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.

Lambert tried to rekindle the civil war in favour of the Commonwealth by issuing a proclamation calling on all supporters of the " Good Old Cause " to rally on the battlefield of Edgehill.

They formed an international alliance to promote their views, calling it the International Communist Opposition, though it became better known as the Right Opposition, after a term used by the Trotskyist Left Opposition in the Soviet Union to refer to Bukharin and his supporters there.

By 1792-94 newspapers started calling Hamilton supporters " Federalists " and their opponents " Democrats ", " Republicans ", " Jeffersonians " ( people who supported Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd president ), or " Democratic-Republicans ".

On CNN's " Out in the Open ," Rick Sanchez characterized the word without using it by saying, " Last night, we showed you a clip of one of his supporters calling Hillary Clinton the b-word that rhymes with witch.

The OAS was formed out of existing networks, calling themselves " counter-terrorists ", " self-defence groups ", or " resistance ", which had carried out attacks on the FLN and their perceived supporters since early in the war.

He tried to rekindle the civil war in favour of the Commonwealth by issuing a proclamation calling on all supporters of the " Good Old Cause " to rally on the battlefield of Edgehill.

In 2002 supporters of a movement known as the Varela Project submitted a citizen proposal of law with 11, 000 signatures calling for a national referendum on political and economic reforms.

The killing by the FLN and its supporters of 123 people, including 71 French, including old women and babies, shocked Jacques Soustelle into calling for more repressive measures against the rebels.

The convention called for a number of " ulterior measures " which ranged from calling on their supporters to withdraw their money from saving banks to a call for a " Sacred Month " ( in effect, a general strike ).

Following the passage of California's Proposition 8, Proposition 8 opponents obtained donation lists of those who had supported the ballot measure by contributing to the " Yes on 8 " campaign, published the list, organized an activism group, and began calling for boycotts of the places of work of the supporters to force the firing or resignation of employees.

After calling together a meeting of his supporters, Aristagoras decided that the best place to hide out would be Myrcinus.

The NFP rejected the offer, calling it a deliberate tactic designed to mislead the supporters of both parties, Fiji Television reported.

This generated much protest from Boycott supporters, who rallied, calling for his reinstatement at a meeting on 9 October in Ossett, Yorkshire.

Constitutional reform came to a head in 1841 when supporters of universal suffrage led by Thomas Wilson Dorr, dissatisfied with the conservative General Assembly and the state's conservative governor, Samuel Ward King, held the extralegal People's Convention, calling on Rhode Islanders to debate a new liberal constitution.

On June 19, 1928, the Croatian member of parliament Stjepan Radić had attacked the government supporters for the way they absented themselves during debate only turning up to vote, calling them " cattle ".

Germany responded by calling to arms more than 70, 000 reservists in February 1887 ; after the Schnaebele incident ( April 1887 ), war was averted, but Boulanger was perceived by his supporters as coming out on top against Bismarck.

Faced with defections by independence supporters to the TSU accusing the DPP as being too moderate ( President Chen's senior adviser for international affairs, Lai Shin-yuan, resigned from the administration and won a seat as a TSU candidate ), President Chen seemed to be moving his party's campaign towards stronger support for Taiwan independence, calling for the renaming of state-owned enterprises.

Roma lost the Italian Cup final to A. C Milan, with Capello particularly angered by supporters who waved banners calling on him to go.

Dahlan took a tough stance against Hamas, calling their election victory a disaster and threatening to ' haunt them from now till the end of their term ' and to ' rough up and humiliate ' Fatah supporters tempted to join the Hamas-led Palestinian government.

Slaughter's supporters mocked Shelby's advanced age ( he was almost 62 ), calling him " Old Daddy Shelby ".

During this season the club had an unprecedented crisis, with the revolt of the players led by Landreau, calling for the sacking of their manager Loïc Amisse ; the team ’ s supporters also joined in the revolt, notably at a match at Sochaux where they ripped out over 150 seats and injured 4 stewards in a vain attempt to stir up Chairman Gripond.

However, the President and his supporters have always denied the authenticity of the body of conversations recorded, calling them a " montage ".

The move was met with furious protests by the club's supporters and a group calling themselves ' Pats for Richmond ' was set up to organise demonstrations.

In 2002 supporters of a movement known as the Varela Project submitted a citizen proposal of law with 11, 000 signatures calling for a national referendum on political and economic reforms.