After Sun's death from cancer in 1925, one of his protégés, Chiang Kai-shek, seized control of the Kuomintang ( Nationalist Party or KMT ) and succeeded in bringing most of south and central China under its rule in a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition ( 1926 – 1927 ).

Although experiencing some defeats early on in the campaign, Emperor Wu's war from 104 BC to 102 BC succeeded in gathering the prized tribute of horses from Fergana.

Henry Cabot Lodge who served as his campaign manager and others succeeded in convincing him, and in June 1952 he resigned his command at NATO to campaign full-time.

After liberation from the fascist occupation on 29 November 1944, several Albanian partisan divisions crossed the border into German-occupied Yugoslavia, where they fought alongside Tito's partisans and the Soviet Red Army in a joint campaign which succeeded in driving out the last pockets of German resistance.

However, Keating succeeded in winning back the electorate with a strong campaign opposing Fightback and a focus on creating jobs to reduce unemployment.

Coming at a time of economic crisis, the campaign succeeded in boosting Pepsi's status.

Accompanying the young King on his campaign, he entered Rome along with him, and endeavoured to instigate the convocation of a council to inquire into the conduct of the pontiff with a view to his deposition ; but Pope Alexander, having gained a friend in Charles VIII's minister Guillaume Briçonnet by offering him the position of cardinal, succeeded in defeating the machinations of his enemy.

But, by a brilliant campaign in 1506, Julius succeeded in freeing Perugia and Bologna from their despots ( Giampolo Baglioni and Giovanni II Bentivoglio, respectively ), and raised himself to such a height of influence as to render his friendship of prime importance both to Louis XII of France and the Holy Roman Emperor.

Nicaragua was a country with a very high rate of illiteracy, but the campaign succeeded in lowering the rate from 50 % to 12 %.

The Mattachine Society succeeded in getting newly elected Mayor John Lindsay to end the campaign of police entrapment in New York.

It succeeded in getting attorney Otto Guevara elected to the Legislative Assembly in its first campaign in 1998.

In 1106, an Egyptian campaign thrust into southern Judea and almost succeeded the following year in wresting Hebron back from the crusaders under Baldwin I of Jerusalem, who personally led the counter-charge to beat the Muslim forces off.

Nevertheless, Lothair continued to campaign into German lands and succeeded in overrunning the Verdun by March 985.

All of this succeeded in putting the band back in the public consciousness, making the campaign a success.

Ivar was succeeded by Guthrum, who finished the campaign against Mercia.

During Ivar ’ s campaign against Mercia he died and was succeeded by Guthrum the Old as the main protagonist in the Danes ’ drive to conquer England.

Assisting the chairman in this campaign was Lin Biao, who had succeeded Peng Dehuai as defense minister in 1960.

The facts that he was leading a victorious campaign, and that his son Numerian succeeded him without opposition, suggest that his death may have been due to natural causes.

Mohuba was succeeded in 246 by his son Muyan ( 木延 ) who also aided the Cao Wei campaign against the Goguryeo that same year.

For the 1829 campaign on the Danube, Tsar Nicholas dismissed the ailing Wittgenstein and handed the Russian command to his more aggressive compatriot, Count von Diebitsch, who succeeded in capturing Silistra and then surprised the Ottomans with a high-speed drive for the Ottoman capital Constantinople ( Istanbul ), bypassing Shumla and routing an Ottoman army sent to intercept him.

Kallistos I and the ecumenical patriarchs who succeeded him mounted a vigorous campaign to have the Palamist doctrines accepted by the other Eastern patriarchates as well as all the metropolitan sees under their jurisdiction.

James Garner succeeded Coburn for the remainder of the campaign.

This air campaign eventually succeeded in its objective, forcing the Royal Air Force to move its planes to Alexandria.

* Parts of the 1994 movie Speechless, with Geena Davis and Michael Keaton, about a fictional New Mexico senatorial campaign, were filmed in Las Vegas.

" is running a campaign to salvage remaining VHS copies of the movie.

In the video game Left 4 Dead ( 2008 ), a room can be found ( in the Blood Harvest campaign ) containing an upturned lawnmower with a rope attached and a considerable amount of blood, referencing a particularly gory scene of the movie.

( In a minor continuity error, the Ordos mentat explicitly refers to the Emperor as Shaddam IV — not Frederick — during the ending movie for that campaign.

In February 2008, a new sparse and bare branding campaign was introduced, with voiceovers for movie promotions and ratings bumpers fully withdrawn from all Cinemax networks.

As a part of Participant Media's continuing educational action campaign around corporate ethics and the movie " The Informant !," CorpWatch and Crocodyl. org have launched a case study of the Archer Daniels Midland price-fixing scandal, along with an exposé on more recent controversies surrounding the agri-business giant's global operations.

* General Jack Ripper in the movie Dr. Strangelove was based upon the John Birch Society's anti-fluoridation campaign.

In 1241, it was taken by the Teutonic Knights, but Alexander Nevsky recaptured it several months later during a legendary campaign dramatized in Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 movie.

20th Century Fox promoted the film as an action movie with heavy elements of romance and, in their advertising campaign, made much of the " From the Director of Gladiator " slogan.

Someone then came up with the title The Last House on the Left, along with the infamous " To avoid fainting, keep repeating-it's only a movie ..." advertising campaign.

Bateman also appeared in the American Psycho 2000 e-mails ( transcribed here ), which were written as an advertisement campaign for the movie.

Dreamworks launched a $ 10 million marketing campaign for the movie that was centered on the appeal of Biggs and Ricci to attract a teenage audience to the film.

As of December 2008 he is working on his 4th feature, a war movie about the Kokoda Track campaign.

The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers, which honored thirteen ( fourteen in 1932 ) young women each year whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom.

This fictionalized portrayal of Emiliano Zapata as an Indigenous Mexican shaman, directed by Alfonso Arau, was reportedly the most expensive Mexican movie ever produced, with a massive ad campaign, and the largest ever opening in the nation's history.

Humana screened the 1942 classic Casablanca in select movie theaters nationwide as part of a campaign to preview its Medicare Advantage consumer services in 2007, marking the first time in more than 60 years that the film was seen nationally in movie theaters.

After completing a campaign level, the player receives a short movie before the debriefing screen which contains a joke based on the game.

The book, along with increasing publicity for the Hollywood movie based on Fast Food Nation, resulted in 18 food industry associations launching the www. bestfoodnation. com website as part of a major public relations campaign.

In 1987, the Club Souverain de l ' Estrie started the movement " For a paid holiday in memory of the Patriots ," while other civil organizations, such as the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal and the Comité du 15 février 1839 ( founded by Pierre Falardeau in 1997 to help the financing of the movie 15 février 1839 ), later joined in the campaign.

Notable events included " Chocolate City Days " excusions, campaign trains, a movie shoot painted as " Lackawanna 1661 ", running over CSX for the famed " New River Train ", and a wrap up celebrating the engine's 50th birthday.

The movie shows an intimate, never-before-seen look at the works of an election campaign.

However, its graphics were originally designed in VGA and hastily converted to higher-resolution Super VGA, and were decidedly inferior to Wing Commander IIIs ( which were designed for SVGA from the beginning ), and compared to the marketing blitz for WCIII ( similar in nature to a movie marketing campaign ), it was very poorly advertised.

Speaking to an MGM official, Ertegün threatened that " If the movie is made, Turkey will launch a worldwide campaign against it.