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Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.
As part of the same arrangement, Torrio had, in the spirit of peace and good will, and in exchange for armed support in the April election campaign, bestowed upon O'Banion a third share in the Hawthorne Smoke Shop proceeds and a cut in the Cicero beer trade.
Regarded as a capable soldier by the emperor, Albert ( in 1475 ) took a prominent part in the campaign against Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and in 1487 led an expedition against Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, which failed owing to lack of support on the part of the emperor.
Clinton and his running mate, Al Gore, toured the country during the final weeks of the campaign, shoring up support and pledging a " new beginning ".
The year 1705 proved almost entirely barren for the Duke whose military disappointments were only partly compensated by efforts on the diplomatic front where, at the courts of Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Vienna, Berlin and Hanover, Marlborough sought to bolster support for the Grand Alliance and extract promises of prompt assistance for the following year ’ s campaign.
In 2010, at the Woburn Safari Park there was a conservation campaign to help raise money to support the Bongo Surviellance Project and the Kenyan Wildlife Service.
The star's fanbase was nevertheless strong enough to survive this smear campaign, and he was heartened by declarations of support.
Some historians have cited the U. S. intervention and bombing campaign ( spanning 1965 – 1973 ) as a significant factor leading to increased support of the Khmer Rouge among the Cambodian peasantry.
He expanded his repertoire to include songs written in traditional genres of the Mexican music, and during the farmworkers ' rights campaign, wrote music in support of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers.
John de Courcy Ireland, and his wife Beatrice, aiming to campaign for the Irish government to support international efforts to achieve nuclear disarmament and to keep Ireland free of nuclear power.
Public support for unilateralism in September 1982 was 31 %, falling to 21 % in January 1983, but it is hard to say whether this decline was a result of the contemporary propaganda campaign against CND or not.
Al Sharpton, former Pentecostal minister, now a Baptist minister and Civil rights leader, during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 said that asking whether gays or lesbians should be able to get married was insulting: " That's like saying you give blacks, or whites, or Latinos the right to shack up – but not get married [...] It's like asking ' do I support black marriage or white marriage '...
Collins ' instructions were to support the leader Ngo Dinh Diem in subverting communism, by helping him to build an army and wage a military campaign.
Though no historical support exists for the flag story in the Fellin battle either, it is not difficult to understand how a small and unknown place is replaced with the much grander battle of Reval ( Tallinn ) from the Estonia campaign of King Valdemar II.
Her strategy, to support the Dutch on the surface with an English army, while beginning secret peace talks with Spain within days of Leicester's arrival in Holland, had necessarily to be at odds with Leicester's, who wanted and was expected by the Dutch to fight an active campaign.
Tammany Hall looked with alarm upon Kelly ’ s entrance into the campaign and tried to persuade him to withdraw his candidacy and throw his support behind Moran.
As a Republican La Guardia had to support Harding in 1920 ; he had to be silent in the 1928 campaign although he favored Al Smith, a Democrat.
De León was not a member of any political party ; lacking a political base but with strong popular support, he launched an ambitious anticorruption campaign to " purify " Congress and the Supreme Court, demanding the resignations of all members of the two bodies.
After received the support of the archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Visconti, and of those of Pisa, Florence and Siena, he started a campaign against Giovanni di Vico, lord of Viterbo, who had usurped much of the Papal territories in the Latium and Umbria.
An aggressive media campaign must also be mounted in support of the competing vision or the counter-insurgent regime will appear weak or incompetent.
US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, known for his hardline policies on the Soviet Union, initiated in 1979 a campaign supporting mujaheddin in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which was run by Pakistani security services with financial support from the Central Intelligence Agency and Britain's MI6.
He stated that the Taliban and Al Qaeda had introduced " a very wrong perception of Islam " and that without the support of Pakistan the Taliban would not be able to sustain their military campaign for up to a year.
It was subsequently, and most commonly, used for those Volunteers who fought a guerrilla campaign in 1919 – 1921 in support of the Irish Republic declared in 1919.
" Press adverts will also support the campaign, as will a handbook entitled " Peace, Love and Storage ", which will be available through the Facebook site.
During the campaign Calhoun dropped out, and Crawford fell ill giving further support to the other candidates.

campaign and Wisconsin
Senator Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin created the National Progressive Republican League to replace Taft on the national level ; although, his campaign crashed after a disastrous speech.
Since Davis was a conservative, many liberal Democrats bolted the party and backed the third-party campaign of Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, who ran as the candidate of the Progressive Party.
Their first meeting was in the Wisconsin Primary, where Kennedy's well-organized and well-funded campaign defeated Humphrey's energetic but poorly funded effort.
Following that McCarthy won in Wisconsin where the Kennedy campaign was still getting organized.
After years of behind-the-scenes support for the League of American Bicyclists and the Bikes Belong Coalition, Trek announced its 1 World 2 Wheels bicycle advocacy campaign at its annual Trek World dealer convention in Madison, Wisconsin.
The day after the election, he flew to Wisconsin to campaign for the upcoming 1972 U. S. presidential election.
On January 25, 2005, Green ’ s federal campaign account converted nearly all of its funds into a state campaign fund " Green for Wisconsin.
" One day later, on January 26, 2005, the Wisconsin State Elections Board ( SEB ) voted to prohibit state campaign committees from spending certain types of funds converted from a federal campaign account, and then voted to apply this decision retroactively to Green for Wisconsin.
“ The Parties agree that when Green for Wisconsin converted the disputed funds from Petitioner Mark Green ’ s federal campaign committee to his state committee on January 25, 2005, it complied with ( 1 ) previous Board determinations with respect to similar matters ; ( 2 ) ElBd 1. 39, as written and interpreted at the time ; and ( 3 ) instructions provided by the Board ’ s staff .” And “ This Stipulation resolves all claims either party has or may have with respect to the Board ’ s September 6, 2006 Order and with respect to any other claims raised, or which could have been raised, by any party prior to the date of this stipulation with respect to any matters that were the subject of this litigation .” In a separate action, the Federal Election Commission also concluded that Green for Wisconsin did not violate federal campaign laws.
* Howard Dean officially ends his campaign for President of the United States, after placing a distant third in the Wisconsin primary elections of February 17, 2004.
I intend to shoot one or the other while he attends a campaign rally for the Wisconsin Primary.
She later revealed that she discovered a lump in her breast while on a campaign stop in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a few weeks earlier, in the midst of the campaign.
* Campaign 2008 campaign contributions at Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
DFA has 25, 000 members in Wisconsin and more than 2, 000 of them volunteered for this campaign.
* 1967: Milwaukee Journal, " for its successful campaign to stiffen the law against water pollution in Wisconsin, a notable advance in the national effort for the conservation of natural resources.
His strong support for a nuclear freeze won him an intense following among anti-nuclear activists, support that translated into campaign donations, committed staff ( future Washington Senator Maria Cantwell moved to the state in 1983 to head up Cranston's caucus campaign effort there ) and volunteers and straw poll victories in Wisconsin, California, and Alabama.

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