William Penhall and guides made the first ( partial ) ascent of the west face, the Matterhorn's most hidden and unknown, one hour after Mummery and party's first ascent of the Zmutt ridge on September 3, 1879.

The " bolshevization " implied not only to adopt the political strategy of the Communist International but a reorganization of party's strucuture on the model of the Bolshevik Party ( discipline, local organization under the shape of " cells ", ascent of a young political staff which came from the working class ).

) that no one would ever willingly repeat the first ascent party's ordeal.

He received the party's Blood Order in 1934 and was still occasionally used as a propaganda tool until about 1937, but he was never again allowed any real power.

However, no country would be allowed to leave the Warsaw Pact, disturb a nation's communist party's monopoly on power, or in any way compromise the cohesiveness of the Eastern bloc.

The party's central focus of power is the Politburo Standing Committee.

While the Politburo theory states indirectly that the Party Congress is a non-important process, another theory, the circular-flow-of-power theory assumed that the General Secretary was able to build a power base among the party's regional secretaries.

The goal was to assert the power of the government, legitimize the Congress party's control and suppress all religious para-military groups.

The second period of Kinnock's leadership was dominated by his drive to reform the party's policies and so win power.

Bradshaw mainly ignored Nevis ' complaints, but Nevisian disenchantment with the Labour Party proved a key factor in the party's eventual fall from power.

A party's consent to a treaty is invalid if it had been given by an agent or body without power to do so under that state's domestic law.

The Compromise of 1850 fractured the Whigs along pro-and anti-slavery lines, with the anti-slavery faction having enough power to deny Fillmore the party's nomination in 1852.

The growth of the Republican party's political power in the inland West ( apart from the Pacific coast ) was facilitated by the rise of popular opposition to public lands reform.

Unlike in some Westminster system parliaments, in which the office of speaker is considered to be non-partisan, in the United States the speakership of the House is a leadership position in the majority party and the office-holder actively works to set that party's legislative agenda ; the office is therefore endowed with considerable political power.

This arrangement rankled the PPP, which saw it as an attempt to curtail the party's political power.

The party's last leader, Egon Krenz, was unsuccessful in his attempt to retain the SED's grip on power, and was sentenced to prison after the German reunification.

Tourish, a former member of the Committee for a Workers ' International ( CWI ) asserts that these organisations typically value doctrinal orthodoxy over critical reflection, have illusions in the absolute correctness of their own party's analysis, a fear of dissent, the demonising of dissenters and critical opinion, overworking of members, a sectarian attitude to the rest of the left and the concentration of power among a small group of leaders.

Because the party caucus leaders in California's legislature also control the party's legislative campaign funds, the leaders wield tremendous power over their caucus members.

Support of full voting rights to the district undoubtedly would cede a certain amount of power, however small, to the party's political opponents.

Early in 1920 Karl Harrer was forced out of the DAP as Hitler moved to sever the party's link with the Thule Society, which subsequently fell into decline and was dissolved about five years later, well before Hitler came to power.

As the Nazis rose to power, Frank served as the party's lawyer.

The party's popular vote almost doubled in the 2004 election, which gave the NDP the balance of power in Paul Martin's minority government.

The Industrial Groups ( whose members were known as Groupers ) were supported by Gair, who hoped to use them to cement his personal power base within the party's organisational wing, as well as by union leader Joe Bukowski and the AWU.

After several years of strife, the power struggle was essentially concluded in 2000, when Stoltenberg became the party's prime minister candidate and Jagland settled as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

With the party's loss of power in 1977, the new leader, Garret FitzGerald appointed Mitchell to the Party's Front Bench as spokesman on Labour.

His party's power declined after the international community installed a High Representative to oversee affairs of state, with more power than the presidents or parliaments of either the Bosniak-Croat or Serb entities.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

Smith expected that Republicans, who had included equal rights for women in their party's platform since 1944, would probably vote for the amendment.

Despite Gheorghiu-Dej's claim that he had purged the Romanian party of Stalinists, he remained susceptible to attack for his obvious complicity in the party's activities from 1944 to 1953.

The Liberal caucus unanimously asked Hepburn to resume the party's leadership in 1944.

Roosevelt refused to endorse anybody other than Wallace, but preferred Byrnes as the best alternative to Wallace and sought to push him as the party's nominee for president if the party's delegates refused to renominate Wallace at the 1944 Democratic National Convention.

At the party's first national convention in 1944, delegates decided to abandon the name New Democracy and founded the Social Credit Association of Canada as a national party and chose Alberta Treasurer Solon Earl Low as the party's first national leader.

In 1944, he was acclaimed the first official national leader of the Social Credit Association of Canada at the party's founding convention.

As early as 1944, the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the US House of Representatives ( best known as the Dies Committee ) attacked the IWO as a " huge patronage machine furnishing positions for a host of Communist functionaries, who serve as the party's controlling commissars within the organization.

Pătrăşcanu, who probably attempted to become general secretary early in 1944 ( before Gheorghiu-Dej secured the position for himself ), was considered leader of the party's Secretariat Communists ( perceived as less willing to follow Stalin's directions ).

Smith expected that Republicans, who had included equal rights for women in their party's platform since 1944, would probably vote for the amendment.

Birrell, a Toronto furrier, Social Credit member since 1944, and Leaside town councillor from 1955 to 1960 had been elected party leader in February 1959, and stood as the party's candidate in York East Birrell remained party leader until March 1962.

Hence, Nixon's five appearances on his party's ticket matched the major-party American standard of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat who had been nominated for Vice President once ( in 1920 ) and President four times ( in 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944 ).

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

At the end of his term, Frei had accomplished many noteworthy objectives, but he had not fully achieved his party's ambitious goals.

The Republican-controlled legislature had created district boundaries designed to enhance their party's control over state and national offices, leading to some oddly shaped legislative districts.

While colloquially, a person may term a law suit to be frivolous if he or she personally finds a claim to be absurd, in legal usage " frivolous litigation " consists of a claim or defense that is presented where the party ( or the party's legal counsel ) had reason to know that the claim or defense was manifestly insufficient or futile.

By the end of 2010, the party's support had dropped to as low as 5 %.

* 2008 – In a highly-scrutizined election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.

In 1838, the political situation in Tennessee — where, in 1835, Democrats had lost the governorship for the first time in their party's history — persuaded Polk to return to help the party at home.

After the party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona instead, Robinson left the party's convention commenting that he now had " a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany ".

The 1832 Democratic National Convention, the party's first and held in May, had nominated him for vice-president on the Jackson ticket, despite the strong opposition to him which existed in many states.

Currie had little experience in the politics of the Republic and was widely seen as the party's last choice, nominated only when no-one else was available.

During the passage of the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) legislation in 1999, Stott Despoja, along with Andrew Bartlett, split from the party's other senators by opposing the package, which had been negotiated by Lees and prime minister John Howard.

Her retirement coincided with the ending of her party's federal parliamentary representation ; the Democrats ' support had collapsed after 2002 and they won no seats at the 2004 and 2007 half-senate elections.

By the end of 1989, the last hardline members of the party's Central Committee had either resigned or been pushed out, followed in 1990 by 95 % of the SED's 2. 3 million members.

He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 – 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6. 7 % of the votes, making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party has ever had in Finnish Presidential elections.

One of the Sotho-Tswana chiefs, Chief Moroko of the Barolong people, who had earlier fled the Difaqane to the south to create the settlement of Thaba Nchu, sent fresh livestock to Potgieter to draw his party's wagons back to the safety of the Rolong stronghold of Thaba Nchu, where the Sotho-Tswana chief offered the Boers food and protection.

They were formally chosen at the party's 400-person convention in Washington D. C. on October 5, 1992, although they had been campaigning already.

Crane, who in the 1970s had been the party's first Executive Director, and some of his allies resigned from the Party in 1983 when their preferred candidates for national committee seats lost in the elections at the national convention.

According to reports, the Conservative party's links to far-right parties within Europe has caused a " host of condemnation " from Jewish groups in the US ; Ira Forman, chief executive of the National Jewish Democratic Council, stated that " There is obviously concern in the US when there is legitimacy conferred on individuals and political parties that have had some association with anti-Semitism.

Moreover, as in the 1970s and the 1980s Southern Italy had become the party's stronghold, it was likely that Mafia and dishonest politicians may try to collaborate.

From 1926 when Lloyd George became leader of the Liberals, Keynes took a major role in defining the party's economics policy, but by then the Liberals had been displaced into third party status by the Labour party.

When Heath signed an accession treaty before Parliament had even debated the issue, the second reading of the Bill to put the Treaty into law was passed by just eight votes on second reading, and it became clear that the British people would have no further say in the matter, he declared hostility to his party's line.