Although his so-called " Razor Gang " implemented stringent budget cuts across many areas of the Commonwealth Public Sector, including the ABC, the Fraser government did not carry out the radically conservative program that his political enemies had predicted, and that some of his followers wanted.

Almost immediately after his election as leader he was faced with a serious crisis: the creation in early 1981 of a breakaway party by four senior Labour right-wingers, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers ( the so-called " Gang of Four "), the Social Democratic Party.

Three of the most prominent post-structuralists were first counted among the so-called " Gang of Four " of structuralism par excellence: Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Michel Foucault.

As one of the so-called " Gang of Four ", he was a founder of the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) in January 1981 with David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams.

In the trial of the so-called Gang of Four, a Chinese court stated that 729, 511 people had been persecuted, of which 34, 800 were said to have died.

Since the 2000s ( decade ), the so-called " Scania gang " or " Gang of Four "; Jimmie Åkesson ( party leader since 2005 ), Björn Söder, Mattias Karlsson and Richard Jomshof continued the moderation policy which included ousting openly extremist members.

At the same time, Holmes was closely associated with the Wonderland Gang, a group of heroin-addicted cocaine dealers, so-called for the location of their hideout: a rowhouse located on Wonderland Avenue in the wooded Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles.

As a leading member of the so-called Gang of 22, she was expelled from the party after voting in favour of the Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985.

After October 1976, those in power also blamed Mao's supporters, the so-called Gang of Four.

On May 23, 2005, Warner was one of 14 centrist senators ( Gang of 14 ) to forge a compromise on the Democrats ' proposed use of the judicial filibuster, thus blocking the Republican leadership's attempt to implement the so-called nuclear option.

On May 23, 2005, Snowe was one of fourteen senators dubbed the Gang of 14, who defused a confrontation between Senate Democrats ( who were filibustering several judicial nominees ) and the Senate Republican leadership ( who wanted to use the nominations as a flashpoint to eliminate filibusters on nominees through the so-called nuclear option ).

On August 23, Van Meter was ambushed and killed by police in St. Paul, Minnesota, leaving Nelson as the sole survivor of the so-called " Second Dillinger Gang ".

In the subsequent trial of the so-called “ Gang of Four ,” one of the accusations leveled against Jiang Qing was that she conspired “ with Kang Sheng, Chen Boda, and others to take it upon themselves to convene the big meeting July 18, 1967 to apply struggle-and-criticism to Liu Shaoqi, and to carry out a search of his house, physically persecuting the Head of State of the People ’ s Republic of China .” Xiao Meng testified at the trial that “ the slander and persecution of Shaoqi ’ s wife Wang Guangmei was plotted by Jiang Qing and Kang Sheng in person .”

The coalition of Hua's political supporters, bearing the name of " the whatever faction ", also lost its power after the Deng's political maneuver: Wang Dongxing, Ji Dengkui, Wu De, and Chen Xilian, the so-called " Little Gang of Four ", were relieved of all the Party and state posts during the 5th Plenum of the CC CCP, 23-39 February 1980.

In this document the so-called ' Gang of Four ' signalled their intent to leave the Labour Party and form a Council for Social Democracy, as they felt the party had been taken over by the left-wing members.

During the Harding administration several of the so-called Ohio Gang became involved in financial scandals, including the Teapot Dome scandal and apparent malfeasance at the U. S. Department of Justice, ending in prison terms and suicides.

Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, one of the leaders of the so-called Ohio Gang.

Not every member of the Harding administration was a member of the so-called " Ohio Gang.

I frankly confess to a leadership in the so-called ' Ohio Gang ' for about forty years.

They erected a large number of wall posters ( the so-called " Democracy Wall ") criticizing the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong, the Gang of Four, and Hua Guofeng.

On May 23, 2005, Salazar was among the Gang of 14 moderate senators to forge a compromise on the Democrats ' use of the filibuster against judicial appointments, thus blocking the Republican leadership's attempt to implement the so-called " nuclear option ".

In a letter to the Secretary of State, Sir Joseph Williamson, the Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets named Godfrey as a member of the so-called " Peyton Gang ".

Like his former constituency colleague Desmond O ' Malley, O ' Dea was opposed to Charles Haughey's leadership throughout the 1980s, becoming a member of the so-called Gang of 22.

From its earliest phase as the Workers ' Viewpoint Organization, the CWP had considered itself as Maoist and supported the so-called Gang of Four after Mao's death.

The so-called " Four Field Approach " has its origins in Boasian Anthropology, dividing the discipline in the four crucial and interrelated fields of sociocultural, biological, linguistic, and archaic anthropology ( e. g. archaeology ).

** Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors ( the so-called Four Georgians ) discover gold at Last Chance Gulch ; it is their last and agreed final attempt at weeks of trying to find gold in the northern Rockies.

Only the year 69 AD, the so-called ' Year of the Four Emperors ' following the fall of Nero and the Julio-Claudian line, interrupted nearly 200 years of civil order.

Irnerius's pupils, the so-called Four Doctors of Bologna, were among the first of the " glossators " who established the curriculum of medieval Roman law.

Bolden is also credited with the discovery or invention of the so-called " Big Four ", a key rhythmic innovation on the marching band beat, which gave embryonic jazz much more room for individual improvisation.

In addition, one of the garrisons of Ramesses II held Set as its patron deity, and Ramesses II erected the so-called Four Hundred Years ' Stele at Pi-Ramesses, commemorating the 400 year anniversary of the Set cult in the Delta.

The Peaceful Revolution, a series of protests by East Germans, led to the GDR's first free elections on 18 March 1990, and to the negotiations between the GDR and FRG that culminated in a Unification Treaty, whilst negotiations between the GDR and FRG and the four occupying powers produced the so-called " Two Plus Four Treaty " ( Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany ) granting full sovereignty to a unified German state, whose two parts had previously still been bound by a number of limitations stemming from their post-WWII status as occupied regions.

The later Yuan dynasty is characterized by the work of the so-called " Four Great Masters ".

Humiliated, and in fear of his life, the Dauphin fled to the protection of Yolande of Aragon, the so-called Queen of the Four Kingdoms, in southern France, where he was protected by the forceful and proud Queen Yolande, and married her daughter, Marie.

Four years later, self-appointed sheriff Elfego Baca was the hero of the so-called Frisco Shootout in San Francisco Plaza.

Persecution was the most severe during the Cultural Revolution, when feng shui was classified as a custom under the so-called Four Olds to be wiped out.

Four were nominally independent ( the so-called TBVC states of the Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and the Ciskei ).

In 1916, Diagne pushed through the National Assembly a law ( Loi Blaise Diagne ) granting full citizenship to all residents of the so-called Four Communes.

His appointment saw Wigan end their losing streak, but consistency evaded the Latics, although Bruce did soon achieve something neither Jewell nor Hutchings had managed previously – a 1 – 1 draw at Anfield against Liverpool ; the first time Wigan had taken points off one of the so-called " Big Four " Premier League clubs.

The change from being a familial name to a title adopted by the Roman Emperors can be dated to about AD 68 / 69, the so-called " Year of the Four Emperors ".

" The Sun Dog ", a novella by Stephen King that appears in the 1990 collection Four Past Midnight, gives passing mention to " a fellow in Dunwich, Massachusetts, to whom Pop had once sold a so-called spirit trumpet for ninety dollars ; the fellow had taken the trumpet to the Dunwich Cemetery and must have heard something exceedingly unpleasant, because he had been raving in a padded cell in Arkham for almost six years now, totally insane.

On January 3, 1967, Lin Biao and Jiang Qing employed local media and cadres to generate the so-called " January Storm ", in which many prominent Shanghai municipal government leaders were heavily criticized and purged.