He was campaigning against Metellus's apparent lack of swift action against Jugurtha.

This decision to return was also fuelled by the realisation that with Richard campaigning in the Holy Land, English possessions in northern France ( Normandy ) would be open for attack.

Edward was initially defiant, but an attack by a Muslim assassin in June forced him to abandon any further campaigning.

However, it is also claimed that Priam simply happened to be absent during Heracles attack on Troy, being campaigning in Phrygia.

For the remainder of the fall campaigning season in 1863, during both the Bristoe Campaign and the Mine Run Campaign, Meade was outmaneuvered by Lee and withdrew after fighting minor, inconclusive battles, because of his reluctance to attack entrenched positions.

Ronald Reagan used the phrase in political campaigning during his election challenge against Jimmy Carter in 1980, accusing the incumbent of weak, vacillating leadership that invited enemies to attack the USA and its allies.

On March 15, 1973, Biff shot and murdered George McFly, who had been campaigning against Biffco's health issues, though Lorraine is unaware of this, and with the authorities in his pocket, was able to bribe the police to cover up the story ( in an original draft, the newspaper, thanks to Biff's payoffs, was to state that George died of a heart attack ).

There are two main types of ads used in negative campaigning: attack and contrast.

The voting public see attack ads as an element of smear campaigning.

Foster, the party's candidate for President, suffered an attack of angina pectoris and was ordered by doctors to cease campaigning and to undergo bed rest — with visitation and dictation similarly proscribed.

The document discusses the origins of the de facto two-party system in the U. S., the roles the two major parties play in this system, the history of struggles for democracy and social justice in the U. S., the manipulation of elections through ballot access restrictions, the powerful role of money in campaigning, the shift away from the rule of law in the last decades and particularly since 2001, the attack on the Green Party by the Democratic Party, the rise of opposition to George W. Bush and his administration's policies, and a discussion of long-term vs. short-term strategic planning for the Green Party.

He commanded a brigade which was intended to attack the vital American post of Sackets Harbor, New York, but logistic problems prevented the attack being made before winter brought an end to campaigning in Canada.

Marshal Turenne spent the summer of 1657 campaigning against the Spanish in Luxembourg and made no move to attack Flanders until September.

He died in Ann Arbor, Michigan, while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator, of a heart attack following complications of viral pneumonia.

Long an advocate for negative campaigning, he directed the famed " bridge bombing " attack on Liberal leader John Turner that was designed to break the bridge linking anti-free trade voters to Turner.

In December 1798 he was appointed by Lord Mornington, the governor-general, to command the field army which was intended to attack Tipu Sultan, and in a few months of campaigning Harris reduced the Kingdom of Mysore and stormed the great stronghold of Seringapatam, where Tipu died in its defense.

Earlier, Chung also criticized opposition leader Park Geun-hye of the Grand National Party for immediately campaigning during that party's primaries after her recovery from an attack by a man who slashed her face with a small knife.

Relieving the Australian 5th Division on 1 October, the 2nd Divisions task was to attack ( with the Australian 1st Division and the American 27th and 30th Divisions ) and breach the Beaurevoir Line, and open a gap for the Cavalry Corp to exploit before winter ended the campaigning season.

After 1393, he joined an alliance consisting of the Ottoman Empire, the Golden Horde and the principality of Siwas, but Timur was campaigning in Transcaucasia, Russia and India and did not attack.

Thanks to John's energetic campaigning, Turkish attempts at expansion in Asia Minor were halted, and John prepared to take the fight to the enemy.

He and his troops joined the main part of the army, which was campaigning against the enemy under the command of Nikephoros Phokas.

In 292 BC, while Demetrius was campaigning in Boeotia, he received news that Lysimachus, the ruler of Thrace and the enemy of his father, had been taken prisoner by Dromichaetes, a ruler of the Getae.

They committed a series of atrocities against enemy civilians, especially when campaigning in the Campbell territory of Argyll.

The stalemate was caused by a stiffening of the Habsburg defences and reflected simple geographical limits: in the pre-mechanized age, Vienna marked the furthest point that an Ottoman army could march from Istanbul during the early spring to late autumn campaigning season.

Despite this, Plutarch mentions that this caused little friction between the two men, and even posits that Tiberius would have never fallen victim to assassination had Scipio not been away campaigning against the very same Numantines given the amount of political clout that Scipio wielded in Rome.

The long campaigning and hardships that Lucullus ' troops had endured for years, combined with a perceived lack of reward in the form of plunder, had caused increasing insubordination.

For the April – June period, it was unusually intense campaigning in his rural district that caused the six-term incumbent to spend $ 52, 675 more than donors gave him in the last three months, he said.

At times, his campaigning has itself caused controversy, most notably the occasion he allegedly suggested that the Irving case revealed free speech was something that should be strictly controlled.

The comment however, caused a strong reaction from anti-homosexual fractions of Singapore, resulting in heated debate and campaigning in the mass media.

Together they had had five sons ( Eugene being the youngest ) and three daughters, but neither parent spent much time with the children: his father, a brave, unglamorous French soldier spent much of his time away campaigning, while Olympia's passion for court intrigue meant the children received little attention from their mother.

When not campaigning abroad, John spent much of his time at Kenilworth and Leicester, and used Kenilworth even more after 1395 when his health began to decline.

The coalition campaigning for this option became the Party for the Restructured Antilles, which ruled the Netherlands Antilles for much of the time until its dissolution on 10 October 2010.

After much campaigning in Bavaria and across the Danube valley, the war ended favorably for the French after the bloody struggle at Wagram in early July, resulting in the Treaty of Schönbrunn.

Aware that the Democratic machine would challenge him in his bid for re-election in 1982, Washington spent much of his first term campaigning for re-election, often traveling back to Chicago to campaign.

After much campaigning from Arsenal supporters, the club designated one of its Highbury matchday themes, organised to commemorate the stadium's final season as home of Arsenal, to Dennis Bergkamp.

He appears to have spent much of the time campaigning in Thrace, recapturing cities for the empire and restoring the flow of tribute from the region.

The founding of the club marked the end of his career solely as a publisher, after which he devoted much of his considerable energy to campaigning.

Early in 2003, after much campaigning, residents finally won their settlement two new road signs, and widespread recognition, as their story made the national news.

Patten's defeat was attributed to several factors: the Poll Tax that he implemented, which was especially unpopular in his constituency, and his duties as party chairman that prevented him from much local campaigning.

Inspired by the programme a group was formed and, after much campaigning and lobbying, the electricity supply was improved beyond all recognition.

" But campaigning, speech making, and legislative maneuvering were less appealing to him than the behind-the-scenes machinations that characterized so much of Boston politics in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

By that time, the campaigning condottieri companies were as much Italian as foreign: the Astorre I Manfredi ’ s Compagnia della Stella ( Star Company ); a new Company of St. George under Ambrogio Visconti ; Niccolò da Montefeltro ’ s Compagnia del Cappelletto ( Little Hat Company ); and the Compagnia della Rosa, commanded by Giovanni da Buscareto and Bartolomeo Gonzaga.

This is believed to stem from a personal disagreement between Blair and Brown over who should have run for the leadership following the death of John Smith in 1994: though Brown was originally considered the senior of the two, he waited until after Smith's funeral to begin campaigning by which point Blair had gathered too much momentum to be beaten.

Lingle spent much of 2004 campaigning for Republican candidates, both in the Presidential election and the Hawaii state legislature.

Francisco Flores once again expressed his intentions of seeking the post, but after much campaigning, had to withdraw due to lack of support from other member states ( even though he counted the United States as his chief backer ).

After much campaigning from the three parties for planning permission, Durham County Council announced in June 2011 that the plans for Tesco and the new supermarket in Castle Dene were approved but Morrisons was rejected.

While initial polls showed that Sanford had a comfortable lead over his rival, he lost supporters after an operation for an infected heart valve kept him from campaigning for much of October and raised doubts as to whether he was capable of serving another term.

After much violence, Codreanu was approached by Goga and agreed to have his party withdraw from campaigning in the scheduled elections of 1938, believing that, in any event, the regime had no viable solution and would wear itself out — while attempting to profit from the king's authoritarianism by showing his willingness to integrate any possible single-party system.

Similarly, the same candidate can expect to lose California, Vermont, Massachusetts, Oregon, Hawaii, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York, traditionally liberal states, no matter how much campaigning is done in those states.

The Conservative candidate, Edmund Brocklebank, was much stronger than in the previous election, and the left-wing vote was split because he was also campaigning against Tom Mann, a noted communist.

Local residents have been campaigning for the return of the railway to Lampeter but much of the trackbed to Carmarthen has been given over to other developments over several decades ; bridges etc.

After much bidding and campaigning, the state had to choose between two sites to build the new college for West Tennessee: Jackson, Tennessee and Memphis, Tennessee.