Shahumyan's support had eroded and many of his key supporters abandoned him.

Following Shahumyan's death, the Soviet government depicted him as a fallen hero of the Russian revolution.

In mid-summer, MacDonell personally visited Shahumyan's home in Baku and the two discussed the issue of British military involvement in a generally amiable conversation.

The city of Dzhalal-Ogly in the Armenian SSR was also renamed, in Shahumyan's honor, Stepanavan, a name it has retained in post-Soviet Armenia.

With this, MacDonell's and Shahumyan's conversation ended with the possibility of accepting British aid in exchange for complete Bolshevik control over the military force, terms the British could not immediately accept.

Shahumyan's close relationship with Lenin also increased the already heightened tensions between the British and the Soviets, who laid much of the blame on British complicity in the massacre.

British Honduras faced two obstacles to independence: British reluctance until the early 1960s to allow citizens to govern themselves, and Guatemala's complete intransigence over its long-standing claim to the entire territory ( Guatemala had repeatedly threatened to use force to take over British Honduras ).

In an attempt to counter the American propaganda value of the march, the Japanese had The Manila Times claim that the prisoners were treated humanely and their death rate had to be attributed to the intransigence of the American commanders who did not surrender until their men were on the verge of death.

In retaliation for his aunt's intransigence, William Waldorf Astor had his father's house torn down and replaced by the first Waldorf Hotel.

In the document Bolívar blamed the failure on the federal nature of the Venezuelan republic, which had allowed provinces to ignore the needs of other provinces threatened by Monteverde's advance, and the intransigence of the Venezuelan population to the republican cause, among other things.

Though the Germans never had any serious interest in accepting any of the various British compromise proposals, in London, the German walk-out was widely, if erroneously blamed on French “ intransigence ”.

Towards the end of his time at the SRA, Morton was making public statements which were more and more critical of his political masters and what he saw as their intransigence in allowing him both the power and the freedom he believed he should have had.

One of the Mexican commanders, impressed by the memorable intransigence he had just witnessed, characterized the Legion in a way they've been known ever since, " These are not men, but devils!

Despite his efforts, he did not carry his point, for in March 1792 the King, moved by intrigues and by the intransigence of those who surrounded him, thought right to dismiss him from that Ministry.

The Spanish, aware of Céspedes ’ anti-colonial intransigence, tried to force him into submission by imprisoning his son Oscar.

With the resumption of Soviet testing and their intransigence at the Geneva talks, however, the hope that this third choice would prove viable has been shaken.

In this way, they demonstrated their vigilance and intransigence in the struggle against the common enemy.

The coroner slammed US ' intransigence ', and the British press accused the Pentagon of operating ' in a no-fault zone ', with the Daily Telegraph commenting: ' This will reaffirm the view of many in the British military that while the US has the best kit, it does not necessarily have the best training ... Uninhibited by the risk of any sanction, is it any wonder that they go about their lethal business with such apparent insouciance?

Randolph's threats to report the colonial legislature's intransigence prompted it to dispatch agents to England to argue the colony's case ; however, their powers were limited.

This core conviction about the universality and intransigence of sin has elements of determinism, and thus has caused considerable offense to those holding that human beings are capable of effecting their salvation wholly or in part ( i. e., synergism ).

Many of Jayasimha-II's generals, called Mahasamantas and Dandanayakas paid with their lives for the intransigence of their inept king, as described in the Tiruvalangadu plates of Rajendra I. Rajendra routed Jayasimha thoroughly with the result the Chalukya king ran away from his capital and was forced to flee and rule from Etagiri. Rajendra Chola I describes his victory over Jayasimha as under: " the seven and a half lakshas of Iratta-padi, ( which was ) strong by nature, ( through the conquest of which ) immeasurable fame arose, ( and which he took from ) Jayasimha, who, out of fear ( and ) full of vengeance, turned his back at Muyangi and hid himself ".

Ethiopian efforts to bring Graziani to trial were frustrated by intransigence, by both Italy and Britain, and were finally abandoned, under pressure from the Foreign Office, whose support the Ethiopian Government considered essential for its claim to Eritrea.

But in the end, Wilhelm's intransigence, the support of Bismarck, and a determination to move beyond the rejection of his proposal to Ella, led the reluctant imperial family to give official consent.

The plan seemed achievable during the period of national revolutions in 1848 – 49 but foundered on lack of western support, on Hungarian intransigence toward the Czechs, Slovaks and Romanians, and on the rise of German nationalism.

The Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians expressed support for the resolution, stating that “ We think it perfectly appropriate for a Canadian union to seek some means of counteracting the Canadian government ’ s reckless support for Israeli government intransigence -- for example, by trying to destabilize the elected government of the Palestinian authority .”

We can therefore only urgently recommend Vienna to accept Grey ’ s proposal, which safeguards its position in every way .” Bethmann could not go to war in support of Austrian intransigence under such circumstances.

When the joint trusteeship failed due to Soviet intransigence, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK ) was established in 1948.

It was due to the astute politics of Sir Milton Margai that the educated Protectorate elite was won over to join forces with the paramount chiefs in the face of Krio intransigence.

The Habsburg emperor's intransigence, claiming the entire Spanish inheritance for his House, was a key factor that precipitated the war.

France's seeming intransigence in settling a colonial war that tied down half the manpower of its armed forces was also a source of concern to its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies.

The craftsmen brought in by the Duchess, under the guidance of furniture designer James Moore, and Vanbrugh's assistant architect Hawksmoor, completed the work in perfect imitation of the greater masters, so there was fault and intransigence on both sides in this famed argument.

His intransigence towards the papacy was used as propaganda by Norman advocates of the view that the English church was backward and needed reform.

John Wolffe says that while Zionists tend to attribute Palestinian rejection of the plan to a mere intransigence, Arabs have always reiterated that it was rejected because it was unfair: it gave the majority of the land ( 56 percent ) to the Jews, who at that stage legally owned only 7 percent of it, and remained a minority of the population.

In 1938 Younghusband encouraged Ernst Schäfer, who was about to lead a German expedition to Tibet, to " sneak over the border " when faced with British intransigence towards Schäfer's efforts to reach Tibet.

In his private life, Torquemada seems to have been pious and austere, but his official career as an inquisitor was marked by a harsh intransigence, which nevertheless was generally supported by public opinion, at least in the early years.

However, the negotiations fell apart, mostly because of Bascom's intransigence, but also because the arrival of more U. S. troops made Cochise believe that the situation was spiraling out of his control.

At all times, however, the French government was confronted by the monolithic intransigence of the leaders of the European community in Algeria in opposing any devolution of power to Muslims, even to basically pro-French évolués.

His intransigence was one of the major causes of the subsequent Boshin War.

Hore-Belisha attempted to rebuild his career under Winston Churchill but his re-appointment was blocked by a combination of his wounded intransigence and continued Conservative prejudice.

He was at first an ardent supporter of President Herbert Hoover but he became discouraged by Hoover's intransigence and failures in dealing with the Great Depression.

Suslov was becoming progressively more critical of Khrushchev's policies, his political intransigence, and his campaign to eliminate what was left of the old Stalinist guard.

He was continually frustrated by Churchill's intransigence, and in his memoirs records that Churchill knew " as much of the Indian problem as George III did of the American colonies.

It was Reid's intransigence, supported by Stevens, that led to mistreatment of the passengers on the ship and to prolonging its departure date, which wasn't resolved until the intervention of the federal Minister of Agriculture, Martin Burrell, MP for Yale — Cariboo.

Reynaud and Mandel both spoke for French mobilization, which Bonnet argued would increase Polish " intransigence "; Bonnet's comment about mobilization was " I do not ask for this ".