The political process is energetically and openly participated in by the people of Greece, while public demonstrations are a continual feature of Athenian life ; however, there have been criticisms of a governmental failure to sufficiently involve minorities in political debate and hence a sidelining of their opinions.

After the failure of the first invasion, Darius began raising a huge new army with which he meant to subjugate Greece completely ; however, in 486 BC, his Egyptian subjects revolted, indefinitely postponing any Greek expedition.

On top of this, the failure of the British to maintain air superiority in the theatre severely hampered their ability to carry out landing operations, while the deployment of forces to Greece meant that in the end the commandos became the only troops in general reserve and as the strategic situation worsened it became increasingly difficult to employ them in the manner for which it had been intended as they were called upon to reinforce the rest of the army elsewhere.

Due to the failure of the invasion and the heavy loss of life that terminated 3, 000 years of Greek presence in Anatolia, Greece refers to the events following World War I as the Asia Minor Catastrophe / Disaster.

Such failure led to the government awakening to the problem of naval insufficiency and the adoption of a policy stating that: " The navy, as it represents a necessary weapon for Greece, should only be created for war and aim to victory.

However, due to the failure of his campaign in central Greece, and his failure to obtain a commanding position in the national convention of Astros, he was compelled to retire in 1823.

Undaunted by the failure of the Paris conference, the French government made another attempt to bring Turkey and Greece to terms in the earlier part of July, when it put forward a proposal for the holding of a preliminary meeting of Turkish and Greek representatives in the presence of Allied commissioners.

The failure was then followed up by a quarter-final exit at Euro 2004 at the hands of unheralded Greece with Trezeguet scoring just one goal in the tournament in a 2 – 2 draw against Croatia.

However, the Athenians and Thebans had either forgotten the existence of this road, or believed that Philip would not use it ; the subsequent failure to guard this road allowed Philip to slip into central Greece unhindered.

Peter Cadogan, an officer of the Committee, said it was " trying to go in 12 directions at once ", including campaigning for civil liberties in Greece, against Harold Wilson's failure to produce a promised Vietnam peace initiative and against siting London's third airport at Stansted.

Cimon played a key role in creating the powerful Athenian maritime empire following the failure of the Persian invasion of Greece by Xerxes I in 480-479 BC.

As Home Secretary, Brooke was not particularly successful, and his actions caused controversy on several occasions, including a failure to provide adequate security for a state visit by King Paul and Queen Frederica of Greece.

Such failure led to the government awakening to the problem of naval insufficiency and the adoption of a policy stating that: " The navy, as it represents a necessary weapon for Greece, should only be created for war and aim to victory.

2006-2007 was another failure in Alpha Ethniki or Super League Greece, with Kerkyra fighting bravely against relegation, but ending up relegated after a 2-2 tie on the last match against Panathinaikos FC.

Meanwhile the tensions between Greece and the Ottoman Empire had settled, which finally brought the first Unification attempt to a failure.

Landis made no public statement as to the reasons for his failure to rule, though he told close friends that he had been certain the parties would reach a settlement sooner or later.

* De Havilland Comet – the world's first jetliner to reach mass production, its reputation was marred by a series of crashes due to structural failure

* 1927-Naval Disarmament Conference in Geneva ; failure to reach an agreement.

When the reinforced concrete element is subject to increasing bending moment, the tension steel yields while the concrete does not reach its ultimate failure condition.

Cost of manufacture had, in Dopyera's opinion, priced the resonator guitar beyond the reach of many players, and his failure to convince his fellow directors at the National String Instrument Corporation to produce a single-cone version was part of his motivation for leaving.

A failure to reach agreement with creditors on 14 June 2012 led to The Rangers Football Club plc ( since renamed < nowiki > RFC 2012 </ nowiki > plc ) entering liquidation and its business, assets and history were then sold to a new company, Sevco Scotland Limited, which was later renamed The Rangers Football Club Ltd.

In the editorial, Frum claimed that his party's failure to reach a deal " led us to abject and irreversible defeat.

It is also claimed that Byrd confessed his failure to reach the North Pole during a long walk with Dr. Isaiah Bowman in 1930.

On October 16, 2007, the NLL announced that the 2008 season had been cancelled due to the failure of the league and the Professional Lacrosse Players ' Association to reach a new collective bargaining agreement.

Poor planning can result in improperly located campsites because groups failed to plan enough time to reach their intended destination, or improper campfires or excessive trash because of failure to plan meals or bring proper equipment.

After this failure, according to the chronicles, Géza, who had become more and more ill, was thinking of his abdication in favour of his opponent, but they did not reach an agreement.

Some prominent Green Party members blamed the public discussion of strategic voting and the media's misrepresentation of Ms. May's comments during the election campaign for the failure of some promising candidates to reach Election Canada's 10 % reimbursement threshold, as well as reducing the party's federal funding based on popular vote.

As they reach the F5, the team adds aluminum from Pepsi cans to work as wind flaps, but the deployment of DOROTHY III is a failure.

The failure to reach a suitable agreement, the decision of the Nigerian military leadership to establish new states in the Eastern Region and the continued pogrom in Northern Nigeria led Ojukwu to announce a breakaway of the Eastern Region under the new name Biafra republic in 1967.

This embassy may have been an attempt to reach some kind of peace agreement, and it has even been suggested that the failure of these hypothetical negotiations led to the Athenian decision to support the Egyptian revolt.

Failure to reach the second round under this system was seen as a major failure for a prominent artist ; when Elisabeth Andreassen failed to qualify in 1984, it almost ended her career.

A ballot on national industrial action over Royal Mail's failure to reach a national agreement covering protection of jobs, pay, terms and conditions and the cessation of managerial executive action was passed in October, causing a number of two and three day strikes.

In his February 25 speech ending the debate on the tariff, Clay captured the spirit of the voices for compromise by condemning Jackson's Proclamation to South Carolina as inflammatory, admitting the same problem with the Force Bill but indicating its necessity, and praising the Compromise Tariff as the final measure to restore balance, promote the rule of law, and avoid the " sacked cities ", " desolated fields ", and " smoking ruins " that he said would be the product of the failure to reach a final accord.

" According to Dr. Modupe Akin-Deko, senior psychologist at Buffalo State College's counseling center, "... maladaptive perfectionists set themselves up for failure by setting impossible standards for themselves, thus lowering their self esteem when they never reach their goals.

The failure to reach the main water source north of Wrexham prompted the creation of the Llangollen feeder from the Horseshoe Falls.

Construction of the main line was completed in 1779, but the branch to Middlewich was not built, and there were difficulties at the Chester end, with a failure to reach an agreement with the Dee River Company resulting in delays to the building of the lock into the river.

It is a tenet of many Marxists groupings that crises are inevitable and will be increasingly severe until the contradictions inherent in the mismatch between the mode of production and the development of productive forces reach the final point of failure, determined by the quality of their leadership, the development of the consciousness of the various social classes, and other " subjective factors ".

* the failure of the Hunger Project to reach its goal of " ending world hunger by 1997 ...";

In the same way that his father's failure motivated Okonkwo to reach a high standing in the Igbo society, Okonkwo's suicide leads Obierika and fellow Umuofia men to recognize the long-held custom of refraining from a man who commits suicide and from performing the customary rituals.

The mounting criticism of the historical styles gained substantial cultural credibility after World War I, a disaster widely seen as a failure of the old world order of imperial leadership of Europe.

After this failure in dabbling in imperial politics, Gregory by and large focused his attention for the rest of his pontificate in dealing with internal church matters.

The failure of imperial resistance in 365 allowed Procopius to gain control of the dioceses of Thrace and Asiana by year's end.

* 1080 – 1081: The Chinese statesman and scientist Shen Kuo is put in command of the campaign against the Western Xia, and although he successfully halts their invasion route to Yanzhou ( modern Yan ' an ), another officer disobeys imperial orders and the campaign is ultimately a failure because of it.

The fall of the last Chinese imperial dynasty in 1911 marked the final failure of the Confucian moral order, and did much to make Confucianism synonymous with political and social conservatism in the minds of Chinese intellectuals.

Having failed to perform Roman masculinity and virtue, Antony's only means with which he might “ write himself into Rome's imperial narrative and position himself at the birth of empire ” is to cast himself in the feminine archetype of the sacrificial virgin ; “ once understands his failed virtus, his failure to be Aeneas, he then tries to emulate Dido ”.

Zedler said this was because of failure to deliver copies of his work due to the imperial court.

The failure in the 1900s of Chamberlain's campaign for imperial tariffs illustrates the strength of a free trade movement even in the face of loss of international market share.

* Ronald J. Ross, The failure of Bismarck's Kulturkampf: Catholicism and state power in imperial Germany, 1871-1887, ( Washington, D. C., 1998 )

Already dissatisfied by the UNR's failure to resolve the question of land ownership, much of the peasantry refused to support a conservative government administered by former imperial officials and supported by the Austro-Hungarian and German occupiers.

The main conflicts that contributed to the outbreak of the civil war were the growing conflict between the Hōjō family and other warrior groups in the wake of the Mongol invasions of Japan of 1274 and 1281 and the failure of the Kemmu Restoration, which triggered the struggle between the supporters of the imperial loyalists and supporters of the Ashikaga clan.

In the late spring of 1918, the failure of the Austro-Hungarian offensives against the Italians, with costly and bloody assaults led by both Conrad and Boroević, brought condemnation upon the imperial leadership.

Li Kui had earlier tore the imperial edict in anger after the first negotiations for amnesty between the outlaws and the government, which turns out to be an utter failure.