Author of the Albany Plan Of Union, which, had it been adopted, might have avoided the Revolution, he fought the colonists' front-line battles in London, negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war, headed the state government of Pennsylvania, and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal Convention.

In 1115, Robert, the founder of Fontevraud Abbey near Chinon and Saumur, France, committed the government of the whole order, men as well as women, to a female superior.

In France, an " Antibiotics are not automatic " government campaign started in 2002 and led to a marked reduction of unnecessary antibacterial prescriptions, especially in children.

While in government work, he helped develop the metric system to secure uniformity of weights and measures throughout France.

In 1796, during the French Revolution and three years after the declaration of war between France and Great Britain, Étienne-Gaspard Robert met with the French government and proposed the use of mirrors to burn the invading ships of the British Royal Navy.

The parade passes down the Champs-Élysées from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde, where the President of the French Republic, his government and foreign ambassadors to France stand.

In France he was considered as the restorer of the art, which had declined after the time of Louis XIV, and during the last twenty years of his life the French government commissiond him to undertake several works.

The French Monarchy did not concern itself with the minority languages of France spoken by the lower classes, although it did require the use of French for government business.

France was however the first country to recognise Bozizé's government and during his time in power France has given logistic and intelligence support to the peace missions in the country.

The Serbian-Croatian Cvetković-Maček government that came to power, distanced Yugoslavia's former allies of France and the United Kingdom, and moved closer to Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the period of 1935 – 1941.

There is now a focus on convincing Turkey to recognise the government of Cyprus, a requirement for Turkish admission advocated most strongly by Cyprus and France.

Christopher Soames, Britain's Ambassador to France during the government of Edward Heath and cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher, remarked that " Mrs. Thatcher was not really running a team.

In 1886 Said Ali bin Said Omar, Sultan of Bambao, signed an agreement with the French government that allowed France to establish a protectorate over the entire island of Ngazidja ( Grande Comore ; protectorates were also established over Ndzwani ( Anjouan ), and Mwali ( Mohéli island in French ) the same year.

France maintains a small troop presence in Comoros at government request.

In semi-presidential systems such as France, where the president formally appoints a prime minister but the government itself must still maintain the confidence of parliament, coalition governments occur quite regularly.

In the history of colonialism, ( i. e., the form of imperialism in which the government of the colony is run directly by foreigners ), the educational and media systems of many Third World countries have been set up as replicas of those in Britain, France, or the United States and carry their values.

Edmund Burke, in his ' Reflections on the Revolution in France ', argued that a government does not have the right to run up large debts and then throw the burden on the taxpayer:

In 1787, James Madison wrote Thomas Jefferson in France for background information on constitutional government to use at the Constitutional Convention.

The Great Powers, defined in the 1815 Congress of Vienna as the United Kingdom, Habsburg Austria, Prussia, France, and Russia, would frequently coordinate interventions in other nations ' civil wars, nearly always on the side of the incumbent government.

The Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ) was exceptional because both sides of the war received support from intervening great powers: Germany, Italy, and Portugal supported opposition leader Francisco Franco, while France and Russia supported the government ( see proxy war ).

By 1653, both France and Spain had recognised England's new government.

In 2009 Cronenberg received the Légion d ' honneur from the government of France.

In June 1940, during the early stages of World War II, France fell and the colony was then ruled by the pro-Axis Vichy ( French ) government.

The first war which involved the Djiboutian armed forces, was the Djiboutian Civil War between the Djiboutian government, supported by France, and the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ).

The French government relocated from Paris to Bordeaux very briefly during World War II, when it became apparent that Paris would soon fall into German hands ( as in 1870 during war against Prussia and at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian war ).

Until police determined this was an isolated incident unrelated to the presence of the national guard, military bases statewide were put on high alert and government buildings were briefly placed under lock-down conditions.

* Anti-Somozistas who had supported the revolution but felt betrayed by the Sandinista government – e. g. Edgar Chamorro, prominent member of the political directorate of the FDN, or Jose Francisco Cardenal, who had briefly served in the Council of State before leaving Nicaragua out of disagreement with the Sandinista government's policies and founding the Nicaraguan Democratic Union ( UDN ), an opposition group of Nicaraguan exiles in Miami.

Penn established representative government and briefly combined his two possessions under one General Assembly in 1682.

In September 1944, after German forces left, legal power was briefly restored as Otto Tief formed a new government in accordance with the 1938 constitution.

The BJP formed a government briefly in 1996, followed by the United Front coalition that excluded both the BJP and the INC.

In 1958, during the last months of President Camille Chamoun's term, an insurrection broke out, and 5, 000 United States Marines were briefly dispatched to Beirut on July 15 in response to an appeal by the government.

The response arrived on 21 February, but the proposed terms were so harsh that even Lenin briefly thought that the Soviet government had no choice but to fight.

On 11 November, the Malaysian government briefly detained de facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Tuesday and arrested a human rights lawyer and about a dozen opposition leaders, amid growing complaints the government is cracking down on dissent.

The government relies on bilateral and multilateral aid – which was suspended briefly following coup d ' états in 1996 and 1999-for operating expenses and public investment.

The Congolese military took charge of the country briefly and installed a civilian provisional government headed by Alphonse Massamba-Débat.

His father was imprisoned during the 1926 General Strike for his involvement in a riot and later became Member of Parliament for Pontypool, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee, and briefly a minister in the 1945 Labour government.

There was also reorganisation after 1995, when disgruntled junior elements of the military briefly overthrew the civilian government and demanded better pay and conditions.

At first he worked briefly near his hometown of Pendleton as a security guard, where he sounded off daily to his co-worker Carl Lebron, Jr. about his loathing for government.

* July 16 – Great railroad strike of 1877: Riots by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad railroad workers in Baltimore, Maryland lead to a sympathy strike and rioting in Pittsburgh, and a full-scale worker's rebellion in St. Louis, briefly establishing a Communist government before U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in the armed forces.

* July – Revolt of the Ciompi – discontent wool carders briefly take over the government of Florence.

Riel's appeals went on briefly, but, as mandated by the government of the time, the execution was conducted on November 16, 1885.

Party leader McDonough briefly removed Robinson's portfolio over Middle East issues in 2002 for comments he made criticizing the Israeli government for alleged war crimes in Jenin.

The entire government subsequently moved briefly to Clermont-Ferrand, then to the spa town of Vichy in central France.

Growing government spending, large wage raises, and inefficient production created a chronic inflation that rose through the 1980s, when it briefly exceeded an annual rate of 1, 000 %.

Although French administration was allowed during Japanese occupation as a puppet government, Japan briefly took full control of Vietnam in 1945 under the Empire of Vietnam and Tonkin became the site of the Vietnamese Famine of 1945 during this period.

In 1884 a group of pro-Japanese reformers briefly overthrew the pro-Chinese conservative Korean government in a bloody coup d ' état.

Gold was discovered in the county near Auraria in the 1830s, and the U. S. government briefly had a mint in Dahlonega as a result until 1860.

In 1998 he moved to Forza Italia, when Buttiglione briefly decided to support the government of Massimo D ' Alema.