He was assassinated near the end of his term of office at the behest of a cabal of army generals resentful at his insistence that his successor be a civilian.

He publicly criticized Hooker after the battle and was one of the " cabal " of generals that attempted to have him removed from command.

" Margolis ' arguments include: the Osama Bin Laden tapes are fakes, questioning why the Air Force didn't shoot down the planes, asserting a lack of plane wreckage at the Pentagon, and repeating the theory that 9 / 11 was " staged by Israel's Mossad and a cabal of right-wing US Air Force generals " without criticizing the theory.

A shadowy cabal of influential generals, known as the Jugglers, has Snake Eyes arrested.

It must be emphasized that the main storyline presented Jesus as having been relentlessly pursued by an evil cabal of Jews, headed by the high priest Caiaphas, who finally blackmailed a weak-kneed Pilate into putting Jesus to death.

In 1758 the performance of his Titus, which had already been produced in Saint Petersburg, was postponed through his uncles exertions ; and when it did appear, a hostile cabal procured its failure, and it was not until after his guardians death that de Belloy returned to Paris with Zelmire ( 1762 ), a fantastic drama which met with great success, latter becoming an opera by Rossini.

The PHP language has PECL and PEAR, Python has a PyPI ( Python Package Index ) repository, Ruby has RubyGems, Lua has LuaRocks, Haskell has Hackage and an associated installer / make clone cabal ; but none of these are as large as the CPAN.

The term cabal derives from Kabbalah ( a word that has numerous spelling variations ), the mystical interpretation ( of Babylonian origin ) of the Hebrew scripture, and originally meant either an occult doctrine or a secret.

The second was by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has rallied the world community to support UN sanctions against Zimbabwe, denouncing the regime's leaders as a " criminal cabal ".

Mannie later has Hazel join his cabal to lead the children as lookouts and couriers.

Leuchter has blamed criticism of his work on an " international cabal ... those who have unjustly attacked me and violated my rights ... the Klarsfelds, Shapiros, and Kahns of the world ".

And since Noel has taken to championing only five or six groups, then it's a powerful cabal he's promoting.

Pretending he has knowledge regarding Jane Finn, the cabal stay his execution.

The text purports to be the minutes of the secret meetings of a cabal of Jewish masterminds, which has coopted Freemasonry and is plotting to rule the world on behalf of all Jews because they believe themselves to be the chosen people of God.

In the 1960s, right-wing populist individuals and groups with a producerist worldview, such as members of the John Birch Society, were the first to combine and spread an ultraconservative business nationalist critique of corporate internationalists networked through think tanks such as the Council on Foreign Relations with a grand conspiracy theory casting them as front organizations for the Round Table of the " Anglo-American Establishment ", which are financed by an " international banking cabal " that has supposedly been plotting from the late 19th century on to impose an oligarchic new world order through a global financial system.

Former city commissioner of consumer affairs Jane Byrne announced her challenge to Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic on April 24, 1978, describing herself as an alternative to a " cabal of evil men has fastened onto the government of the City of Chicago ," and, when pressed to name them, singled out Burke and Alderman Edward Vrdolyak.

In Faerûn, amongst his places of worship, Velsharoon has two temples that have been built in his honour by his followers, one named the Crypt of the Arisen Army, which is ruled by Baron Vjurn Blacktower, and The Order of One Thousand Nightmares, which is controlled by a secret cabal of necromancers devoted to him.

The backbone providers, the backbone cabal, were instrumental in this reorganization of Usenet since they had great influence with respect to supporting a new newsgroup.

The following year she was abducted by a Brit-Cit Satanist cabal in order to bring Dredd to her rescue and then trap him ; guilty over the whole affair, he took her back to Mega-City One so he could help her better.

In the 1983 movie The Star Chamber, Michael Douglas, playing an idealistic Los Angeles Superior Court judge frustrated about having to free obviously guilty criminals merely because of legal technicalities, learns from his mentor about a secret cabal of judges — a Star Chamber — that metes out its own brand of justice against those it determines have wrongly been set free.

At 29, he took over more of the reins of power, though he continued to rule through a cabal consisting of Marcia, his new chamberlain Eclectus, and the new praetorian prefect Quintus Aemilius Laetus, who about this time also had many Christians freed from working in the mines in Sardinia.

General Pica is deposed by cabal of senior officers who declare they are tired of listening to his stories about the Ova Mata campaign.

During the spring of 1683 there were further contacts of the Monmouth cabal and West's group, through Sir Thomas Armstrong in particular, about drafting a manifesto, there being disagreements about whether a republican or monarchical constitution should result from revolutionary measures.

* Sunday Herald, 8 June 2003: Revealed: the secret cabal which spun for Blair Neil Mackay's original Sunday Herald article about Operation Rockingham

Mesa is later revealed in Mission of Honor to be part of a secret cabal of about a dozen highly capable planets which are busily building a secret navy using advanced technologies at a secret planet and known to itself as the Mesan Alignment.

Their uniquely cartoonish home is the inspiration for one Bevilacqua ’ s radio comedy creations: Camp Waterlogg, about a dilapidated Catskills kid ’ s camp populated by a cabal of crazy characters.

As the menace from the killer-now known as Mr. Black, grows, the voice becomes more persistent until one by one the pins are removed, revealing more about the history of the cabal.

He would later return only shortly to help retrieve the kidnapped Flag's son and to assist in trying to uncover a secret government cabal.

Cabal members such as Richard Nelthorpe favoured a rebellion rather than an assassination, aligning much of the West group's discussion with the plans of Algernon Sidney, in particular, and the more aristocratic country party members making up the so-called Monmouth cabal.

The backbone cabal was an informal organization of large-site administrators of the worldwide distributed newsgroup-based discussion system Usenet.

The cabal was created in an effort to facilitate reliable propagation of new Usenet posts: While in the 1970s and 1980s many news servers only operated during night time to save on the cost of long distance communication, servers of the backbone cabal were available 24 hours a day.

Other prominent members of the cabal were Brian Reid, Richard Sexton, Chuq von Rospach, Neil Crellin and Rick Adams.

During most of its existence, the cabal ( sometimes capitalized ) steadfastly denied its own existence ; those involved would often respond " There is no Cabal " ( sometimes abbreviated as " TINC "), whenever the existence or activities of the group were speculated on in public.

It is sometimes used humorously to dispel cabal-like organizational conspiracy theories, or as an ironic statement, indicating one who knows the existence of " the cabal " will invariably deny there is one.

The result of this policy was an aura of mystery, even a decade after the cabal mailing list disbanded in late 1988 following an internal fight.

Humanistic psychologists argue that even if the cabal behind the conspiracy is almost always perceived as hostile, there is often still an element of reassurance in it for conspiracy theorists.

Belief in such a cabal is a device for reassuring oneself that certain occurrences are not random, but ordered by a human intelligence.

If a cabal can be implicated in a sequence of events, there is always the hope, however tenuous, of being able to break the cabal's power – or joining it and exercising some of that power oneself.

Finally, belief in the power of such a cabal is an implicit assertion of human dignity – an often unconscious but necessary affirmation that man is not totally helpless, but is responsible, at least in some measure, for his own destiny.

A cabal is a group of people united in some close design together, usually to promote their private views or interests in a church, state, or other community, often by intrigue.

The use of this term usually carries strong connotations of shadowy corners, back rooms and insidious influence ; a cabal is more evil and selective than, say, a faction, which is simply selfish ; because of this negative connotation, few organizations use the term to refer to themselves or their internal subdivisions.

A Cabal room in use at Valve Software. During the rise of Usenet, the term was used as a semi-ironic description of the efforts of people to maintain some order over the chaotic, anarchic Usenet community ( see backbone cabal ).

As in this specific case, references to an alleged cabal often fall within the realm of conspiracy theory.

Each cabal was usually dedicated to one very specific area of the game which meant the cabal had to meet very regularly, in the case of Half-Life the members had to meet four days a week, six hours a day for five months.

Currently on the Comedy Central program The Daily Show, the phrase " a global cabal of Jews " is referenced from time to time, as a spoof on antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Many Masonic conspiracy theories have pictured Freemasonry as an internationalist secret cabal.

At first she remained at the court of her son Otto, however in the quarrels between the young king and his rivaling brother Henry a cabal of royal advisors is reported to have accused her of weakening the royal treasury in order to pay for her charitable activities.

Among those that the Usenet cabal ( who effectively ran the Big 7 at the time ) did not allow were those concerning recipes, drugs, and sex.

: But now, after several performances, one would be subscribing either to the cabal or to tastelessness if one were to maintain that Herr Mozart's music is anything but a masterpiece of art.