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The direct mail campaign consisted of 3 intra-state mailings of 1680 letters each and 6 out-of-state directed to electronics, plastics, pharmaceutical, and business machine manufacturers, and to publishers.
In the same month the Irish Republican Army began the Irish War of Independence, a guerrilla campaign against British rule ; in 1919 this consisted of attacks on the Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ).
In July 1961 Kaunda organized a civil disobedience campaign in Northern Province, the so called Cha-cha-cha campaign, which consisted largely of arson and obstructing significant roads.
Typically the feudal armies consisted of a core of highly skilled knights and their household troops, mercenaries hired for the time of the campaign and feudal levies fulfilling their feudal obligations, who usually were little more than rabble.
The original uniform, which has created a familiar image in the public eye, consisted of a khaki button-up shirt, shorts and a broad-brimmed campaign hat.
The Nationalist regime's campaign against Chen consisted of forces from the Guangdong Army under Xu Chongzhi, and two training regiments of the Nationalist Party Army, led by Chiang Kai-shek and staffed by Academy officers and cadets.
The aerial bombardment campaign consisted of more than 100 fly-overs.
The original uniform, which has created a familiar image in the public eye and had a very military appearance, consisted of a khaki button-up shirt, shorts, and a broad-brimmed campaign hat.
The third group consisted of people who engaged in electoral politics within the narrow limits defined by the constitution and whose goals included a " Natives First " campaign and an extension of the franchise to elect a more representative government.
His campaign staff consisted of high school classmates Derrick Miller and Christine Beatty, who became his legislative aide ; later, Kilpatrick had an affair with Beatty.
The campaign consisted of many important naval operations, troop maneuvers, failed initiatives, and eleven distinct battles from December 26, 1862, to July 4, 1863.
At the outset, the division's allocation of engineers consisted of only two field companies, the 5th and 11th, however over the course of the campaign others arrived including the 10th, 15th and the 7th, which was the last to arrive in June 1945.
The Mongols invaded Tibet in 1240, with a small campaign led by the Mongol general Doorda Darkhan, that consisted of 30, 000 troops resulting in 500 casualties The Mongols withdrew their soldiers from Tibet in 1241, as all the Mongol princes were recalled back to Mongolia in preparation for the appointment of a successor to Ogedai Khan.
The only incident in the campaign consisted in one radio campaign ad that used music from Star Trek and described Kirk as the " captain of the Dallas Enterprise ," citing the city's bond program, the new sports arena and new roads.
However, samples of " red mercury " obtained from arrested would-be terrorists invariably consisted of nothing more than various red dyes or powders of little value, which some suspect was being sold as part of a campaign intended to flush out potential nuclear smugglers.
Later he was removed from local party work and assigned to a cell of professionals where his main work consisted of working on the 1948 Progressive Party presidential campaign of former U. S. vice-president Henry A. Wallace.
In the mid 1940s, Chateaubriand created the Campanha da Aviação (" aviation campaign "), which consisted of vigorous fundraising to acquire training aircraft, at the aim of endowing the country with a proper aviation system.
He had repeated the basic ideas of Pokrovski on the 1812 campaign and he managed to interpret Napoleon from the viewpoint of the class-struggle saying that “… the Napoleonic era is the birth of the stubborn conflict of new social and economic forces, a conflict which did not begin with Napoleon or end with him, and whose basic significance consisted in the victorious assault of the middle class against the feudal and the semi-feudal order in France and Europe .” Like Pokrovski, Tarle, in this book, treated Russian people ’ s patriotism and the talents of the Russian commanders as of lesser significance.
The campaign to that point had consisted of a series of battles fought along the track after the Japanese had landed around Buna and pushed south towards Port Moresby, but were checked at Ioribaiwa.
The plans they worked out consisted in, inter alia, compiling documents with counterarguments for being spread before and during the World Congress ; actively lobbying the media for explaining the human nature of Soviet medicine ; actively lobbying inside the World Psychiatric Association for preventing the issue from being put on the agenda ; lobbying the World Health Organization for exerting pressure on the WPA not to allow this unacceptable anti-Soviet campaign ; and establishing closer working relations with positively inclined colleagues in the West.
The campaign consisted of trying to win over the almost twenty-four hundred delegates who would go to the April convention.
For the 2009 season, advertising in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada consisted of stopmotion adverts in the " Release the Goo " campaign which comprised a Creme Egg stripping itself of its wrapper and then breaking its own shell, usually with household appliances and equipment, while making various ' goo ' sounds, and a ' relieved ' noise when finally able to break its shell.

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Brazil's effort in World War I occurred mainly in the Atlantic campaign, with a smaller participation in the land warfare.
The uprising was mainly a campaign of non-violent civil resistance, which featured a series of demonstrations, marches, acts of civil disobedience, and labour strikes.
" Although the spectacular rise in the Nazi vote in 1930 and July 1932 was caused mainly by the effects of the Depression, Goebbels as party campaign manager was naturally given much of the credit.
* Chronology of 1796, mainly relating to Napoleon's campaign in Italy
The campaign centered mainly on the issue of a sound currency.
While he appeared to have momentum in the early stages, the campaign came to be focused mainly on law-and-order issues, in which, it was argued, the government had not achieved convincing results ; this coincided with a strong focus of the media on a number of egregious crime cases.
In contrast to Clausewitz, Antoine-Henri Jomini dealt mainly with operational strategy, planning and intelligence, the conduct of the campaign, and " generalship " rather than " statesmanship ".
This was mainly employed in World War I in the Gallipoli campaign and the Western Front.
Just north of Florence during World War II was located a large prisoner of war camp for German and Italian prisoners of war, mainly captured during the North Africa campaign.
These proposals, along with other development plans, brought about much opposition, mainly from an organization called Brunswick Smart Growth, Inc., which began a campaign against rapid and excessive development.
By the end of 1990, the Madchester scene was dying off, acid house was suffering from being the subject of a vigorous campaign to outlaw it by the John Major government, and NME had started to report on new bands coming from the US, mainly from Seattle.
Combat and accidents reduced but did not eliminate the P-40 complement, and a muster of approximately a dozen pursuit pilots, called the " Bataan Field Flying Detachment ," continued to fly missions until the last day of the campaign, employing mainly 30-pound fragmentation bombs and machine gun fire as ordnance.
Though supported by Kibaki, some members of his own cabinet, mainly from the LDP wing led by Raila Odinga, and the main opposition party KANU, mobilised a powerful NO campaign that resulted in a majority of 58 % Kenyan voters rejecting the draft.
The MNLA began a guerrilla campaign, targeting mainly the colonial resource extraction industries, which in Malaya were the tin mines and rubber plantations.
History was composed mainly of hagiographies of monarchs or epic poetry describing heroic gestures such as the Song of Roland about the Battle of Roncevaux Pass, during Charlemagne's first campaign to conquer the Iberian peninsula.
Prévost's Quartermaster General, Major General Thomas Sydney Beckwith, was a veteran of the early part of the Peninsular campaign and of operations in Chesapeake Bay in 1813, but even he was to be criticized, mainly for failures in intelligence.
In February 1981, he was brought briefly under the spotlight, by starting a campaign against a family of immigrants, whom he had accused of selling drugs ( a " charge " that was based mainly on hearsay ).
After this nomination the Swiss media started a campaign against Elisabeth Kopp, focusing mainly on her husband Hans W. Kopp.
The campaign focused mainly on immigration and refugees, which worked to the benefit of the anti-immigration Danish People's Party.
By World War I, the oak leaves often indicated a second or higher award of the Pour le Mérite, though in most cases the recipients were still high-ranking officers ( usually distinguished field commanders fitting the criteria above ; the few lower ranking recipients of the oak leaves were mainly general staff officers responsible for planning a victorious battle or campaign ).
Due to their crude reputation, and hoping to allay Union suspicion, Hampton used Grace Piexotto's " The Big Brick House ", a prominent brothel located at 11 Fulton Street, to assure complete privacy for the Red Shirts ' meeting ground, which mainly served as campaign headquarters ( Jones 2006: 22-23 ).
Latham's abuse resulted mainly from two allegations: firstly that Beazley had engaged in a prolonged campaign to undermine Latham in his positions as a frontbencher and as opposition leader and, secondly, that Beazley ( as leader ) had failed to provide support to Labor MP Greg Wilton, who later committed suicide.
A campaign of protests, mainly by environmental activists, led to long delays in the construction of this section of road, but the work was eventually completed with a minimal disruption to the woodland.
His authority was rejected by the third Nawab of the Carnatic Muhammed Saadatullah Khan I, who killed De Singh of Orchha, mainly because the Nawab believed that he was the righteous commander of the Gingee Fort, and began a smear campaign referring to Jahandar Shah as an usurper to the Mughal throne.

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