The United States might well have exploited the opportunity provided by the European Recovery Program to push the hesitant European nations toward political federation as well as economic cooperation, but all proposals to this effect were rejected by the United States Government at the time.

Ravi Batra argues that " all official economic measures adopted since 1981 ... have devastated the middle class " and that the Occupy Wall Street movement should push for their repeal and thus end the influence of the super wealthy in the political process, which he considers a manifestation of crony capitalism.

Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

Following the political defeats in July and October 1917, on 1 November the Social Democrats put forward an uncompromising program called " We demand " in order to push for political concessions.

" The State's longest serving Governor, Sir Roden Cutler, was also reported as saying: " It's a political push to make way in New South Wales to lead the push for a republic.

In contrast to the KKK, they were open, members were often well known in the communities, and they directed their efforts at political aims: using force, intimidation and violence, including murder, to push out Republican officeholders, break up organizing, and suppress freedmen's voting and civil rights.

They act like barometers of change in the political mood since they push the major parties to consider their demands.

Many fast-growing economies throughout the world, especially in Asia, also were a major factor in the rapidly increasing demand for fossil fuels, which — along with fewer new petroleum finds, greater extraction costs, and political turmoil — forced two other trends: a soar in the price of petroleum products and a push by governments and businesses to promote the development of environmentally friendly technology ( known informally as " green " technology ).

This has allowed indigenous people a means to push for greater political space, including the still unrealized prospect of Indigenous People's Autonomous Areas within Taiwan (; ; ).

He charges that the American political center does not want to push the human rights issue so hard that it would disrupt commercial and political engagement with China.

Elsewhere, in an article entitled " Inverted Totalitarianism " Wolin cites phenomena such as the lack of involvement of citizens in a narrow political framework ( due to the influence of money ), the privatization of social security, and massive increases in military spending and spending on surveillance as examples of the push away from public and towards private-controlled government.

Fears of poverty or of religious or political discrimination are " push " factors.

He gave this speech in the wake of political tension ; specifically, an English push for war against France.

In 2007, Stoltenberg allowed Jagland to push through his plan to develop Storting as a stronger center for current political debates, thus increasing the power of the parliamentary members on issues from the cabinet.

The societal and economic innovations of the Quiet Revolution, which empowered Quebec society, emboldened certain nationalists to push for political independence.

The party was launched in 1997 by Marc-Boris St-Maurice as a way to push for political change to marijuana laws.

As one of Truman's staunchest political supporters, Johnson was viewed by Truman as the ideal candidate to push Truman's defense budget economization policy in the face of continued resistance by the Department of Defense and the armed forces.

This tells us that, for Marx, ' permanent revolution ' involves a revolutionary class ( in this case, the bourgeoisie ) continuing to push for, and achieve, its interests despite the political dominance of actors with opposing interests.

Therefore, the workers ' party must use their autonomous organisation to push a political programme which threatens the bourgeois status quo, along the following lines:

Derviş used his independence from domestic vested interests and support of domestic reformers and civil society to push through a tough stabilization program with far-reaching structural changes and sweeping bank reforms that protected state banks from political use.

Working with sympathetic Democrats in the South and small third parties in the West, the Farmer's Alliance made a push for political power.

The Tory leaders, he insinuates, are cynically using the Church as a political `` By-word '' to increase party friction and keep themselves in power.

The Brazilian foreign policy under the Lula da Silva administration had been focused on the following directives: to contribute toward the search for greater equilibrium and attenuate unilateralism ; to strengthen bilateral and multilateral relations in order to increase the country's weight in political and economic negotiations on an international level ; to deepen relations so as to benefit from greater economical, financial, technological and cultural interchange ; to avoid agreements that could jeopardize development in the long term.

Thus, one might pursue an increase in material equality or political liberty instead of something like the more ephemeral " pleasure ".

Although the system established by the Sitges agreement was phased out by 1974, the 1886 Colombian constitution — in effect until 1991 — required that the losing political party be given adequate and equitable participation in the government which, according to many observers and later analysis, eventually resulted in some increase in corruption and legal relaxation.

Thus, one might pursue an increase in material equality or political liberty instead of something like the more ephemeral " pleasure ".

On 13 July, the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat — a Jacobin leader and journalist known for his bloodthirsty rhetoric — by Charlotte Corday, a Girondin, resulted in further increase of Jacobin political influence.

The Social Democrats had aimed to increase independence of the Finns since the spring of 1917, but now they could not use it for the direct political benefit of their party, and had either to adjust to the right's dominance or try to change everything via a revolution.

In the background, however, Sweden was concerned about the possibility of expansion of Bolshevist influence in northern Europe, and an increase of radical leftist political activity and social unrest in Sweden.

Although the administration made progress on such issues as taking state responsibility for past human rights cases and supporting human rights in international fora, it failed to show significant advances on combating impunity in past human rights cases, military reforms, a fiscal pact to help finance peace implementation, and legislation to increase political participation.

The causes were the conflicts between Catholics and Protestants, the efforts by the various states within the Empire to increase their power and the Catholic Emperor's attempt to achieve the religious and political unity of the Empire.

In Poland, the number of productions of Hamlet has tended to increase at times of political unrest, since its political themes ( suspected crimes, coups, surveillance ) can be used to comment on a contemporary situation.

# Political influence: Smaller countries, such as Portugal and the Netherlands, who do not carry much political clout on the international stage, are given a substantial increase in influence through membership in IGOs, such as the European Union.

The Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries ( CENTR ), which represents the Internet registries of 39 countries, rejected the increase, accusing ICANN of a lack of financial prudence and criticizing what it describes as ICANN's " unrealistic political and operational targets ".

As such, increase in the price of kerosene can have a major political and environmental consequence.

The dynastic link to Poland resulted in religious, political and cultural ties and increase of Western influence among the native Lithuanian nobility, and to a lesser extent among the Ruthenian boyars from the East, Lithuanian subjects.

The late 20th century saw an increase in the number of mosques used for political purposes.

In the context of the politics of nations and nationalism, a political leader may adopt an international treaty not out of a benevolent stance but in the believe that such a treaty will either benefit their nation or will increase the prestige of their nation.

Bismarck's program centered squarely on insurance programs designed to increase productivity, and focus the political attentions of German workers on supporting the Junker's government.

In Renaissance Europe, the arrival of mechanical movable type printing introduced the era of mass communication which permanently altered the structure of society: The relatively unrestricted circulation of information and ( revolutionary ) ideas transcended borders, captured the masses in the Reformation and threatened the power of political and religious authorities ; the sharp increase in literacy broke the monopoly of the literate elite on education and learning and bolstered the emerging middle class.

This saw them conduct a war of attrition against the British and increase emphasis on political activity, via the political party Sinn Féin.

Other important political currents stem from the ongoing investigation of Fujimori-era corruption ( notably the proceedings against Fujimori's former advisor, Vladimiro Montesinos ), and an increase in activities by the insurgent group Sendero Luminoso.

On 13 July the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat – a Jacobin leader and journalist known for his violent rhetoric – by Charlotte Corday resulted in a further increase in Jacobin political influence.