The party moved towards social liberalism during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and came to be seen as being on the centre-left of British politics.

He eschewed radical political and economic reforms, promoting instead a small degree of candor in politics and mild economic experiments similar to those that had been associated with the late Premier Alexei Kosygin's initiatives in the mid − 1960s.

Overlordship, for either reason, was a central feature of Anglo-Saxon politics ; it is known to have begun before Æthelberht's time, although the details are unknown, and kings were being described as overlords in this sense, as late as the ninth century.

Scottish politics in the late 18th century was dominated by the Whigs, with the benign management of Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll ( 1682 – 1761 ), who was in effect the " viceroy of Scotland " from the 1720s until his death in 1761.

It was not until he was nearly 60 that St-Laurent finally agreed to enter politics when Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King appealed to his sense of duty in late 1941.

By his marriage with a Francesca Orsini of Monterotondo was born Gentile Virginio Orsini, one of the most relevant figures of Italian politics in the late 15th century.

As in all of Estonia and Latvia, the largely German-speaking nobility, but in Tartu / Dorpat ( as in Tallinn ) even more so, the Baltic German bourgeoisie, the literati, dominated culture, religion, architecture, education, and politics until the late 19th century.

Disraeli and Gladstone dominated the politics of the late 19th century, Britain's golden age of parliamentary government.

Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, laissez-faire ideology, as explained especially by Milton Friedman, has once more become a powerful force in American politics.

Beginning at the Cold War ’ s conclusion, in late 1989, popular civil and political public discontent forced the Communist governments of the Warsaw Treaty countries from power – independent national politics made feasible with the perestroika-and glasnost-induced institutional collapse of Communist government in the USSR.

To Americans, it can sometimes represent elitism and power politics, and its role has been a source of controversy throughout the nation's history, particularly beginning around the Gilded Age period in the late 19th century.

During the late 13th century, the Norwegian kings attempted to play the part of a great power in international politics, forging wedding alliances with Castile in 1258, and Scotland in 1281.

As a result of this event, Badr al-Jamali was also made into the vizier of the Fatimid caliph, becoming one of the first military viziers that would dominate the late Fatimid politics.

He is seen as an individual who is able to connect to anyone on a human level, beyond what he ( by proxy of his late wife ) views as petty politics, such as the strikers, the Boers, and a German friend.

The Christian right has been a notable force in both the Republican party and American politics since the late 1970s, when Baptist pastor Jerry Falwell and other Christian leaders began to urge conservative Christians to involve themselves in the political process.

Datta ( 2005 ) shows that following the collapse of militaristic Boulangism in the late 1880s, the Napoleonic legend was divorced from party politics and revived in popular culture.

*-a critic summarizes and comments on Brevard politics in the late 20th century

With the intensification of Germanization and anti-Polish politics in the German Empire in the late 19th and early 20th century, the ethnically mixed region of Upper Silesia became affected by growing tensions between German and Polish nationalists.

* Henry Adams's novel Democracy discusses similar politics during the late 19th century.

In 1966, in a study of revolutionary socialism, Milorad M. Drachkovitch of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace ( a conservative / libertarian think tank ), noted two tactical options which divided late 19th century and early 20th century anarchists from socialists: electoral politics, which the socialists embraced, but anarchists generally opposed ; and, the general strike as a mechanism to prevent war, which anarchists supported, but socialists refused to endorse.

Women in Breathitt county have been more active in politics in recent memory with the late superintendent Marie R. Turner being a democratic activist.

This ideology has existed since the early 20th century, forged by Savarkar, but came to prominence in Indian politics in the late 1980s, when two events attracted a large number of mainstream Hindus to the movement.

The Soviet military commander in Sofia assumed supreme authority, and the communists and their allies in the Fatherland Front whom he instructed, including Kimon Georgiev, took full control of domestic politics .. An armed resistance guerilla movement, known as the Goryani Movement, began immediately after Soviet occupation in 1944 and lasted until the late 1950s.

* Since the late 20th century, because of Evanston's activism and often left-of-center politics, it is sometimes humorously ( or sarcastically ) referred to as " The People's Republic of Evanston.

Known as the " Iron Duke ", the late John F. Thompson wielded much influence in state and local politics as Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Massachusetts General Court.

This view claims that Luke was uninterested in the politics of the Roman Empire but rather his main focus is on the power of God and building up the Kingdom of God.

The political revolt brought little social change, however, and 19th century Chilean society preserved the essence of the stratified colonial social structure, which was greatly influenced by family politics and the Roman Catholic Church.

The Tribune was an office first created to protect the right of the common man in Roman politics and served as the head of the Plebeian Council.

This was the first open bloodshed in Roman politics for nearly four centuries.

Aelia Galla Placidia ( 392 – November 27, 450 ), daughter of the Roman Emperor Theodosius I, was the Regent for Emperor Valentinian III from 423 until his majority in 437, and a major force in Roman politics for most of her life.

In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus and Pompey formed a political alliance that was to dominate Roman politics for several years.

Domestically, Roman politics was bitterly divided.

While the Middle Ages did see secular politics in practice under the rule of the Holy Roman Empire, the academic field was wholly scholastic and therefore Christian in nature.

as " the unity of religion and politics, of spirit and nature, of god and man ", qualified by the observation that " man " in the Pagan view is always defined by ethnicity, i. e. Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Jew, etc., so that each Pagan tradition is also a national tradition.

At the same time, he found himself drawn into the continued chaos of local Roman politics, as the Frangipani enjoyed their influence at the papal court, while the Pierleoni family continually fought against them and against Honorius.

Gregory interfered little in European politics, beyond assisting Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Catholic League against the Protestants -- to the tune of a million gold ducats -- as well as Sigismund III Vasa, King of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, against the Ottoman Empire.

Although Stephen was subject to Alberic II of Spoleto, Prince of the Romans, and did not in reality rule the Papal States, Stephen himself was not a member of that family, nor had he any relationship with Marozia, who had dominated Roman and papal politics during the preceding decades.

During the height of the Roman Empire, famous historians such as Polybius, Livy and Plutarch documented the rise of the Roman Republic, and the organization and histories of other nations, while statesmen like Julius Caesar, Cicero and others provided us with examples of the politics of the republic and Rome's empire and wars.

He championed the learning of Greek ( and Greek rhetoric ), contributed to Roman ethics, linguistics, philosophy, and politics, and emphasized the importance of all forms of appeal ( emotion, humor, stylistic range, irony and digression in addition to pure reasoning ) in oratory.

Initially, it was fought largely as a religious war between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire, although disputes over internal politics and the balance of power within the Empire played a significant part.

The Frankish Kingdom become a military power and get involved in Roman politics.

Pax Romana, according to Gibbon, would have ended with Commodus himself, whose dispendious excesses and despotic misrule destabilised central Roman politics amidst the chaos of the Germanic invasions of the Rhine-Danube frontier.

In pursuance of his anti-imperial policy, Lucius declined in 1185 to crown Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI as Frederick I's destined successor, and the breach between the Empire and the Curia became wider on questions of Italian politics.

Crassus was rising steadily up the cursus honorum, the sequence of offices held by Roman citizens seeking political power, when ordinary Roman politics were interrupted by two events – first, the Third Mithridatic War, and second, the Third Servile War, which was the organized two-year rebellion of Roman slaves under the leadership of Spartacus ( from summer 73 BC to spring 71 BC ).

His main impact upon Roman politics was his ability to veil his tyranny and make it appear that he was working under a constitutional government.

However, the unexpected death of Otto III in 1002 and the reorientation of the Holy Roman Empire politics by his successor Henry II, the wedding is delayed until 1012, when Bolesław I demanded the wedding and sent his son to Germany with gifts to his bride's family, who at that time quarreled with Henry II for Mathilde's dowry.