With a Democratic administration, party patronage would normally begin to flow to Mississippi if it had held its Democratic solidarity in the November election.

With the great Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, and the defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, Lincoln maintained a strong base of party support and was in a strong position to redefine the war effort, despite the New York City draft riots.

With only minor opposition in the primary and no opposition at all in the general election, Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976.

With the defeat of the revolution in mid-1907 and the adoption of a new, highly restrictive election law, the Bolsheviks began debating whether to boycott the new parliament known as the Third Duma.

With a general election looming, the Parliamentary Labour Party then appointed Attlee as interim leader, on the understanding that a leadership election would be held after the general election.

* The Problem With First-Past-The-Post Electing ( data from UK general election 2005 )

With almost 20 parties competing in the first round, the presidential election came down to a January 7, 1996 runoff in which PAN candidate Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen defeated Alfonso Portillo Cabrera of the FRG by just over 2 % of the vote.

With the election of a new Minister, the FCP is in the process of being wound down, despite campaigning to extend its terms of reference to make it a permanent advisory panel.

With Jackson's victory in the election Polk began to support the administration's position in Congress.

With Adenauer's fourth term election in November 1961 and the end of his chancellorship in sight, his " nuclear ambitions " began to taper off.

With this common touch and broad appeal, he subsequently led the party to victory in the election against the Progressive Conservative Party led by George Drew.

With the exceptions of the Presidential elections of 1956 and 2008, Missouri voters have elected the next President of the United States in every election since 1904.

With the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, relations between the United States and the Sandinista regime became an active front in the Cold War.

With Norwegian independence and the first election held in Norway, in 1814, Søren Abel was elected as a representative to the Storting.

With the recent election of Benedict XVI in 2005, his personal coat of arms eliminated the papal tiara ; a mitre with three horizontal lines is used in its place, with the pallium, a papal symbol of authority more ancient than the tiara, the use of which is also granted to metropolitan archbishops as a sign of communion with the See of Rome, was added underneath of the shield.

With his death in 1130, the Church was again thrown into confusion with the election of two rival popes, Innocent II and the antipope Anacletus II.

With Callixtus II ’ s death on 13 December 1124, both families agreed that the election of the next pope should be in three days time, in accordance with the church canons.

With the election of Celestine, both Bernard and Theobald appealed to the pope, while Louis sent ambassadors to have the interdict lifted.

With the capture of Constantine II, Christophorus set about organising a canonical election, and on August 1 he summoned not only the Roman clergy and army, but also the people to assemble before the Church of St. Adrian in the area of the old Comitium.

With Constantine ’ s supporters largely dealt with, Stephen wrote to the Frankish king, Pepin the Short, notifying him of his election, and asking for a number of bishops to participate in a council he was seeking to hold to discuss the recent confusion.

With the lower house enlarged from 74 to 121 seats, the Menzies Liberal / Country Coalition won the 1949 election with 74 of 121 seats and 51. 0 percent of the two-party vote but remained in minority in the Senate.

With a Senate minority for the new Menzies government, Menzies introduced legislation in 1951 to ban the Communist Party, hoping that the Senate would reject it and give him a trigger for a double dissolution election, but Labor let the bill pass.

With these keen `` eyes '' and small nuclear weapons delivered with accuracy, military forces can be directly attacked with minimum damage to urban areas.

With the Confederates having confiscated his land, his slaves taken away, and his home made into a military hospital, Johnson made his final comments in the Senate: " I am a Democrat now, I have been one all my life ; I expect to live and die one, and the corner-stone of my Democracy rests upon the enduring basis of the Union.

With these lessons in mind, Alfred capitalised on the relatively peaceful years immediately following his victory at Ethandrun by focusing on an ambitious restructuring of his kingdom's military defences.

With the development of effective anti-aircraft artillery in the period before the Second World War, military pilots, once the " knights of the air " during the First World War, became far more vulnerable to ground fire.

With the House undecided on whether to mobilize for military action against the encroaching British military force, Henry argued in favor of mobilization.

With the support of the nobles, Arnulf held a Diet at Tribur and deposed Charles in November 887, under threat of military action.

With the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the end of the Cold war, Bulgaria could no longer support a vast military.

With the development of military aircraft during World War II, battles were fought in the sky as well as below the ocean.

With this treaty, a mutual border was agreed between the two countries, together with an agreement for mutual military and diplomatic support in case of a Bulgarian or / and Austro-Hungarian attack.

" With more than 2, 000 dead, the 44-day Costa Rican Civil War resulting from this uprising was the bloodiest event in twentieth-century Costa Rican history ", but the victorious junta drafted a constitution guaranteeing free elections with universal suffrage and the abolition of the military.

With the onset of World War I, Hale organized the National Research Council to coordinate and support scientific work on military problems.

With help from foreign military advisers, Chiang's Fifth Campaign finally surrounded the Chinese Red Army in 1934.

With Congress blocking further contra aid, the Reagan administration sought to arrange funding and military supplies by means of third countries and private sources.

With these changes to forty-five years of established diplomacy and military confrontation, new challenges confronted U. S. policymakers.

With the dissolution of regular police and military forces, both left and right began forming armed groups in the spring of 1917.

With around 7, 000 personnel serving in the Ghanian military, Ghana has the tenth lowest ratio of active troops per thousand citizens in the world, standing at 0. 6.

With a superb military machine with good weapons, excellent training, and effective field artillery, backed by an efficient government which could provide necessary funds, Gustavus Adolphus was poised to make himself a major European leader, but he was killed at the battle of Lützen in 1632.

With the colony facing a full-scale invasion by Britain, the rebel slaves emerged as a powerful military force, under the leadership of Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Henri Christophe.

With strong endorsement and support from the Honduran military, the Suazo Administration ushered in the first peaceful transfer of power between civilian presidents in more than 30 years.

With the higher levels of the military and civil government gone, administration and justice fell to municipal authorities, and small warlords gradually emerged all over Britain, still aspiring to Roman ideals and conventions.

With the world's seventh largest military expenditure, ninth largest economy by nominal rates and third largest by purchasing power parity, India is a regional power, a nascent great power and a potential superpower.

With its roots in market research, ' competitive intelligence ' has been described as the ' application of principles and practices from military and national intelligence to the domain of global business '; it is the business equivalent of open-source intelligence.

With some exceptions, such as medical alert bracelets or military dog tags, jewellery normally differs from other items of personal adornment in that it has no other purpose than to look appealing, but humans have been producing and wearing it for a long time – with 100, 000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery.