* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

Under Khrushchev the local party leadership in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( Russian SFSR ) witnessed the largest turnover in provincial leaders since the Great Purge ; two out of three provincial leaders were replaced in 1953 alone.

The largest massacre was at Antioch, where 5, 000 Druze religious leaders were killed, followed by that of Aleppo.

These four are all roshei yeshiva ( i. e., rabbinic leaders ) at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University, the largest and most influential Modern Orthodox rabbinic program in America.

The Student Governing Association is the largest organization of student leaders, composed of elected and appointed officials.

The Association of Residence Halls ( KSUARH ) is the second largest organization of student leaders working towards better the on-campus living experience for students living in the Residence Halls around campus.

Yugoslavia's communist ruler Joseph Broz Tito subdues the Croatian Spring movement and arrests its leaders, but does initiate major constitutional reform resulting in the 1974 Constitution which decentralized powers to the republics, gave them the official right to separate from Yugoslavia, and weakened the influence of Serbia ( Yugoslavia's largest and most populous constituent republic ) in the federation by granting significant powers to the Serbian autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina.

Leaders of the Episcopal Church's Diocese of Utah, as well as leaders of Utah's largest Jewish congregation, the Salt Lake Kol Ami, along with three elected representatives of the city identify themselves as gay.

It is the largest current and leaders of some other Trotskyist Internationals occasionally refer to it as " the Fourth International ": ICFI secretary Gerry Healy, when proposing reunification discussions in the 1970s, described it as " the Fourth International "; the International Socialist Tendency also usually refers to it in this way.

Economist Bryan Caplan has referred to Communism as " the largest cargo cult the world has ever seen ", describing the economic strategy of the 20th-century Communist leaders as " mimicking a few random characteristics of advanced economies ", such as the production of steel.

As one of Kentucky's largest counties, Graves's history of legends and leaders includes a US Vice President, four US Congressmen, famous and infamous heroes, singers and songwriters, noted writers and a legacy of historic sites.

In the mid-19th century, articles about " consolidation " were a daily feature in the Moline Workman and the Rock Island Advertiser ; city leaders dreamed of the joint city becoming the largest in the state.

Organized by thousands of volunteers and supported by civic leaders, the Calgary Stampede has grown into one of the world's richest rodeos, one of Canada's largest festivals and a significant tourist attraction for the city.

Two people can be considered to have spearheaded the kollel philosophy and outgrowth in today's world-Rabbi Aharon Kotler, the founder of Beth Medrash Govoha, America's largest yeshiva located in Lakewood, New Jersey, and Rabbi Elazar Shach, one of the most prominent leaders of the Jewish community in Israel until his death in 2001.

The company is the largest European semiconductors supplier, ahead of Infineon and NXP ( see Semiconductor sales leaders by year ).

WOR and WGN, based in the two largest markets and providing the bulk of the programming, were the acknowledged leaders of the group.

The largest Shi ' a sect believes that the current imam is in " occultation ", hidden away until the last days, but there are minority Shi ' a who follow leaders believed to be infallible imams.

Between 1791 and 1804, the leaders François Dominique Toussaint-Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines led the revolution against the slave system established on the island ; slavery in Saint-Domingue, along with other Caribbean colonies from the French colonial empire, were the third largest source of income to France.

In the United States, the largest strike wave in U. S. history-involving over five million workers-occurred with the end of the war and the wartime pledge made by many union leaders not to strike for the duration.

Hiram Wesley Evans, who led recruiting for the national organization, maintained close ties to state leaders throughout 1921-1922 and especially to Stephenson, as Indiana by then had the largest state organization.

He consulted with notable business leaders such as GE ’ s Jack Welch ; Procter & Gamble ’ s A. G. Lafley ; Intel ’ s Andy Grove ; Edward Jones ’ John Bachmann ; Shoichiro Toyoda, the honorary chairman of Toyota Motor Corp .; and Masatoshi Ito, the honorary chairman of the Ito-Yokado Group, the second largest retailing organization in the world.

On the contrary, those leaders expected to build the largest and most modern standing force possible.

The largest of the quilombos was the Quilombo dos Palmares, located in today's Alagoas state, governed by semi-mythical leaders Ganga Zumba and his successor, Zumbi.

Mr. Balaguer is in control, and opposition leaders have no further excuse to suspect his offer of a coalition government preliminary to free elections in the spring.

His strong opposition to the transfer of Negro children to schools outside their own neighborhood, in the interest of integration, will be attacked by Negro leaders who have fought for, and achieved, this open or permissive enrollment.

In addition, Serbia's ruler Milan Obrenović IV was annoyed that Serbian opposition leaders like Nikola Pašić, who had escaped persecution after the Timok Rebellion, had found asylum in Bulgaria.

Following Lisette's fall in February 1959 the opposition leaders Gontchome Sahoulba and Ahmed Koulamallah could not form a stable government, so the PPT was again asked to form an administration-which it did under the leadership of François Tombalbaye on 26 March 1959.

Having accused the government of fraud, six opposition leaders were arrested ( twice ) and one opposition party activist was killed following the announcement of election results.

On Friday, February 1, 2008, rebels, an opposition alliance of leaders Mahamat Nouri, a former defense minister, and Timane Erdimi, a nephew of Idriss Déby who was his chief of staff, attacked the Chadian capital of Ndjamena-even surrounding the Presidential Palace.

To forge a consensus, the leaders of ruling coalition parties can agree to silence their disagreements on an issue to unify the coalition against the opposition.

Thousands of Congolese were executed, including government officials, political leaders of opposition parties, provincial and local police, school teachers, and others believed to have been Westernized.

After political activities in Equatorial Guinea were legalized in the early 1990s, some opposition leaders returned to test the waters, but repressive actions have continued sporadically.

Subsequently, the Government of Eritrea hosted a conference of Sudanese opposition leaders in June 1995 in an effort to help the opposition unite and to provide a credible alternative to the present government in Khartoum.

About 119 people are currently facing trial, including journalists for defamation and opposition party leaders for treason.

* In The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, he is depicted as one of the leaders of the opposition against president Charles Lindbergh.

Some of the most influential leaders of the Tories united with members of the opposition Whigs and set out to resolve the crisis by inviting William of Orange to England, which the stadtholder, who feared an Anglo-French alliance, had indicated as a condition for a military intervention.

Jesus travels to Jerusalem, and the opposition intensifies: he is tested by Pharisees immediately he begins to move towards the city, and when he arrives he is soon in conflict with the Temple and other religious leaders.

Student opposition leaders were executed in late February, and a major opposition organization, the Oster Circle, was destroyed in April, 1943.

Numerous opposition leaders had been imprisoned, and some had reportedly been chained and put to work in the streets of Tegucigalpa.

The Internal Security Act was invoked in October 1987 arresting 106 people, including opposition leaders.

In the past, backing for such groups had been discreet, but in early 1992 the Saudis invited several Iraqi opposition leaders to Riyadh to attend a well-publicised conference.

His opposition to Judaism was typical of church leaders in his day, but does not descend to the level of anti-semitism.

Between January and April 1990 each of the Communist Party leaders of the five states of Soviet Central Asia assumed the position of Chairman of the Supreme Soviet in their respective SSRs, without any difficulty from the still weak opposition forces in the region.

Though Hezbollah organized a very successful rally, opposition leaders were quick to point out that Hezbollah had active support from Lebanon's government and Syria.

In 2007, a government agency — the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission — issued a directive to all private television and radio stations to refrain from broadcasting speeches made by opposition leaders.