According to various sources, Chiang's first personal act of violence occurred around this time, when he either instigated or performed the assassination of a dissident member of the Revolutionary Alliance who opposed both Sun Yat-sen and Chen Qimei.

In October 2009, the Air Force and United Launch Alliance ( ULA ) performed an experimental on-orbit demonstration on a modified Centaur upper stage on the DMSP-18 launch to improve " understanding of propellant settling and slosh, pressure control, RL10 chilldown and RL10 two-phase shutdown operations.

Under the Singapore Alliance umbrella, SUMNO contested the 1963 general election but performed poorly and lost all its three seats.

The group performed under the moniker Alliance.

The first was released on New Alliance Records in 1986, and consisted of three tracks: " Into the Groove ( y )" ( a cover of Madonna's hit " Into the Groove ", incorporating snippets of her recording ) and the short " Tuff Titty Rap " on the A side ( both performed by the Sonic Youth members ), and " Burnin ' Up " ( performed by Watt with additional guitars by Greg Ginn ) on the B side.

He performed as a member of the Alliance To End Hulkamania.

Emily Frankel wrote a condensed prose adaptation for her husband John Cullum which was first performed at Syracuse Stage, directed by Arthur Storch, in 1983, then at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre in 1984.

The Singapore Alliance subsequently performed poorly during the election and lost all seven of its seats, including the four held by the People's Alliance.

During the 1963 general election, the Alliance performed poorly and lost all its seats.

A year later the Janta Dal split and Patnaik founded the Biju Janta Dal which in alliance with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) performed well and Patnaik was selected the Union Minister for Mines in the cabinet of A. B. Vajpayee.

Throughout the 1970s, he performed primarily in National Wrestling Alliance territories.

“ Meet Me in St. Louis ” was the first musical performed by the Blessed Trinity Theatrical Alliance, staged in April 2004.

During the past few years Chris T-T has composed music for an interactive exhibit at the Natural History Museum ; scored a short animated film for the World Health Organisation's Global Health Workforce Alliance ; written and performed a live re-soundtracking of Battle Royale at London's Other Cinema ; facilitated Northampton University students to re-soundtrack work by Claire Denis for Northampton's Royal & Derngate Arts Centre ; and curated an evening of political documentaries at Greenwich Film Festival.

* Aztec Triple Alliance – Tenochtitlan, Texcoco ( Aztec site ) and Tlacopan ; better known as the Aztec Empire

Luns accepted American leadership of the Atlantic Alliance as such but expected better cooperation between the United States and its allies, since, in Luns ’ opinion, the former too often acted independently of its allies, particularly in decolonisation issues.

Although adhering to economic philosophies similar to those originally advanced by 19th-century liberals ( known confusingly as both neoliberalism and neoconservatism ), the Canadian Alliance agreed to the name " Conservative Party of Canada " for the new party in order to market themselves better to the electorate.

In 1997, the Greens decided that they would leave the Alliance at the next election, believing that they could perform better individually.

For example, the REALeadership Alliance asserts that the business of leadership ( be it corporate or otherwise ) is to change the world for the better.

While not a new idea ( First Edition's Mirror, Mirror set first featured Empire and Alliance icons for affiliated personnel and ships ), Second Edition's widespread utilization of the icon as a cultural identifier has allowed designers to introduce support cards that better represent the various Trek shows ' themes.

The Reform Party became the " Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance " ( better known as the " Canadian Alliance ") in 2000 and had its first contested leadership election.

Many commentators believe that a better way forward might have been to set up a " government of national unity ," representing both the Alliance and the NFP, but this was unacceptable to Ratu Mara.

When exposed to individuals from the normal universe, the Terran Empire began to reform itself for the better but was overthrown in the 24th century as a consequence and replaced with an equally barbaric Alliance of several alien species who took advantage of the Empire's self-weakening to enslave their former masters.

With help from the Minbari, the Earth Alliance planned to construct an enormous space station which would serve to create better understanding between humans and aliens, and would allow ambassadors from various galactic governments to peacefully debate their differences without resorting to war.

In the 2001 general election campaign the local branch of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland decided to withdraw their candidate when they felt that it would achieve their objectives better to support Hermon, who defeated McCartney overwhelmingly.

Mal expresses his newfound resolve during his speech near the final act of the film Serenity: " They Alliance will swing back to the belief that they can make people ... better.

Schools that have a Gay-Straight Alliance ( GSA ) handle issues of discrimination and violence against LGBTIQ youth better than schools that do not because they help develop community and coping skills and give students a safe-space to get health and safety information.

Kira then meets Sisko's Mirror Universe counterpart, who receives better treatment than the other Terrans because he runs missions for the brutal Klingon / Cardassian Alliance.

The International Alliance of Military for Peace and Security is a platform of expression and discussion of ideas and positions on various topics affecting security and stability, the goal of which is to " discuss issues of security and defense, as well as ways of promoting a new ' Consciousness of Security and Defense ' to citizens, which allows them to better understand the risks and opportunities inherent in international relations within a globalizing world and to participate actively in the definition of conditions to ensure the stability of international relations and peace.

Mon Mothma issues a meeting to discuss Beltane's arrangement for the Alliance to intercept the shipment of his droids en route to Byss, but Wedge has a better plan: let the shipment go to Byss with loads of Rebel troops inside the droids.

The Christian Democratic Alliance, better known locally by its Fijian name, Veitokani ni Lewenivanua Vakarisito ( VLV ), was a Fijian political party that operated in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Hämsterviel forces Jumba to create a new and better experiment to defeat the Galactic Alliance.

Kindreds are usually grassroots groups which may or may not be affiliated with a national organization such as the Ásatrú Alliance, or The Troth, rather than the Swedish Forn Sed Assembly or the Odinic Rite.

However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

Frei Ruiz-Tagle was succeeded in 2000 by Socialist Ricardo Lagos, who won the presidency in an unprecedented runoff election against Joaquín Lavín of the rightist Alliance for Chile, by a very tight score of less than 200, 000 votes ( 51, 32 %).

Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.

This happened because in the new states of Germany, the Greens, in a joint effort with Alliance 90, a heterogenous grouping of civil rights activists, were able to gain more than 5 % of the vote.

Fowler is a member of the Agile Alliance and helped create the Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001, along with more than 15 co-authors.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra November 5, 2006 ' won getting the 37. 99 % of the valid votes cast 930. 802 votes equivalent to relatively higher than the two forces princiapl opisitora presented at election they were the party of the Second Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance ( ALN ) with the degree candidate Eduardo Montealegre Rivas who won 693. 391 votes recorded corresponding to a 28. 30 % and third place went to the Constitutionalist Liberal Party with Dr. José Rizo Castellón who earned a total 664. 225 of valid votes corresponding to 27. 11 %.

* September 22 – Paraguay successfully defends Curupaity against the Triple Alliance in the Paraguayan War, killing more than 5, 000 with just about 50 casualties.

However, the Alliance failure to win more than the two seats in Ontario, along with residual resentments from the Alliance leadership contest and questions about Stockwell Day's competence, led to caucus infighting.

Additionally, U. S. based private equity firms raised $ 215. 4 billion in investor commitments to 322 funds, surpassing the previous record set in 2000 by 22 % and 33 % higher than the 2005 fundraising total The following year, despite the onset of turmoil in the credit markets in the summer, saw yet another record year of fundraising with $ 302 billion of investor commitments to 415 funds Among the mega-buyouts completed during the 2006 to 2007 boom were: Equity Office Properties, HCA, Alliance Boots and TXU.

The rapid increase in the number of convictions for public drunkenness was more a reflection of the growing population rather than social deterioration. In 1886, a national body called the New Zealand Alliance for Suppression and Abolition of the Liquor Traffic was formed, pushing for control of the liquor trade as a democratic right.

Hobsbawm supported Neil Kinnock's transformation of the British Labour Party from 1983 ( the party received just 28 % of the vote in that year's elections, just 2 % more than than the Social Democratic Party / Liberal Alliance ), and, though not close to Kinnock, came to be referred to as " Neil Kinnock's Favourite Marxist ".

The Irish Unionist Alliance was dissolved in 1922, when many of its followers swung their support behind Cumann na nGaedheal, seeing it as less hostile to them than the anti-Treaty Republicans and later Fianna Fáil.

In 2007, it was reported that International Intellectual Property Alliance put 23 of the world's 30 most populous countries into Priority Watch List, even though the United States, which was not in the list, has laws that are more liberal than the laws from the countries within the list.

By the end of 2003, the party was polling higher than both the Canadian Alliance or the Progressive Conservatives and it was even suggested that the next election could see the NDP in place as official opposition.

Precisely what the Ferengi Alliance consisted of was never revealed ; it may simply encompass Ferenginar and any uninhabited planets that the Ferengi have colonized, since there was little indication that the Ferengi government exercised authority over any species other than its own.

He was also one of the prominent members of the Evangelical Alliance, and few men were more widely known or more beloved throughout the Protestant churches of Europe and America than him.

Additionally, U. S. based private equity firms raised $ 215. 4 billion in investor commitments to 322 funds, surpassing the previous record set in 2000 by 22 % and 33 % higher than the 2005 fundraising total The following year, despite the onset of turmoil in the credit markets in the summer, saw yet another record year of fundraising with $ 302 billion of investor commitments to 415 funds Among the mega-buyouts completed during the 2006 to 2007 boom were: Equity Office Properties, HCA, Alliance Boots and TXU.

The ZigBee Alliance announced in October 2004 that the membership had more than doubled in the preceding year and had grown to more than 100 member companies, in 22 countries.

Their stance in universal suffrage was then similar to that of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong ( DAB ); namely, that universal suffrage should be implemented in or after 2012 rather than in 2007 / 8.

However, the Alliance failure to win more than the two seats in Ontario, along with residual resentments from the Alliance leadership contest and questions about Day's competence, led to caucus infighting.