These favourable conditions also facilitated many changes inside the Communist leaders: the more hard-line and firmer force finally gained the upper hand and defeated the opportunists.

Once they gained a small foothold on land, thanks to their preadaptations and being at the right place at the right time, favourable variations in their descendants would gradually result in continuing evolution and diversification.

While his two ancestors were given the title of Maharaja ( king ), Chandragupta I is described in his inscriptions as Maharajadhiraj ( king of kings ) signifying a rise in the family fortunes. He gained control over many territories by conquests and favourable marriage alliances.

In 1983 his constituency was redrawn to his disadvantage but Maxton ruled out a move to any neighbouring and more favourable areas ; he therefore notionally gained his seat from the Conservatives again in the 1983 election.

The band's musical style was originally indebted to San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal bands such as Metallica and Megadeth, although the band found wider popularity over the following decade playing a mixture of modern rock, post-grunge and pop-rock that gained the band opening slots with professional US rock acts, as well as favourable reviews.

After a few weeks of confusion, Mussolini gained a favourable vote by the Senate of the Kingdom, and tried to defuse the tension with a speech.

The game gained popularity in early 2000 after receiving a very favourable review in Home of the Underdogs's list of worthwhile free games.

Their second album, Once Again, gained more favourable reviews, and the tour that followed was conducted with a full orchestra under the guidance of Robert John Godfrey.

In December 1936, the party favourable to the consolidation gained a victory when a meeting of householders in Irwell voted in favour of consolidating Irwell School with Leeston.

Witchfinder General was released to mixed reviews, one notably savage notice by Alan Bennett appeared in The Listener, but was soon reassessed and gained generally favourable reviews.

Combined with ideas gained from West German retailer Aldi, the business model was based on buying a limited range of lines on favourable ( net 60 or 90 days ) payment terms, distributing and selling them at or below cost before the payment fell due, and using the interest on the resulting cash flow to fund the business.

Their first single " Mama in the Movies " ( 1999 ) gained favourable airplay on college radio stations in Michigan, which lead to recording their first full-length album Strange Girls in ( 2000 ).

They initially released albums in a punk pop style that gained favourable reviews, but the band did not gain mainstream acceptance until 1984 with what had evolved into a more AOR-oriented music style.

When Epping Forest was first created, it was more favourable to the Conservative than the old Epping seat, as it lost the new town of Harlow ( inside the old Epping Rural District ) and gained the more Conservative Chigwell Urban District.

The album featured several contributions with Jason Falkner and gained many favourable reviews in the music press but failed to sell in sufficient numbers and Benson was dropped by Virgin.

More favourable living conditions, and past experience gained through seasonal rounds, prompted increased maritime resource exploitation in the northern territories.

The film had a limited cinematic release in January 2012 and Robertson gained favourable reviews for the lead role.

Some hold that knowledge of any kind can only be gained a priori, while others claim that some knowledge can also be gained a posteriori.

In contrast, film theoreticians in England began integrating critical theory based perspectives drawn from psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism, and eventually these ideas gained hold within the American scholarly community in the later 1970s and 1980s.

Robert Graves popularised the triad of " Maiden " ( or " Virgin "), " Mother " and " Crone ", and while this idea did not rest on sound scholarship, his poetic inspiration has gained a tenacious hold.

In May 2007, a bill entitled the " Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, or STOCK Act " was introduced that would hold congressional and federal employees liable for stock trades they made using information they gained through their jobs and also regulate analysts or " Political Intelligence " firms that research government activities.

** Amongst them, there are those who hold that moral knowledge is gained inferentially on the basis of some sort of non-moral epistemic process, as opposed to ethical intuitionism.

Those who hold a more liberal view of the Bible as a human witness to the glory of God, the work of fallible humans who wrote from a limited experience unusual only for the insight they have gained through their inspired struggle to know God in the midst of a troubled world.

The negotiations exasperated the Roman soldiers who seemed to hold the stronger position, but they gained precious time for Fritigern.

West Looe was given free borough status sometime after this ( the first known historical mention of the town dates from 1327 ) and in the 1230s East Looe gained the right to hold a weekly market and a Michaelmas fair.

:... the true role of infantry was not to expend itself upon heroic physical effort, not to wither away under merciless machine-gun fire, not to impale itself on hostile bayonets, nor to tear itself to pieces in hostile entanglements —( I am thinking of Pozières and Stormy Trench and Bullecourt, and other bloody fields )— but on the contrary, to advance under the maximum possible protection of the maximum possible array of mechanical resources, in the form of guns, machine-guns, tanks, mortars and aeroplanes ; to advance with as little impediment as possible ; to be relieved as far as possible of the obligation to fight their way forward ; to march, resolutely, regardless of the din and tumult of battle, to the appointed goal ; and there to hold and defend the territory gained ; and to gather in the form of prisoners, guns and stores, the fruits of victory.

He also gained from the king a charter to hold a five-day fair at the castle each year.

However, the Lao Issara never gained more than a tenuous hold on the entirety of Laos.

Even in Rome, lay notaries gained in importance, and in 1211 Pope Innocent III declared that no notary in a church court could hold major orders.

His descendants, who included some kings of England, continued to hold these titles and property until the French monarchy gained control of the area.

As Democrats gained overwhelming strength over the years, Martin managed to hold on to his House seat despite ongoing redistricting.

China gained control of Taiwan in 1683, but the Portuguese and Spanish maintained a hold on trade with Chinese cities ; the Portuguese operated from Macau and other cities, the Spanish controlled Manila.

On the Western Front in the later stage of the war, Allied tanks could break through the enemy trench line but the infantry following the tanks ( needed to take and hold the ground gained ) were easily stopped or delayed by small arms fire and artillery.

In 1227, the town gained a market charter and the right to hold an annual fair every September.

Delaware's legislators decided that they would stay in the Union for at least the beginning of the war and if the Confederacy gained enough ground, they would again hold a convention to decide if Secession was in their best interests.

King James III gained his hold and rights of the Norwegian Earldom of Orkney for the Scottish Crown in 1470 ( see History of Orkney ), against a promised compensation ( it turned out to be lands of Ravencraig, in 1471 ); and William Sinclair was thereafter Earl of Caithness alone until he resigned the Earldom in favour of his son William in 1476.

In 1250 William de Birmingham gained permission to hold a fair for three days about Ascensiontide.

Republicans also took control of 29 of the 50 State governorships, and gained 690 seats in state legislatures to hold their greatest number since the 1928 elections.

* Leicester City – When Leicester restructured their debt after going into administration in 2002, enabling them to hold on to a string of Premiership stars who ordinarily would have been sold to stay afloat, they gained promotion to the Premiership, at the expense of Sheffield United, who had to make do with a play-off place.

Vigorous preparations were made, not only to hold what had been gained, but to proceed from Münster toward the conquest of the world.

Both Willy Brandt's Social Democrats, who gained 22 seats in the new parliament, and the Free Democrats, who picked up 23, will insist on that before they enter the government.

He sensed something precious in the perilous moment, something akin to the knowledge gained on his bicycle trip through the French countryside, a knowledge imprisoned in speechlessness.

The inference is overwhelming that Du Pont's commanding position was promoted by its stock interest and was not gained solely on competitive merit ''.

Under Lincoln's leadership, the Union set up a naval blockade that shut down the South's normal trade, took control of the border slave states at the start of the war, gained control of communications with gunboats on the southern river systems, and tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.

In the Battle of Abensberg on 19 – 20 April 1809, Napoleon gained a significant victory over the Austrians under Archduke Louis of Austria and General Johann von Hiller.

Based on his industry experience on Air Force missile projects, Mueller realized some skilled managers could be found among high-ranking officers in the US Air Force, so he got Webb's permission to recruit General Samuel C. Phillips, who gained a reputation for his effective management of the Minuteman program, as OMSF program controller.

The Gepids initially gained the upper hand, but in 567, thanks to his alliance with the Avars, Alboin inflicted a decisive defeat on his enemies, whose lands the Avars subsequently occupied.

The penal colony was eventually closed on August 15, 1947 when India gained its independence.

Carnegie later joked that he was " the first casualty of the war " when he gained a scar on his cheek from freeing a trapped telegraph wire.

The song quickly gained popularity and an amended version was sung by a choir of 10, 000 at the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901.

Of his late works for the stage only two works gained wide popular esteem during his life, Palmira, regina di Persia ( Palmira, Queen of Persia ) 1795 and Cesare in Farmacusa ( Caesar on Pharmacusa ), both drawing on the heroic and exotic success established with Axur.

With the information contained in Chanute's book, the personal assistance of Chanute himself, and research carried out in their own wind tunnel, the Wright brothers gained enough knowledge of aerodynamics to fly the first powered aircraft on December 17, 1903.

Two other uncommon sources were promoted by Alexander: Anselm of Canterbury, whose writings had been ignored for almost a century gained an important advocate in Alexander and he used Anselm's works extensively in his teaching on Christology and soteriology ; and, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, whom Alexander used in his examination of the theology of Orders and ecclesiastical structures.

With the revenues gained by his bootlegging operation, Capone increased his grip on the political and law-enforcement establishments in Chicago.

While his work on deciphering the Maya script gained some support from Alfred Tozzer at Harvard, the main authority on Ancient Maya culture, J. E. S.

He gained nominations to contest progressively safer seats at two subsequent General Elections and was in both cases elected, for Shrewsbury in 1841 ( despite serious opposition, and financial difficulties which opponents seized on ), and then for Buckinghamshire county in 1847.

Disraeli's proposal to extend the tax to Ireland gained him further enemies, and he was also hampered by an unexpected increase in defence expenditure, which was forced on him by Derby and Sir John Pakington ( Secretary of State for War and the Colonies ) ( leading to his celebrated remark to John Bright about the " damned defences ").

The Anglo-Dutch forces gained minor compensation for the failed Moselle campaign with the success at Elixheim and the crossing of the Lines of Brabant in the Spanish Netherlands ( Huy was also retaken on 11 July ), but a chance to bring the French to a decisive engagement had eluded Marlborough.

Several Cyrillic alphabets with 28 to 44 letters were used in the beginning and the middle of the 19th century during the efforts on the codification of Modern Bulgarian until an alphabet with 32 letters, proposed by Marin Drinov, gained prominence in the 1870s.

Early Buddhism avoided speculative thought on metaphysics, phenomenology, ethics, and epistemology, but was based instead on empirical evidence gained by the sense organs ( ayatana ).

( 1937 ) relied heavily on other theorists such as Ludwig Ritter von Eimannsberger, whose major book, The Tank War ( Der Kampfwagenkrieg ) ( 1934 ) gained a wide audience in the German Army.