Although the Nationalists had an advantage in numbers of men and weapons, initially controlled a much larger territory and population than their adversaries, and enjoyed considerable international support, they were exhausted by the long war with Japan and the attendant internal responsibilities.

Any successes that the Nationalists did make, however, were met with constant political and military upheavals.

The war had severely weakened the Nationalists, while the Communists were strengthened by their popular land-reform policies, and by a rural population that supported and trusted them.

The first decades after the Nationalists moved the seat of government to the province of Taiwan are associated with the organized effort to resist Communism known as " the " White Terror ", during which about 140, 000 Taiwanese were imprisoned for their real or perceived opposition to the Kuomintang.

In the General Elections the Nationalists were returned to office with 51. 79 % of the vote to Labour's 47. 51 %.

The view that fairy tales, unless contaminated from outside literary sources, were preserved in the same form over thousands of years, was not exclusive to Romantic Nationalists, but it fit in well with their views that such tales expressed the primordial nature of a people.

The Liberals were in power with a progressive alliance of Labour and, off and on, Irish Nationalists.

General elections were held in Malta on 26 October 1996 ; although the Labour received the most votes, the Nationalists won the most seats.

Nationalists like Aurobindo Ghose were Tilak supporters.

The Nationalists were never a real force in Australian politics again.

Half the UAP members elected in the 1932 Victorian state election were Young Nationalists, almost trebling their parliamentary representation.

After the UAP was absorbed in the founding of the Liberal Party, so were the Young Nationalists.

The NKVD established numerous secret prisons around Madrid, which were used to detain, torture, and kill hundreds of the NKVD's enemies, at first focusing on Spanish Nationalists and Spanish Catholics, while from late 1938 increasingly anarchists and Trotskyists were the objects of persecution.

It began with an oppressive period of crackdown and paternalistic rule, then a dōka ( 同化 ) period of aims to treat all people ( races ) alike proclaimed by Taiwanese Nationalists who were inspired by the Self-Determination of Nations ( 民族自決 ) proposed by Woodrow Wilson after World War I, and finally, during World War II, a period of kōminka ( 皇民化 ), a policy which aimed to turn Taiwanese into loyal subjects of the Japanese emperor.

Opponents of the Nationalists were no longer forbidden to hold meetings or publish papers.

Overall it is estimated that over 4, 000 people were murdered by the Nationalists after the battle.

His administration saw a gradual loosening of political controls and opponents of the Nationalists were no longer forbidden to hold meetings or publish papers.

Among those murdered were 621 members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists ( OUN ).

The US still maintained that the Nationalists were China's rightful government even though the possibility of their retaking the mainland became smaller every year.

The early days of Chinatown were dominated by Chinese " tongs " ( now sometimes rendered neutrally as " associations "), which were a mixture of clan associations, landsman's associations, political alliances ( Kuomintang ( Nationalists ) vs Communist Party of China ) and ( more secretly ) crime syndicates.

A new party, the Country Party ( now the National Party ), was formed, representing farmers who were discontented with the Nationalists ' rural policies, in particular Hughes ' acceptance of a much higher level of tariff protection for Australian industries ( that had expanded during the war ) and his support for price controls on rural produce.

After the Nationalists were heavily defeated in the ensuing election, Hughes initially supported the Labor government of James Scullin.

Although the new party was dominated by former Nationalists, Lyons was chosen as the new party's leader, and thus became Leader of the Opposition.

Each side thus dresses up the disputes in terms of the other's alleged attempts to repress them ; Nationalists still see Orange Order marches as provocative attempts to " show who is boss ", whilst Unionists insist that they have a right to " walk the Queen's highway " and see any attempt to deny them the right to walk through traditional routes used for centuries as a move to marginalise them and restrict their freedom to celebrate their mainly Protestant identity earned in the Glorious Revolution settlement.

The Party communist agitators were able to persuade " minor parties and groups " in China that the Nationalists were " illegitimate and repressive while the CCP embodied progress, unity, and democracy.

Menzies transferred to federal politics in 1934, representing the United Australia Party ( UAP — the Nationalists had merged with other non-Labor groups to form the UAP during his tenure as a state parliamentarian ) in the upper-class Melbourne electorate of Kooyong.

On 7 May, the Nationalist opposition ( hitherto led by John Latham ), the six Labor dissidents ( who had formed the All for Australia League ), and former Prime Minister Billy Hughes ' Australian Party ( a group of former Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down Stanley Bruce's Nationalist government in 1929 ), merged to form the UAP.

Around 1929 the party's Robert Menzies, then member of the Victorian Parliament, joined with Wilfrid Kent Hughes to form the Young Nationalists Organisation.

Chen later embraced a form of libertarian socialism, and refused to side either with the Nationalists or CCP.

Nationalists wanted a form of home rule, believing that Ireland was poorly served by the Government in Westminster and its Irish Executive in Dublin Castle.

The incident led to a truce between the Nationalists and the Communists so as to form a united front against the threat posed by Japan.

The Chinese Communists sought a coalition, made of one-third Nationalists, one-third Communists, and one-third of members from other parties, to form a coalition government that would draft the new Constitution.

This helped the Nationalists become the largest party in the Legislative Assembly and form a minority government which, though short-lived, re-established the Nationalist Party as a major political party.

While Unionists within Northern Ireland became reconciled to their form of home rule, Nationalists remained alienated from the structures of the state and pursued an abstentionist policy.

The Republicans end up with about 200 serviceable aircraft – including all the fighters – and 150 pilots, which form the basis of their Spanish Republican Air Force, while the Nationalists control less than 100 serviceable aircraft and 90 pilots, which form the basis for their National Aviation.

After preliminary meetings in Berlin in 1927 and Prague in 1928, at the founding congress in Vienna in 1929 the veterans of the UVO and the student militants met in Vienna and united to form the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Two years later, Joseph Lyons led defectors from the Labor Party across the floor and merged them with the Nationalists to form the United Australia Party.

Armoured warfare was also trialled by Nationalist supporters ; German volunteers first used armor in live field conditions in the form of the Panzer Battalion 88, a force built around three companies of PzKpfw I tanks that functioned as a training cadre for Nationalists.

Once the Spanish Civil War broke out, Alfonso made it clear he favoured the military uprising against the Popular Front government, but General Francisco Franco in September 1936 declared that the Nationalists would never accept Alfonso as King ( the supporters of the rival Carlist pretender made up an important part of the Franco Army ).

The cost was high, however, as the government was required by the king to call two general elections in 1910 to validate its position and ended up frittering away most of its large majority, being left once again dependent on the Irish Nationalists.

The CPC defeated the Nationalists in 1949, forcing Chiang's government to retreat to Taiwan, where Chiang imposed martial law and persecuted people critical of his rule in a period known as the " White Terror ".

The hyperinflation under the Chinese Nationalists from 1939 to 1945 is a classic example of a government printing money to pay civil war costs.

On 17 July 1936, the Spanish Army launched a coup d ' état, leading to a prolonged armed conflict between Spanish Republicans ( the leftist national government ) and the Nationalists ( conservative, anti-communist rebels who included most officers of the Spanish Army ).

Page then entered negotiations with the Nationalists ' new leader, Stanley Bruce, for a coalition government.

In 1886 Gladstone's party was allied with Irish Nationalists to defeat Lord Salisbury's government.

As the Communists attempted to install a soviet municipal government, conflict began between the Nationalists and Communists, and on 12 April Nationalist forces, including both members of the Green Gang and soldiers under the command of Nationalist general Bai Chongxi attacked the Communists and quickly overcame them.

The Liberals formed a minority government dependent on the support of the Irish Nationalists.

Some of the Unionists held extensive landed estates in Ireland and feared these would be broken up or confiscated if Ireland had its own government, while Hartington had suffered a personal loss at the hands of Irish Nationalists in 1882 when his brother was killed during the Phoenix Park Murders.

The Conservative Party as a whole gained the largest number of seats of any one party, but with the support of the Irish Nationalists the Liberal Party formed a government.

The January and December elections in 1910 destroyed the large Liberal majority, meaning they relied on the Irish Nationalists to maintain a government.

If he accepted the amendment, he would be seen as abandoning the Irish Unionists, but on the other hand if the amendment was carried it might disrupt the government by causing a split between the Liberals and Irish Nationalists, dissolving Parliament.

When the Liberals and Irish Nationalists ( which were a majority in the new Parliament ) successfully voted against the government, Salisbury resigned the premiership on 12 August.

This provisional government ruled over the territories controlled by the Nationalists during the Civil War.

However, the Nationalists did not last long in government.

However, it was not on the platform of either the Stanley Bruce-led Nationalist / Country party coalition government or the Matthew Charlton-led Labor opposition to introduce this requirement ; rather, the initiative was taken by a backbench Tasmanian senator from the Nationalists, Herbert Payne, who introduced a Private Senator's Bill, the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1924, on 16 July 1924.

Nationalists ( in the North and elsewhere ) refused to recognize the secessions, nor did any foreign government, and the U. S. government in Washington refused to abandon its forts that were in territory claimed by the Confederacy.