Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

Most of the emphasis has been placed on a `` wild party '' at a seaside villa.

The election was effectively a repeat of 1997, as the Labour party vindicated the faith placed in it 4 years ago, and thus retained its overwhelming majority.

Labour campaigned on the theme of " Let Us Face the Future " and positioned themselves as the party best placed to rebuild Britain after the war, while the Conservatives ' campaign centred around Churchill.

To achieve the envisaged fanaticism, Volkssturm units were placed under direct command of the local Nazi party, meaning local Gau-and Kreisleiters.

Though normally under party control, Volkssturm units were placed under Wehrmacht command when engaging in action.

However, after a long political career and with a very conservative reputation, in 1989 he placed himself at the head of verligte (" enlightened ") forces within the governing party, with the result that he was elected head of the National Party in February 1989, and finally State President in September 1989 to replace then president P. W.

Like other developing nations in the 1950s and ' 60s, Malaya ( and later Malaysia ) placed great stress on state planning, although UMNO was never a socialist party.

His arrival immediately restored the predominance of the war party, which placed him in command of a combined force of African levies and his mercenaries from Italy.

As classical Russian ethnic groups were injected into the Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan, the urbanization process began and was mainly authored by the Russian communities placed within the Soviet Republic, mostly by policies created by the communist party.

He returned to Afghanistan following the Soviet invasion which toppled Amin's rule, and placed Karmal as head of state, party and government.

Donaldson was a former IRA volunteer and subsequently highly placed Sinn Féin party member.

Boniface also placed the city of Florence under an interdict and invited the ambitious French Count Charles of Valois to enter Italy in 1300 to end the feud of Black and White Guelphs, the poet Dante being in the party of the Whites.

The March 2000 election results placed Vance Armory, as head of the CCM, the leader of the country's opposition party.

There may be a limitation placed upon a deposition, requiring that the party taking it conclude his questioning within a certain number of hours or days.

In the 2007 parliamentary elections the party placed fourth, with 8. 93 % of the vote and 31 out of 460 seats, and entered into a governing coalition with the victor, the centrist-conservative Civic Platform ( Platforma Obywatelska ).

Following the conclusion of the Expedition, Zhou was appointed special commissioner for the East River District, which placed him in temporary administrative control of several counties ; he apparently used this opportunity to establish a Communist party branch in Shantou and strengthen the CPC's control of local unions.

Thompson was placed on the National Committee, but gave up the on third party strategy in August and supported Abraham Lincoln so as not to risk a Democratic victory in Indiana.

The government of Thebes is placed in the hands of the pro-Spartan party, backed by a Spartan garrison based in the Cadmeia.

The less fortunate nobles, jealous of this exclusive oligarchy, and openly watchful of the decadence and disorder associated with luxury, placed themselves at the head of a party which showed its determination to rely on purer models and to attach much importance to the ancient ways.

The writers placed Hacker at the centre of the political spectrum, and were careful to identify his party headquarters as " Central House " ( a combination of Conservative Central Office and Labour's Transport House ).

" This placed him at an obvious handicap because many politicians running the government believed that he was attempting to implement the policies of the opposition party.

The PFP ran almost all of their candidates under the KMT banner, with some placed under the KMT party list.

His economic reform policies and sympathies to student demonstrators during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 placed him at odds with some members of the party leadership, including Premier Li Peng.

This placed her and her husband slightly at odds with the conservative-wing of the Republican party, led by California Governor Ronald Reagan ; Reagan would receive the presidential nomination over her husband.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

On the second floor he saw the animated faces of the party guests ; ;

There were thousands of Republican speakers who focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, emphasizing his childhood poverty.

The only " relevant " post that is not directly appointed by the President is the Vice-President, which is the second in the winning party.

Constantius wavered in his support between the first and the second party, while harshly persecuting the third.

He was mentioned in the Quran as the " second of the two who lay in the cave " in reference to the event of hijra, with Muhammad where they hid in the cave in Jabal Thawr from the Meccan search party that was sent after them, thus being one of few who were given direct reference to in the Quran.

In May 1979, while at the album release party for her second album, My Father's Eyes, Grant met Gary Chapman, writer of the title track ( and future husband ).

The 1974 Protocol reduced the number of sites to one per party, largely because neither country had developed a second site.

The Bulgarian Socialist Party won the parliamentary elections in 2005 with 82 out of the 240 seats, thus it didn't get the majority of the seats, with Simeon's movement being the second party.

The second vote is cast for a party list ; it determines the relative strengths of the parties represented in the Bundestag.

The distribution of the seats of that party to the 16 Lands is proportional to that party's second vote results in the Lands.

If a party has gained more direct mandates in a Land than it is entitled to according to the results of the second vote, it does not forfeit these mandates because all directly elected candidates are guaranteed a seat in the Bundestag.

Bozizé won on the second run-off round on 8 May 2005, defeating Martin Ziguélé, who ran on the ticket of the MLPC, the former ruling party.

The loss marked a major turning point in Northern Territory politics, a result which was exacerbated when, at the 2005 NT election, the ALP won a second landslide victory, reducing the once-dominant party to a total of just four members in the Legislative Assembly. The 2008 saw the CLP reverse its earlier election losses, increasing its representation from four to 11 members.

Other conservative parties are the National Party of Australia, a sister party of the Liberals, Family First Party, Democratic Labor Party, Shooters Party and the Katter's Australian Party The second largest party in the country, the Australian Labor Party's dominant faction is Labor Right, a socially conservative element.

It has usually been Colombia's second largest party, with the Colombian Liberal Party being the largest.

As the headliner, Lenny Kravitz got to play the venue a second time, with Jorge Benjor, Macy Gray, O Rappa and Pharrell as the main opening acts, on October 2, 2009, 100, 000 people filled the beach for a huge beach party as the IOC announced Rio would be hosting the 2016 Olympics.

On the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658, his son, Richard Cromwell, inherited the title Lord Protector, but internal divisions among the republican party lead to his resignation, the end of the Protectorate and a second period of Commonwealth government by a Council of State and Parliament.

In Lebanon, the right-wing Guardians of the Cedars, a fiercely nationalistic ( mainly Christian ) political party which opposes the country's ties to the Arab world, is agitating for " Lebanese " to be recognized as a distinct language from Arabic and not merely a dialect, and has even advocated replacing the Arabic alphabet with a revival of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, which lacks a number of characters to write typical Arabic phonemes present in Lebanese, and lost by Phoenician ( and Hebrew ) in the second millennium BC.

The indigenous population has established itself as a significant force in Ecuadorian politics, as shown by the selection of indigenous representative Nina Pacari, who led the indigenous political party, Pachakutik, as second vice president of the 1969 Congress.

If a second party from a region wants to join the first party needs to agree, these two parties will then form a common delegation with one vote.

Dollfuss staged a parliamentary session with just his party members present in April 1934 to have his new constitution approved, effectively the second constitution in the world espousing corporatist ideas ( after that of the Portuguese Estado Novo ).

* 2004: The Europe-Democracy-Esperanto party ( E ° D ° E °) contests the European Parliament elections in France, on a platform of making Esperanto the second language of all EU member states, taking 0. 15 % of the vote.