Popular American fighters in the 1950s proved legendary: Sugar Ray Robinson would still win ( and lose ) world titles, Rocky Marciano became the only heavyweight world champion in history to retire with perfect record.

A counter-insurgency campaign — the Dhofar Rebellion — was fought here by the Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces in 1965 – 1975 against guerrilla fighters of the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Persian Gulf ( PFLOAG ), supported by Communist South Yemen after that territory's independence and several other socialist states including East Germany.

By mid-1976, however, the Popular Guards ’ ranks had swelled to some 5, 000 men and women, this total comprising 2, 000-2, 500 full-time fighters and 2, 500-3, 000 irregulars, mostly drawn from its youth branch organization, the Union of Lebanese Democratic Youth, which was established in early 1970.

( Popular images of this section have sometimes been mislabelled, implying that it was the entire mill or even the entire engine.

... a closer look cyberpunk authors reveals that they nearly always portray future societies in which governments have become wimpy and pathetic ... Popular science fiction tales by Gibson, Williams, Cadigan and others do depict Orwellian accumulations of power in the next century, but nearly always clutched in the secretive hands of a wealthy or corporate elite.

He claims to have received two months of training in weaponry and terrorist tactics in Syria as a member of the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine paid for by the Communist Bulgarian government, although this has been questioned.

The remaining political organization, the Popular Democratic Party, is less active in its opposition of this case of disfranchisement but has officially stated that it favors fixing the remaining " deficits of democracy " that the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations have publicly recognized in writing through Presidential Task Force Reports.

Popular files on a P2P network actually have more stability and availability than files on central networks.

The Popular Liberation Army demobilized while the country's biggest terrorist group, FARC has been weakened and most of their top commanders have been killed or died during the decade.

Popular theories suggest that the character, and possibly the name, may have come from France, Africa, or Italy.

Popular movements in the global South such as, for instance, the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign in South Africa have sometimes refused to work with NGOs arguing that this will compromise their autonomy.

Popular copyleft licenses, such as the GPL, have a clause allowing components to interact with non-copyleft components as long as the communication is abstract, such as executing a command-line tool with a set of switches or interacting with a Web server.

Popular in the late-1990s and early-to-mid 2000s, SUVs sales have since declined due to high oil prices and a declining economy.

Popular media outlets like the New York Times have explained to their American readers that although 5000 years ago, soothsayers were prized advisers to the Assyrians, they lost respect and reverence during the rise of Reason in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Popular characters and historical figures who have come to symbolise the city include Januarius, the patron saint of Naples, the comic figure Pulcinella, and the Sirens from the Greek epic poem the Odyssey.

Popular rumors may also have been fueled by the fact that Agrippa himself never married during his lifetime.

Popular programs on the channel have included Shark Week, Deadliest Catch, MythBusters, How It's Made, Dirty Jobs, Cash Cab, and Man vs. Wild.

Popular English language experts such as Richard Lederer and Barbara Wallraff have noted sniglets in their books, The Miracle of Language and Word Court: Wherein Verbal Virtue Is Rewarded, Crimes Against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice Is Done respectively.

What may have helped Jibril was Hawatmeh's own 1969 defection from the PFLP to form the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PDFLP, later without the " Popular "), after Habash tried to compensate for some of the problems that had caused Jibril's exit.

Popular singers from the Netherlands singing Brel's songs in Dutch have been Liesbeth List and Jan Mesdag.

Popular R & B artists such as Rhianna, British R & B stars Jay Sean and Taio Cruz, as well as British pop star Lily Allen on her second album, have also embraced the genre.

Popular depiction shows the Leprechaun as being no taller than a small child, with a beard and hat, although they may originally have been perceived as the tallest of the mound-dwellers ( the Tuatha Dé Danann ).

Popular musicals have their own particular sets of fans.

Popular stars of Australian TV have included: the pioneer variety show hosts Graham Kennedy, Bert Newton, Don Lane and Daryl Somers, and contemporary talk show hosts Andrew Denton and Rove McManus.

Popular international exports have included: Dame Edna Everage, Clive James, Geoffrey Robertson and The Wiggles.

Popular at first, gradually raising the standard until I have created a public for classical and modern music.

Popular synthesizers such as the Minimoog and Yamaha DX-7, Korg M1, Prophet V, Oberheim OB-X, Roland Jupiter 8, ARP 2600 and dozens of other classics have been recreated in software.

In 1990, the Popular Front held its first National Congress, which formed a committee to draft a national constitution.

In September 2002, new legislative elections were held, and the Socialist Union of Popular Forces ( Union Socialiste des Forces Populaires — USFP ) led all other parties in the voting.

In 1990, the first free elections were held for Parliament, with the opposition Popular Front winning them.

In the Italian Popular Party founded by Don Luigi Sturzo in 1919, Savonarola was revered as a champion of social justice, and after 1945 he was held up as a model of reformed Catholicism by leaders of the Christian Democratic Party.

Lacking the two-thirds majority necessary in both houses of the Legislature to submit constitutional amendments to the electorate, in 2004 the Popular Democratic Party's then-majority approved legislation to hold a referendum, not on a particular constitutional amendment as such, but on the general concept of switching from a bicameral to a unicameral system which was held on July 10, 2005.

Popular in the northern midwestern states including Minnesota and Wisconsin, street marching band competitions are held in the late spring and early summer months of May, June and July.

Popular veneration of these saints often began in a monastery that held their relics.

Cass was a leading supporter of the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people who lived in a territory should decide whether or not to permit slavery there.

Upon the election of the Popular Front, the Popular Front held a victory march in Madrid with over 250, 000 supporters, with its Socialist and Communist party components marching in uniform in the thousands.

Popular belief, however, held that such differences in preferences might be diminished by the advent of radio, which required neither the special skill nor the exertion of reading ( Lazarsfeld, 1940 ).

Popular belief held that this plant grew where semen ejaculated by hanged men ( during the last convulsive spasms before death ) fell to the ground, and its roots vaguely resemble a human form to varying degrees.

The Museo de Arte Popular held the first " Concurso de Piñatas Mexicanas " ( Mexican Piñata Contest ) in 2007 with prizes of 15, 000, 10, 000 and 5, 000 pesos.

Popular gymnastic and acrobatic exhibitions were routinely held there on city-provided equipment.

Agostinho Neto held the position when his then Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ) won control of the country from the Portuguese.

Popular dirt-track races in karting and flat-track motorcycle racing had been held at Daytona Beach Municipal Stadium, but in 2009, the city announced the stadium was replacing its entire surface with FieldTurf, and thereby eliminating the flat-track racing at the stadium.

For her performance in Neighbours, she was nominated for the " Most Popular New Female Talent " award at the 46th Annual TV Week Logie Awards held in 2004.

With the foundation of the Nazi Germany-assisted Italian Social Republic, he was appointed Mussolini's Minister of Popular Culture, and held this post until the Republic collapsed less than two years later.

In April 2005, Israeli security services arrested three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ), who had been observing Yosef in public and held on the suspicion of intended murder.

In protest against this event, the Spanish Popular Front, elected in February 1936, decided to organize anyway the Games in Barcelona, under the name People's Olympiad, which were scheduled to be held from 19 to 26 July 1936, thus ending six days before the OG in Berlin.

In 1978, Charles was a joint winner at the World Popular Song Festival held in Tokyo, performing the tune, " Love Rocks ".

Mayor Sol Luis Fontánes has held the mayor's seat for the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) since 1986.

Popular since the 16th Century, the " touradas à corda " ( literally bullfights-by-rope ) are held by local Terceiran villagers from April / May to late September.

In an accompanying photograph it is reported that the detainees being held under guard, were largely local leaders of the " Unidad Popular " and " extremists that have attacked the armed forces with firearms ".

On July 16, 1989 the Popular Front of Azerbaijan held its first congress and elected as Chairman Abulfaz Elchibey, a future President of independent Azerbaijan.