His name is also written in Taiwan as " The Late President Lord Chiang " ( 先總統 蔣公 ), where the one-character-wide space known as nuo tai shows respect ; this practice has lost some popularity.

In 1849, taking advantage of his popularity, President Faustin Soulouque proclaimed himself Emperor Faustin I.

During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, the Iranian government enjoyed something of a resurgence in popularity amongst the predominantly Sunni " Arab street ," due to its support for Hezbollah and to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vehement opposition to the United States and his call that Israel shall vanish.

Despite the popularity of Gayoom, those connected to the former President hired ex-SAS mercenaries in 1980 to carry out a coup to oust him.

Capitalizing on the popularity of President Salinas, however, the PRI rebounded in the mid-term congressional elections of 1991, winning 320 seats.

Because of its popularity and recognition, the campus was visited by President Barack Obama on February 10, 2011, where he praised the development in wireless technology and promoted a National Wireless Initiative to bring high-speed Internet to 98 % of the U. S. by 2016.

Grant was the most popular man in the country ; when President Johnson was at loggerheads with the Congress over Reconstruction, he decided to take his case to the people with his infamous " swing around the circle " throughout the country and he sought to capitalize on Grant's popularity by having Grant travel with him.

Grant, however, defended himself in a written response to the President, which became public knowledge ; Grant thereby increased his national popularity and emerged from the controversy unscathed.

In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt offered Taft the seat on the Supreme Court to which he had for so long aspired, but he reluctantly declined since he viewed the Filipinos as not yet being capable of governing themselves and because of his popularity among them.

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Calhoun believed that the outcome of the 1824 presidential election, in which the House made Adams President despite the greater popularity of Andrew Jackson, demonstrated that control of the federal government was subject to manipulation by Adams and Henry Clay.

The law was sponsored by President Theodore Roosevelt as a part of his " Square Deal " domestic program, and greatly boosted his popularity.

As team owner, the popularity derived from his public persona lead to the invitation to run for governor of Texas and ultimately, two terms as President.

Many in the Russian press and in the international media warned that the death of so many hostages in the special forces ' rescue operation would severely damage President Putin's popularity.

By this time, his popularity was such that he was able to lend his prestige to the cause of Mexican labor, representing the National Association of Actors in talks with President Manuel Ávila Camacho.

President Carnot's ostensible part during this agitation was confined to augmenting his popularity by well-timed appearances on public occasions, which gained credit for the presidency and the republic.

) The popularity of " Sarah Jackman " ( as well as the album My Son, the Folk Singer ) was enhanced after President John F. Kennedy was spotted in a hotel lobby singing the song.

However, on the campaign trail his personal popularity proved enormous, and in a political upset, Childers was elected the fourth President of Ireland on 30 May 1973, defeating O ' Higgins by 635, 867 votes to 578, 771.

As a conservative who was strong in his opposition to communism and the Left in general, Svinhufvud did not become a President embraced by all the people, although as the amiable Ukko-Pekka ( Old Man Pete ), he did enjoy wide popularity.

Arch West was the Vice President of Marketing of Frito-Lay at the time, and noticed the popularity.

In the 2002 Congressional midterm elections, Gephardt campaigned on the issues of the economy and Social Security, however the continuing resonance of the September 11 attacks, the momentum for military action against Iraq, and President George W. Bush's popularity lead to Republican gains, with the Democrats losing four House seats.

* SimHealth – Released in 1994, the game simulated President Bill Clinton's healthcare reform proposals for the US ; designed for a niche audience at best, the simulation never achieved great popularity.

" This nationwide popularity led the Democrats to nominate him for President in 1880.

The term has somewhat regained popularity among the conservative right in America after the elections of President Barack Obama ; the words have for instance been used by radio talkshow host Glenn Beck.

Statistical data indicate that during Grant's two terms as President the number of Indian battles per year decreased by 58, going from 101 Indian battles in 1869 to 43 in 1877.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, protection for former Vice President Cheney has been extended numerous times because threats against him have not decreased since his leaving office.

However, it continued to encourage President Bush and other world leaders not to sign the Kyoto Protocol which mandates decreased production of greenhouse gases.

Indeed, since the office of Vice President, once vacant, no longer remains vacant until the end of the presidential term, but is now filled by presidential nomination confirmed by Congress, the likelihood of there ever being a time when there is simultaneously neither a President nor a Vice President able to discharge the powers and duties of the presidency has greatly decreased.

In 1991, when his popularity decreased, President Mitterrand forced him to resign.

Its membership decreased to 650, 000 members in 1995 – 96 ( it had more than double when François Mitterrand was elected President in 1981 ), before increasing today to between 700, 000 and 720, 000 members, a bit less than the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail ( CFDT ).

The party's popularity has decreased considerably after the 2004 election because of internal strife and scandals related to the President, who had admitted to feeling " incompetent " and unfit for the job.

Internet censorship in Tunisia significantly decreased in January 2011, following the ouster of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, as the new acting government removed filters on social networking sites such as Facebook and YouTube.

Financial regulations were progressively decreased in the United States from 1980 ( when Ronald Reagan became President ) until the financial crisis of 2007 – 2008.

In 1961, Goulart was allowed to take office, under an arrangement that decreased his powers as President with the installation of Parliamentarianism.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

* 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.

Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito had pushed the development of military industries in the republic with the result that Bosnia and Herzegovina was saddled with a host of industrial firms with little commercial potential.

By 1967, when a military junta had seized power in Greece, the political impetus for enosis had faded, partly as a result of the non-aligned foreign policy of Cypriot President Makarios.

As a result, under current CPC General Secretary and President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, the PRC has initiated policies to address these issues of equitable distribution of resources, but the outcome remains to be seen.

In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to ban the sport following a series of player deaths from injuries suffered during games. The deaths and injuries were a result of the mass formations and gang tackling that characterized the sport in its early years.

For example, President Wilson proposed the Treaty of Versailles after World War I after consulting with allied powers, but this treaty was rejected by the U. S. Senate ; as a result, the U. S. subsequently made separate agreements with different nations.

Pfeiffer became President and CEO of Compaq in 1991, as a result of a boardroom coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen that forced co-founder Rod Canion to resign as President and CEO.

However, after a long political career and with a very conservative reputation, in 1989 he placed himself at the head of verligte (" enlightened ") forces within the governing party, with the result that he was elected head of the National Party in February 1989, and finally State President in September 1989 to replace then president P. W.

As a continuing part of the social pact, and even more as the result of a fierce union-government battle, President Callejas announced in 1991 a 27. 8 percent increase over a minimum wage that the government had earlier agreed upon.

* 2009 – Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.

* 1992 – President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.

When as a result, Tiso had the Slovak regional government issue a declaration of independence on 14 March 1939, the ensuing crisis in Czech-Slovak relations was used as a pretext to summon the Czecho-Slovak President Emil Hácha to Berlin over his " failure " to keep order in his country.

Following the evacuation of U. S. Marines in 1925, another violent conflict between liberals and conservatives known as the Constitutionalist War took place in 1926, when Liberal soldiers in the Caribbean port of Puerto Cabezas revolted against Conservative President Adolfo Díaz, recently installed as a result of United States pressure following a coup.

As a result of that effort, the Puerto Rico Legislature approved a law regulating presidential primaries in 1979, the first of which was held in 1980, with George H. W. Bush winning the Republican primary and President Carter beating Senator Edward " Ted " Kennedy in a hard-fought Democratic primary.

* Former U. S. President Bill Clinton was accused of perjury and as a result was impeached by the House of Representatives on 19 December 1998.

The signatories were General Secretary Joseph Stalin, President Harry S. Truman, and Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who, as a result of the British general election of 1945, had replaced Winston Churchill as the UK ’ s Conference representative.

In May 1987, Senegal extradited Captain Moulaye Asham Ould Ashen, a former black member of the Haidalla government accused of corruption, but only after veiled threats from Nouakchott that failure to do so would result in Mauritania's allowing Senegalese dissidents a platform from which to speak out against the government of President Abdou Diouf.

Ministers in Singapore are the highest paid politicians in the world, receiving a 60 % salary raise in 2007 and as a result Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's pay jumped to S $ 3. 1 million, five times the US $ 400, 000 earned by President Barack Obama.

Although this was probably originally intended to avoid a situation where the Vice President was presiding over a debate that could ultimately result in his promotion to the presidency ( were the President convicted and removed from office ), it also prevents a possibly more likely contemporary scenario, where a President accused of some offense is being tried by the Senate presided over by a Vice President who may well be sympathetic to the President, reducing the independence of the Senate's consideration of the delicate question of whether to remove a sitting chief executive.