Foreign courts needed to have American grievances laid before them persuasively in a “ manifesto ” which could also reassure them that the Americans would be reliable trading partners.

Attlee's government also carried out their manifesto commitment for nationalisation of basic industries and public utilities.

The novel has been variously read as an allegory for the development of civilisation, as a manifesto of economic individualism and as an expression of European colonial desires but it also shows the importance of repentance and illustrates the strength of Defoe's religious convictions.

In an account that had become standard by the mid-century, Hilbert's problem set was also a kind of manifesto, that opened the way for the development of the formalist school, one of three major schools of mathematics of the 20th century.

The 2000 manifesto was also notably published in Adbusters, known for its strong critiques of visual culture.

The Impressionists ( also known as the " Independents " or " Intransigents ") had no formal manifesto and varied considerably in subject matter and technique.

The UK manifesto also asserted that Natural Law governs the universe, including the lives of the citizens of the UK, and that the Natural Law party had " the scientific knowledge as efficient and nourishing as the government of Nature.

Furthermore, the manifesto also fails to separate which laws are to be considered local or imperial, leading the Finns to fear that any law could be considered as imperial, therefore in fact stripping the Finnish diet of all its legislative power.

He also wrote a manifesto in which he argued the justice of the Reformed cause.

The bribes also took the form of luxury European vacations, armored Mercedes vehicles for high-ranking government officials and a birthday gift to the then notorious dictator of Turkmenistan, Turkmenbashi ( Saparmurat Niyazov ), including a golden box and 10, 000 copies of his personal manifesto, Ruhnama, translated into German.

He has also worked with the weekly magazines L ' espresso and Panorama, and with the satirical Cuore and Tango, the monthly magazines Il Mago ( where he began and published in installments part of Bar Sport ) and Linus, and the newspapers La Repubblica and il manifesto.

: See also National Front for a summary of Le Pen's manifesto.

The government also failed to meet its 1964 manifesto commitment to tie increases in national insurance benefits to increases in average earnings, although this reform would later be implemented during Wilson ’ s second premiership in 1975.

In another manifesto they also define themselves as anti-anti-art which is against anti-art and for art.

Lech Wałęsa's son Jarosław Wałęsa also signed the manifesto.

The institution is also popular with politicians and MPs to launch new policy, legislation and manifesto pledges, prominently with the launch of the Liberal Democrats Manifesto Conference under Nick Clegg on 12 January 2008.

In March 2006, it was reported that the then-Labour Government was considering removing the ability of the Lords to delay legislation that arises as a result of manifesto commitments ( while the Lords still acted in accordance with a self-imposed restriction, the Salisbury Convention, which this legislation would have merely formalised ), and reducing their ability to delay other legislation to a period of 60 days ( although a compromise of 6 months has also been suggested ).

It is also well known for the Selsdon Park Hotel, the venue of a 1970 meeting of the Conservative Shadow Cabinet to settle the party manifesto for the impending general election.

He also began to write a political manifesto, The Spirit of Independence.

Although in elections, all candidates stand under the Barisan Nasional symbol, and there is a Barisan Nasional manifesto, each individual constituent party also issues its own manifesto, and there is intra-coalition competition for seats prior to nomination day.

The manifesto also claimed that a " constructive spirit " is essential to meaningful art, which rises above mere decoration or false, fantastical themes.

It did so while also launching a ' manifesto for old age ' and establishing itself nationally as a lobbying body as well as an organisation that engaged in service provision and enhancement, training and research.

However, Lord Salisbury was also behind the Salisbury Convention of 1945, which states that the House of Lords shall not oppose the second reading of any government legislation promised in its election manifesto.

In its manifesto for the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, the SNP pledged to hold an independence referendum by 2010.

Labour pledged in its February 1974 manifesto to renegotiate the terms of British accession to the EEC, and to then consult the people on whether Britain should stay in the EEC on the new terms if they were acceptable to the government.

The Conservative manifesto for the 1983 general election pledged their abolition, describing the councils as " a wasteful and unnecessary tier of government ".

In a 1946 manifesto, its members pledged to support an increase in old-age pensions, a decrease in tariff rates, and further transportation openings to the province's north.

In 2000, Thorne and his fellow novelist Nicholas Blincoe co-founded something of a literary movement, the New Puritans, whose Dogme-style manifesto pledged to bring simplicity and relevance back to contemporary British fiction.

This report was accepted by the Labour Party government of the time despite considerable opposition, but the Conservative Party won the June 1970 general election, and on a manifesto that committed them to a two-tier structure.

The 1983 Labour manifesto, strongly socialist in tone, advocated unilateral nuclear disarmament, higher personal taxation and a return to a more interventionist industrial policy.

Gerald Kaufman, once Harold Wilson's press officer and during the 1980s prominent on the Labour right, described the 1983 Labour manifesto as " the longest suicide note in history ".

In an article for the Sunday Telegraph on 3 April Powell expressed his opposition to the Labour Party's manifesto pledge to outlaw fox hunting.

In the words of BBC correspondent Robert Orchard, " the Dome was to be highlighted as a glittering New Labour achievement in the next election manifesto ".

However the Labour left were strong at constituency level and as the 1981 election approached they worked to ensure that their members were selected to stand and that their ideologies shaped the manifesto.

The 1945 General Election proved to be a landslide victory for the Labour Party, giving it a large enough majority to allow the implementation of the party's manifesto commitments and to introduce a programme of far-reaching social reforms that were collectively dubbed the ' Welfare State ' ( see 1945 Labour Election Manifesto ).

The Labour party proposed the creation of a Welsh Office run by a Secretary of State for Wales in their manifesto for the 1959 general election and once they came to power in 1964 this could be put into effect.

However, contrary to the Labour Party's earlier manifesto promises, no referendum was held before the 2001 general election and the statement was not repeated.

He famously dubbed the Labour Party's left-wing 1983 election manifesto " the longest suicide note in history ".

The name dates from a conference slogan first used by the Labour Party in 1994 which was later seen in a draft manifesto published by the party in 1996, called New Labour, New Life For Britain.

Welfare reforms proposed by New Labour in their 2001 manifesto included Working Families Tax Credit, the National Childcare Strategy, and the National Minimum Wage.

In the lead-up to the 2010 UK General Election, both the Labour Party and the Conservative Party made manifesto commitments to deliver the railway.

Waitangi Day was proposed as a public holiday by the New Zealand Labour Party in their 1957 party manifesto.

Labour took six of the fifteen cabinet ministries and had much of its election manifesto accepted by Fianna Fáil.

In Moscow, the British traitor Kim Philby drafts a memorandum for the General Secretary ( Soviet president ) stating that, if the Labour Party wins the next general election in the UK ( scheduled for sometime in the subsequent eighteen months ), the " hard left " of the party will oust the moderate, populist Neil Kinnock in favour of a radical new leader who will adopt a true Marxist-Leninist manifesto, including the expulsion of all American forces from England and the country's withdrawal from and repudiation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ).

He also oversaw the introduction of Bills to enable universities in parts of Britain to charge top-up fees, despite a Labour manifesto commitment not to introduce such fees.

To combat this, Michael Young, research director for the Labour Party, proposed setting up a ' Consumer Advisory Service ' to be considered for the party's 1950 manifesto, only to be rejected by Harold Wilson.

This was originally a 1997 Labour manifesto commitment and was also the policy of the Liberal Democrat and Conservative parties.

Upon the re-election at the New Zealand general election, 2002, as part of the Labour Party's election manifesto, the Attorney-General, Labour's Margaret Wilson, introduced the Supreme Court Bill to create the Supreme Court and abolish appeals to the Privy Council on 9 December 2002.

In the 1983 general election, Thatcher rode a wave of nationalism brought about by the Falklands War and compounded by the Labour leadership's failure to campaign on their manifesto, their most left-wing for many years ( famously described by the right-wing Labour MP Gerald Kaufman as " the longest suicide note in history ").