In the wake of the rejection of the Maastricht Treaty by the Danish electorate in a referendum in the spring of 1992, and announcement that there would be a referendum in France as well, those ERM currencies that were trading close to the bottom of their ERM bands came under pressure from foreign exchange traders.

He was Prime Minister of Norway from 1972 to 1973, leading the cabinet that took over when Trygve Bratteli resigned in the wake of the first referendum over Norway's membership in the European Economic Community.

In the wake of the referendum the supporters of the bill conducted a protest campaign under the slogan " Scotland said yes ".

He reportedly considered resigning in the wake of the referendum failure, but was persuaded to stay on.

In the wake of the referendum passing, Marović said that on June 1, 2006, he would " hold the last session of the Council of Ministers and resign ... from the post of the president of the state union.

The Society has campaigned successfully for the introduction of STV for local elections in Scotland and led the call for a referendum on the voting system in the wake of the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal as part of the Vote for a Change campaign.

The party was formed in 2004, in the wake of the Swedish euro referendum held in September 2003, in which the adoption of the euro was rejected.

In 1977, in the wake of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, there was a referendum to mix the two unions, but this was defeated by a large majority.

In 1968 he became chairman of the Australian Council for Aboriginal Affairs, set up in the wake of the 1967 referendum which gave the Commonwealth Parliament power to legislate specifically for the Aboriginal people.

In the wake of Rafael Correa's arrival at the head of the country in November 2006, widespread popular action with the slogan " que se vayan todos " ( let them all go away ) succeeded in getting all the political parties of congress to accept a convocation for a referendum on setting up the assembly.

Saddam, having survived the immediate crisis in the wake of defeat, was left firmly in control of Iraq, although the country never recovered either economically or militarily from the Gulf War.

* June 18 – Argentine military dictator Leopoldo Galtieri resigns, in the wake of his country's defeat in the Falklands War.

Some of Trotsky's supporters were demoted or reassigned in the wake of his defeat, and Zinoviev's power and influence appeared to be at its zenith.

Despite his earlier association with the left-wing Aneurin Bevan, in 1955 he backed Hugh Gaitskell, who was considered the right-of-centre candidate in internal Labour Party terms, against Bevan for the party leadership He then launched an opportunistic but unsuccessful challenge to Gaitskell in November 1960, in the wake of the Labour Party's 1959 defeat, Gaitskell's controversial attempt to ditch Labour's commitment to nationalisation in the shape of the Party's Clause Four, and Gaitskell's defeat at the 1960 Party Conference over a motion supporting Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament.

In the wake of the breakup of the British and French colonial empires, and in the wake of U. S. defeat in Vietnam, anthropologists became especially attentive to relations of domination and subjugation that link Western and non-Western societies, and that structure relations within any given society.

In the wake of China's military defeat, with British warships poised to attack the city, representatives from the British and Qing Empires negotiated aboard HMS Cornwallis anchored at Nanking.

In the wake of this defeat, Athens found itself facing a crisis of unprecedented magnitude.

The influence of the Hellenic Party all but collapses in the wake of the Seleucid defeat.

In the wake of the Athenian defeat in Sicily, revolts began to break out among Athens ' subject states in the Aegean Sea and the Peace of Nicias fell apart ; the Peloponnesian War resumed in full by 412 BC.

However, in the wake of the defeat of the Roads and Transit measure on the November 2007 ballot and growing concern about global warming and ever-worsening traffic congestion, recent months have a seen a surge of interest in saving the lines and using them for a commuter rail service that would link Woodinville with Bellevue and other major destinations on the rapidly growing Eastside.

In the wake of the Battle of Saratoga, a defeat for the British, Vergennes feared that the British and colonists might reconcile.

Rundstedt's Corps disintegrated in the wake of defeat and the German Revolution, but while most officers were demobilised, he remained in the Army, apparently at the request of General Wilhelm Groener, who assumed leadership of the shattered Army.

After Wilson lost a leadership challenge in the wake of a personal scandal in a bitter three-way race, the party was led by Gordon Campbell, who became Leader of the Opposition after Wilson's convention defeat.

The defeat of the Relugas conspirators in the wake of this stunning victory was later referred to as " one of the most delicious comedies in British political history ".

Meanwhile, Seaga's failure to deliver on his promises to the US and foreign investors, as well as complaints of governmental incompetence in the wake Hurricane Gilbert's devastation in 1988, also contributed to his defeat to the popular Manley in the 1989 elections.

In the wake of the disastrous defeat at Nam Bac in early 1968, the Royal Lao Army became ineffective, increasing the combat burden on the RLAF.

The Communards were members and supporters of the short-lived 1871 Paris Commune formed in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War and France's defeat.

In the wake of his electoral defeat, Mackenzie founded a new newspaper, the Colonial Advocate, which symbolically had its first issue printed on July 4 1836.

In the wake of his defeat, Wallace " made a Faustian bargain ," said Emory University professor Dan Carter.

Since this conflict brought him an ever growing political defeat, he moderated his struggle with the Catholic Church and in the wake of Pius IX's death on February 7, 1878, reconciled with the new Pope, Leo XIII, lifting some sanctions.

Many regional organizations, already weakened in the wake of the revolution's defeat in 1907, collapsed or became inactive.

The Constituent Assembly of Italy was established in 1946 in the wake of Fascist Italy's defeat during World War II.

It was in the wake of her husband's death that Margaret proved truly invaluable to Burgundy.

Nevertheless, the Latin element began to prevail, as Lombards and other Italians flocked to the island in the wake of the conquest, and the conquest of Sicily proved decisive in the steady decline of Muslim power in the western Mediterranean from this time.

The government's initial illusions of a quick military victory proved ephemeral and in the wake of Southern victories the federal government found it increasingly difficult to sell the government bonds necessary to finance the war effort.

Following in the wake of Timesharing providers, provision of leased lines between terminals and datacenters proved a sustainable business which led to the establishment of dedicated business units and companies specialized in the management and marketing of such network services.

In the wake of the worldwide success of Monty Python's Life of Brian, the Pythons originally planned to release a film consisting of the two German shows edited together, but this proved impractical, and so Hollywood Bowl was released instead.

Founded in 1958, Cracked proved to be the most durable of the many publications to be launched in the wake of Mad magazine.

Siddon proved to be a hard working and competent MP, and was promoted to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans position on November 21, 1985, in the wake of the tunagate scandal that had forced the resignation of previous minister, John Fraser.

Nicholas I emerged as the emperor in the wake of Decembrist revolt ; subsequent investigation proved that disloyalty was deeply rooted within the noble estate – the sole foundation of House of Romanov.

Consoles such as the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision proved to be wildly popular, and many third-party developers arose in their wake to exploit the growing industry.

In May 1968, it was home to a shanty town known as " Resurrection City " erected by protesters affiliated with Martin Luther King, Jr .' s Poor People's Campaign, although this protest, in the wake of King's assassination, ultimately proved unsuccessful and the inhabitants of the tent city were dispersed by June of the same year.