Johnson's initial statements and actions in the government transition stressed his proven record and sought to reassure his audience that he could carry on the government as before.

Entrusted with the government of a part of Persia, he sought to rule it in European fashion, and employed officers to reorganize his army.

Indeed, Rawlings and Sankara began discussions about uniting Ghana and Burkina in the manner of the defunct Ghana-Guinea-Mali Union, which Nkrumah had sought unsuccessfully to promote as a foundation for his dream of unified continental government.

Grimond also sought an intellectual revival of the party, seeking to position it as a non-socialist radical alternative to the Conservative government of the day.

The new government sought to completely restructure Cambodian society.

Bolívar's supporters, who later formed the nucleus of the Conservative Party, sought strong centralized government, alliance with the Roman Catholic Church, and a limited franchise.

This slaughter forced the tiny surviving Party to switch from a workers ' union-to a peasant, guerilla-based organization, and to seek the aid of the most heterodox sources: from " patriotic capitalists " to the dreaded KMT itself, with which it openly sought to participate in a coalition government, even after the Japanese general surrender in 1945.

He described the Cold War: " We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method ..." and warned about what he saw as unjustified government spending proposals and continued with a warning that " we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military – industrial complex.

The US has sought to encourage the progress of human rights to the country by addressing its concerns directly to the government, as well as holding seminars for better police conduct and judicial conferences with US judeges to improve the rule of law.

The government sought privatization of these industries, and issued incentives such as exemptions from income tax, preferential treatment in allocation of foreign exchange for imports, and provisions for remittance of foreign exchange abroad.

The new Republican government sought to institute, among other reforms, a new social and legal system, a new system of weights and measures ( which became the metric system ), and a new calendar.

By the early Heian period, the shōen had obtained legal status, and the large religious establishments sought clear titles in perpetuity, waiver of taxes, and immunity from government inspection of the shōen they held.

He sought to use the national government to preserve liberty, improve infrastructure, open the western lands, promote commerce, found a permanent capital, reduce regional tensions and promote a spirit of American nationalism.

Indeed, Rawlings and Sankara began discussions about uniting Ghana and Burkina in the manner of the defunct Ghana-Guinea-Mali Union, which Nkrumah had sought unsuccessfully to promote as a foundation for his dream of unified continental government.

Under his leadership, the German government sought to reduce tensions with the Soviet Union and improve relations with the German Democratic Republic, a policy known as the Ostpolitik.

In Pétion's south, the gens de couleur minority led the government and feared losing popular support, and thus, sought to assuage class tensions with land redistribution.

Rejecting the adversarial stance of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, he sought to make the Commerce Department a powerful service organization, empowered to forge cooperative voluntary partnerships between government and business.

In Britain, the government sought Jewish support for the war effort for a variety of reasons including an erroneous antisemitic perception of " Jewish power " over the Ottoman Empire's Young Turks movement, and a desire to secure American Jewish support for US intervention on Britain's behalf.

In the wake of the Iranian Revolution, the US sought rapprochement with the Afghan government — a prospect that the USSR found unacceptable due to weakening Soviet leverage over the regime.

The government sought ways to balance its budget and reduce its debts.

In view of Hannibal's great popularity, the Carthaginian government did not repudiate Hannibal's actions, and the war he sought was declared at the end of the year.

A cycle of violence thus ensued whereby Sunni insurgent or nationalist attacks followed with government and American backed reprisals-often in the form of Shi ' ite death squads that sought out and killed Sunnis.

The white settlers, 30, 000 strong, sought " responsible government ," in which they would have a voice.

" The Act required the few non-labourers who sought entry to obtain certification from the Chinese government that they were qualified to immigrate.

Following the 1919 revolution, he was pressured by the new Soviet government to remove the name of the librettist Béla Balázs from the opera ( Chalmers 1995, 123 ), as he was blacklisted and had left the country for Vienna.

The Etruscans ' objets d ' art are of incalculable value, causing a brisk black market and equally brisk law enforcement effort, as it is against the law to remove objects from Etruscan tombs unless authorized by the Italian government.

It was cancelled because the Spanish government were reluctant to let the Wehrmacht enter Spain and then attack against the Rock, its civilians or the British Army from Spanish soil, because Franco feared that it may have been impossible to remove the Wehrmacht afterwards.

In 1989-1990 the German government realized they had an opportunity to remove the division between the Federal Republic of Germany and Soviet created German Democratic Republic.

The fighting was sparked by a government move to shut down Hezbollah's telecommunication network and remove Beirut Airport's security chief over alleged ties to Hezbollah.

The rebel groups were fighting to force the Soviet Union to withdraw from Afghanistan as well as to remove the Soviet-backed government of President Mohammad Najibullah.

Gellar learned that she needed clearance from the Japanese government to remove the sword from the country and, after eventually succeeding, stated that it was " incredibly difficult " to do.

The FAO and Carter came up with a plan that would remove Somoza from office but left no part in government power for the FSLN.

Hagan appealed to the United Nations, winning a committee recommendation to the Australian federal government, that it force the Queensland state government to remove the word nigger from the " E. S. ' Nigger ' Brown Stand " name.

In early 2010, a government proposal to remove 705 ha of land on the Te Ahumata Plateau ( called " White Cliffs " by the locals ) from Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act, which gives protection from the mining of public land, was widely criticised.

The Druk Gyalpo decreed that henceforth sovereign power, including the power to remove government ministers and the Druk Gyalpo himself, would reside with the National Assembly.

Pressure to remove the Lords ' veto now came from the Irish MPs, on whom the Liberal government were now dependent for their majority, and who wanted to remove the Lords ' ability to block the introduction of Irish Home Rule.

After the government of Heinrich Brüning banned the SA, Schleicher who was even more vehemently opposed to the ban than was Raeder, started a successful campaign to remove Groener.

At his Nuremberg trial, reflecting the traditional anti-Semitic bias of the German middle class and naval officers of his generation, he argued that after the experience of 1917 and 1918, " International Jewry " had " gained an excessively large and oppressive influence in German affairs ", and " one could not be surprised that the National Socialist government tried to loosen and, as far as possible remove this large and oppressive influence.

Remembering the misery and destruction caused by the 1910 Great Flood of Paris, the French government built a series of reservoirs called Les Grands Lacs de Seine ( or Great Lakes ) which helps remove pressure from the Seine during floods, especially the regular winter flooding.

It should, however, be noted that state law makes it a misdemeanor to cut or remove any plant growing on state or county highways or public lands, except by authorized government employees and contractors ; it is also against the law to remove plants on private property without the permission of the owner ( Cal.

They are also not directly part of government like a non-ministerial government department being at a remove from both ministers and any elected assembly or parliament.

He also antagonised some of the less wealthy when he ordered those who had leases on government land within Sydney to remove their houses.

After the March 1976 coup, the federal government again intervened to remove all provincial governors and impose direct military rule over all municipalities.

* That the Secretary of the Treasury would be free to remove government deposits, inspect the books, and require statements regarding the bank's condition as frequently as once a week.

The Chinese government was split into two factions: the conservative traditionalists who wished to use the Boxers to remove foreigners from China and the moderates, most likely those who benefitted from the Western influences.