Aside from defeating the French during the Seven Years ' War, Robert Clive, the leader of the Company in India, defeated a key Indian ruler of Bengal at the decisive Battle of Plassey ( 1757 ), a victory that ushered in the beginning of a new period in Indian history, that of informal British rule.

The Latin word prīnceps ( older Latin * prīsmo-kaps, literally " the one who takes the first "), became the usual title of the informal leader of the Roman senate some centuries before the transition to empire, the princeps senatus.

The Big Five is an informal term used to describe the legislative leadership role in the institution of California government, consisting of the governor, the Assembly speaker, the Assembly minority leader, the Senate president pro tempore, and the Senate minority leader.

An act of worship may be performed individually, in an informal or formal group, or by a designated leader.

In contrast to the appointed head or chief of an administrative unit, a leader emerges within the context of the informal organization that underlies the formal structure.

In contrast to the appointed head or chief of an administrative unit, a leader emerges within the context of the informal organization that underlies the formal structure.

Family dictatorships are a slightly different concept, where political power passes within a family due to the overwhelming authority of the leader, rather than informal power accrued to the family.

( Some people consider Lü Dongbin to be an informal leader.

The Nationalist senior generals held an informal meeting in September 1936, where they elected Francisco Franco as leader of the Nationalists, with the rank of Generalísimo ( sometimes written in English as Generalissimo, after the Fascist Italian fashion ).

In 1987 Əli Kərimli, a law school student, became the founder and leader of one of these informal organizations-" Yurd " (" Homeland "), that inspired and led thousands of students to the main square of Baku city to protest against the Communist regime.

Wentworth initially enjoyed good relations with the legislature but in later years fell into an escalating confrontation with the informal leader of the country party, William Cottnam Tonge.

As the head of a leading mathematical institute, Vinogradov enjoyed significant influence in the Academy of Sciences and was regarded as an informal leader of Soviet mathematicians.

* Commander, Air Group, the informal name for the senior US Navy officer who, as leader of the Carrier air wing, is responsible for air operations aboard an aircraft carrier

Although the group was fluidic and largely informal, traditionally whoever occupied the Chair of the Department of Modern Philosophy at the University of Kyoto was considered its leader.

Though witches have no leader, Tiffany joined an informal " coven " of peer witches she gathers together for sabbats, of which Annagramma Hawkin acted as the self-appointed " boss " due to her having the tallest hat and the loudest voice.

By 1875 Smithe had become the informal leader of the opposition to Premier George Anthony Walkem's government, but yielded the leadership to Andrew Charles Elliott.

In the 1980s Chubais became a leader of an informal circle of market-oriented economists.

Dowson also filed his nomination papers as a " Labour " canadidate against new Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield in the 1967 Colchester — Hants by-election but withdrew when Elwood Smith entered the race as an Independent candidate with informal NDP backing.

During this period, the Chairman also served as informal floor leader.

A small, informal gathering of Muslim notables, which Ali did not attend, ended up throwing its support behind Abu Bakr as the new leader.

He joined the Cabinet as the leader of an informal " Alliance " of MPs from a variety of small parties, and three independent MPs.

In " The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Thought " published in 1995, Alister McGrath associated PDI with the shepherding movement and described it as having " informal links with Bryn Jones ," the UK house church leader.

As an informal leader of the Ukrainian opposition coalition, he was one of the two main candidates in the October – November 2004 Ukrainian presidential election.

In 2008, Forbes magazine published an informal list of the World's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives, assembled after consulting with law enforcement agencies around the world.

Other brothers later joined them for instruction with Oldenburg, the wigmaker, and also arithmetic was added to Bible reading, German, and Danish in the informal curriculum.

Before her chore was finished she was rescuing wind-blown sheets of music, trundling microphones about the stage, helping to move the piano and otherwise joining in the informal atmosphere.

However, Braudel's informal successor as head of the school was Le Roy Ladurie, who was unable to maintain a consistent focus.

These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

When the club folded after the 1870 season, Wright was hired by Boston businessman, Ivers Whitney Adams to organize a new team in Boston, and he did, bringing three teammates and the " Red Stockings " nickname along ( Most nicknames were then only nicknames, neither club names nor registered trademarks, so the migration was informal ).

The backbone cabal was an informal organization of large-site administrators of the worldwide distributed newsgroup-based discussion system Usenet.

First, informal changes were made to the order of the various parts of the service and inserting words indicating a sacrificial intent to the Eucharist ; secondly, as a result of Bishop Rattray's researches into the liturgies of St. James and St. Clement, published in 1744, the form of the invocation was changed.

Before there was an official standard for C, many users and implementors relied on an informal specification contained in a book by Ritchie and Brian Kernighan ; that version is generally referred to as " K & R " C. In 1989 the American National Standards Institute published a standard for C ( generally called " ANSI C " or " C89 ").

The term clanking replicator was used by Drexler, is informal and is rarely used by others in popular or technical discussions.

Concubinage was an institution practiced in ancient Rome that allowed a man to enter into an informal but recognized relationship with a woman ( concubina, plural concubinae ) not his wife, most often a woman whose lower social status was an obstacle to marriage.

Previously, the Canadian federal constitution could be amended by solitary act of the Canadian or British parliaments, by formal or informal agreement between the federal and provincial governments, or even simply by adoption as ordinary custom of an oral convention or unwritten tradition that was perceived to be the best way to do something.

The most recent addition was formally authorized on April 14, 2010, after being presented to the church for informal consideration on January 17, 2010.

Dada was an informal international movement, with participants in Europe and North America.

The New Reasoner was the most important organ of what became known as the " New Left ", an informal movement of dissident leftists closely associated with the nascent movement for nuclear disarmament in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Internationally there is the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network ( ICPEN ), which was formed in 1991 from an informal network of government customer fair trade organisations.

The Gang of Nine was the informal name given to the consortium of personal computer manufacturing companies who came together in 1988 to create the EISA bus.

However, it was the informal descriptive of Imperator (" commander ") that became the title increasingly favored by his successors.

Basileus appears not to have been used exclusively in the meaning of " emperor " ( and specifically, the Roman / Byzantine emperor ) before the 7th century, although it was a standard informal designation of the Emperor in the Greek-speaking East.

( In the informal examples in this section, the range of the quantifiers was left unspecified.

One such institution was the Hawala, an early informal value transfer system, which is mentioned in texts of Islamic jurisprudence as early as the 8th century.

After the Finnish non-socialists won the October 1917 Parliamentary elections, they established an informal truce with the Russian Provisional Government, a situation which was completely disrupted by the Bolshevist revolution in October.