, no Conservative reconciliation remained possible so long as Disraeli remained leader in the House of Commons.

Three factors are generally cited that enabled Schröder to win the elections despite poor approval ratings a few months before and a weaker economy: good handling of the 100-year flood, firm opposition to the USA's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and Stoiber's unpopularity in the east, which cost the CDU crucial seats there.

The legitimacy of the union has been questioned, on grounds which appear insufficient ; but of its unpopularity there can be no doubt.

Putin's popularity, which stems from his reputation as a strong leader, stands in contrast to the unpopularity of his predecessor, but it hinges on a continuation of economic recovery.

The necessary money was to be found by the sale of all the public property in Italy which had been ordered to be sold by resolutions of the Senate ( in 81 BC, or subsequently ), but which the fear of unpopularity had deterred the consuls from selling ; by the sale of lands, etc., in the provinces which had become public property since 88 BC, and even of the domains acquired during the Mithridatic Wars.

Palmerston's reputation as an interventionist and his unpopularity with the Queen and other Whig grandees was such that when Lord John Russell attempted in December 1845 to form a ministry, the combination failed because Lord Grey refused to join a government in which Palmerston should resume the direction of foreign affairs.

His book Hitler ( 1931 ), which presented Adolf Hitler as a " man of peace " whose party-members were threatened by communist street violence, confirmed his unpopularity among liberals and anti-fascists, especially after Hitler came to power in 1933.

The new user interface used many of the hot keys and conventions of Visual Basic, which accounted for some of its unpopularity among C ++ developers.

In Sweden, the unpopularity of this costly and futile war meant that the Hats ' control on government began to falter and the confusion the war caused led to a deficit which resulted in their fall in 1765.

On the eve of the struggle with Napoleon, Alexander, conscious of his unpopularity, conceived the idea of making Speransky his scape-goat, and so conciliating that Old Russian sentiment which would be the strongest support of the autocratic tsar against revolutionary France.

A sharp slump in 1921 and a wave of strikes in the coal and railway industries also added to the government's unpopularity, as did the apparent failure of the Genoa Conference, which ended in an apparent rapprochement between Germany and Soviet Russia.

Prest attributes Blackstone ' unpopularity to specific personality traits, saying his " determination ... in pursuit of causes to which he committed himself could irritate as well as intimidate those of a more relaxed disposition.

Despite these steps, Getty remained a supporter of the federal Conservatives ( and not the Reform Party, to which many provincial P. C. s were defecting ), whose unpopularity rubbed off on him.

His tiresome display of learning, rhetorical exaggeration and ornamentations make him difficult to read, which no doubt accounts for his unpopularity in ancient times.

The Rae government had previously lost much of its base in organized labour, due in part to the unpopularity of its " Social Contract " legislation in 1993 ( which Harris, after some initial vacillations, eventually voted against ).

During his time as Deputy Prime Minister, Howe made a series of coded calls on Thatcher to re-position her administration, which was suffering rising unpopularity because of opposition to the Poll Tax, as a ' listening government '.

With two exceptions, Schleicher retained all of Papen ′ s cabinet, which meant that much of the unpopularity of the Papen government was inherited by Schleicher ′ s government.

When interviewed on election night television by Jeremy Paxman, Hughes suggested that the fall in his vote might reflect the unpopularity of Southwark Council, which has been controlled by the Liberal Democrats since 2002.