Anyone who tried to remedy some of the most glaring defects in our form of democracy was denounced as a traitorous red whose real purpose was the destruction of our government.

The government of Mohammed Daoud Khan tried to scale back the PDPA's influence dismissing PDPA members from their government posts, appointing conservative elements instead and finally announcing the dissolution of the PDPA arresting senior party members.

The government tried to stop the ANC by banning party leaders and enacting new laws to stop the ANC, however these measures ultimately proved to be ineffective.

In recent years, the government has tried to attract private investment to this sector, with some success.

Faced with a vacancy, Disraeli and Derby tried yet again to bring Gladstone into the government.

In 1909 ( the affair is known under the name Kolašinska afera ) Serbian nationalist tried to organize an insurrection against the Montenegrin king and government.

This measure taken by the short-lived governmental authority would be popular and long-lasting, for since then no government in Cambodia has tried to romanize the Khmer language again.

Following the 1998 presidential election, Klerides tried to form a government of national unity, by including six ministers from Klerides ' Democratic Rally party, two ministers from the socialist EDEK, three from the Democratic Party ( who broke ranks with party leader Spyros Kyprianou ) and one from the United Democrats.

In March 1996, following presidential elections, Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, a member of the civilian government that Denard had tried to set up in October 1995, became president.

Gerald Vaughan, a government minister, tried to halve government funding for the Citizens Advice Bureau, apparently because Joan Ruddock, CND's chair, was employed part-time at his local bureau.

Contra supporters often tried to downplay these violations, or countered that the Sandinista government carried out much more.

Moreover, the ongoing war in Afghanistan, and the mishandling of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, which Gorbachev tried to cover up, further damaged the credibility of the Soviet government at a time when dissatisfaction was increasing.

Although the German government tried to issue as many of its members as possible with military uniforms of all sort, ranging from field gray to camouflage, these could not be provided to all its members, thus many members of the Volkssturm wore makeshift paramilitary uniforms or uniforms from their civilian jobs ( such as train conductors of the Reichsbahn ).

The government has tried with mixed success to encourage migration to newly irrigated land reclaimed from the desert.

The Nazi assassins in Vienna, after declaring the formation of a new government under Austrian Nazi Anton Rintelen, previously exiled by Dollfuss as Austrian Ambassador to Rome, surrendered after threats from Austrian military of blowing up the Chancellery using dynamite, and were subsequently tried and executed through hanging.

The East-Pakistan had extremely friendly relations with the Soviet Union, although the Soviet government tried its best to keep East Pakistan intact with the West Pakistan.

After the Federation of the West Indies collapsed in 1962, the British government tried to form a small federation out of its remaining dependencies in the Eastern Caribbean.

Cleveland and Treasury Secretary Daniel Manning stood firmly on the side of the gold standard, and tried to reduce the amount of silver that the government was required to coin under the Bland-Allison Act of 1878.

Women only began to join the previously male-dominated sexual reform movement around 1910 when the German government tried to expand Paragraph 175 to outlaw sex between women.

In both cases the government and police tried to prevent the gatherings from taking place.

In 1995 the Hezb-i Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the Iranian-backed Hezb-i Wahdat as well as Rashid Dostum's Junbish forces were defeated militarily in the capital Kabul by forces of the interim government under Massoud who subsequently tried to initiate a nationwide political process with the goal of national consolidation and democratic elections, also inviting the Taliban to join the process.

Dufaure tried to form a government but he was quickly overthrown.

On February 1, 2010 it was announced that Sichuan and General Motors had agreed to extend the deadline until the end of February as Sichuan tried to get approval by the Chinese government.

Alex wakes up in hospital, where he is courted by government officials anxious to counter the bad publicity created by his suicide attempt.

During Mbeki's presidency, the government took a more pro-capitalist stance, often running counter to the demands of the South African Communist Party and COSATU.

The British government also took direct steps to counter the influence of CND, Secretary of State for Defence Michael Heseltine setting up Defence Secretariat 19 " to explain to the public the facts about the Government's policy on deterrence and multilateral disarmament ".

Until shortly before his death, Lenin worked to counter the disproportionate political influence of Joseph Stalin in the Communist Party and in the bureaucracy of the soviet government, partly because of abuses he had committed against the populace of Georgia, and partly because the autocratic Stalin had accumulated administrative power disproportionate to his office of General Secretary of the Communist Party.

To counter these inadequacies and keep the population in line, the Qing government maintained a very harsh penal code towards the Han populace, but it was no more severe than previous Chinese dynasties.

Voters will decide in a national vote whether to accept the initiative amendment, the counter proposal put forward by the government if any, or both.

In 2007 the government announced it would reinstate the draft to counter unemployment ; approximately 70, 000 new recruits are expected to join the military.

By splitting Rhône-et-Loire the government sought to protect the French Revolution from the potential power and influence of counter revolutionary activity in the Lyon region.

On May 3, 2001 a Macedonian government counter offensive failed in the Kumanovo area.

According to the National Taxpayer Union website, Rhoads and a bipartisan group of Midwestern legislators wished to counter what they viewed as a trend toward big government continued by President Richard Nixon.

Calhoun considered the concurrent majority essential to provide structural restraints to counter his belief that “ a vast majority of mankind is entirely biased by motives of self-interest and that by this interest must be governed .” This innate selfishness, which he viewed as axiomatic, would inevitably emerge when government revenue became available to political parties for distribution as patronage.

After Black Wednesday in 1992 he stated in the House of Commons that government should build a fund of reserves to counter currency speculators.

To counter the support of Falun Gong in the West, the Chinese government has launched their own propaganda campaign, which included visits to newspaper officers by diplomats to " extol the virtues of Communist China and the evils of Falun Gong ", linking support for Falun Gong with " jeopardizing trade relations ," and sending letters to local politicians telling them to withdraw support for the practice.

It is thought that Renoir created this character to counter the rising anti-Jewish campaign enacted by Adolf Hitler's government in Nazi Germany.

* When, after World War II, France attempted to counter Hồ Chí Minh's popularity and gain the support of the U. S. by creating a puppet government with him, he said " What they call a Bảo Đại solution turns out to be just a French solution.

The Chinese Beiyang government was occupied with suppressing internal affairs, and did little to counter the influence exerted by imperialist foreign powers.

In a number of countries, various government taxation authorities have examined LETS along with other forms of counter trade, and made rulings concerning their use.

During the runup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq he warned of a possible " Tonkin Gulf scenario " that could be used to justify going to war, and called on government " insiders " to go public with information to counter the Bush administration's pro-war propaganda campaign, praising Scott Ritter for his efforts in that regard.

However, the demands of government officials — especially Soviet, but also Czarists and Polish — made it difficult to disseminate ideas that ran counter to the central government.

The Free State government brought in new legislation in 1931 to counter the popularity of the resurgent Fianna.

Developments in the late twentieth century have caused counter surveillance to dramatically grow in both scope and complexity, such as the Internet, increasing prevalence of electronic security systems, high-altitude ( and possibly armed ) UAVs, and large corporate and government computer databases ..

Some counter examples do exist where a government has defaulted on its domestic currency debt, such as Russia in 1998 ( the " ruble crisis "), though this is very rare ( see national bankruptcy ).

The propaganda effect was so great that the United States government decided to counter it by creating their own equivalent using the one recipient of the lost Project Rebirth, Steve Rogers, as Captain America.