Being a much better soldier than any of his opponents he won the Battle of Candespina and the Battle of Viadangos, but his only trustworthy supporters were his Aragonese, who were not numerous enough to keep Castile and León subjugated.

The contrasting view that " Achaeans ", as understood through Homer, are " a name without a country ", an ethnos created in the Epic tradition, has modern supporters among those who conclude that " Achaeans " were redefined in the fifth century, as contemporary speakers of Aeolic Greek.

Returning from Sardinia Napoleon with his family and all his supporters were instrumental in getting Paoli denounced at the National Convention in Paris in 1793.

Lloyd George and Churchill, however, were zealous supporters of the war, and gradually forced the old pacifist Liberals out.

Selig has made some decisions involving the Houston Astros that were unpopular with their supporters.

The two factions were originally known as " hard " ( Lenin's supporters ) and " soft " ( Martov's supporters ).

The supporters of these views feel that the Afrikaner designation ( or label ) was used from the 1930s onwards as a means of unifying ( politically at least ) the white Afrikaans speakers of the Western Cape with those of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent ( whose ancestors began migrating eastward during the late 17th century and throughout the 18th century and later northward during the Great Trek of the 1830s ) in the north of South Africa, where the Boer Republics were established.

In January 1981, six of his supporters, including two sons-in-law, were executed.

His supporters reportedly were joining or were prepared to join rebel movements in belief that their leader was still the rightful head of state of the country.

For example, Australian left-wing " true believers " levelled it at supporters of the failed republic referendum of 1999 ( where the vote was split not along conventional party lines but very much along socio-economic divides, with the rich overwhelmingly supporting the change while the less well-off were opposed – a superficially bizarre pattern for a non-economic issue ).

Further student protests, including hunger strike and more barricades of Hamilton Hall and the Business School during the late 1970s and early 1980s, were aimed at convincing the university trustees to divest all of the university's investments in companies that were seen as active or tacit supporters of the apartheid regime in South Africa.

A study done on Israeli and Palestinian students in Israel found that RWA scores of right-wing party supporters were significantly higher than those of left-wing party supporters.

Although these writings were considered too radical at the time for Britain's new rulers, they later came to be cited by Whigs, radicals and supporters of the American Revolution.

This move was unpopular with supporters and in the late 1980s significant steps were taken to bring about the club's return to The Valley.

The Valley Gold investment scheme was created to help supporters fund the return to The Valley, and several players were also sold to raise funds.

CND supporters were generally left of centre in politics.

About three-quarters of CND supporters were Labour voters and many of the early executive committee were Labour Party members.

Li's attempts to carry out his policies faced varying degrees of opposition from Chiang's supporters, and were generally unsuccessful.

They included: supporters of religious independents who did not want an established church and some of whom had sympathies with the Levellers ; Presbyterians who were willing to countenance the trial and execution of the King ; and later admissions, such as formerly excluded MPs who were prepared to denounce the Newport Treaty negotiations with the King.

Morial and his supporters countered that he was a confident and decisive leader, and that he was being held to a different and harsher standard than previous white mayors with a similar style.

Lord Elgin had his own serious misgivings about the bill — making many Tory supporters confident that the governor would reject the bill — but nonetheless signed the bill into law on April 25, 1849.

This decision was met with widespread opposition by supporters of both sides, especially by Caley fans who were confident their club could successfully bid on their own.

Some Social Credit supporters were so confident of their party's chances that they talked of winning " 63 in ' 63 ", i. e., all sixty three seats in the 1963 election.

The immediate effect was that MDC supporters felt confident and suddenly openly showed their support for their party in a way they hadn't been able to before.

The memoradum stated that " I am assured that the solution of the problem of Palestine which would be much the most welcome to the leaders and supporters of the Zionist movement throughout the world would be the annexation of the country to the British Empire ".

The dimensional approach, whose supporters are referred to as “ Kimballites ”, believe in Ralph Kimball ’ s approach in which it is stated that the data warehouse should be modeled using a Dimensional Model / star schema.

The normalized approach, also called the 3NF model, whose supporters are referred to as “ Inmonites ”, believe in Bill Inmon's approach in which it is stated that the data warehouse should be modeled using an E-R model / normalized model.

He stated in an internal e-mail message that reporters should not " artificially hold < nowiki ></ nowiki > George W. Bush and John Kerry ' equally ' accountable " to the public interest, and that complaints from Bush supporters were an attempt to " get away with ... renewed efforts to win the election by destroying Senator Kerry.

Ayman al-Zawahiri stated that “ We are in a media battle for the hearts and minds of our umma of Muslims .” Towards winning the hearts and minds of the MENA region, Al-Qaeda and its affiliates have produced propaganda films and documentaries depicting jihadist attacks, last will and testament videos, training, and interviews, all meant to boost morale among supporters.

It is unclear if they pulled out for political reasons ( as pro-war supporters ), or simply to avoid a scandal ( personally and / or for MoMA ), but the official reason, stated in a press release, was that the poster was outside the " function " of the museum.

Although the stated purpose was administrative efficiency, Soong and his supporters claim that it was actually intended to destroy James Soong's power base and eliminate him from political life, though it did not have this effect.

However one British analysis of various studies stated " supporters of other cooling methods suggest that iced water immersion may cause peripheral vasoconstriction and therefore slow cooling, although this has never been proven experimentally.

While Bhindranwale had stated that he neither supported nor opposed the concept of Khalistan, a number of his supporters were pro-Khalistan.

While the difference in the definitions was very small, with Lenin's being slightly more exclusive ( Lenin's formulation required the party member to be a member of one of the party's organizations, whereas Martov's only stated that he should work under the guidance of a party organization ), it was indicative of what became an essential difference between the philosophies of the two emerging factions: Lenin argued for a small party of professional revolutionaries with a large fringe of non-party sympathizers and supporters, whereas Martov believed it was better to have a large party of activists with broad representation.

When conceding to Edwards, Faircloth stated to his supporters, " I feel that I let you down ... because we should have won.

" Columnist Ross Douthat, then with The Atlantic, wrote that he had " a lot to agree with " Beinart, but he stated that what Obama and his supporters seem to be doing is " winning " the culture wars for their side rather than coming to some kind of compromise.

Manning stated that during the 1988 election he was faced with such an extremist who had joined the Reform Party named Doug Collins who was seeking nomination as a Reform candidate, Manning was faced by calls by many Reform Party supporters themselves who condemned Collins as being racist and said that they would leave the party if he were nominated.

suggestions of bias were raised, and critics such as the evangelical Christian TEAR Fund's Humanitarian Chronicle stated that authors of the report were " supporters " of the sex industry, and thus not " neutral ".

Under strong objection from pro-independence leaders and his supporters, who threatened to walk out the inauguration ceremony immediately once the pledge was recited, Chen did not explicitly repeat this pledge in his 2004 inauguration speech after his re-election though he alluded to the pledge by stating that the assurances he had given in the 2000 inaugural address remained in effect, and he has stated many times that the pledge remains in effect.

Griffin's own estimate, as stated in a TV documentary first broadcast in 1999, was that in 1990 his International Third Position had fifty to sixty supporters, while Harrington's Third Way had about a dozen.

His party had been opposed to the Security Pact between Japan and the United States, but he stated that this pact was in accordance with the Constitution of Japan and disappointed many of his Socialist supporters.

Art professor Øivind Storm Bjerke called the sentence " strict " and many supporters stated that there were flaws in the proceedings of the trial, such as faulty evidence. Nerdrum claimed the case was an attempt at political persecution.

On August 20, 2011, while at a town hall discussing some of the displeasure that supporters of President Obama have had with the Congressional Black Caucus not supporting the president, Waters stated, " This is a tough game.

In an e-mail to supporters on November 7, 2007, Representative Robert Wexler, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, stated about H. Res.

On September 20, 2007, The Washington Post stated: " Democrats blamed the group Moveon. org for giving moderate Republicans a ready excuse for staying with Bush and for giving Bush and his supporters a way to divert attention away from the war.

The memoradum stated that " I am assured that the solution of the problem of Palestine which would be much the most welcome to the leaders and supporters of the Zionist movement throughout the world would be the annexation of the country to the British Empire ".

Opponents accused Handal of exploiting anti-American sentiment while FMLN supporters accused the United States of corrupting the electoral process, because several high-ranking U. S. officials stated that American relations with El Salvador would be seriously threatened if Handal won the elections.

Jackson was one of the most outspoken supporters of the takeover bid and, when asked of the ramifications of the bid failing, she famously stated, " If anyone thinks this will happen without affecting the ( share ) price then they have a mental problem with how the market works.

Keegan, a manager with an exalted status among supporters of the club, stated that, " It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want ," adding that he had " no choice other than to leave ".