`` On trial in Jakarta for having flown for the Indonesian anti-Communist insurgents, U.S. pilot Alan Lawrence Pope boldly told the court that in supporting the freedom fighters, he was actually defending the sovereignty and independence of Indonesia.

O ' Higgins insisted on supporting that campaign because he realized that Chilean independence would not be secure until the Spaniards were routed from the Andean core of the empire.

The population of Ecuador was divided during these years among three segments: those favoring the status quo, those supporting union with Peru, and those advocating independence for the former audiencia.

As response to this operation, the Awami League announced the declaration of independence of East Pakistan on March 26, 1971 and began an armed struggle against the Pakistan, with India staunchly supporting Awami League by the means of providing arm ammunition to its guerrilla forces.

In October 1940, Gandhi and Nehru, abandoning their original stand of supporting Britain, decided to launch a limited civil disobedience campaign in which leading advocates of Indian independence were selected to participate one by one.

On Sunday, 21 May 2006, Montenegrins voted on an independence referendum, with 55. 5 % supporting independence.

Even as late as 1970, the British Protectorate did not envisage independence for Solomon Islands in the foreseeable future but shortly thereafter, the financial costs of supporting the Protectorate became more trying, as the world economy was hit by the first oil price shock of 1973.

Today there are movements supporting the independence of the Catalan Countries in both Spain and France, but they only have significant support in Catalonia.

The CIIR report also questioned the independence of the Permanent Commission on Human Rights, referring to an article in the Washington Post which claims that the National Endowment for Democracy, an organization funded by the US government, allocated a concession of US $ 50, 000 for assistance in the translation and distribution outside Nicaragua of its monthly report, and that these funds were administered by Prodemca, a US-based organization which later published full-page adverisments in the Washington Post and New York Times supporting military aid to the Contras.

Under the guise of supporting the Soviets ' own national self-determination concept, von Kuhlman and General Max Hoffmann, when they returned to the negotiation table proposed independence for the Baltic states, Poland and the Ukraine as part of their new peace proposals.

However, an opinion poll in April 2008 suggested the result of any referendum on Scottish independence could be close as support for independence had reached 41 % with just 40 % supporting retention of the Union.

After independence in 1964 the foreign relations of Zambia were mostly focused on supporting liberation movements in other countries in Southern Africa, such as the African National Congress and SWAPO.

Before his consecration he became known for supporting ecclesiastical independence from Rome, maintenance of the Great Charter and the exclusion of foreigners from civil and ecclesiastical office.

On April 27, 1954, the Geneva Conference produced the Geneva Agreements ; supporting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Indochina, granting it independence from France, declaring the cessation of hostilities and foreign involvement in internal Indochina affairs, delineating northern and southern zones into which opposing troops were to withdraw, they mandated unification on the basis of internationally supervised free elections to be held in July 1956.

However, the structural changes associated with the later stages of industrial capitalism, including " increased centralization of production ... declining wages ... expanding ... labor pool ... intensifying competition, and ... he loss of competence and independence experienced by skilled labor " meant that " a critique that referred to all work as slavery and avoided demands for wage concessions in favor of supporting the creation of the producerist republic ( by diverting strike funds towards funding ... co-operatives, for example ) was far less compelling than one that identified the specific conditions of slavery as low wages ..." Thus, " wage slavery " was gradually replaced by the more pragmatic term " wage work " towards the end of the 19th century.

The Catholic Church everywhere in Scandinavia had sealed its fate by supporting hopeless causes: Christian II and the emperor Charles V in Denmark, Norwegian independence in that country, and in Sweden the Kalmar Union.

This is in part due to the 1949-generation Mainlanders have gradually passed on the scene, and politicians supporting and opposing the Taiwanese independence movement both realize a majority of Taiwan's current residents, either because they are born in Taiwan to Mainlander parents with no collective memories of the ancestral homes, or they are native Taiwanese thus feeling no historical connotations with the entire pre-1949 Republic of China on mainland China, support the movement as such.

Some arguments supporting the independence of Taiwan do not apply to these islands.

This however drew an angry reaction from the PRC who believed that Lee was covertly supporting Taiwan independence.

Indonesian nationalism and movements supporting independence from Dutch colonialism, such as Budi Utomo, the Indonesian National Party ( PNI ), Sarekat Islam, and the Indonesian Communist Party ( PKI ), grew rapidly in the first half of the twentieth century.

Chabrias has been successfully supporting the Egyptian Pharaohs in maintaining their independence from the Persian Empire.

A key UNPO goal was to replicate the success of the 14th Dalai Lama's propagating of the Tibetan independence message, and they often mentioned his name in the early years of the organization, as well as including in publications pictures of him visiting UNPO and supporting statements he made of the organization.

In the 1920s, Fascist Italy pursued an aggressive foreign policy that included an attack on the Greek island of Corfu, aims to expand Italian territory in the Balkans, plans to wage war against Turkey and Yugoslavia, attempts to bring Yugoslavia into civil war by supporting Croat and Macedonian separatists to legitimize Italian intervention, and making Albania a de facto protectorate of Italy, which was achieved through diplomatic means by 1927.

Of special importance in supporting this are: a baptizing formula ( Unte paghesont premenit Atit et Birit et spertit senit ) of 1462, written in Albanian within a text in Latin by the bishop of Durrës, Pal Engjëlli ; a glossary with Albanian words of 1497 by Arnhold von Harff, a German who had travelled through Albania, and a 15th century fragment from the Bible from the Gospel of Matthew, also in Albanian, but in Greek letters.

However, in a decision of great historic significance, the Persian king Darius the Great decided that, despite successfully subduing the revolt, there remained the unfinished business of exacting punishment on Athens and Eretria for supporting the revolt.

Agrippa II was a Roman ally during the Great Judean Revolt of 66-73 CE, supporting Roman armies with Iturean troops.

The war was fought primarily by forces supporting the unification – the Spanish loyal to Philip V, France, and the Electorate of Bavaria, together known as the Two Crowns – against those opposing unification – the so-called Grand Alliance among the Spanish loyal to Archduke Charles, the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, Portugal and the Duchy of Savoy.

Through essentially a rehash of the " Mediterranean plan " of 1940 with the main German blows to be focused against the British in the Middle East, the " Great Plan " of 1942 was worked out in considerably more detail, and called for a series of mutually supporting attacks between Germany in the Middle East and Japan in the Indian subcontinent that were intended to knock Britain out of the war.

In the spring of 1776, Vergennes, the Foreign Secretary, saw an opportunity to humiliate France's long-standing enemy, Great Britain, as well as recover territory lost during the Seven Years ' War, by supporting the American Revolution.

While continuing to play supporting roles in films like Spaceballs, Candy was awarded the opportunity to headline or co-star in such comedy films as Volunteers ; Planes, Trains and Automobiles ; Brewster's Millions ; The Great Outdoors ; Armed and Dangerous ; Who's Harry Crumb ?, Summer Rental, and Uncle Buck.

Through supporting the Great Leap Forward, Zhao was partially responsible for the millions of people who died from starvation and malnutrition in Guangdong between 1958 and 1961.

Many self-styled Reagan Democrats claim to be fiscal conservatives but still support many aspects of the core programs of the New Deal and the Great Society, while also supporting Ronald Reagan ’ s strong defense policies as well as his optimism in American culture.

* 1828: The U. S. House Committee on Territories in the United States House of Representatives reported that the framers of Northwest Ordinance of 1787 intended to give every state created from the Northwest Territory equal accessibility to the Great Lakes, thereby supporting Indiana's claim to a Lake Michigan outlet and Ohio's claim to Maumee Bay.

In the smash hit war movie The Great Escape, Garner played the second lead for the only time during the decade, supporting fellow ex-TV series cowboy Steve McQueen, among a cast of British and American screen veterans, including Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasance, David McCallum, James Coburn, and Charles Bronson, in a film depicting a mass escape from a Nazi prisoner of war camp based on a true story.

The Englishman Sir John Acton, who in 1779 was appointed director of marine, won Maria Carolina's favour by supporting her scheme to free Naples from Spanish influence, securing rapprochement with Austria and Great Britain.

These powers initiated a series of invasions of France by land and sea, with Prussia and Austria attacking from the Austrian Netherlands and the Rhine, and Great Britain supporting revolts in provincial France and laying siege to Toulon.

Manuel believed that supporting Great Britain would guarantee the existence of overseas colonies, which would have been lost to German aggression even if the Germans were supported in the conflict.

His experiences during the Great Famine led him to move from being an Irish unionist and an Orangeman to supporting a federal political system for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that would give Ireland a greater degree of self-rule.

The Russo – Swedish War of 1741 – 1743, known as the Hats ' Russian War in Sweden and the Hats ' War in Finland, which resulted in the Lesser Wrath ( Finnish: Pikkuviha, Swedish: Lilla ofreden ), or the occupation of Finland, was instigated by the Hats, a Swedish political party that aspired to regain the territories lost to Russia during the Great Northern War, and by French diplomacy, which sought to divert Russia's attention from supporting its long-standing ally, the Habsburg monarchy, in the War of the Austrian Succession.

He became a familiar face as a supporting actor in many 1980s Hollywood comedies, including Midnight Run, Taking Care of Business, Seems Like Old Times, The Great Muppet Caper, The Woman in Red, The Lonely Guy, Ishtar and The Couch Trip.

Although his first forays into that medium were inevitably accompanied by instructions that he use the Fudd voice, Bryan soon came to the attention of Don Quinn and Phil Leslie, the production and writing team responsible for Fibber McGee and Molly and their supporting characters, two of whom spun off into their own radio hits, The Great Gildersleeve and Beulah.

Many whites viewed Great Society programs as supporting the economic and social needs of low-income urban minorities ; they lost sympathy, especially as the economy declined during the 1970s.

A new civil war erupted in the Yuan Dynasty in 1327-1328, with Chagatai khan Eljigidey ( r. 1326 – 29 ) supporting Kusala, the Yuan Khagan Khayisan's son, as Great Khan.

The Great Mosque of Samarra in Iraq, completed in 847 AD, combined the hypostyle architecture of rows of columns supporting a flat base above which a huge spiraling minaret was constructed.

The river and its supporting canal, the Erie Canal ( a part of the New York State Canal System, called the New York State Barge Canal for much of the 20th century ), connect the Hudson River and port of New York with the Great Lakes at Buffalo, New York.

* Numerous supporting roles on Focus on the Family's radio drama Adventures in Odyssey, voicing over 90 characters, most notably Jesus Christ, Walter Shakespeare, Cryin ' Bryan Dern, and The Great Wishy Woz.