Political opposition groups were splintered and the Contras began to experience defections, although United States aid maintained them as a viable military force.

Political freedom has also been theorized in its opposition to ( and a condition of ) " power relations ", or the power of " action upon actions ," by Michel Foucault.

In the meantime, an Interim Political Authority ( IPA ), charged with reviewing the electoral structure in the country, was created in December 1998 and devised a proportional electoral system to ensure that there be opposition in the National Assembly.

Political experts criticized this act, saying that this was a move by President Nasheed to gain the decreasing public support and to silence the voices of the opposition by threatening them.

Political parties continued to proliferate but produced only a divided and weakly organized opposition or were suppressed.

Political leaders from the parties critical to the Aquino rule appointed Former House Speaker Jose B. Laurel Jr. as Interim President in a Manifesto signed by opposition leaders.

The PNM affiliated with the former, while several opposition parties ( the People's Democratic Party, the Trinidad Labour Party and the Party of Political Progress Groups ) aligned themselves with the DLP, and soon merged to form the Democratic Labour Party of Trinidad and Tobago.

Political opposition to the King gradually became centered around George Augustus and Caroline.

Political opponents were jailed and sometimes killed, and opposition newspapers were occasionally seized.

Political persecution of local leaders and strict radio and press control were designed to prepare for an eventual unlimited communist dictatorship, including the liquidation of opposition.

Political opposition to the logging of forests by the process known as clearfelling has grown very strong in recent years ( particularly in the case of woodchipping ), and the extent of future harvesting remains uncertain.

Political opposition was expressed in a number of colonies, including Barbados and Antigua, and by absentee landowners living in Britain.

The Citizens ' Political Party and the LUA endorsed Robert Turton and Arthur Balderamos, a Creole lawyer, who formed the chief opposition in the new council of 1936.

Political figures, including Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, blamed the fire on " radical environmentalists " and their opposition to logging to thin the forests.

Political pressure by the Peronist opposition and other organized economic interests coincided with the December 2001 riots.

Political commentators Neal Lawson and Joe Cox wrote that tactical voting helped to provide New Labour with its majorities in 1997, 2001 and 2005 and argued that, the party won because of public opposition to the Conservative Party.

By the time his son attempted his putsch in 2000, however, Sam Speight was an opposition member of Parliament, his Fijian Political Party having lost power to the Indo-Fijian-led Labour Party of Mahendra Chaudhry in the elections of 1999.

Many opponents of the KMT asking for democracy were organized as an opposition camp gradually after the establishment of the magazine “ Taiwan Political Review ” in 1975 founded by one of active members, Ning-Siang Kang.

However, underlying opposition to the Political Bureau and to the absence of alternative candidates was manifested in an 18 percent abstention rate nationwide that rose to 36 percent of the electorate in Algiers.

The opposition NF Flag Group contained the traditionalists such as Andrew Brons, Ian Anderson, Martin Wingfield, Tina Wingfield, Joe Pearce ( initially associated with the Political Soldiers ' faction ) and Steve Brady, who ran candidates under the NF banner in the 1987 general election.

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Political opposition was founded both on opposition to software patents and towards what was considered heavy-handed management by the Commission.

Political opposition to the Charter and earlier francophone-favoring language legislation has had limited success, given the support of the laws by the Parti Québécois and Quebec Liberal Party.

Political identity came to the territory now occupied by the Principality of Liechtenstein in 814, with the formation of the subcountry of Lower Rhaetia.

Political and moral support came mostly through the Communist Party and unions.

Political change in Belarus came about only after the August 1991 coup d ' état in Moscow and a display of satisfaction by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus ( CPB ) at the coup attempt — it never issued a condemnation of the coup plotters.

Political preachers thus came into prominence.

Political changes which came about at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s brought about significant changes in the life of Gödöllő, too.

Political upheaval and Communist insurrection put an end to the monarchies of Indochina after World War II: a short-lived attempt to leave a monarchical form of government in post-colonial South Vietnam came to naught in 1955, a military coup overthrew the kingless monarchy in Cambodia in 1970 and a Communist takeover ended the monarchy in Laos in 1975.

Political ladies first, and statesmen afterwards, came to recognize the advantage of obtaining Hayward's good opinion.

The order to assassinate Goulart, according to him, came from Sérgio Fleury, head of the Departamento de Ordem Política e Social ( Department of Political and Social Order ) and the licence to kill came from president Ernesto Geisel himself.

As a result his trilogy of works on the Nuer ( The Nuer, Nuer Religion, and Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer ) and the volume he coedited entitled African Political Systems came to be seen as classics of British social anthropology.

Political independence came on September 7, 1822, and the prince was crowned emperor in Rio de Janeiro as Dom Pedro I, ending 322 years of colonial dominance of Portugal over Brazil.

Political and Administrative Conditions in Sicily is the first convincing explanation of how the Mafia came to be.

Political and moral support came mostly through the Communist Party and unions.

A number of Belgrade intellectuals, mostly writers and researchers in the social sciences, came to his defense by writing letters of protest to the government of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to the Faculty of Political Science in Sarajevo.

In 1909, the Indian Political Intelligence Office was established in England in response to the development of Indian anarchist activities, which came to be called the Indian Political Intelligence ( IPI ) from 1921.

Political influence came from the 1970s wave of the feminist movement and direct action politics such as the protests at Greenham Common in the UK and the resurgence of ' theatre ' as political activism.

According to his autobiography, the lyrics for " Political World " came to him spontaneously and were easy to write ; though no melody was composed, he came up with 20 verses.

In 1976 Article 11 of the ICCPR – International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – came into effect stating, “ No one shall be imprisoned merely on the ground of inability to fulfill a contractual obligation .”

The split came at a bad time as membership had already been curtailed by the decision in 1986 to double the price of membership fees and to restrict membership to those considered worthy of Political Soldier status by the leadership.

Efforts were made to revive the Political Science Association in 2003-04 but, circumstances and inertia came in the way of activities.

Political support came from the southern most counties in Texas.

Hope appeared on Top Gear during the 2nd episode of series 2, in a segment searching for ' Britain's fastest Political Party '; he came last.