By the fall, 4, 000 people from around the country had joined his campaign.

In 1976, candidates supported by BJU faculty and alumni captured the local Republican party with unfortunate short-term political consequences, but by 1980 the religious right and the " country club " Republicans had joined forces.

The country formally joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

In 1866 she joined an itinerant concert troup and toured the country.

Finland is the only Nordic country to have joined the Eurozone ; Denmark and Sweden have retained their traditional currencies, whereas Iceland and Norway are not members of the EU at all.

In 1994, Finland joined NATO's Partnership for Peace ; the country is also an observer in the North Atlantic Cooperation Council.

Switzerland was the last country to tie its currency to gold ; it backed 40 % of its value until the Swiss joined the International Monetary Fund in 1999.

In 1986, Spain joined the European Economic Community ( EEC, now European Union ), and the country hosted the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and Seville Expo ' 92.

Recently, the overriding goal of Hungarian economic policy has been to prepare the country for entry into the European Union, which it joined in late 2004.

American soldiers were not deployed in Afghanistan at the time he joined the Taliban government forces ; however, he chose to stay and fight after it was known American forces were in country and backing the Northern Alliance.

After stability returned to Lesotho, the SADC task force withdrew from the country in May 1999, leaving only a small task force ( joined by Zimbabwean troops ) to provide training to the LDF.

NATO relations with Moldova date back to 1992, when the country joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council.

Jobs was joined by former Apple employees Bud Tribble, George Crow, Rich Page, Susan Barnes, Susan Kare, and Dan ' l Lewin and named his new company Next, Inc. After consulting with major educational buyers from around the country ( including a follow-up meeting with Paul Berg ), a tentative specification for the workstation was drawn up.

That same year, rookies Larry Bird and Magic Johnson joined the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers respectively, initiating a period of significant growth in fan interest in the NBA throughout the country and the world.

Dylan's lead was also followed by The Byrds, joined by Gram Parsons to record Sweetheart of the Rodeo ( 1968 ), helping to define the genre of country rock, which became a particularly popular style in the California music scene of the late 1960s, and was adopted by former folk rock artists including Hearts and Flowers, Poco and New Riders of the Purple Sage.

Later that year, she joined Loretta Lynn and country singer Miranda Lambert on an update of Lynn's song " Coal Miner's Daughter " for the 2010 album Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn.

In 1918, Slovenes joined Yugoslavia, while the west of the country was annexed to Italy.

Copyright under the Statute applied to Scotland and England, as well as Ireland when that country joined the union in 1800.

Later he joined the country supergroup The Highwaymen with Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash.

Apart from this, the country tried to stay out of alliances and remain officially neutral during the entire Cold War ; it never joined NATO.

The country joined the Euro in 1999.

The prudence, steadiness, and vigilance of that man, joined to the greatest possible lenity in his character and his politics, preserved the crown to this royal family ; and with it, their laws and liberties to this country.

The Patriots enthusiastically supported the Revolution, and when the French revolutionary armies started to spread that revolution, the Patriots joined in, hoping to liberate their own country from its authoritarian yoke.

Although it's the first African country who joined FIFA, but it hasn't made it to the FIFA World Cup except only two times in 1934 and 1990.

The Third Republic was dismantled, and most of the country was controlled directly by the Axis Powers, while the south was controlled by the collaborationist Vichy government.

Every country of Europe was invited, with the exceptions of Spain ( a World War II neutral that had sympathized with Axis powers ) and the small states of Andorra, San Marino, Monaco, and Liechtenstein.

Turkey, as a neutral country during the Second World War, was a place where both the Axis and Allied powers sought to set up networks of spies.

As the capital of an Axis country and a major transit point for Axis troops en route to the Eastern Front, Bucharest suffered heavy damage during World War II due to Allied bombings, and, on 23 August 1944, was the site of the royal coup which brought Romania into the Allied camp, suffering a short period of Luftwaffe bombings as well as a failed attempt by German troops to take the city by force.

The third priority is the construction of the Southern Axis of Albania ( Boshti i Jugut ) passing across the central and southern part of the country.

King Peter II and much of the Yugoslavian government had left the country because they did not want to cooperate with the Axis.

After the war, U. S. influence prevented Thailand from being treated as an Axis country, but the British demanded three million tons of rice as reparations and the return of areas annexed from Malaya during the war.

The Fascists and the Axis used this tragedy in propaganda about Allied aggression against a neutral country.

Belgium considered itself well-prepared against a possible invasion by Axis forces, for during the 1930s Leopold had made extensive preparations against an invasion of his country, historically a battlefield in wars between French and Germans.

* Denmark, the fictional personification of the country the manga Hetalia: Axis Powers by Hidekaz Himaruya

After the Axis forces left, Churchill ordered that British forces step in to help restore the monarchy ; they were opposed by the Democratic Army of Greece, and the country plunged into a civil war.

Although the Allied forces were hopelessly inadequate Churchill's War Cabinet had thought it important to provide support for the only country outside the Commonwealth which was resisting the Axis advance.

The Axis occupation of Greece effectively partitions the country between Germany, Italy and Bulgaria.

After the defeat of Axis Powers, in 1944, most of the Yugoslav Germans left from the country together with defeated German army.

The new regime firmly set the country on a course towards the Axis camp, officially joining the Axis Powers on 23 November 1940.

Advancing rapidly, Axis forces captured Athens, Greece's capital on April 27, 1941 effectively placing most of the country under occupation.

In 1941 Turkey was the first country to send humanitarian aid to Greece to relieve the great famine in Athens during the Axis occupation.

' Cicero ', an Albanian like ' Tricycle ', who was a Yugoslav national, had good reason to hate the Germans because of events after the Axis invasion of his country.

OAKKE also condemns several protests in Greece, especially those which are guided by the " KKE " ( pseudoKKE in the texts of the organization ) and “ Coalition of the Left, the Movements and Ecology ”-SYN, and believes that, after 1990, many of these protests do not reflect the moods of the broad mass of workers, especially the proletariat, but mostly parts of the state bureaucracy, the worst, most corrupt and destructive ones, which are created and promoted mainly by the neo-Nazi Axis and its friends in our country, a position which also differs from the positions of other leftist parties that openly support every single action.

As Romania came under the rule of Ion Antonescu and, as an Axis country, joined in the German offensive against the Soviets, the Communist Party began approaching traditional parties that were engaged in semi-clandestine opposition to Antonescu: alongside the Social Democrats, it began talks with the National Peasants ' and the National Liberal parties.

It has also been suggested the British strategy was to create a barrier in Greece, to protect Turkey, the only ( neutral ) country standing between an Axis block in the Balkans and the oil-rich Middle East.

The city was also the center of King Mihai I's August 23 coup, which took the country out of the Axis and into the ranks of the Allies ; consequently, it became the target of German reprisals-on August 23 – 24, a large-scale bombing by the Luftwaffe destroyed the National Theater and damaged other buildings, while the Wehrmacht engaged in street-fighting with the Romanian Army.