The congress also highlighted the fact that East Germany had achieved international recognition in the intervening years.

In matters of less importance the congress was more unanimous.

The congress, which broke up at the end of November, is of historical importance mainly as marking the highest point reached in the attempt to govern Europe by an international committee of the powers.

When word of the pending congress reached London, the Lords of Trade were so disturbed that they wrote to the king that " this is a matter of the utmost importance to the Kingdom and legislature of Great Britain ... and proper only for the consideration of Parliament.

The 3rd party congress proclaimed the importance of " all forms of struggle ", meaning that armed struggle was justified against the regime.

Several groups were established before the congress, which either opposed the Stalinist leadership ( the Ryutin Group ) or opposed socio-economic policies of the Stalinist leadership ( the Syrtsov – Lominandze Group, Eismont – Tolmachev Group and the group headed by Alexander Petrovich Smirnov amongst others ).

In theory the party congress set policy and elected the leadership, provided a forum for discussing the leadership's policies, and undertook activities that served to legitimize the party as a mass movement.

The congress was attended by about a hundred members of the party and asserted its solidarity with socialism in the Soviet Union and the need for a strong struggle for similar policies in Portugal ; it also stated that a Fascist coup in Portugal was a serious threat to the party and to the country.

The fourth congress, held in July 1946, pointed to massive popular struggle as the only way to overthrow the regime, and stated the policies that would help the party lead that same popular movement.

The congress criticized the right-wing policies of the socialist government of António Guterres and debated the future of the PCP following the debacle of the Socialist Bloc.

* Speech by former SP leader Jan Marijnissen at the congress of the Socialist Left Party of Norway, which gives an overview of the SP's history and policies ( March 24, 2007 ).

At an extraordinary party congress held 9 – 10 February 1990 in Dresden it returned to genuine liberal policies and restored its name to the Liberal Democratic Party, ( Liberal-Demokratische Partei ( LDP )).

At the head of the state apparatus responsible for formally adopting and carrying out policies elaborated by the party congress and Politbüro was the Council of Ministers, which had more than forty members and was in turn headed by a Presidium of sixteen.

The framework for Green policies, called The Green Manifesto, was adopted by the founding congress of the party on 6 and 7 September 2003.

The congress established the broad lines of the IMF's policies and actions and elected the President and General Secretary of the IMF.

Starting with a surprising speech at the 1996 party congress and then series of letters to the country's newspapers, Linh eventually renounced the effects of his own policies, accusing foreign investors of exploiting his native country and harming socialism.

The congress established the broad lines of the ITGLWF's policies and actions.

Since its designation as a National historic landmark, several policies have been put into place to help restore Revere Beach ’ s water starting with the reinforcement of the BEACH Act that was passed by congress in 2001 seeking to improve water quality of public beaches in the United States to reduce or remove the risk of disease from pathogens in our nations public bathing waters.

He had sat beside Alexander Brandel at the rostrum of a congress of Zionists.

He had cause for alarm, because as Anastas Mikoyan noted in his memoirs, Stalin strived to prevent as many pro-Trotsky officials as possible being elected as congress delegates.

The latter group was to prevail following Venezuela's withdrawal from Gran Colombia at the very moment that an 1830 constitutional congress had been called in an ultimately futile effort to stem the growing separatist tendencies throughout country.

Peano's students Mario Pieri and Alessandro Padoa had a papers presented at the philosophy congress also.

Despite this, Madison still feared that the states would compel congress to call for a new constitutional convention, which they had the right to do.

Before the Congress opened on 13 June, negotiations between Andrássy and the British Foreign Secretary Marquess of Salisbury had already " ended on 6 June by Britain agreeing to all the Austrian proposals relative to Bosnia-Herzegovina about to come before the congress while Austria would support British demands.

But it would have been against the diplomatic practice of the time to have sent to the peace congress at Bruges, in which the Curia had an essential part, a participant who had become known at home by his allegedly heretical teaching.

On April 25 in a house speech that biographer William Nisbet Chambers called “ long, passionate, historical, polemical ,” Benton attacked the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which he “ had stood upon ... above thirty years, and intended to stand upon it to the end -- solitary and alone, if need be ; but preferring company .” The speech was distributed afterwards as a pamphlet when opposition to the act moved outside the walls of congress.

Then the congress discussed the position of the Jewish Bund, which had co-founded the RSDLP in 1898 but wanted to remain autonomous within the party.

Although delegates from the Soviet Union and Comintern had attended, the first congress ignored Lenin's advice by refusing to accept a temporary alliance between the communists and the " bourgeois democrats " who also advocated national revolution ; instead they stuck to the orthodox Marxist belief that only the urban proletariat could lead a socialist revolution.

When the Argentine envoy, Nicolás de Herrera, arrived in May 1813, he learned to his dismay that all decisions had to await the meeting of a Paraguayan congress in late September.

In 1820, four years after a Paraguayan congress had named Francia dictator for life with the title El Supremo Dictador ( supreme dictator ), Francia's security system uncovered and quickly crushed a plot by the elite to assassinate El Supremo.

Upon convening in May, the congress elected Boris Yeltsin, a onetime Gorbachev protégé who had been exiled from the top party echelon because of his radical reform proposals and erratic personality, as president of the congress's permanent working body, the Supreme Soviet.

The IWA held a preliminary conference in 1865, and had its first congress at Geneva in 1866.

He didn't know many people in the congress, but sought out John Adams who, along with his cousin Samuel, had emerged as a leader of the convention.

The Treaty of Paris had determined that a " general congress " should be held in Vienna, and that invitations would be issued to " all the Powers engaged on either side in the present war.

To be able to take part in a congress in Paris in 1937, he had to join the NSDAP.

The fleet was effectively under the command of Themistocles, but nominally led by the Spartan nobleman Eurybiades, as had been agreed at the congress in 481 BC.

Vikelas made the Athens proposal official on June 23, and since Greece had been the original home of the Olympics, the congress unanimously approved the decision.

Beyond escape, they hoped to raise an " armed congress " with the help of the émigrés who had fled, as well as assistance from other nations, with which they could return and, in essence, recapture France.

The congress of Vienna assigned the whole of the lower Rhenish districts to Prussia, which had the tact to leave them in undisturbed possession of the liberal institutions they had become accustomed to under the republican rule of the French.

Teeven, who had gained some recognition as MP, withdrew his candidacy for the position when a motion of no confidence was not supported by the party's congress.

After having had usually a director and one, two employees to support him, UEA at times employed ten people or more, among them e. g. a congress manager, a book seller, a librarian.