Labour Party and opposition leader Neil Kinnock made endless calls for a general election throughout 1991, but Major held out and decided not to call the election until he finally set an election date of 9 April 1992.

For the first time, however, opposition political parties won significant numbers of seats, and despite some irregularities and threats of violence from Major General Lekhanya, Lesotho experienced its first peaceful election.

Major protests and demonstrations against the constitutional amendment broke out, with large support gaining for the opposition leader Kim Dae-jung, but Park was again re-elected in the 1971 presidential election.

When the Major government fell the following year he remained a whip in opposition and was promoted to Deputy Chief Whip by William Hague.

President George H. W. Bush once said of PMQs, " I count my blessings for the fact I don't have to go into that pit that John Major stands in, nose-to-nose with the opposition, all yelling at each other.

Among the military officers in the opposition were Jacobo Árbenz and Major Francisco Javier Arana.

Major re-organisation by this duo of the league and its finances took place in 1988, Lauder-Frost emphasising that " we are not just a social group, but a serious pressure group carrying out a very demanding role in the face of much opposition.

Major protests ensued, aiming to make clear many New Zealanders ' opposition to apartheid and, if possible, to stop the matches taking place.

Among the military officers in the opposition were Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán and Major Francisco Javier Arana.

Marshall further records that Rickey identified the meeting and the report shortly after his speech at Wilberforce and retracted his claim of 15-to-1 opposition to Robinson's entry into Major League Baseball.

To destroy the still weak opposition, Russian Empress Catherine the Great ordered the corps of Major General Fiodor Denisov to attack Kraków.

Major changes took place in Yugoslavia in 1990 when free elections brought opposition parties to power in Croatia and Slovenia.

' Jellicoe ', ' Hardy and ' Drake ' encountered no enemy opposition as they moved towards the villa housing the radar installation, and after surrounding the villa Major Frost gave the order to open fire with grenades and automatic fire.

Major causes of the decline were the diversion of labor from agriculture to industry ( in 1948 an estimated 2. 2 million workers were employed in agriculture ; by 1960, only 1. 5 million ); the suppression of the kulak, the most experienced and productive farmer ; and the peasantry's opposition to collectivization, which resulted in sabotage.

Major development began in the 1820s under the fourth Duke of Newcastle, despite much opposition from locals, who regarded the area as public land.

With the help of an ousted Palpali king, Major General Wood planned to march on Siuraj, Jit Gadhi and Nuwakot with a view to bypass the Butwal defenses, flushing out minor opposition on the axis, and assault Palpa from a less guarded flank.

Major topics of the book are: the problems of the society of plenty based entirely on automated production where individuals have little to do ; imposition of ethical laws through technology i. e. the ethicsphere which has made it impossible to harm individuals physically ; and the ideological opposition of two dominant systems, which is basically a parody of Western-Soviet Union split taken to the absurd.

This was done despite the opposition of the national government of the time of John Major.

The murder of Major Rubens Vaz, an associate of opposition newspaper editor Carlos Lacerda, by some of the president's bodyguards, known as the crime of " Rua Tonelero ", led to a reaction against Vargas.

His other plays are: Clementina ( Covent Garden, February 23, 1771 ), a blank verse tragedy, given out to be the work of a young American clergyman in order to escape the opposition of the Wilkites ; The School for Wives ( Drury Lane, December 11, 1773 ), a prose comedy given out as the work of Major ( afterwards Sir William ) Addington ; a two-act piece, The Romance of an Hour ( Covent Garden, December 2, 1774 ), borrowed from Marmontel's tale L ' amitié à l ' épreuve ; and an unsuccessful comedy, The Man of Reason ( Covent Garden, February 9, 1776 ).

C Company under the then Major Frost was given the task and on 27 February 1942 120 men landed, meeting stiff opposition but succeeded in stealing the component as well as capturing a German expert on the radar.

Because of his military experience and rank he was commissioned Major General of the Army of Alabama soon after the inauguration of Jefferson Davis, a position replaced by a generalship in the Confederate Army upon its creation, but in 1862 he resigned his commission altogether due to his political opposition to the war for secession.

An American expeditionary force of 17, 000 officers and men under Major General William R. Shafter was landed east of the city at the small ports of Daiquirí and Siboney between 22 and 25 June, without opposition.

Krohcol crossed the frontier some fourteen hours after the landings at Kota Bharu, on 8 December, and met stubborn opposition from Thai policemen and civilian volunteers led by Major Prayoon Rattanakit, police commissioner of the town of Betong.

The 1901 Constitution was indeed a carbon copy of the Constitution written at La Yara in 1896, and met with fierce opposition from its principal author Major General José Braulio Alemán who strongly opposed the Platt Amendment.

The New York Times has identified 1520 Sedgwick Avenue " an otherwise unremarkable high-rise just north of the Cross Bronx Expressway and hard along the Major Deegan Expressway " as a starting point, where DJ Kool Herc presided over parties in the community room.

Major political parties, beset by scandal and loss of voter confidence, underwent far-reaching changes.

Major parties such as the Unified Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ), Communist Party of Nepal ( Unified Marxist-Leninist ) ( CPN UML ) and the Nepali Congress agreed to write a constitution to replace the interim one within 2 years.

Major political parties changed their response to Janmaat and his views: rather than actively ignoring him they also started openly addressing the issue of immigration.

John Major had won the 1992 General Election with an absolute majority of 21 seats over all other parties.

Major parties often respond to this by adopting this issue in a subsequent election.

Major RIM parties, including the RCP and the CPN-M, argue that while the Soviet Union was essentially genuinely socialist under Stalin's government, power-induced " absolutism " nevertheless hindered the ability of the masses to rule, and to replenish the truly revolutionary Communist Party of the Soviet Union ranks over time.

This precipitates a political crisis: John Major resigns as Prime Minister, a snap election is called, and the Conservatives split into two parties: the pro-European Progressive Federalist Party, led by Sir Greville, and the eurosceptic New Patriotic Party, led by Alan.

Major rulers during the times of the Barbary states ' plundering parties were the Pasha or Dey of Algiers, the Bey of Tunis and the Bey of Tripoli, all subjects, who were anxious to get rid of the Ottoman sultan, but who were de facto independent rulers.

The Act was introduced after consultation with major political parties, and largely followed the recommendations of the Committee on Standards in Public Life ( known at the time as the " Neill Committee " after its chairman ), an independent body set-up by former Prime Minister John Major to consider ways of making politics more transparent.

* Thomas Bagworth-saith that the other parties that this deponent knoweth to be actors in the present Rebellion and to partake with the irish Rebells against the English are ... MrMartin a Counsellor at Law & now Maior of Galway: whoe promissed to releeve the fort there: But when he came to bee Major proved as badd or worse as then any other Rebell & would not releeve nor partake with them of the fforte.

Major and minor parties all nominate candidates for the court in their primary elections.

Major political parties attempt to have a riding association in each constituency though, usually, these associations are more active in ridings where the party has an elected Member of Parliament or has a reasonable chance of electing an MP in the future, and less active in ridings where the party's prospects have historically been poor.

Chatham House has distinguished presidents from each of the three main political parties at Westminster: Sir John Major, former UK Prime Minister, Lord Ashdown, former EU Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and former leader of the Liberal Democrats, and Baroness Scotland, the Shadow Attorney General.

Major mediations have commenced between concerned parties, including possible formation of a coalition and / or interim government until reelections are held.

" The Honiara Peace Accord that was signed by the warring parties ( Guadalcanal and Malaita ), the government and the Commonwealth Special Envoy ( Major General Sitiveni Rabuka ) recognised several root causes of the conflict:

Major political parties, beset by scandal and loss of voter confidence, underwent far-reaching changes.

Major causes of friction inside the coalition were, the 2006 pardon Act ( criticised by the right and by the IDV party ), a draft bill to establish civil unions ( vetoed by Christian Democrats ), Italy's continued involvement in Afghanistan ( strongly opposed by left-wing parties ), and finally the much publicized house-arrest of Clemente Mastella's wife ( then a prominent politician at the regional level ) over a corruption scandal.

On 4 November 1918 during the forcing of the Sambre-Oise Canal at the lock south of Catillon, France, Major Findlay was with the leading bridging and assaulting parties which came under heavy fire and the advance was stopped.

Major Arab Sunni parties such as the Iraqi Islamic Party and the Association of Muslim Scholars, boycotted the elections, as did some smaller groups such as the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq.

Major opposition parties include Change List and Reform List with 25 and 13 seats respectively.

He worked for private parties and governmental agencies alike, taking several contracts from retired Major Arthur Barrington, the man who had brought North into the CIA.

Major political parties tend to be able to take a full slate for granted: all the positions they run for, they have some chance of winning, and the party is well-funded, and people can gain contacts and prestige from running for that party.