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 came from those who thought too much money was being spent on the project, as well as those opposed to the New Deal in general.

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 interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.

Famous ethnographies include The Nuer, by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, and The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi, by Meyer Fortes ; well-known edited volumes include African Systems of Kinship and Marriage and African Political Systems.

Army of Mississippi in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler.

" In Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler.

: The American style is used by most American newspapers, publishing houses and style guides in the United States and Canada ( including the Modern Language Association's MLA Style Manual, the American Psychological Association's APA Publication Manual, the University of Chicago's The Chicago Manual of Style, the American Institute of Physics's AIP Style Manual, the American Medical Association's AMA Manual of Style, the American Political Science Association's APSA Style Manual, the Associated Press ' The AP Guide to Punctuation and the Canadian Public Works ' The Canadian Style ).

From the British side the camp was attended by Mortimer Durand and Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum, Political Agent Khyber.

Political scandals in the United Kingdom are commonly referred to by the press and commentators as "' sleaze ".

Political acquiescence in demutualisation was clearest in the case of the position on ' carpet baggers ', that is those who joined societies by lodging minimum amounts of £ 100 or so in the hope of profiting from a distribution of surplus after demutualisation.

* Political capital, means by which a politician or political party may gain support or popularity

" It was replaced by the State Political Administration or GPU, a section of the NKVD of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ).

Political geographers maintain that colonial behavior was reinforced by the physical mapping of the world, visually separating “ them ” and “ us ”.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

Hume's volume of Political Discourses ( published by Kincaid & Donaldson, 1752 ) was the only work he considered successful on first publication.

Dress daggers were used by several other countries as well, including Japan but never to the same extent as those worn by the Military and Political bodies of the Third Reich or Fascist Italy.

Political change in continental Europe was spurred by the French Revolution under the motto liberté, egalité, fraternité.

Political power was solely executed by leading members ( Politburo ) of the communist-controlled Socialist Unity Party ( SED ).

Political geography is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures.

* A Political History of SF by Eric Raymond

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ( ICCPR ) states that " any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law ".

Political relations between Iraq and Syria have in the past seen difficulties, however, new diplomatic relations described by both sides as " Historic " were established in November 2006, beginning an era of close cooperation and political friendship between Iraq and Syria.

In the hearings before the Ad Hoc Political Committee that considered Israel's application for membership in the United Nations, Abba Eban said that the rights stipulated in section C. Declaration, chapters 1 and 2 of UN resolution 181 ( II ) had been alluded to in the fundamental law of the state of Israel as proposed by the resolution.

Though states ( or increasingly, international organizations ) are usually the only ones with standing to address a violation of international law, some treaties, such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights have an optional protocol that allows individuals who have had their rights violated by member states to petition the international Human Rights Committee.