The Conservative Party of Venezuela disappeared following the Federal Wars of 1858-1863.

These include the largest, the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ), the Christian Democratic People's Party ( CVP ), represented in the Federal Council or cabinet by Doris Leuthard ( in 2011 ), and the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland ( BDP ), which is a spliter of the SVP created after a failed attempt to expel Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf from the SVP.

In 1930 as a member of the conservative Christian Social Party ( CS ), he was appointed president of the Federal Railway System.

In late May 1932, with the resignation of Karl Buresch's Christian-Social government, Dollfuss, age 39 and with only one year's experience in the Federal government, was offered the office of Chancellor by President Wilhelm Miklas, also a member of the Christian-Social Party.

* Former Federal Liberal Party Leader Andrew Peacock ;

The 2008 Federal Election saw the Conservative Party of Canada take the seat with former New Maryland MLA Keith Ashfield taking this seat with 42 % of the popular vote.

The Nationals hold a larger membership base than either the Liberal or Labor Parties, although in the larger eastern states its vote is in decline and its traditional supporters are turning instead to prominent independents such as Bob Katter, Tony Windsor and Peter Andren in Federal Parliament and similar independents in the Parliaments of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, many of whom are former members of the National Party.

In fact at the 2004 Federal election, National Party candidates received fewer first preference votes than the Australian Greens.

Federal leader Mark Vaile stated the Nationals will not merge with the Liberal Party at a federal level.

After suffering defeat in the 2006 Queensland poll, Lawrence Springborg was replaced by Jeff Seeney, who indicated he was not interested in merging with the Liberal Party until the issue is seriously raised at a Federal level.

* 1949 – Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U. S. Federal Government.

Besides Lafontaine, a number of other prominent SPD defectors won election to the Bundestag on the Left Party list, including a prominent leader of Germany's Turkish minority, Hakkı Keskin, German Federal Constitutional Court justice Wolfgang Neskovic, and the former SPD leader in Baden-Württemberg, Ulrich Maurer.

Some groups also sprang up including the National Union for Liberation led by John Osmena and Diosdado Macapagal, the Mindanao Alliance, the Muslim Federal Party, the Pusyon Bisaya, and the Young Philippines.

The parties taking part in the opposition coalition were the Jose Roy's allies in the Nacionalista Party headed by Renato Cayetano with Enrile as their " commanding leader ", a faction of the legislators from Kilusang Bagong Lipunan that distanced from Marcos headed by Assemblyman Arturo Tolentino, the pre-1986 leaders that defected from the ruling coalition such as Eva Estrada-Kalaw, the Partido Nacionalista ng Pilipinas headed by Blas Ople, the Mindanao Alliance, the Muslim Federal Party and the Christian Socialist Democratic Party.

At about the same time that the Republican Party of Puerto Rico was organized under the U. S., Luis Muñoz-Rivera organized the Federal Party.

Muñoz-Rivera exiled himself to New York after the defeat, but returned once the Federal Party was no longer useful and joined Rosendo Matienzo Cintrón in organizing the Union Party, also with them was José de Diego.

Chelvanayakam broke away in 1949 and formed the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi ( ITAK ) aka Federal Party.

Chelvanayakam broke away in 1949, forming the Federal Party ( FP ).

In 1984 and 1985, while he was serving his sentence in Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, Connecticut, American UC members launched a public-relations campaign claiming that the charges against him were unjust and politically motivated.

* Move To Amend and Free Speech for People are coalitions launched following the US Supreme Court's Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision that aim to overturn the Court's advocacy for " corporate free speech " via Amendment.

The Federal Theatre Project of the Works Progress Administration launched several productions of the play in cities across the United States, including a production with marionettes in Los Angeles in 1938.

The station was launched as part of the Soviet Union's manned spaceflight programme effort to maintain a long-term research outpost in space, and, following the collapse of the USSR, was operated by the new Russian Federal Space Agency ( RKA ).

Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia ( TiLo ), a joint venture between the Italian Ferrovie dello Stato and the Swiss Federal Railways launched in 2004, manages the traffic between the regional railways of Lombardy and the Ticino rapid transit network via a S-Bahn system.

In the 1970s, the Federal University of São Carlos was launched.

In 2008, USA Network ( owned by NBC ) launched In Plain Sight, a drama showcasing the United States Federal Witness Protection Program ( WITSEC ).

Vega 1 and Vega 2 were unmanned spacecraft launched in a cooperative effort among the Soviet Union ( who provided the spacecraft and launch vehicle ) and Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany in December 1984.

From December 4, 1973, Simon simultaneously launched and administered the Federal Energy Administration at the height of the oil embargo.

After coming under increasing public pressure, Federal authorities launched a comprehensive investigation of the mutilation phenomenon .< ref name = opanmuthome > FBI Operation Animal Mutilation, FBI Investigation into Cattle Mutilation.

Tourism Australia ’ s “ No Leave No Life ” campaign was launched in March 2009 by the Federal Minister for Tourism, the Hon.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, accusing him of espionage, launched into a full investigation of Noguchi which ended only through the American Civil Liberties Union's intervention.

Hundreds of Public-access television production facilities were launched in the 1970s after the Federal Communications Commission issued its Third Report and Order in 1972, which required all cable systems in the top 100 U. S. television markets to provide three access-channels, one each for public, educational, and local government use.

On July 28, 2011, the city of Boston, Massachusetts launched its 60-station, 600-bike Hubway system, sponsored by the shoe manufacturer New Balance and funded in part by a $ 3 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration, the contract to operate was awarded to Alta Bicycle Share.

He also launched a series of exposés and legal actions against tobacco advertising targeted at children — concluding that R. J. Reynolds was engaged in " commercial child abuse " -- which culminated in a Federal Trade Commission case that ended the Joe Camel ads.

The Federal Trade Commission launched an investigation into DoubleClick's collection and compilation of personal information shortly after the Abacus acquisition, in reaction to which DoubleClick announced that it would not merge the DoubleClick and Abacus databases.

* Helios probes, deep space probes were launched in the mid 1970s by the Federal Republic of Germany and NASA

In January 2008, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation launched a " counter-terrorism " operation in Ingushetia after receiving information that insurgents had been preparing a series of attacks.

In October 2009 the Society launched a program for certificating health care professionals as specialists, in a manner similar to medical specialties coordinated by the Brazilian Medical Association and the Federal Council of Medicine in Brazil.

The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 provided Federal funds for two " neighborhood health centers ," which were launched in 1965 by Jack Geiger and Count Gibson, physicians at Tufts University in Boston.

She publicly opposed the launched investigation into the financial accounting of Planned Parenthood, stating that the investigation “ is an unfortunate waste of taxpayer dollars .” Moore voted “ nay ” on Amends Federal Health Care Law to Prohibit Abortion Coverage on October 13, 2011.

In order to obtain a license to provide telecommunications services in the United States, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) requires all geostationary satellites launched after March 18, 2002, to commit to moving to a graveyard orbit at the end of their operational life.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation launched an investigation regarding the real estate transaction.

In 1947 in the United States, he launched the Crusade for a Federal Union of Churches.