Though little democracy had ever been practised in this region, and much of it was still ruled by feudalistic means, it was taken for granted that at least the forms of Western democracy would be established in this area and Western capitalism preserved within it.

Inevitably, one side was pleased and the other displeased, regardless of how we ruled.

It was ruled a difficult chance and a hit.

In its ruling, the state Board of Education upheld Dr. Michael F. Walsh, state commissioner of education, who had ruled previously that the Warwick board erred when it named Maurice F. Tougas as coordinator of audio-visual education without first finding that the school superintendent's candidate was not suitable.

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

Following his death and the organisational deterioration of his empire, Asia Minor was ruled by a series of Hellenistic kingdoms which came under Roman control two hundred years later.

Following his death and the breakup of his empire, Anatolia was ruled by a series of Hellenistic kingdoms, much of it being controlled by the Greek Seleucid Empire.

Although it had at first been somewhat established in many colonies, in 1861 it was ruled that, except where specifically established, the Church of England had just the same legal position as any other church.

304 – 232 BC ), commonly known as Ashoka and also as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca.

In Gylfi's delusion, ancient Asgard was ruled by the senior god, the all-father, who had twelve names.

In 746, Carloman ended an uprising by summarily executing all Alemannic nobility at the blood court at Cannstatt, and for the following century, Alemannia was ruled by Frankish dukes.

The only dominion it had was over Burtscheid, a neighbouring territory ruled by a Benedictine abbess.

As Sargon extended his conquest from the " Lower Sea " ( Persian Gulf ), to the " Upper Sea " ( Mediterranean ), it was felt that he ruled " the totality of the lands under heaven ", or " from sunrise to sunset ", as contemporary texts put it.

Alexander () was tagus or despot of Pherae in Thessaly, and ruled from 369 BC to 358 BC.

Diodorus Siculus tells us that upon the assassination of the tyrant Jason of Pherae, in 370 BC, his brother Polydorus ruled for a year, but he was then poisoned by Alexander, another brother.

The Mormaerdom or Kingdom of Moray was ruled by the family of Macbeth ( Mac Bethad mac Findláich ) and Lulach ( Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin ); not overmighty subjects, but a family who had ruled Alba within little more than a lifetime.

When King Æthelwulf died in 858, Wessex was ruled by three of Alfred's brothers in succession, Æthelbald, Æthelbert and Æthelred.

But there are smaller snippets of tradition preserved in the Historia Brittonum: in Chapter 31, we are told that Vortigern ruled in fear of Ambrosius ; later, in Chapter 66, various events are dated from a Battle of Guoloph ( often identified with Wallop, ESE of Amesbury near Salisbury ), which is said to have been between Ambrosius and Vitolinus ; lastly, in Chapter 48, it is said that Pascent, the son of Vortigern, was granted rule over the regions of Buellt and Gwrtheyrnion by Ambrosius.

Due to the strategic location of the site it was fortified from very early. In the 8th and 7th century BC the site of Amphipolis was ruled by Illyrian tribes.

Selection by lottery was the standard means as it was regarded as the more democratic: elections would favour those who were rich, noble, eloquent and well-known, while allotment spread the work of administration throughout the whole citizen body, engaging them in the crucial democratic experience of, to use Aristotle's words, " ruling and being ruled in turn " ( Politics 1317b28 – 30 ).

Melisende was defeated in this struggle and Baldwin ruled alone thereafter.

At the time, Shogun Tokugawa Ieyoshi was the de-facto ruler of Japan ; for the Emperor to interact in any way with foreigners was out of the question.

The Atari standard joystick, developed for the Atari 2600, released in 1977, was a digital joystick, with a single fire button, and connected via a DE-9 connector, the electrical specifications of which were for many years the de-facto standard digital joystick specification.

Additionally, Accent's usefulness for research was limited because it was not UNIX-compatible, and UNIX was already the de-facto standard for almost all operating system research.

The Supreme Court ruled in Milliken v. Bradley ( 1974 ) that de-facto racial segregation was acceptable, as long as schools were not actively making policies for racial exclusion ; since then, schools have been segregated due to myriad indirect factors.

( 4. 77 MHz was the speed of the 8088 in the IBM PC and PC / XT models and so was the de-facto standard speed for an 8088 in an IBM-compatible.

His own residence was next to the seminary, which aided daily contacts of the students with the de-facto head of the seminary, Archbishop Pecci.

Soon Texcoco and Tlacopan became junior partners in the alliance which was de-facto led by the Mexica of Tenochtitlan.

When the Gold card was finally released, the Sound Blaster series was entrenched as the de-facto PC sound card standard, and priced significantly cheaper than the Adlib Gold.

When the de-facto governance of Port Arthur and the Liaodong peninsula was granted de jure to Russia by China along with an increase in other rights she had obtained in Manchuria ( especially those in Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces ) the construction of the 550 mile Southern spurline of the Manchurian Railway was redoubled.

Two months into his tenure with the team, his role was expanded and he was made de-facto general manager.

Consequently the depiction of pubic hair was de-facto forbidden in U. S. pornographic magazines.

With IBM suffering its greatest ever public humiliation in the wake of the PS / 2 disaster, massive financial losses, and a marked lack of company unity or direction, Microsoft's combination of a soft marketing voice and a big financial stick was effective: Windows became the de-facto standard.

Kosovo declared de-facto independence on February 17, 2008, and was recognized by several dozen countries, but officially remains under United Nations administration.

The new party was strongly opposed to partition but accepted the de-facto existence of the Irish Free State.

At the outbreak of the 1896 revolution, the Council was further reorganized into a ' cabinet ' which the Katipunan regarded as a genuine revolutionary government, de-facto and de-jure.

In 1980, Rhodesia, which had been de-facto independent since 1965, became independent from Britain and was renamed Zimbabwe.

ODBC was later ported back to those markets, and became a de-facto standard considerably better known than CLI.

Francisco Franco's quasi-fascist Falangist single-party state in Spain was officially neutral in World War II and survived the collapse of the Axis Powers.

The single-party solution disintegrated in 1963, and there was a single-day bloodless coup in 1964.

The history of Guinea-Bissau was dominated by Portugal from the 1450s to the 1970s ; since independence, the country has been primarily controlled by a single-party system.

The single-party assembly approved a new constitution, elected President Vieira to a new 5-year term, and elected a Council of State, which was the executive agent of the ANP.

Similarly, the repression the authoritarian single-party regime he led imposed on the population and severe food shortages also left marks and, despite having always denied, Luís Cabral was accused of being responsible for the death of a large number of black Guinea-Bissauan soldiers who had fought along with the Portuguese Army against the PAIGC guerrillas during the Portuguese Colonial War.

He was also intent on preventing the Istiqlal from consolidating its control and establishing a single-party state.

The most prominent example of a planned economy was the economic system of the Soviet Union, and as such, the centralised-planned economic model is usually associated with the Communist states of the 20th century, where it was combined with a single-party political system.

Turkmenistan was until recently a single-party state wherein only the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan ( Türkmenistanyň Demokratik partiýasynyň ) was legally allowed to contest elections.

Although the Commonwealth was under conservative single-party rule for nearly a century following Reconstruction, both major national parties are competitive in modern Virginia.

A move was made to abolish traditional political parties and to alter the existing mode of national representation in parliament ( which, it was claimed, exacerbated divisions within the Pátria ) through the creation of a corporative Senate, the founding of a single-party ( the National Republican Party ), and the attribution of a mobilising function to the leader.

Also, Egyptian-style land reform was resented for damaging Syrian agriculture, the Communists began to gain influence, and the intellectuals of the Ba ' ath who supported the Union rejected the single-party system.

The periods of 2001-2002 and 2003-2007 were the first times since 1953-1955 that there was single-party Republican leadership in Washington, interrupted from 2001-2003 as Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont left the Republicans to become independent and caucused with the Democrats to give them the 51-49 Senate majority.

In January 1956, the new Constitution of Egypt was drafted, entailing the establishment of a new single-party system, the National Union, which would select a nominee for the presidential election whose name would be provided for popular approval.

In Syria, opposition to union with Egypt mounted ; Syrian Army officers resented being subordinated to Egyptian officers, Bedouin tribes received funds from Saudi Arabia to prevent their loyalty to Nasser, Egyptian-style land reform was blamed for damaging Syrian agricultural production, Communists began to gain influence among lower-income workers, and the intellectuals within the Ba ' ath party who had initially supported union rejected the single-party system.

After being structured as a politicized " people's army " in the Boumédiène era, and retaining its allegiance to the FLN during the single-party years of Algerian history, the military forces were formally depoliticized in 1988, as a multi-party system was introduced.

A single-party state was soon established in Yugoslavia by the League of Communists of Yugoslavia.

Multiparty democracy was introduced in Serbia in 1990, officially dismantling the single-party system.

Under its rule, the GDR was a single-party dictatorship, and political opponents were persecuted.

Bermuda electoral politics has been characterized by single-party dominance: the UBP was the dominant party from 1968 to 1998, winning every election ; while the PLP has continuously been in power since 1998.

Fascist single-party states were as centralised as most communist states, and fascism's intense nationalism was not found in the period prior to the French Revolution.

As a political ideology, state socialism rose to prominence during the 20th century Bolshevik, Leninist and later Marxist-Leninist revolutions where single-party control over the state, and by extension, over the political and economic spheres of society was justified as a means to safeguard the revolution against counter-revolutionary insurrection and foreign invasion.