In the 1885 general election this party won the balance of power in the House of Commons, and demanded Irish Home Rule as the price of support for a continued Gladstone ministry.

It led to the system of Constitutional Monarchy, with further reforms shifting the balance of power from the monarchy and nobility to the House of Commons.

Hughes and the Nationalists governed on their own until the elections of 1922, when the newly emerged Country Party gained the balance of power in the House of Representatives.

On 5 May, the House of Lords created a committee with the customary religious balance to examine and determine doctrine.

The Independent Irish Party initially achieved the balance of power in the House of Commons.

Neither of these figures represented a majority of the House of Commons because there were also minor parties and independents elected to the House of Commons and these minor parties and independents now held the balance of power in the new House of Commons.

The Senate generally had the same party balance as the House of Commons, though abstaining parties and very small parties were not represented.

Although he never led the party to government, through much of his tenure, the party held the balance of power in the House.

After the General Election in 1886 Hartington declined to become Prime Minister, preferring instead to hold the balance of power in the House of Commons and give support from the back benches to the second Conservative government of Lord Salisbury.

The following composition reflects the balance of power after the 2011 elections, which was the first election since Reconstruction to give a majority of seats in the State House to the Republicans.

The requirements for maintaining racial balance in the schools of each of the districts was ended by the District Court in 1994, but the process of busing students to and from the suburbs for schooling continued largely unchanged until 2001, when the Delaware state government passed House Bill 300, mandating that the districts convert to sending students to the schools closest to them, a process that continues.

Both Bolger and Labour leader Helen Clark sought the support of New Zealand First, which held the balance of power in the new House.

" Some journalists, such as columnist and White House Correspondent Robert Thompson felt that Pat was an ideal balance for the 1970s ; Thompson wrote that she proved that " women can play a vital role in world affairs " while still retaining a " feminine manner.

He again took the lead on the issue of the Paymaster of the Forces, and commanded that Richard Rigby, Paymaster until 1782, " do deliver to the House an account of the balance of all public money remaining in his hands on the 13th day of November last ", something Rigby complained was against common practice.

Holding the balance of power in the House of Commons, Social Credit helped bring down the Progressive Conservative minority government of John Diefenbaker.

The party nominated candidates in each of Labrador's four ridings in that year's election, with the hope of holding the balance of power in the House of Assembly and being able to trade political support for more services and attention to Labrador.

Whereas immigration to Northern industrial centers had resulted in Northern control of the population-based House of Representatives, Southern politicians sought to maintain the fragile balance of power in the Senate, where each state received equal representation.

In Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy and In This House of Brede she acutely examined the balance between the mystical, spiritual aspects of religion and the practical, human realities of religious life.

Rep. Rick Lazio ( R-NY ), chairman of the House subcommittee on housing and community opportunity in 1996 said Cisneros displayed " the correct balance of advocacy on behalf of the president and a willingness to think creatively and outside the box in terms of solutions.

For the balance of his career in the House, he chaired the Committee on the Courts of Justice.

During his first ( and only ) term, he was elected Speaker of the United States House of Representatives after two months where the House was unable to reach a majority for John Sherman, the Republican candidate ( the Republicans had only a plurality and the Southern Oppositionists who held the balance of power were unwilling to support either a radical Republican or a Democrat ).

When Arioch and his fellow Chaos Lords conquered the Fifteen Planes, the balance between the forces of Law and Chaos tipped in favor of Chaos, and their minions-such as Glandyth-a-Krae-embarked on a bloody rampage.

The balance are Lords Spiritual ( prelates of the Anglican Church ).

In " The Two Doctors ", it is suggested that Time Lords are responsible for maintaining a general balance of power between the races of the Universe.

The previous entry here maintained that the Lords found that " parliament had limited these natural rights in order to strike a more appropriate balance between the interests of the author and the wider social good ," quoting Ronan.

The Lords clearly voted against perpetual copyright, and eventually an understanding was established whereby authors had a pre-existing common law copyright over their work, but that with the Statute of Anne parliament had limited these natural rights in order to strike a more appropriate balance between the interests of the author and the wider social good.

However, most of this aid has been targeted at the Federation ; the previous government of the RS was anti-Dayton and not assisted by the U. S. The election of the " Sloga " or " Unity " Coalition government, led by Prime Minister Dodik, has shifted the balance of power in the Republika Srpska ( RS ) to a pro-Dayton stance and will result in an upsurge of funding to the RS from the international community.

The power balance within the junta shifted between 1946 and 1950.

After that year, however, the IOC shifted the Winter Olympics to the even years between Summer Games, to help space the planning of the two events two years apart from one another, and improve the financial balance of the IOC, which receives greater income on Olympic years.

Through succeeding centuries and empires, the balance between the ulema and the rulers shifted and reformed, but the balance of power was never decisively changed.

The balance of power shifted from Athens to Sparta, ending the Golden Age of Pericles that had marked Athenian dominance in the Greek ancient world.

William's biographer David Bates argues that the former explanation is more likely, explaining that the balance of power had recently shifted in Wales and that William would have wished to take advantage of the changed circumstances to extend Norman power.

In its postwar political history, Milan has been governed for more than thirty years by a center-left coalition including the Italian Socialist Party and the Christian Democrats, while in the 1980s the political balance shifted further left with coalitions between the Socialists, the Communists and the newborn Greens.

With the balance of power now shifted Saturninus concentrates his forces to avoid his outposts being overrun.

This dramatically shifted the balance of power in Europe, suddenly handing Frederick the initiative.

With the defeat of Napoléon in 1814 / 1815, the balance of power in Europe and in the European colonies shifted in Britain's favor.

Elections for a second National Assembly returned one in which the balance of power had shifted to the unitarists in the Fall of 1797.

A few years later, after the break-up of Gran Colombia, the balance of power shifted in favor of the newly-formed Peru-Bolivian Confederation ( 1836-1839 ).

The very fact that the language of the album was in Turkish shifted the balance of power from privileged Germans to oppressed Turks.

By the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the balance of power in China's civil war had shifted in favor of the Communists.

By 1060s, the tentative balance between the different ethnic groups within the Fatimid army collapsed as Egypt was suffering through a serious span of drought and famine, the declining resources accelerated the problems between the different ethnic factions and outright civil war began, primarily the Turks and Black African troops were fighting each other while the Berbers shifted alliance in between.

The “ communications revolution has generally shifted the ‘ balance of power ’ from the media to the audience ”.

The new class skills shifted the balance of player vs. player combat away from mage dominance.

South Korean newspapers have warned that North Korea's nuclear arsenal could destroy South Korea's conventional forces, and that the strategic military balance has irrevocably shifted in the aftermath of North Korea's nuclear test.

Montgomery then shifted the axis of advance to another point to throw the Germans off balance.

In his speech he said, " All anti-imperialists know that the balance of forces in the world shifted irrevocably in 1917 when there was a movement and a man in the October Revolution, and Lenin was the man.

With the passage of time and ever-improving laboratory methods, the balance of scientific opinion has shifted closer to the latter interpretation, though the picture is by no means clear-cut and simple.

During 1974 and 1975 the balance of power in Laos shifted steadily in favour of the Pathēt Lao as the U. S. disengaged itself from Indochina.

The battle shifted the balance of power in Eastern Europe.

While dùthchas held precedence in the medieval period, the balance shifted as the mainly lowland Scots law became increasingly important in shaping the structure of clanship.