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He helped to initiate the first independent legal political organizations and became prominent in the Soviet Union's growing political opposition.
This growing discontent was reflected in the continuing opposition of partisans of Carrera, who was executed by the Argentine regime in Mendoza in 1821, like his two brothers were three years earlier.
Their stated goals include rigorous adherence to the U. S. Constitution, lower taxes, and opposition to a growing role for the federal government in health care.
CND's growing support in the 1980s provoked opposition from several sources, including Peace Through Nato, the British Atlantic Committee ( which received government funding ), Women and Families for Defence ( set up by conservative journalist Lady Olga Maitland to oppose the Greenham Common Peace Camp ), the Conservative Party's Campaign for Defence and Multilateral Disarmament, the Coalition for Peace through Security, the Foreign Affairs Research Institute, and The 61, a private sector intelligence agency.
On 9 June 68, amidst growing opposition of the Senate and the army, Nero committed suicide, and with him the Julio-Claudian dynasty came to an end.
Amidst growing opposition, Elagabalus, just 18 years old, was assassinated and replaced by his cousin Alexander Severus on 11 March 222, in a plot formulated by his grandmother, Julia Maesa, and carried out by disaffected members of the Praetorian Guard.
This all contributed to growing opposition in the Reichstag to any further expansion, particularly when it was clear that Britain intended to match and exceed any German expansion program.
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 higher levels of the active ingredient in cannabis in Netherlands create a growing opposition to the traditional Dutch view of cannabis as a relatively innocent soft drug.
In alliance with the growing commercial world, the parliamentary opposition to the royal prerogative, and in the late 1630s with the Scottish Presbyterians with whom they had much in common, the Puritans became a major political force in England and came to power as a result of the First English Civil War ( 1642 – 46 ).
By the mid-1990s, such issues had become a key concern of all opposition groups and a cause of growing concern among the population as a whole.
In response to growing popular demand for multi-party democracy, and after lengthy, difficult negotiations between the Kaunda government and opposition groups, Zambia enacted a new constitution in August 1991.
In 1058, Harold also became Earl of Hereford, and replaced his late father as the focus of opposition to growing Norman influence in England under the restored monarchy ( 1042 – 66 ) of Edward the Confessor, who had spent over 25 years in exile in Normandy.
As Edward drew advisors, nobles and priests from his former place of refuge in a bid to develop his own power base, Godwin soon became the leader of opposition to growing Norman influence.
This failure to exploit the victory to his nobles ' satisfaction provoked growing opposition to Władysław's regime after 1411, further fuelled by the granting of Podolia, disputed between Poland and Lithuania, to Vytautas, and by the king's two-year absence in Lithuania.
The Lower House plays a growing role as an arena for debate on national policy especially that it hosts representatives from six opposition parties.
These, along with political reforms like the elimination of press censorship in 1989 and the formation of more political parties in 1990, were insufficient to placate a growing opposition movement known as Hery Velona (" Active Forces ").
The consensus of the Orthodox Jewish community has been that women are ineligible to becoming rabbis ; the growing calls for Orthodox yeshivas to admit women as rabbinical students have resulted in widespread opposition among the Orthodox rabbinate.
This eliminated two pretenders to the Polish throne, secured young Bolesław ’ s inheritance as well as diminished the growing opposition to Wladyslaw I Herman among the nobility.
The pressures of indigenization and the growing acceptance of a unique Taiwanese cultural identity have met opposition from more conservative elements of Taiwan society.
By the end of Philip IV's reign opposition to the fiscal reforms were growing.
Opponents also argued that the domino theory misrepresented the real nature of the widespread and growing civil opposition that the previous, U. S .- backed regimes in these countries had generated because of entrenched official corruption and widespread human rights abuses, notably in South Vietnam.
During this period in France, however, opposition to the conflict was growing among many segments of the population, notably the leftists, with the French Communist Party, then one of the country's strongest political forces, which was supporting the Algerian Revolution.
The initiative drew strong opposition from officials in Harlem and Grovetown, the county's only municipalities, citing that it would keep their cities from growing.

growing and movement
Each successive movement in his growing was recorded on the unreeling film inside her.
As such, the workers would have been well within their rights to protest, and subsequent government action would have been a set of criminal procedures designed to crush what was seen as a pivotal demonstration of the growing labor rights movement, strongly opposed by management.
In February 1922, Winston Churchill telegraphed Herbert Samuel asking for cuts in expenditure and noting: In both Houses of Parliament there is growing movement of hostility, against Zionist policy in Palestine, which will be stimulated by recent Northcliffe articles.
In an article on anti-CND groups, Steve Dorril reported that in 1982 Eugene V. Rostow, Director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, became concerned about the growing unilateralist movement.
Ward's 1913 article " Eugenics, Euthenics, and Eudemics " and Chesterton's 1917 book Eugenics and Other Evils were harshly critical of the rapidly growing eugenics movement.
One of the focus themes in the environmental skeptics movement is the idea that environmentalism is a growing threat to social and economic progress and the civil liberties.
The opportunities offered by the booming Hollywood film industry and, later, the threat of growing Nazi power led to the emigration of many important film artists working in Germany who had either been directly involved in the Expressionist movement or studied with its practitioners.
Canada, 2003: Follows the growing movement across Africa to stop FGM.
The Goddess movement is a loose grouping of social and religious phenomena growing out of second-wave feminism, predominantly in North America, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand in the 1970s, and the metaphysical community as well.
He corresponded with other antiquarians in New England, where antiquarianism and genealogy were well established, and became a coordinator, booster, and contributor to the growing movement.
The introduction in 1989 by the Thatcher-led Conservative government of the Community Charge ( widely known as the Poll Tax ), one year before the rest of the United Kingdom, contributed to a growing movement for a return to direct Scottish control over domestic affairs.
From the 1990s onwards a growing number of European Improv groups have been set up specifically to explore the possibilities offered by the use of the abstract in improvised performance, including dance, movement, sound, music, mask work, lighting, and so on.
In the grand scale of things it is a tiny contribution to a growing movement, but the example of South Africa should give us heart ".
The occupation of France during the Second World War tarnished the prestige of the colonial administration in Madagascar and galvanized the growing independence movement, leading to the Malagasy Uprising of 1947.
By 26 March, the growing refusal of soldiers to fire into the largely nonviolent protesting crowds turned into a full scale tumult, and resulted into thousands of soldiers putting down their arms and joining the pro-democracy movement.
The growing movement in art paralleled developments in physics, such as Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity ( 1905 ); innovations in industry, such as the development of the internal combustion engine ; and the increased role of the social sciences in public policy.
" The inquisition was in response to the growing Catharist movement in southern France.
It is the fastest growing Jewish youth movement, and in 2008 celebrates its 20th Birthday.
The modern popularisation of the terms " pagan " and " neopagan ", as they are currently understood, is largely traced to Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, co-founder of " the 1st Neo-Pagan Church of All Worlds " who, beginning in 1967 with the early issues of Green Egg, used both terms for the growing movement.
The word nori started to be used widely in the United States, and the product ( imported in dry form from Japan ) became widely available at natural food stores and Asian-American grocery stores starting in the 1960s, due to the influence of the macrobiotic movement, and in the 1970s with the growing number of sushi bars and Japanese restaurants.
Verdi's operas resonated with the growing spirit of Italian nationalism in the post-Napoleonic era, and he quickly became an icon of the patriotic movement ( although his own politics were perhaps not quite so radical ).
There are over 279 million Pentecostals worldwide, and the movement is growing in many parts of the world, especially the global South.
According to Wiccan tradition, there is no separation between " clergy " and " congregation " and all initiates are generally considered to be priestesses and priests, though there is a growing movement toward allowing laity and not requiring active participation in circles.
However, both the Church of England and the largely Irish Catholic Church rejected prohibition as an intrusion of government into the church's domain, while the growing labor movement saw capitalism rather than alcohol as the enemy.
Change was facilitated by the physical movement of growing numbers of peasant villagers who migrated to and from industrial and urban environments, but also by the introduction of city culture into the village through material goods, the press, and word of mouth.

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