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Beginning in 1906, Pennsylvania conservationist Major Israel McCreight of Du Bois, Pennsylvania argued that President Theodore Roosevelt s conservation speeches were limited to businessmen in the lumber industry and recommended a campaign of youth education and a national policy on conservation education.
The year 1705 proved almost entirely barren for the Duke whose military disappointments were only partly compensated by efforts on the diplomatic front where, at the courts of Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Vienna, Berlin and Hanover, Marlborough sought to bolster support for the Grand Alliance and extract promises of prompt assistance for the following year s campaign.
Bob Jones, Sr. argued that if members of Graham s campaign executive committee had rejected major tenets of orthodox Christianity, such as the virgin birth and the deity of Christ, then Graham had violated 2 John 9-11, which prohibits receiving in fellowship those who do “ not abide in the teaching of Christ .” In the 1960s, Graham further irritated fundamentalists by gaining the endorsement of Cardinal Richard Cushing for his Boston campaign and accepting honorary degrees from two Roman Catholic colleges.
Psychological coercion – along with the other varieties-was extensively and systematically used by the government of the People s Republic of China during the “ Thought Reform ” campaign of 1951-1952.
However, when Constantius requested reinforcements from Julian s army for the eastern campaign, the Gallic legions revolted and proclaimed Julian Augustus.
The campaign attracted supporters who opposed the Government s civil defence plans as outlined in an official booklet, Protect and Survive.
Their campaign was successful and McCrew s body was exhumed and buried in the Lincoln Cemetery in Dallas.
Meanwhile, Newson s malting business expanded and five more children were born, Alice ( 1842 ), Millicent ( 1847 ), who was to become a leader in the constitutional campaign for women's suffrage, Sam ( 1850 ), Josephine ( 1853 ) and George ( 1854 ).
The campaign relies on the assistance of organizations and institutions that can facilitate the project s diffusion, by placing banners on their own websites or organizing events aimed to raise awareness of the project.
Tammany Hall looked with alarm upon Kelly s entrance into the campaign and tried to persuade him to withdraw his candidacy and throw his support behind Moran.
Humayun s first campaign was to confront Sher Khan Suri.
As part of the mass-education campaign of the 1970s, he founded five universities, each at different sites, in North Rhine-Westphalia and initiated Germany s first distance learning university at Hagen ( modelled on the Open University ).
Despite his revolutionary rhetoric, Goebbels most important contribution to the Nazi cause between 1930 and 1933 was as the organizer of successive election campaigns: The Reichstag elections of September 1930, July and November 1932 and March 1933, and Hitler s presidential campaign of March – April 1932.
In private, he was discouraged by the failure of his and Speer s campaign to gain control of the home front.
This, combined with the U. S. air campaign against Germany s synthetic oil production, finally broke the back of the German economy and thus its capacity for further resistance.
On 8 July 1919, Wilson returned to the United States and embarked on a nation-wide campaign to secure the support of the American people for their country s entry into the League.
Although the campaign was largely unsuccessful, it created a wave of new followers, and some of Baba s views found their way into academic debate on the merits and dangers of hallucinogens.
Innocent III s first order of business in preaching the crusade was to send missionaries to every Western Orthodox state to endorse the campaign.
In September 2012, she will be featured in a campaign called " 30 Songs / 30 Days " to support Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn s book.
Together, the Lances and Florence Amherst mounted a campaign for recognition of the Middle Eastern breed, that coincided with the phenomenon of " Tutmania " caused by Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun s tomb in late 1922.
The elections of 1990, which had been mandated by the constitution passed in 1987, saw the Bush administration funnel $ 49. 75 million of ‘ non-lethal aid to the Contras, as well as $ 9m to the opposition UNO — equivalent to $ 2 billion worth of intervention by a foreign power in a US election at the time, and proportionately five times the amount George Bush had spent on his own election campaign.
Ross Perot's former campaign manager wrote that the problem with having only two parties is that the nation loses " the ability for things to bubble up from the body politic and give voice to things that aren t being voiced by the major parties.
Brands, the world s largest restaurant company, to launch the first annual World Hunger Relief Week, a global campaign to increase awareness about hunger, engage volunteers, and raise critically needed funds to help WFP serve the world's areas of greatest need.

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Her testimonial launch of the Second Crusade from Vézelay, the rumored location of Mary Magdalene ´ s burial, dramatically emphasized the role of women in the campaign.
Kid Rock later endorsed Mitt Romney's candidacy and performed on Romney's behalf at campaign event ( s ).
" A pregnant Cruz showed her support for the battle against AIDS by lighting up the Empire State Building with red lights in New York City December 1, 2010 on International AIDS Day, as part of ( RED )' s new awareness campaign, ' An AIDS Free Generation is Due in 2015 ,' which aims to eradicate the HIV virus from pregnant mothers to their babies.
* Stephan Wassong, Pierre de Coubertin ´ s American studies and their importance for the analysis of his early educational campaign.

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On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
The absence of royal authority enabled Ordoño II to easily campaign in this area, his main objective being the city of Mérida, in the summer of 915.
During the spring of 1999, AMRAAMs saw their main combat action during Operation Allied Force, the Kosovo bombing campaign.
By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).
With minimal police training, their main role was to increase the strength of police posts, where they functioned as sentries, guards, escorts for government agents, reinforcement to the regular police, and crowd control, and mounted a determined counter-insurgency campaign.
The campaign was designed by John, who was the fulcrum of the alliances ; his plan being to draw the French away from Paris southward against himself and keep him occupied, while the main army, under Emperor Otto IV, marched on Paris from the north.
Allende had two main competitors in the election — Radomiro Tomic, representing the incumbent Christian Democratic party, who ran a left-wing campaign with much the same theme as Allende's, and the right-wing former president Jorge Alessandri.
Nguema introduced a campaign of ' authenticity ', replacing colonial names with native ones: the capital Santa Isabel became Malabo, the main island of Fernando Po was renamed Masie Nguema Biyogo after himself, and Annobón became Pagalu.
" My three main goals will be to expand our Party, to update its campaign techniques and to build it into a party which is truly pan-European in its thinking.
The Jamaican Government has, since the late 1990s and in cooperation with private investors, embarked on a campaign of infrastructural improvement projects, one of which includes the creation of a system of freeways, the first such access-controlled roadways of their kind on the island, connecting the main population centres of the island.
Robinson's campaign was boosted by a lack of organisation in the main opposition party: Fine Gael.
* In the game Secret Weapons Over Normandy, Peenemünde is a playable level in the main campaign.
The 1965 campaign against the Labor Government ( lead since April 1964 by Jack Renshaw ), a government widely perceived to be tired and devoid of ideas, was notable for being one of Australia's first " presidential-style " campaigns, with Askin being the major focus of campaigning and a main theme of " With Askin You'll Get Action ".
Gillingham notes that Roger of Howden's chronicle is the main source for Richard's activities in this period, although he notes that it records the successes of the campaign ; it was on this campaign that Richard acquired the name " Richard the Lionheart ".
If the main objective of a campaign was not the conquest of a particular city, it could simply be passed by.
When the main objective of the campaign had been fulfilled, the Hittite army returned to Carchemish and the city fell after an eight-day siege.
The government of Tanzania through its department of tourism has embarked on a campaign to promote the Kalambo water falls in the southwestern region of Rukwa as one of Tanzania's main tourist destinations.
" Most published supplements for Traveller deal in some way with a default setting called the " Third Imperium ", ( sometimes referred to as the Official Traveller Universe ( OTU )), but the main rules are generic enough so that a campaign can be played in any setting the referee chooses.
A main component of Walkman advertising campaign was personalization of the device.
Susan Carroll, the author of Women Voters and the Gender Gap, states that the increase of women influence on political behaviors is due to four main categories: women outnumber men among voters ; significant efforts are underway to increase registration and turnout among women ; a gender gap is evident in the 2004 election as it has been in every presidential election since 1980 ; and women constitute a disproportionately large share of the undecided voters who will make their decision late in the campaign.
However, as the economy was the main issue, Bush's campaign floundered across the nation, even in strongly Republican areas, and Clinton maintained leads with over 50 percent of the vote nationwide consistently, while Bush typically saw numbers in the upper 30s.
The NATO North Atlantic Council had stressed that KLA was " the main initiator of the violence " and that it had " launched what appears to be a deliberate campaign of provocation ".
Bonaparte, the main architect of victory in the last years of the First Coalition, had gone to campaign in Egypt.
Modern historians, using estimates of what the land was able to support, and what Martel could have raised from his realm and supported during the campaign, believe the total Muslim force, counting the outlying raiding parties, which rejoined the main body before Tours, badly outnumbered the Franks.

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