In 1955, the USSR declared the Soviet occupation zone – the historic middle portion of Germany – to be a sovereign state named the Deutsche Demokratische Republik ( German Democratic Republic, established in 1949 ), while the Red Army and the Western Allies ' occupation forces remained in place under the tripartite Potsdam Agreement ( 1945 ) which established the Allied Occupation of Germany.

While Clinton could steer a middle ground between his Democratic supporters and the Republican Congress on monetary issues, Reno's job was at the center of a variety of intractable cultural conflicts.

The Democratic Party ( DP ) is a center party, drawing support from the professions, merchants, and urban middle class.

Wilson had tried to find a middle ground between conservative Republicans, led by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, and the powerful left wing of the Democratic party, led by William Jennings Bryan, who strenuously denounced private banks and Wall Street.

** At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton accepts his party's presidential nomination on behalf of the " forgotten middle class ".

He defeated James W. Grant, a politician who grew unpopular after switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in the middle of his second term.

Many middle class ethnics saw the Democratic party as a working class party and preferred the GOP as the upper-middle class party.

Kentish Town was an early base for the Social Democratic Party and in recent years the increasingly middle class population has returned large votes for the Green and Liberal Democrat parties.

Originally supportive of the Democratic Party, The Inquirers political affiliation eventually shifted toward the Whig Party and then the Republican Party before officially becoming politically independent in the middle of the 20th century.

Bryan's strength was based on the traditional Democratic vote ( minus the middle class and the Germans ); he swept the old Populist strongholds in the west and South, and added the silverite states in the west, but did poorly in the industrial heartland.

The UVF also raked the Ulster Democratic Party headquarters on the middle Shankill with machine-gun fire.

: The two second closest capital cities between two sovereign countries are Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, which are about apart, one upstream from the other on different banks of the Congo River ( the distance between the middle points is about 10 km ).

By the middle of the 1880s, Greenback Labor nationally was losing its labor-based support, in part as a result of craft union voluntarism and in part as a result of Irish defections back to the Democratic Party.

" While the term radical center or similar expressions have been used in various ways since at least the 1970s ( like " rigorously center " by the French Giscardian movement or the Portuguese Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party during its foundation ), its use became more common due to the Reform Party and Ross Perot, who were frequently described as representing the radical middle due to their attempts to partisanize those portions of the American electorate.

The National Democratic Party of Germany (, ) was an East German political party that acted as an organisation for former members of the NSDAP, the Wehrmacht and middle classes.

Antti Oskari Tokoi, known by his middle name, ( 1873-1963 ) was a Finnish socialist who served as a leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland.

Former Social Democratic minister Leif Pagrotsky stated that internal fighting, authoritarianism and perceived aggressiveness as well as a loss of appeal to the middle class and city inhabitants contributed to the election loss.

Many thought that Foley could siphon off enough votes from McCollum to allow Runbeck to sneak up the middle and end the long run of Democratic dominance in the district.

The South became solidly white Democratic until past the middle of the 20th century.

Since the middle of the 20th century, conventions have been mostly scheduled about one month apart, often with the Summer Olympics in between, each with four days of business scheduled, with the exception of the 1972 GOP and 2012 Democratic conventions, which were three days each.

“ That ’ s been the historic Democratic commitment .” He called for a tax system that was “ simple and fair and also gives real relief for middle income tax payers .” Rostenkowski concluded the speech with an appeal to the “ silent majority ” He asked viewers fed up with the current tax system to write him a letter to show their support, “ Even if you can ’ t spell Rostenkowski, put down what they used to call my father and grandfather: Rosty ,” he said into the camera.

The anglophone middle class neighbourhoods of Sandy Hill, containing the University of Ottawa, and New Edinburgh also tend to vote Liberal, but with significant support for the New Democratic Party.

In 1960, he became a founding member and Secretary General of the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) which searched for a middle ground between the extreme right and the extreme left.

In the general election, he was defeated by the Democratic former Lieutenant Governor Sherman W. Tribbitt after announcing an unexpected tax increase in the middle of the campaign.

Contradicting the Social Democratic ideologists Lothar Rădăceanu and Şerban Voinea ( whom he accused of having lost contact with the working class ), Pătrăşcanu theorized that the Romanian petite bourgeoisie was shrinking under pressure from successful capitalists, while rejecting the notion that civil servants belonged to the middle class.

In 2009, the Marlins remained in the playoff chase until the middle of September thanks to Rookie of the Year Chris Coghlan and the breakout season of Hanley Ramirez who won the National League Batting Title.

In the middle of this era, in 1997, the Royals declined the opportunity to switch to the National League as part of a realignment plan to introduce the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays as expansion teams.

In the fourth inning, Williams doubled to drive in a run, but the National League was winning 5-2 in the eighth inning, and Williams struck out in the bottom half of the inning in the middle of a rally by the American League team.

Around the island Djurö, in the middle of the lake, lies the Djurö archipelago, which has been given national park status as Djurö National Park.

File: NAMA Mycènes bouclier 1. jpg | Wall painting depicting a Mycenaean Greek " figure eight " shield with a suspension strap at the middle, 15th century BC, National Archaeological Museum, Athens-The faces of figure eight shields were quite convex.

At his Nuremberg trial, reflecting the traditional anti-Semitic bias of the German middle class and naval officers of his generation, he argued that after the experience of 1917 and 1918, " International Jewry " had " gained an excessively large and oppressive influence in German affairs ", and " one could not be surprised that the National Socialist government tried to loosen and, as far as possible remove this large and oppressive influence.

In the middle is the Wolin National Park.

The building was originally divided along the middle, with the east half housing the exhibition galleries of the RSA, and the western half containing the new National Gallery, formed from the collection of the Royal Institution.

The Canadian Wildlife Service maintains a number of National Wildlife Areas in the Bay of Fundy including a proposed designation of Isle Haute in the middle of the Bay.

The building in Akron is currently used by the National Inventors Hall of Fame School ... Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics ( STEM ) Learning, a middle school within the Akron Public Schools.

Most of Bryce Canyon National Park lies in the southwestern part of the county and the northern half of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument occupies the middle of the county.

The House in the Middle was an American 1954 short documentary film produced by the Federal Civil Defense Administration and the National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau, which attempted to show that a clean, freshly painted house ( the middle house ) is more likely to survive a nuclear attack than its poorly maintained counterparts ( the right and left houses ).

Bertie ’ s middle name, “ Wilberforce ”, is the doing of his father, who won money on a horse named Wilberforce in the Grand National the day before Bertie was born and insisted on Bertie carrying that name ( mentioned in Much Obliged, Jeeves ).

Hoveton Little Broad, also known as Black Horse Broad, is a secluded broad of fairly open aspect, in the middle reaches of the River Bure between Hoveton and Horning, Norfolk, in The Broads National Park.

Today Camp Hiawatha is and encircles Bunting Lake, a lake in the middle of Hiawathaland National Forest in the heart of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Cheaha, the tallest peak in Alabama, is located in the middle of the National Forest and has accommodations and activities for everyone.

White was the Dallas Cowboys ' first pick and the second player selected in the 1975 National Football League Draft, and was moved to middle linebacker, where he was a backup to Cowboy legend Lee Roy Jordan, playing mostly on special teams his first two seasons, including his rookie season when Dallas lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl X. Jordan retired following the 1976 season, and his slot was filled by Bob Breunig, who held the position the next nine seasons.

The community sits in the middle of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, a federally protected park.

In the middle of Owatonna's downtown is the National Farmer's Bank, widely recognized as one of the premier examples of the " Prairie School of Architecture " in America.

It is located in the middle of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, which provides a source of tourism to the village.

Barnsdall has two properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; the Bank of Bigheart and the Barnsdall Main Street Well Site, an oil well in the middle of Main Street.

During the past three years, two Langhorne area middle schools, Neshaminy Middle School which has recently closed and Maple Point Middle School, have been awarded the Blue Ribbon, National Schools of Excellence Award.

The Müritz National Park () is a national park situated roughly in the middle between Berlin and Rostock, in the south of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.