Political persecution, emigration and natural catastrophes are the reason why the period between 1945 and 1977 has been frequently called by Slovenian authors " The Dark Years of the Slavia Veneta " (, ).

* Political fear or persecution

* Political repression, the oppression or persecution of an individual or group for political reasons

Political repression is the persecution of an individual or group for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or preventing their ability to take part in the political life of a society.

After arrests and persecution of much of the Church ’ s leadership, Metropolitan Sergius Stragorodsky ( one of the Assistant Deputy Patriarchs ) agreed in 1927 to negotiations with the State Political Directorate from his prison cell.

Political authority ran from local electoral bosses in the provinces through the congressional and executive branches, which reciprocated with payoffs from taxes on nitrate sales.

Political blocs are usually based on confessional and local interests or on personal / family allegiance rather than on political affinities.

Anthropologist Eric R. Wolf gave it a second life in 1972 in an article entitled “ Ownership and Political Ecology ,” in which he discusses how local rules of ownership and inheritance “ mediate between the pressures emanating from the larger society and the exigencies of the local ecosystem ” ( Wolf 1972, p. 202 ).

Political decentralization often requires constitutional or statutory reforms, creation of local political units, and the encouragement of effective public interest groups.

Political competition between rival Democratic state organizations and between Democrats and Progressive Republicans led to delays in implementing PWA efforts on the local level.

Political corruption in Wilkes-Barre and Luzerne County became a major regional news story following nationwide publication of stories about the Kids for Cash scandal, a kickback scheme involving two local judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, charged with enriching themselves by investing in juvenile detention facilities to which they subsequently sentenced children under their judicial power.

Political support has come from a number of local and federal politicians such as Senators Natasha Stott Despoja and Penny Wong, Members of the House of Representatives Anthony Albanese and Tanya Plibersek, Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party, Barry O ' Farrell as well as the present Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore.

Political activity of the Moral Majority divided accordingly, with the national Moral Majority office usually focused on addressing multiple issues through Congress while local branches tended to work on a single issue within their respective states.

In 1988, Hu was transferred to become Party Regional Committee Secretary of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, the restive area's number-one figure, while also taking on the role of Political Commissar of the local People's Liberation Army units.

It was during this second ' Beijing Spring ' that the China Democracy Party was founded and legally registered by some local authorities, Democracy Wall dissident Wei Jingsheng was released and exiled, China signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and China was visited by US President Bill Clinton and UN Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson.

He was a local government officer at the Greater London Council, before he worked for the Trade Union movement, running the first Political Fund ballots, and then with the GMB.

Political corruption was a central issue, which reformers hoped to solve through civil service reforms at the national, state and local level, replacing political hacks with professionals.

The Socialist-Revolutionary Party was established in 1902 out of the Northern Union of Socialist Revolutionaries ( founded in 1896 ), bringing together numerous local socialist-revolutionary groups which had been established in the 1890s, most notably Workers ' Party of Political Liberation of Russia created by Catherine Breshkovsky and Grigory Gershuni in 1899.

Political parties have often been shown at their headquarters with large Daruma dolls and amulets purchased from local temples as a prayer for victory.

' The Law of Political Responsibility of February 1939 gave the Church the chance to become an extralegal body of investigation with each parish in charge of policing its parishioners at the same level as the local government officials and local leaders of the falange.

Political instability and local feuds, aggravated by the poverty of the dispossessed Marsh Arab population, remain a serious problem.

HRC is an umbrella group of two separate non-profit organizations and a political action committee: the HRC Foundation, a 501 ( c )( 3 ) organization that focuses on research, advocacy and education ; the Human Rights Campaign, a 501 ( c )( 4 ) organization that focuses on promoting the social welfare of gays and lesbians through lobbying Congress and state and local officials for support of pro-LGBT bills, and mobilizing grassroots action amongst its members ; and the HRC Political Action Committee, which supports candidates that adhere to its positions on LGBT rights.

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Political control was mostly present at the local group level.

David Wasserman, House editor of The Cook Political Report, predicts this will be a more difficult race, and local Republicans have confirmed that Capps is one of their top targets in California.

Political parties and local interest groups were riddled with divisions and rivalries, but they shared one concern: they were determined not to be dominated by Buganda.

In roughly the 1983-84 period, when the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign was planning expansively around mass-movement fund raising, lobbying, and Political Action Committees ( PACs ), SANE was merged into that entity, though local SANE chapters would continue to hold meetings for some time to come.

Political leaders are known to have claimed actual divinity in certain early societies — the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs being the premier case — taking a role as objects of worship and being credited with superhuman status and powers.

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Political leaders in Singapore argued instead for the equality of all citizens, with places in universities, government contracts, political appointments, etc., going to the most deserving candidates, rather than to those chosen on the basis of connections or ethnic background ( It is worth noting that Lee Kuan Yew was originally a Fabian Socialist and opposed racism ).

Political leaders continue to discuss plans to end this turmoil, but none of the talks have been successful.

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.

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Political power was sometimes used by monastic leaders to suppress rival religious schools through the confiscation of property and direct violence.

After failed attempts at creating defence ( European Defence Community ) and political communities ( European Political Community ), leaders met at the Messina Conference and established the Spaak Committee which produced the Spaak report.

( 1995 ) Political leaders of contemporary Western Europe: a biographical dictionary.

Though many scholars have suggested that labor unions were leading figures in this coalition, no significant labor leaders attended the convention, with the exception of the heads of the Congress of Industrial Organizations Political Action Committee ( CIOPAC ), Jack Kroll and A. F.

Political leaders and reformers like Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau's work, particularly Civil Disobedience, as did " right-wing theorist Frank Chodorov devoted an entire issue of his monthly, Analysis, to an appreciation of Thoreau.

The leaders of the National Political Union ignored this proclamation, but leaders of the influential Birmingham branch decided to co-operate with the government by discouraging activities on a national level.

Political pressure grows on the Administration with planetary leaders threatening to leave the Federation because of its inability to protect them from Blake's attacks.

Political pamphlets became popular, often lampooning military leaders for political purposes.

Political leaders of contemporary Western Europe: a biographical dictionary.

He also played an important role the Summit of The Hague in 1969, where the European leaders decided to relaunch European integration with two new initiatives: on the one hand, Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union ( EMU ), and on the other hand, European Political Cooperation ( EPC ), which foreshadow the euro and the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union today.

In his review of the history of sortition implemented in various degrees in Greece, Florence and during the French revolution in " The Political Potential of Sortition ", Dowlen argues that any use of sortition, whether to elect leaders, or to form the body that elects leaders, has helped develop and strengthen inclusion and stability in democratic systems.

: In 1979 the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ( AIPAC ) formed its Political Leadership Development Program, which " educates and trains young leaders in pro-Israel political advocacy ," enlisting hundreds of college students to collect information on pro-Palestinian professors and student organizations.

In 1981, President Ronald Reagan in his speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference ( or " CPAC ") named Hazlitt as one of the " ntellectual leaders " ( along with Hayek, Mises, Friedman, Russell Kirk, James Burnham and Frank Meyer ) who had " shaped so much of our thoughts ..."

Political history is the narrative and analysis of political events, ideas, movements, and leaders.

Political leaders like Jan Peter Balkenende, Wouter Bos and Gerrit Zalm were frequently impersonated.