Here the two leaders, DePugh and Lauchli, hastened to put the group through its paces.

On February 27, 1860, New York party leaders invited Lincoln to give a speech at Cooper Union to a group of powerful Republicans.

* Another group is the School of the Military that studied strategy and the philosophy of war ; Sunzi and Sun Bin were influential leaders.

According to the Talmud, extinction of the soul is reserved for a far much smaller group of malicious and evil leaders, either whose very evil deeds go way beyond norms, or who lead large groups of people to utmost evil.

In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, Carnegie founded the Church Peace Union ( CPU ), a group of leaders in religion, academia, and politics.

The founders or senior leaders of a British New Church Movement group will frequently be referred to as the apostles.

Early sources are not clear but various groups of Christian communities would have had a group of college or presbyter-overseers functioning as leaders of the local churches.

Eisenhower's stint as president of Columbia University was punctuated by his activity within the Council on Foreign Relations, a study group he led as president concerning the political and military implications of the Marshall Plan, and The American Assembly, Eisenhower's " vision of a great cultural center where business, professional and governmental leaders could meet from time to time to discuss and reach conclusions concerning problems of a social and political nature ".

He came to Egypt in 1014 and assembled a group of scholars and leaders from across the world to establish the Unitarian movement.

Her personal letters to leaders of the Revolution influenced policy ; in addition, she often hosted political gatherings of the Brissotins, a political group which allowed women to join.

On 16 April 2012 Military leaders and a group of political parties in Guinea-Bissau have announced the formation of a Transitional National Council.

Gardner's dissatisfaction with the group grew, particularly when in 1939, one of the group's leaders sent a letter out to all members in which she stated that war would not come.

These included the non-violent resistance of Hans and Sophie Scholl, two leaders of the White Rose student group.

On 18 July 2007 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel, and Desmond Tutu convened a group of world leaders to contribute their wisdom, independent leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world's toughest problems.

Through the efforts of a group called Société d ' Amis des Noirs, of which Raimond and Ogé were prominent leaders, in March 1790 the National Assembly granted full civic rights to the gens de couleur.

Managing to get ashore, they were received by the Miskito, and within a generation had given birth to the Miskito Zambo, a mixed race group that by 1715 had become the leaders of the kingdom.

Returning, his friend Bobby Byrd asked Brown to join his R & B group, the Avons, who had went under the previous name, the Gospel Starlighters, to avoid controversy with church leaders.

Madison and Thomas Jefferson were the leaders of this second group.

Since the emergence of the post-1943 state and after the destruction of the Ottoman Caliphate, national policy has been determined largely by a relatively restricted group of traditional regional and sectarian leaders.

Under a January 1986 Military Council decree, state executive and legislative powers were transferred to the King who was to act on the advice of the Military Council, a self-appointed group of leaders of the Royal Lesotho Defense Force ( RLDF ).

The group included many of the future leaders of the bebop revolution: young players such as Fats Navarro, Freddie Webster, and J. J. Johnson.

Lenin and a small group of anti-war socialist leaders, including Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, denounced established socialist leaders of having betrayed the socialist ideal via their support of the war.

The Natural Law Party ( NLP ) was founded in the U. S. in 1992 by a group of educators, business leaders, and lawyers in Fairfield, Iowa, many of whom practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique.

First-century Christian communities would have had a group of presbyter-bishops functioning as leaders of their local churches.

Its leaders included Maximilien Robespierre, Jean-Paul Marat, and Georges Danton.

Though Provence was generally conservative, it often elected reformist leaders ; Prime Minister Léon Gambetta was the son of a Marseille grocer, and future prime minister Georges Clemenceau was elected deputy from the Var in 1885.

It seems probable that Georges Frêche, with his idea of a " Septimanie " region, would not support such plans, although political leaders in Béziers, Narbonne, and especially Nîmes, would probably support such a merger, hostile as they are to Montpellier, which was chosen as the capital of Languedoc-Roussillon instead of their own city, and which they accuse of hegemony.

During his term as Prime Minister of the Netherlands De Jong met with numeral state leaders, including then President Richard Nixon, Presidents of France Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou.

Robespierre struck down one by one the other prominent leaders of the revolution of both the right, ( the Rolands and the Girondists ), the ultra left ( Jacques Hébert and the Herbertists ), and the moderates ( Georges Danton and his associates ).

The year saw the nation's Governor General, Georges Vanier, die in office ; and two prominent federal leaders, Official Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker, and Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson announced their resignations.

By April 1942, the organization had been established with Radó as group leader, and also had three subgroup leaders: Rachel Dübendörfer ( codename SISSY ), Georges Blun ( LONG ), and Otto Pünter ( PAKBO ).

Gapon and Rutenberg were welcomed in Europe by both prominent Russian emigrants Georgy Plekhanov, Vladimir Lenin, Pyotr Kropotkin, and French socialist leaders Jean Jaurès and Georges Clemenceau.

Business leaders in other sectors who attended the University of St. Gallen include Swatch Group CEO Nick Hayek, Jr., IWC CEO Georges Kern, Qiagen CEO Peer M. Schatz, Fresenius SE CEO Ulf Mark Schneider, and BASF board member Margret Suckale.

At the 1919 Peace of Paris where the leaders of France, Britain and the USA ( led by Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson ) met to decide the future of Europe, Wilson proposed his famous Fourteen Points for peacemaking.

Before 1910 Picasso was already being recognized as one of the important leaders of Modern art alongside Henri Matisse who had been the undisputed leader of Fauvism and who was more than ten years older than he was and his contemporaries the Fauvist André Derain and the former Fauvist and fellow Cubist, Georges Braque.

Its leaders included Georges Bidault, Robert Schuman, Paul Coste-Floret, Pierre-Henri Teitgen and Pierre Pflimlin.

Its leaders, especially Georges Bidault and Paul Coste-Floret ( foreign and colonial ministers respectively in several French coalition governments ) were primary architects of France's hard-line colonial policies that culminated in long insurgencies in Vietnam ( 1946-1954 ) and Algeria ( 1954-1962 ), as well as a series of smaller insurrections and political crises elsewhere in the French Empire.

Gapon and Rutenberg fled abroad, being welcomed in Europe both by prominent Russian emigrants Georgy Plekhanov, Vladimir Lenin, Pyotr Kropotkin, and French socialist leaders Jean Jaurès and Georges Clemenceau.

The prison served from then on as a political prison, used to lock up several important supporters of the subsequent Habsburg pretendants to the Spanish Throne during the 19th century, and later notable republican and Catalanist leaders during the 20th century, including Alexandre Jaume, Member of the Parliament who first won the castle for the city, and Emili Darder, who was the mayor of the city, both fusilated later.

When other mulatto leaders surrendered to Toussaint Louverture in southern Saint-Domingue, Boyer escaped to France with Rigaud and Alexandre Pétion.

He soon rose to prominence in the National Assembly, becoming the friend of most of the leaders of the party originating in the Third Estate, and formed with Adrien Duport and Alexandre Lameth the group known during the Constituent Assembly as " the triumvirate ".

He was succeeded in command by General Rochambeau, whose brutal racial warfare drew more leaders back to the rebel armies, including black and mulatto army officers Jean Jacques Dessalines, Alexandre Pétion and Henri Christophe.

Roland Gaucher entered politics as a far-left activist, first as a member of the Trotskyist group Fédération des étudiants révolutionnaires ( Federation of Revolutionary Students ) and then of the Jeunesses socialistes ouvrières ( Workers ' Socialist Youth ), where he met with Robert Hersant and Alexandre Hébert, who would become one of the leaders of the social-democrat trade-union Force Ouvrière ( FO ).

The leaders of the Barbizon school were Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Théodore Rousseau, Jean-François Millet, and Charles-François Daubigny ; other members included Jules Dupré, Constant Troyon, Charles Jacque, Narcisse Virgilio Diaz, Pierre Emmanuel Damoye, Charles Olivier de Penne, Henri Harpignies, Gabriel-Hippolyte Lebas ( 1812 – 1880 ), Albert Charpin, Félix Ziem, François-Louis Français, Emile van Marcke, and Alexandre Defaux.

The numerous French soldiers were accompanied by mulatto troops led by Alexandre Pétion and André Rigaud, mulatto leaders who had been defeated by Toussaint three years earlier.

Its members were known in France as pupistes, and one of its notable leaders was Alexandre Edmond Bachelet.