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decade and Congress
* 1961 – Apollo program: U. S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a " man on the Moon " before the end of the decade.
Bukharin pressed his views throughout 1928 in meetings of the Politburo and at the Party Congress, insisting that enforced grain requisition would be counter-productive, as War Communism had been a decade earlier.
In 1991, the Library of Congress used the term ' Sudan People's Armed Forces ' to refer to the entire armed forces, but by the late 2000s ( decade ), the ' Sudanese Armed Forces ' term was most widespread.
During the next decade, it actively supported movements such as the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) under the independence war and under the subsequent civil war, the Zimbabwe African People's Union ( ZAPU ) and in Southern Rhodesia, the African National Congress ( ANC ) in their struggle against apartheid in South African Republic, and the South-West Africa People's Organization ( SWAPO ) in their struggle for independence for Namibia.
In the United States, the Red Scare ( fear of communism ) caused public Congressional hearings by both houses in Congress and anti-communism was the prevailing sentiment in the United States throughout the decade.
* May 25 – Apollo program: President Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.
The movement for a national law to require disclosure of campaign expenditures, begun by the National Publicity Law Association, was supported by Roosevelt but delayed by Congress for a decade.
John A. Bingham, the member of Congress who is known to have been chiefly responsible for the language of Section One when it was drafted by the Joint Committee in 1866, had, during the previous decade and as early as 1856-1859, employed not one but all three of the same clauses and concepts he later used in Section One.
In the early 1900s ( decade ), Congress was given the responsibility of regulating interstate and foreign commerce, due to the Commerce Clause.
As a result, the Congress Party split into two wings and was largely robbed of its effectiveness for a decade.
There has been considerable media speculation for over a decade about their future role in the Congress.
Provided China's power transitions and government institutions remain stable in the next decade, the sixth generation of leaders will come to power at the 20th Party Congress in 2022.
Over the next decade, Congress approved building multiple modern armored cruisers and battleships, and by the turn of the century had moved from twelfth place in 1870 to fifth place in terms of numbers of ships.
He was elected to the North Carolina legislature in 1781, where he remained in one role or another for most of the decade, the exception being two terms in the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1786.
On 7 March 1837, in the aftermath of the November Uprising earlier that decade, the administrative division was reformed once again, bringing Congress Poland closer to the structure of the Russian Empire, with the introduction of guberniyas ( governorate, Polish spelling gubernia ).
On February 13, 2009, Timothy J. Burger, writing on Bloomberg. com, noted that, “ During a decade in Congress, California Representative Grace Napolitano has pocketed more than $ 200, 000 of political contributions by charging as much as 18 percent interest on money she loaned to her own campaign.
As can be seen by the votes in the House of Representatives, support for the amendment appears to be slipping with only 286 yes votes during the 109th Congress in 2005 in contrast to the 312 yes votes a decade earlier during the 104th.
It elected its first female president, Ella Flagg Young, in 1910, a decade before Congress granted voting rights to women.
This task accomplished, Few returned to Congress in 1782, where he remained to serve throughout most of the decade.
By that decade, the PRC lobbyists finally had enough financial resources to be on a level with, or even out-compete, the ROC lobbyists in donating to members of Congress.
* May 25-Apollo program: President Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a " man on the moon " before the end of the decade.
Deora, who has literally ruled the Mumbai Congress for well over a decade, is closely associated with the Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan and the Indian Red Cross Society.
In his first decade in Congress, Rostenkowski gradually attained a position of influence in the House.
Ospina was heavily criticized by the liberals, especially in the National Congress where in 1948 the opposing party tried to impeach him, but Ospina closed congress before they achieved their goals and generated a decade of civil-military dictatorship ( lasted until 1958 when the National Front was created ).
It wasn't until the 1990s that Democratic control gradually collapsed, starting with the elections of 1994, in which Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress, through the rest of the decade.

decade and McEwen
Following an unsuccessful run in the adjacent Second District in 1993, McEwen was largely absent from the Ohio political scene for a decade, until in 2005 he unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Congress in the Second District special election to replace Rob Portman, who beat him in 1993, and finished second to the winner in the general election, Jean Schmidt.

decade and compiled
Fray Gerónimo Boscana, a Franciscan scholar who was stationed at San Juan Capistrano for more than a decade beginning in 1812, compiled what is widely considered to be the most comprehensive study of prehistoric religious practices in the San Juan Capistrano valley.
The decade began with the release of The Best of Van Morrison ; compiled by Morrison himself, the album was focused on his hit singles, and became a multi-platinum success remaining a year and a half on the UK charts.
From 1932 through 1941, Minnesota compiled an impressive record, losing only 12 games and winning seven Big Ten titles and five national championships — a true “ golden ” decade of Gopher football.
While they finished with the franchise's best record and had their first postseason appearance since 1945, Smith compiled his worst ERA of the decade — although he saved more than 30 games for the first time in his career.
Every user can himself define the criteria after which the charts are compiled: the highest or the lowest rated releases and films can for example be ranked by year, decade, format or country.
From 1990 to 1999 Kansas compiled a 286 – 60 record, giving them both the most wins and best winning percentage of any team in that decade.
Snider compiled a total of 1, 031 RBI from 1950 to 1959 and Ennis knocked in 1, 025 in the decade of the 50's.
Incidentally, only three other songs during the entire 1980s decade — all of them in 1980 — would spend more than two weeks at No. 1, owing much to how Billboard compiled the chart data at the time.

decade and conservative
Fewer environmental laws have been passed in the last decade as corporations and other conservative interests have increased their influence over American politics.
" This would mean that the sexual revolution, counterculture, youth rebellion and so on never developed during that decade in Spain's conservative Roman Catholic culture and under Francisco Franco's authoritarian regime.
The conservative lifestyles during the first half of the decade, as well as the legacy of military alliances, was forever changed by the assassination, on June 28, 1914, of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
Fashion so far in the 2010s has seen a continuation of the casual fashion of the previous decade, though clothes have generally become tighter-fitting, conservative, and more colorful.
In the second half of his first decade in Washington, Anderson's positions on social issues shifted to the left, though his fiscal philosophy remained largely conservative.
That decade saw bitter disagreement between socially conservative, principally religious, elements and liberals over a series of referendums.
Another factor may have been the company's very conservative ( and possibly dull ) nature and that, with a new decade just dawned, the south of England would be a radically different area ; it was felt that Southern's application was, understandably, more of the same tried and tested formula, which in time would not have reflected the possibilities for the area.
Prominent display of the Swiss flag on clothing and apparel has become more frequent with the " Swissness " fashion trend in the first decade of the 21st century, while such use of the flag had previously been largely limited to conservative and right-wing circles.
1965 to 1975 was a decade of constant change at UCC ; global and local cultural influences such as the Vietnam War, Yorkville, Woodstock, changing fashion trends, rock bands, and Watergate, collided head-on with the conservative, traditional culture and environment at UCC.
According to Ioan Stanomir, Iorga and fellow historian Ioan C. Filitti were together responsible for " the most memorable pages " in Romanian conservative theory for " the 1928 – 1938 decade ".
A decade of renewed absolutism followed, but to placate the Poles, Count Agenor Goluchowski, a conservative representative of the eastern Galician aristocracy, the so-called Podolians, was appointed Viceroy.
For example, in Arizona, conservative members of the state legislature have in the recent decade continuously introduced bills that restrict information about and access to reproductive health.
Because Seminex and the related departures of the AELC congregations removed many moderates and liberals from the Missouri Synod, the controversy left the synod far more conservative in mood by the mid-1970s than it had been a decade earlier.
In the U. S. in the last decade, the Jewish vote has gone to Democrats by 76-80 % in each election, leading to the reasonable conclusion that the majority of American Jews remain in at least some way more supportive of the liberal to left side of the political spectrum vs. the conservative to right side of the spectrum.
Harold, Jr. went on to hold the seat for a decade, and this attitude served him well as a popular, conservative Democrat, as the district was considerably enlarged in the 2000 redistricting and now again includes a substantial minority of white voters.
Many of his madrigals were monodies, borrowing a style which came from Florence and other locations to the north ; his motets and masses, on the other hand, are conservative and use the Palestrina style, though the motets include figured bass, another innovation from the first decade of the 17th century.
The Cold War and its associated conflicts helped create a politically conservative climate in the country, as the quasi-confrontation intensified throughout the entire decade.
Jutra's film is an examination of the social conditions in Québec's old, agrarian, conservative and cleric-dominated society on the eve of the social and political changes that transformed the province a decade later.
Over the next decade, however, Modernism spread and Providentissimus Deus was increasingly interpreted in a conservative sense.
The Roll Call article also stated that the CREW mission statement had changed since 2005, when it read that CREW " differs from other good government groups in that it sues offending politicians directly " and that it " aims to counterbalance the conservative legal watchdog groups that made such a strong impact over the past decade.
Emmanuel became more involved with right-wing and socially conservative campaigns in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
The " Daredevils " name has much to do with the long hair and beards sported by the band in the 1970s, a rejection of the more conservative style of their native Ozarks during that decade.

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