The prefabricated wooden huts were still being erected, and initially the entire " shooting party " was crowded into the mansion, its stables and cottages.

Ahasuerus, ruler of a massive Persian empire, holds a lavish party, initially for his court and dignitaries and afterwards for all inhabitants of the capital city Shushan.

Of the Maritime provinces, only Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were initially party to the BNA Act, Prince Edward Island's reluctance, combined with a booming agricultural and fishing export economy having led to that colony opting not to sign on.

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

Founded by former social-democrat party strongman Jan Nagel, it was initially held at bay for alderman positions.

In December 1804 Rapp and a party of two others initially contracted to purchase of land for $ 11, 250 in Butler County, Pennsylvania, and later acquired additional land to increase their holdings to approximately by time they advertised their property for sale in 1814.

The authorship of the Dionysian Corpus was initially disputed ; Severus and his party affirmed its apostolic dating, largely because it seemed to agree with their Christology.

The British-run Government of India initially rejected the Simla Agreement as incompatible with the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, which stipulated that neither party was to negotiate with Tibet " except through the intermediary of the Chinese government ".

As the left-wing Socialist Party was in thorough disarray following Jospin's defeat, Chirac reorganised politics on the right, establishing a new party – initially called the Union of the Presidential Majority, then the Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ).

Her party had initially been scheduled to return to Los Angeles by train, but Lombard was anxious to be home quicker and wanted to take a plane.

* Left Ecology Freedom: initially a successor of sorts in Italy to The Left-The Rainbow, also comprising the Federation and the Greens and Democratic Left, along with former-communist Movement for the Left and Unite the Left, and the Italian Socialist Party, a centrist social-democratic party.

The eponymous founder of the party was Pim Fortuyn, a charismatic former university professor and political columnist who initially had planned to contest the 2002 general election as leader of the Livable Netherlands ( LN ) party.

Although he was already in contact with the Livable Netherlands ( LN ) party, he initially also considered running for the CDA or creating his own list.

In Syria, opposition to union with Egypt mounted ; Syrian Army officers resented being subordinated to Egyptian officers, Bedouin tribes received funds from Saudi Arabia to prevent their loyalty to Nasser, Egyptian-style land reform was blamed for damaging Syrian agricultural production, Communists began to gain influence among lower-income workers, and the intellectuals within the Ba ' ath party who had initially supported union rejected the single-party system.

The party room vote on a motion of no confidence was initially tied, which meant the motion was lost.

The party was initially intended to be temporary and was given the goal of the promotion of sovereignty at the federal level.

Opposite them and initially only about away, Virgil Earp was on the left end of the Earp party, standing a few feet inside the vacant lot and nearest Ike Clanton.

The party was characterized initially by right-wing extremism and activism.

This was a public faction which initially included, in addition to the SWP, Gerry Healy's British section The Club, the Internationalist Communist Party in France ( then led by Lambert who had expelled Bleibtreu and his grouping ), Nahuel Moreno's party in Argentina and the Austrian and Chinese sections of the FI.

Although Eshkol's Mapai party initially opposed the widening of its government, it eventually changed its mind.

The party was founded in April 1978 as Herri Batasuna, a coalition of leftist nationalist political groups mostly originating from Euskadiko Ezkerra initially brought together to advocate for " no " in the referendum to be held that year on the Spanish constitution.

Arguing that the revolution needed not a mere parliamentary organization but a party of action which would function as a scientific body of direction, a vanguard of activists, and a central control organ, the Tenth Party Congress banned factions within the party, initially intending it only to be a temporary measure after the shock of the Kronstadt Rebellion.

After a long struggle, the party of Boris Godunov prevailed over the Romanovs, and the former was elected new Tsar in 1599.

In contrast to the Second Congress, the Mensheviks were in the majority from start to finish ; yet, Martov's definition of a party member, which had prevailed at the First Congress, was replaced by Lenin's.

With Martov's return from European exile in early May, the left wing of the party challenged the party's majority led by Tsereteli at the first post-revolutionary party conference on May 9, but the Right wing prevailed 44 – 11.

When the British annexation took place a party in the volksraad wished to go to war with Britain, but the wiser counsels of President Brand prevailed.

Despite the opposition of many in his own party, including not only Vare ’ s powerful Philadelphia machine, but also many “ wets ” who revolted and created a separate Liberal Party that autumn — thereby giving the Democratic candidate two lines on the November ballot — Pinchot narrowly prevailed, defeating Hemphill by a margin of 1, 068, 874 to 1, 010, 204.

The Orthodox party prevailed ; Paulus was elected and consecrated by bishops who happened to be at Constantinople in the Church of Peace, close to what was afterwards the Hagia Sophia.

Cooper's slate of candidates prevailed, although Ludlow alleged his party was in the majority.

As a candidate for the party presidency at PAICV's September 1997 congress, he faced José Maria Neves and prevailed with 68 % of the vote.

" Freetown opposition party wins majority ", Reuters ( IOL ), August 24, 2007. A second round of the presidential election was held in September ; Koroma prevailed with 54. 6 % of the vote against 45. 4 % for Berewa. Rod MacJohnson, " Sierra Leone gets a new leader ", AFP ( The Times, South Africa ), September 17, 2007.

In a ballot of Liberal party room members, Bishop prevailed with 44 votes, one more than the combined total of her two competitors: Andrew Robb ( 25 votes ) and Christopher Pyne ( 18 votes ).

In the end, however, Hide prevailed, and the party introduced Hide as its new leader on 13 June 2004.

Erickson prevailed in a tight Republican primary against Kevin Mannix, a Democrat turned Republican party leader who previously served in the Oregon legislature and who had run unsuccessfully for both Attorney General and Governor.

When the British annexation took place a party in the Orange Free State volksraad wished to go to war with Britain, but the wiser counsels of President Brand prevailed.

McKellar twice served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate, commencing in 1945, being the first to hold the position under the system that has prevailed since of reserving it for the most senior member of the majority party.

Although he posed a threat to the Indian National Congress ( INC ) in Rajasthan, that party prevailed until 1977.

He feared that, no matter which party prevailed in the open cabildo, it would take revenge against the other, the Mutiny of Álzaga being a recent precedent.

The Turkish party then prevailed on al-Muntasir to remove his brothers from the succession, fearing revenge for the murder of their father.

The project hoped to inspire young voters to turn out in federal elections that year to vote against then-Prime Minister John Howard, but Howard's party prevailed all the same.

After World War II and the overthrow of Mussolini's fascist regime, Italy's history was dominated by the Christian Democracy ( Democrazia Cristiana, DC ) political party for 50 years, while the opposition was led by the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ); this situation prevailed until the crisis of the Soviet Union and the Tangentopoli scandal and operation Mani pulite, which led to the reform of the electoral system ( from almost perfect proportional to uninominal / multi-seat circumscriptions ) and radical restructuring of the Italian political system, including the dissolution of most traditional political parties.

This decision came close to tearing the party apart, with some 60 % of its voters remaining opposed, but this time the yes-side prevailed.

In 1912 the Maximalists led by Benito Mussolini prevailed at the party convention and this led to the split of the Italian Reform Socialist Party.