He did finally call the National Assembly but his other actions triggered more opposition and that led to his downfall.

During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, the Iranian government enjoyed something of a resurgence in popularity amongst the predominantly Sunni " Arab street ," due to its support for Hezbollah and to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vehement opposition to the United States and his call that Israel shall vanish.

Labour Party and opposition leader Neil Kinnock made endless calls for a general election throughout 1991, but Major held out and decided not to call the election until he finally set an election date of 9 April 1992.

In April 1987, President Chun made a declaration in an attempt to overpower the opposition that measures would be taken to protect the current constitution at the end of his term, instead of contemplating constitutional reform that would call for direct election of the president.

The opposition continued to call geneal strikes, leading to further violence by the army and the exodus of hundreds of thousands of southerners to Ghana and Benin.

However, Zinoviev and Lenin soon had a falling out over Zinoviev's opposition to Lenin's call for an open insurrection against the Provisional Government.

Callaghan's failure to call an election during 1978 was widely seen as a political miscalculation ; after losing power in the election, Labour would spend the next 18 years in opposition.

The National Reformer reported that those in the audience who evidently regarded the Declaration as " too bold and ultra ", including the lawyers known to be opposed to the equal rights of women, " failed to call out any opposition, except in a neighboring.

When the official government newspaper, Le Moniteur Universel, published the ordinances on Monday, 26 July, Adolphe Thiers, journalist at the opposition paper Le National, published a call to revolt, which was signed by forty-three journalists:

The Force Acts, among other powers, allow the President to call up military forces when state authorities are either unable or unwilling to suppress violence that is in opposition to the constitutional rights of the people.

In 1977, heeding the call of Jayaprakash Narayan for all the opposition parties to unite against the Congress, Vajpayee led the Jana Sangh to merge with the Janata Party.

Workers didn't heed the warnings and a call went out for others to join in the opposition.

His reputation rose further when opposition leaders under parliamentary privilege alleged that Taoiseach Charles Haughey, who in January 1982 had been Leader of the Opposition, had not merely rung the President's Office but threatened to end the career of the army officer who took the call and who, on Hillery's explicit instructions, had refused to put through the call to the President.

Kings Island actively encouraged the public to write, email and call Mason City Council representatives to express opposition.

The Nation was to be balanced between various local nationalities ( he spoke of the " Lorraine nationality " as much as of the " French nationality ") through decentralisation and the call for a leader, giving a Bonapartist aspect to his thought which explained his attraction for the General Boulanger and his opposition to liberal democracy.

The Liberal Democrats, as the only other party with a large number of seats, used to call their leadership while in opposition the Liberal Democrat Frontbench Team, but during the last Labour government, they started to use the term ' Shadow Cabinet '.

Unlike the British system, the German Chancellor does not have to resign in response to the failure of a vote of confidence, provided it has been initiated by herself / himself and not by the parliamentary opposition, but rather may ask the Federal President to call general elections-a request the President may or may not fulfill.

In 1890, Maurras approved Cardinal Lavigerie's call for the Rallying of Catholics to the Republic, marking his opposition not to the Republic in itself but to " sectarian Republicanism.

The Speaker will then call on MPs to put their questions, usually in an alternating fashion: one MP from the government benches is followed by one from the opposition benches.

They met strong opposition and by 19 July Montgomery decided to call off the attack and instead increase the pressure on his left.

University students demonstrate in streets and call for dictatorship to end ; Alia meets with students ; Thirteenth Plenum of the Central Committee of the APL authorizes a multiparty system ; Democratic Party of Albania, first opposition party established ; regime authorizes political pluralism ; draft constitution is published ; by year's end, 5, 000 Albanian refugees had crossed the mountains into Greece.

Prime Minister Fatos Nano and rest of cabinet resign after trade unions call for general strike to protest worsening economic conditions and killing of opposition demonstrators in Shkodër.

MP Palma immediately made a call to Radio Veritas and was one of the first opposition leaders to express support for the revolution.

The media captured the events and reactions at the time thus :" Previously regarded as a gentlemanly leader with a passion for golf, Kibaki has revealed a steely side. With a reputation as a mild-mannered, old-school gentleman ,... Kibaki, 76, showed a steely core by swearing himself in within an hour of being pronounced victor in an election denounced as fraudulent by opposition challenger Raila Odinga and questioned by international and Kenyan observers. Odinga's supporters said he would be declared president at a rival ceremony on Monday, but police banned the event hundreds of riot police sealed off the proposed venue, Uhuru Park for several days.

The authoritarian faction centred around the student Monday Club, and was known for its more traditional British nationalism, an isolationist posture in relation to foreign affairs, opposition ( as espoused by Enoch Powell ) to immigration, scepticism about liberal economics, and staunch support for the Union.

The largest opposition movement was created through a Protestant church service at Leipzig ’ s Nikolaikirche, German for Church of Saint Nicholas, where each Monday after service citizens gather outside demanding change in East Germany.

On October 16, 1989, it showed its first pictures of the massive opposition rallies taking place every Monday in Leipzig.

The new track was fenced-off in 1881, despite opposition from local graziers, and the Portarlington Turf Club was established in 1883, with an annual meeting held on Easter Monday.

For years backyard wrestling has been a subject of opposition to pro wrestling personnel, and had its days of high popularity around 1996-2001 during the boom period of professional wrestling notorious as the Monday Night Wars, a time where pro wrestler Mick Foley engaged in hardcore stunts which led to the inspiration of many.

These Acts resulted from widespread opposition to immigration in Britain from a variety of political groups, but most notably the Conservative Monday Club, whose Members of Parliament were very active and vocal in their opposition to immigration.

On Monday, 30, 000 people led by 15, 000 monks marched from Shwedagon Pagoda and past the offices of Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy ( NLD ) party.

On November 6, 1827, Alcott started teaching in Bristol, Connecticut, still using the same methods he used in Cheshire, but opposition from the community surfaced quickly ; he was unemployed by March 1828.

In March 1989, Sakharov was elected to the new parliament, the All-Union Congress of People's Deputies and co-led the democratic opposition, the Inter-Regional Deputies Group.

The tax was criticized by the opposition as a tax grab, and voted down in the Senate on March 18, 2009.

Following Lisette's fall in February 1959 the opposition leaders Gontchome Sahoulba and Ahmed Koulamallah could not form a stable government, so the PPT was again asked to form an administration-which it did under the leadership of François Tombalbaye on 26 March 1959.

Despite these shortcomings, and his promise to step down at the end of the transition, Bozizé contested the 13 March 2005 presidential elections in which all of the leading opposition candidates were allowed to run except for Patassé.

The system had many faults, and opposition to Lenin and what many saw as his excessive centralisation policies came to the leadership's attention during the 8th Party Congress ( March 1919 ) and the 9th Party Congress ( March 1920 ).

The elections of March 1991 kept the former Communists in power, but a general strike and urban opposition led to the formation of a coalition cabinet that included non-Communists.

Hezbollah currently sits in the opposition March 8 alliance.

Amidst growing opposition, Elagabalus, just 18 years old, was assassinated and replaced by his cousin Alexander Severus on 11 March 222, in a plot formulated by his grandmother, Julia Maesa, and carried out by disaffected members of the Praetorian Guard.

Nevertheless, Pompey's sons escaped to Spain ; Caesar gave chase and defeated the last remnants of opposition in the Battle of Munda in March 45 BC.

Malaysia's government has intensified efforts on March 6, 2008 to portray opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim as a political turncoat, days ahead of Malaysian general election, 2008 on March 8, 2008 that will determine whether he poses a legitimate threat to the ruling coalition.

Campaigning wrapped up March 7, 2008 for general elections that could see gains for Malaysia's opposition amid anger over race and religion among minority Chinese and Indians.

The Communist Party retained political control after winning the March 2005 parliamentary elections and re-elected its leader, Vladimir Voronin, as president in collaboration with the opposition.

Fraser responded to Snedden's defeat at the 1974 election by successfully challenging for the opposition leadership in March 1975.

* 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.

In the United Kingdom, the first Aldermaston March organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament took place at Easter 1958, when several thousand people marched for four days from Trafalgar Square, London, to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment close to Aldermaston in Berkshire, England, to demonstrate their opposition to nuclear weapons.

But general opposition showed itself to the papal interference ; a council at Würzburg ( 16 – 18 March 1287 ) protested energetically, and Rudolf I had to protect the legate from personal violence, so that both his plans and the Pope's failed.

Morton again led the opposition to the ballot at the 21 March 1959 election, which resulted in an overall gain of three seats but the loss of two seats to Labor.

On March 8, 2011, King spoke at a political rally in Sarasota aimed against Governor Rick Scott ( R-FL ), voicing his opposition to the Tea Party movement.

The March 2000 election results placed Vance Armory, as head of the CCM, the leader of the country's opposition party.

Its domination of political life came to an end in March 2000, when Abdoulaye Wade, the leader of the Senegalese Democratic Party ( PDS ) and leader of the opposition for more than 25 years, won the presidency.

On March 23, 1971, soldiers loyal to the executed Brigadier John Amadu Bangura held a Mutiny in Freetown and other parts of the country in opposition of Stevens ' government.