For monarchists, the reburial of the Empress in the former Imperial capital, so many years after her death, further underscored the downfall of the dynasty.

Clemenceau was defeated on 20 July 1909 in a discussion in the Chamber on the state of the Navy, in which bitter words were exchanged between him and Théophile Delcassé, the former president of the Council whose downfall Clemenceau had aided.

Marlborough and Godolphin, now distanced from Anne, would henceforth have to conform to the decisions of a Whig ministry, while the Tories, sullen and vengeful, looked forward to their former leaders ' downfall.

Despite Seeckt ′ s patronage, it was Schleicher who brought about his downfall in 1926 by leaking that Seeckt had invited the former Crown Prince to attend military manoeuvres.

Its annexation into the French Empire, in 1810, was one of the causes for the diplomatic rift between former allies France and Russia, a dispute that would lead to war in 1812 and eventually to Napoleon's downfall.

The failure of the scheme, today called " the dirty trick ", or maneuver, was responsible for Peres ' downfall as leader of Labour, and his 1991 defeat in internal elections to former Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

After Wolsey's downfall in 1530, his former ally Thomas Cromwell ensured the survival of the School by securing for it a new endowment from King Henry VIII and the status of a royal foundation.

In the 1990s, after the downfall of communism, inflation ran high due to reform failures, the legalization of owning foreign currency in 1990, and the bankrupt policies of the former communist era, reaching rates as high as 300 % per year in 1993.

He often portrayed the fate of homeless wanderers looking for a place to live, in particular Jews and former citizens of the old Austria-Hungary, who, with the downfall of the monarchy, had lost their only possible Heimat (" true home ").

After the downfall of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu offered King Huai II the more honourable title of " Emperor Yi of Chu " and announced his decision to divide the former Qin Empire.

** The 5th October Overthrow, or Bulldozer Revolution, the events of 2000 that led to the downfall of Slobodan Milošević in the former Yugoslavia.

While effective Portuguese administration was not established until several decades later, the attack marked the beginning of Angoche's downfall, and the town never regained its former status.

Interviews with former employees cast doubt on the idea that Osborne's downfall was caused solely by announcement ahead of availability.

On 7 July 2006, the ABC programme Stateline in NSW aired claims that Heffernan was involved in the downfall of former NSW opposition leader John Brogden.

* France after the downfall of the Vichy Regime, when many collaborationists, whether home-grown fascists or Nazi sympathizers, played down their role in the former government and its institutions.

On November 8, 1939, Capone's former lawyer Edward J. O ' Hare — who had co-operated in bringing about Capone's downfall — was shot and killed.

After Napoleon's downfall in 1813, however, William I regained his former German inheritances, but in 1815 he ceded them to the Kingdom of Prussia for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Magazine editor Tina Brown uses the phrase thematically in a 2005 Washington Post essay about the downfall of Harvard University president Larry Summers and the problems of Disney's former embattled CEO Michael Eisner.

Internal tensions between former members of the RSP and OSP formed the downfall of the party.

* 1494 – 1559: The Italian Wars lead to the downfall of the Italian city-states.

Although the Carabinieri assisted in the suppression of opposition during the rule of Benito Mussolini, they were also responsible for his downfall and many units were disbanded by Nazi Germany, which resulted in large numbers of Carabinieri joining the Italian resistance movement.

Following Italian leader Benito Mussolini's downfall and having looted some of the stolen assets from the labor camps, Globocnik was transferred from the General Government of occupied Poland to the Julian March in the German-occupied portion of Italy in September 1943 and was stationed in his hometown of Trieste.

The third match was Di Buò's downfall, as he lost to fellow Italian and eventual gold medalist Marco Galiazzo.

News of the defeat at Cartagena was a significant factor in the downfall of the British Prime Minister Robert Walpole.

Described as " Britain's fifth most important political party " in 1986 it played a prominent role in the 1989 – 1991 mass anti-poll tax movement which was widely thought to have led to the downfall of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

He resigned as Deputy Prime Minister in 1990, making a resignation speech that is widely thought to have hastened Thatcher's downfall.

In July 1944, Koiso was chosen to serve as Prime Minister of Japan after the downfall of the Tōjō cabinet.

He ruled the country as Prime Minister of Iraq until his downfall and death in 1963.

Upon the downfall of the center-right government the same year, he succeeded to the post of Prime Minister of Sweden the same year, heading a minority government consisting of Liberal party and independent ministers.

From 1943, she also worked behind the scene with her younger son Prince Takamatsu Nobuhito to bring the downfall of Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō.

Not long after, the failure of most of the party's political actions caused its downfall and its more moderate members ( notably including Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada's first francophone Prime Minister ) formed what became the Liberal Party of Canada in conjunction with their Upper Canadian Clear-Grit allies.

The riot in central London, with the countrywide opposition to the Community Charge ( especially vehement in the North of England and Scotland ) contributed to the downfall of Margaret Thatcher, who resigned as Prime Minister in November the same year, defending a tax which an opinion poll had found 12 % favoured.

He ruled the country as Prime Minister of Iraq until his downfall and death in 1963.

Following the downfall and resignation of Jenő Fock he was appointed Prime Minister of Hungary ( officially Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary ).

He also served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1910 to 1912, before World War I: following the downfall of the Coalition ( Wekerle II ) government, Francis Joseph appointed the first minority government of Hungary in 1910, once again under the leadership of Count Khuen-Héderváry.

The handling of the crisis by the British cabinet was a major contributor to the downfall of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George.

Following his election, Smith served as a senior member of the Free Trade Party in opposition before helping to engineer the downfall of the Chris Watson government and its replacement by George Reid as Prime Minister.

As a political supporter of the Queen and old enemy of the Minister, Dupin also hopes that D — will try to use the power he no longer has, to his political downfall, and at the end be presented with an insulting note that implies Dupin was the thief: Un dessein si funeste, S ' il n ' est digne d ' Atrée, est digne de Thyeste ( If such a sinister design isn't worthy of Atreus, it is worthy of Thyestes ).

While there have been some attempts at increasing transparency in the expenditures of official organs and bureaucrats, the downfall of Railways Minister Liu Zhijun and Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai served as a reminder of unresolved issues of corruption within the political elite.

* Millicent Bagnold ( 1980 – 1990 ) – elected in the height of the First Wizarding War, she was the Minister in office during James and Lily Potter's murders, Lord Voldemort's first downfall, and the Death Eater captures, in the early 1980s.

All this, combined with his frequent absences from the capital, created the ideal environment for the ministers, led by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis, the Minister of War, to plot his downfall.

Hua was unaware that the Gang of Four were plotting his downfall until Defense Minister Ye Jianying and several generals warned him about this, saying that he'd better do something before it was too late.

After the downfall of the Jan Olszewski cabinet on June 1992, following the exposure of a list of secret communist collaborators of Służba Bezpieczeństwa by Minister of Internal Affairs Antoni Macierewicz, her cabinet was allegedly linked to illegal persecution and disintegration of Polish conservative and independent rightist parties ( so called Instruction UOP nr 0015 / 92 ).

* 26 January 2000: The so-called “ flight affair ” causes the downfall of Finance Minister and close friend of Clement, Heinz Schleußer.

Van der Laan played a significant role in the downfall of the Second Balkenende cabinet by supporting a motion of no confidence against Minister Rita Verdonk regarding Verdonk's behavior in the matter of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's citizenship.