For example, Helmut Kohl's CDU governed for years in coalition with the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), from 1998 to 2005 Gerhard Schröder's SPD was in power with the Greens and from 2009 Angela Merkel, CDU / CSU was in power with the FDP.

:* Liberal – Independent coalition in 1998 ;

After 16 years of the Christian-Liberal coalition, led by Helmut Kohl, the Social Democrats together with the Greens won the elections of 1998.

In its second term, the red green coalition lost several very important state elections, for example in Lower Saxony where Schröder was the prime minister from 1990 to 1998.

In the 1998 federal election, despite a slight fall in their percentage of the vote ( 6. 7 %), the Greens retained 47 seats and joined the federal government for the first time in ' Red-Green ' coalition government with the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ).

Helmut Kohl ( b. 1930 ) brought the conservatives back to power with a CDU / CSU-FDP coalition in 1982, and served as Chancellor until 1998.

The SPD in coalition with the Greens won the elections of 1998.

Between 1996 and 1998, there was a period of political flux with the government being formed first by the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) followed by a left-leaning United Front coalition.

In 1998, the BJP formed the National Democratic Alliance with smaller regional parties, and became the first non-INC and coalition government to complete a full five-year term.

Prime Minister Hashimoto headed a loose coalition of three parties until the July 1998 Upper House election, when the two smaller parties cut ties with the LDP.

The new coalition government, under prime minister Victor Ciorbea remained in office until March 1998, when Radu Vasile ( PNŢCD ) took over as prime minister.

Vladimír Mečiar's semi-authoritarian government allegedly breached democratic norms and the rule of law before its replacement after the parliamentary elections of 1998 by a coalition led by Mikuláš Dzurinda.

Vladimír Mečiar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia, which received about 27 % of the vote in 1998 ( almost 900, 000 votes ) received only 19. 5 % ( about 560, 000 votes ) in 2002 and again went into opposition, unable to find coalition partners.

A red-green coalition government led by Schröder replaced Kohl's government on 27 October 1998.

* In Germany, a red-green coalition of the Social Democratic Party and The Greens led by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder governed the country from 1998 to 2005.

The coalition was founded in May 1998 by six international non-governmental organizations to promote shared human rights objectives.

Amid the first talk of the Spanish government investigating the ties of Herri Batasuna with ETA, in 1998 Herri Batasuna was the driving force of the newly formed Euskal Herritarrok ( We Basque Citizens ) coalition, an acronym which got the best results to date for Basque left separatism in the Basque community, with 224, 000 votes out of a total of 1, 250, 000 in the Basque election held that year.

Since the Borough ’ s creation, Bromley had always been under Conservative control until the local elections of 7 May 1998 when a Liberal Democrat / Labour coalition assumed power.

He wrote a Brandeis University publication about coalition building and Lift Up Your Voice, a book about race and religious relations released in 1998.

The BJP headed the national government along with a coalition of parties of the NDA from 1998 to 2004, under the premiership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, making it the first non-Congress government to last the full term in office.

Prodi ran in 1996 as lead candidate of The Olive Tree coalition, winning the general election and serving as Prime Minister of Italy until 1998.

After a break in the coalition between the ruling Aruban People's Party ( Arubaanse Volkspartij, AVP ) and the Aruban Liberal Organization ( Organisashon Liberal Arubano, OLA ), the election of July 1998 was pushed forward to December 1997.

The Postal Services Act 1998, passed by a National-New Zealand First coalition government, repealed the 1987 Act.

Women's Edge is a nonpartisan coalition created in 1998 that advocates for international economic and human right policies that support women.

From 1998 to the present, they have played in Chase Field.

The Diamondbacks ' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Bank One Ballpark before a standing-room only crowd of 50, 179.

In 1984, the first official representative matches of International Rules were played, and these were played annually each October between the AFL and the Gaelic Athletic Association, also known as the GAA, between 1998 and 2006.

His 153 not out in Bridgetown, Barbados, during West Indies ' 2 – 2 home series draw against Australia in * 1998 – 1999 was deemed the second greatest Test innings ever played, behind Bradman's 270 against England in the Third Test of the 1936 – 1937 series at Melbourne.

He played a Starfleet member in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " The Siege of AR-558 " ( November 1998 ).

In 1998, he played astronaut Michael Collins in the Golden Globe Award-winning HBO miniseries From the Earth To the Moon.

From 1995 to 1997 they played all their games there, from 1998 to 2000 they split their home matches between Murrayfield and Glasgow's Hampden Park, then moved to Glasgow full-time, with one final Murrayfield appearance in 2002.

He played for the Romanian national team in three World Cups in 1990, 1994 and 1998, as well as in three European Football Championships in 1984, 1996 and 2000.

His major subsequent films include The French Connection ( 1971 ), in which he played Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ); The Conversation ( 1974 ); Superman ( 1978 ), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor ; Hoosiers ( 1986 ); Mississippi Burning ( 1987 ); Unforgiven ( 1992 ); The Firm ( 1993 ); Crimson Tide ( 1995 ); Get Shorty ( 1995 ); The Birdcage ( 1996 ); Enemy of the State ( 1998 ); and The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ).

As part of his tour, he played at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, with his final concert of that tour in Paris being recorded for a Valentine's Day special on PBS in 1998.

In January 1998, she played in the category XVII event, the Hoogovens in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, in which 14 of the world's top grandmasters participated.

In June 1998 in Budapest, Polgár played an eight game match of " action " chess, which is 30 minutes for the entire game, against Anatoly Karpov.

In November 1998, Polgár played in the Wydra Memorial Rapid chess tournament in Israel.

Alexander is best known as one of the key cast members of the award-winning television sitcom Seinfeld ( 1989 – 1998 ), in which he played George Costanza ( Jerry Seinfeld's character's best friend since childhood ).

He also took a substantial role in Tony Scott's 1998 political thriller, Enemy of the State, in which Voight played Will Smith's stalwart antagonist from the NSA.

One of the earliest was a 1998 commercial for Honey Nut Cheerios, where he played the voice of the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood.

A projected third installment in the series was derailed by the 1998 death of Ernst-Hugo Järegård, who played Helmer, one of the major characters.

In the 1998 miniseries Merlin, the protagonist Merlin ( played by actor Sam Neill ) battled the pagan goddess Queen Mab.

* Dutchman Rik Smits ( 1988 second overall pick, 1998 NBA All-Star, played 12 years for the Indiana Pacers )

Wertico played drums on Paul Winter's 1990 Grammy-nominated release, " Earth: Voices Of A Planet "; he has also played on and produced a number of CDs for artists including vocalist Kurt Elling's 1995 Grammy-nominated release " Close Your Eyes ", Elling's 1997 Grammy-nominated release " The Messenger ", Elling's 1998 Grammy-nominated release " This Time It's Love " and Elling's 2003 Grammy-nominated release " Man In The Air.

In his first NFL season in 1998, Warner played only one game and threw just 11 passes.

However, the renamed Tennessee Oilers also played before sparse Memphis crowds, and thus spent the 1998 season playing at Nashville's Vanderbilt Stadium.