After Stalin took political control of most of Eastern Europe and began to subvert other governments in the Balkans, Attlee's and Bevin's worst fears of Soviet intentions were realized.

Both of the referenda failed, but the country entered into the worst political crisis since the independence from the Soviet Union, together with the economic situation severely deteriorating, due to the world financial crisis.

Because of Derrida's vehement attempts to " rescue " Heidegger from his existentialist interpreters ( and also from Heidegger's " orthodox " followers ), Derrida has at times been represented as a " French Heidegger ", to the extent that he, his colleagues, and his former students are made to go proxy for Heidegger's worst ( political ) mistakes, despite ample evidence that the reception of Heidegger's work by later practitioners of deconstruction is anything but doctrinaire.

However, during the Prague Spring, he and other reform-minded Communists sought to win popular support for the Communist regime by eliminating its worst, most repressive features, allowing greater freedom of expression and tolerating political and social organizations not under Communist control.

" The results of his method of governing his states soon showed themselves in insurrections, conspiracies, assassinations and rebellion, especially in Umbria, the Marches and Romagna ; the violent repression of which, by a system of espionage, secret denunciation, and wholesale application of the gibbet and the galleys, left behind it to those who were to come afterwards a very terrible, rankling and long-enduring debt of party hatreds, of political and social demoralisation, and — worst of all — a contempt for and enmity to the law, as such.

The ensuing economic and political crisis was arguably the worst since the country's independence.

Results may lead at best to confusion, at worst to violence and even civil war, in the case of political rivals.

He later said, " worst things that happened to me were the political consequences of events beyond my control ... the best things were exactly the same.

The worst outbreaks occurred in areas, Hebron, Safed, Jaffa, and Haifa where his Arab political adversaries were dominant.

Taylor Marsh of The Huffington Post called it " the worst case of pictorial sexism aimed at political character assassination ever done by a traditional media outlet.

According to Plutarch this was to his benefit, as Nicias was able to avoid the worst of Athens ' misfortunes, both military and political.

The incident and subsequent events have become one of the most controversial moments in Puerto Rico's political history, frequently called " the worst political cover-up in the history of the island.

Instead of being able to influence the new political elite and so shape the public agenda, the Church found itself sidelined at best, detested at worst.

He became a protégé and devoted supporter of Sir Robert Walpole, the long-standing Prime Minister, achieving unequalled and unenviable proficiency in the worst political arts of his master and model.

García competed against some of his harshest critics and worst political enemies, including Lourdes Flores Nano and Fernando Olivera.

As a result, large shocks can lead to grave social problems, political unrest and, in the worst cases revolution.

At worst, they were proslavery racists who wish to rid the West of Indians, expand the empire of slavery, and keep political power in local hands -- all the better to expand the institution of slavery and protect slaveholders ' rights to own human property.

This kind of protest vote, where the vote is taken into account but accused of being " useless ", is often considered by political analysts to be either a form of populism or, worst, of poujadism.

It introduced elements of political equality between townspeople and nobility and placed the peasants under the protection of the government, thus mitigating the worst abuses of serfdom.

African Americans in the south experienced the worst setbacks, as they were stripped of political power and voting rights.

Unschlicht participated to and in fact initiated some of the worst excesses of the Bolshevik revolution including mass murders of political opponents.

Too many political mistakes at the same time made by Noriga, and the US pressure made by the Almirant John Poindexter to use the Panamanian territory to fight against the Sandinistas got worst with his clear No, the Noriega ´ s reason was " They are our friends ", and the assassination of Spadafora in 1985 generates the beginning of the political turmoil that ended in 1989 with the US led invasion.

These systems give law enforcement personnel real-time, street-level intelligence that allows them to not only focuses on the worst graffiti offenders and their damage, but also to monitor potential gang violence that is associated with the graffiti.

Nation states are responsible for some of the worst historical examples of violence against minorities: minorities not considered part of the nation.

He said that the worst possible situation is one in which the commoners have half a nation's property, with crown and nobility holding the other half — a circumstance fraught with instability and violence.

Tensions finally reached breaking point and a Workers ’ Uprising took place on 17 June 1953, to be quickly and brutally crushed when Soviet tanks rolled in, and some of the worst violence occurred around Potsdamer Platz, where several people were killed by the Volkspolizei.

Kehoe killed 45 people, including himself, in the worst school violence in U. S. history.

In March 2004, Kosovo experienced its worst inter-ethnic violence since the Kosovo War.

Forty-five people were detained in connection with the attacks, and observers called the spectacle " the worst violence during the dozen years the Gay Pride Parade has taken place in Budapest.

Wallowa County was the scene of perhaps the worst incident of violence against Chinese in Oregon, when in May 1887 a gang of rustlers massacred 34 Chinese gold miners in Hells Canyon.

The violence was worst in landlocked Switzerland, where famine caused the government to declare a national emergency.

Occurring with particular intensity in the Glodwick area of the town, the Oldham riots were the worst racially motivated riots in the United Kingdom for fifteen years prior, briefly eclipsing the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland in the media.

She would later be supportive of peaceful Sinn Féin initiatives, although she was never a supporter of IRA violence, some of the worst of which was inflicted in a 1974 bombing of her home city of Birmingham.

Despite decay of the public areas and gang violence, Pruitt – Igoe contained isolated pockets of relative well-being throughout its worst years.

L. Frank Baum portrayed Ozma as an exceedingly benevolent and compassionate ruler, who never resorts to violence and who does not believe in destroying even her worst enemies.

The Times published its first report from the United States on December 4, and its correspondent, W. H. Russell, wrote of American reactions, “ There is so much violence of spirit among the lower orders of the people and they are … so saturated with pride and vanity that any honorable concession … would prove fatal to its authors .” Times editor John T. Delane, however, took a moderate stance and warned the people not to “ regard the act in the worst light ” and to question whether it made sense that the United States, despite British misgivings about Seward that went back to the earliest days of the Lincoln administration, would “ force a quarrel upon the Powers of Europe .”

In July 2007, United Nations human rights expert Yakin Erturk called the situation in South Kivu the worst she has ever seen in four years as the global body's special investigator for violence against women.

The rioting gained international media coverage, and were said to be the worst racially-motivated riots in the United Kingdom for fifteen years prior, briefly eclipsing the sectarian violence seen in Northern Ireland.

In the worst period of such violence, in 1958, EOKA killed 55 Turkish Cypriots whilst TMT killed 60 Greeks.

One of the six most secure prisons in the country, Terre Haute had the worst reputation of the six for gang rape and violence.

In all, Kehoe killed 44 people and himself, in the worst school violence in U. S. history.

During the late 20th century some of the worst violence of " the Troubles " took place near the village and it became a military zone with a large garrison.

Bessbrook saw some of the worst violence in the Troubles.

The worst of the violence waned, particularly with regulations for quasi-legal fisticuffs, though incidents continue to occur from time to time.

It ranks among the worst episodes of sports violence in American sports history.