With its power to investigate, the Senate can paralyze the Secretary by keeping him in a state of perpetual testimony before committees, as it did with Dean Acheson.

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 the agreement of the Senate he supported the usurpation of Priscus Attalus.

With help from supporters Senator Dill and Representative White, Hoover brought the issue of radio control to the Senate floor.

With the Gallic Wars concluded, the Senate ordered Caesar to lay down his military command and return to Rome.

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 campaign for a state-led constitutional amendment gaining strength, and a fear that this could result in a " runaway convention ", the proposal to mandate direct elections for the Senate was finally introduced in the Congress.

With support of his adviser Illus he besieged Constantinople but the Senate opens the gates, allowing him to resume the throne.

With Catania's amendment, the bill passed the House, but the Senate refused to accept the amendment.

With Eisenhower refusing to run, the contest for the Republican nomination was between New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, Ohio Senator Robert Taft, California Governor Earl Warren, General Douglas MacArthur and Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, the senior Republican in the Senate.

With no ensuing restrictions on his policies, he abolished the Oath of Allegiance ( which Cosgrave intended to do had he won the 1932 general election ), the Senate, university representation in the Dáil, and appeals to the Privy Council.

With the secretary and sergeant at arms, the president pro tempore maintains order in Senate portions of the Capitol and Senate buildings.

With the help of Sémonville he now started to push a project of constitutional reform that followed the French Constitution of the Year VIII in important respects: a bicameral legislature would be appointed by a " National College " ( akin to the French Senate ) from a list of names produced by a convoluted system of national elections.

With his break with Jackson complete, in 1832, Calhoun ran for the Senate rather than continue as Vice President.

With the Queensland senator on leave throughout the remainder of the crisis, the Coalition had an effective majority of 30 – 29 in the Senate.

With a mission similar to that of the Truman Committee in the Senate, he probed into the peacetime " business as usual " inefficiencies that permeated the naval war and demanded that admirals shape up and get the job done.

With Vespasian declared emperor, Titus and his brother Domitian likewise received the title of Caesar from the Senate.

With Senator Gorman operating behind the scenes, protectionists in the Senate added more than 600 amendments that nullified most of the reforms and raised rates again.

With the secret support of the Senate, and with the help of the bribes paid by Zeno, Illus accepted to switch sides and united his army with Zeno's, marching on Constantinople.

With a keen interest in the potential of railroads, Sen. Benton had sought support from the Senate for a railroad connecting St. Louis to San Francisco along the 38th parallel, the latitude which both cities approximately share.

With a confessional majority in the Senate, the law was pushed through.

With him the ARP gets sixteen seats in the House of Representatives and fifteen in the Senate.

With the fact that radio signals, newspapers and magazines from Hong Kong are available in Macau, the local media are always a minority group in terms of sales and number of viewers.

With the start of the German war against Poland in 1939, the German minority in the parts of Masuria attached to Poland after World War I, organised in paramilitary formation called Selbstschutz begun to engage in massacres of local Polish population ; Poles were imprisoned, tortured and murdered while Masurians were sometimes forcefully placed on Volksliste

With no party having a clear majority, the independents agreed to support a minority Labor government which made Steve Bracks the first Catholic Labor Premier of Victoria since 1932.

With the fall of communism and Poland joining the European Union, there were enough of these remaining in Upper Silesia to allow for the recognition of the German minority in Poland by the Polish government.

With the War winding down, King held the Canadian federal election, 1945, and won the election, with a minority, but formed a functioning coalition to continue governing.

With the Hearst Corporation as a minority partner, UPI continued under Scripps management until 1982.

With Sinn Féin's entry in the Republic's Dáil and the Northern Ireland Executive at the close of the 20th century, the number of those who refuse to accept the legitimacy, which was already in a minority, declined further.

With a population of nearly 25, 500, Ramallah was historically a Christian town, but today Muslims form the majority of the population, with a strong Christian minority.

With only the Leningrad delegation ( controlled by Zinoviev ) behind them, Zinoviev and Kamenev found themselves in a tiny minority and were soundly defeated while Trotsky remained silent during the Congress.

With only the Leningrad delegation behind them, Zinoviev and Kamenev found themselves in a tiny minority and were soundly defeated.

With a minority government in the House of Commons, Clark had to rely on the support of the Social Credit Party, with its six seats, or the New Democratic Party ( NDP ), with its 26 seats.

With Haughey and his supporters taking a dangerously populist line in every area of policy, and refusing to address serious shortcomings in the performance of the state, a growing minority in his own party were becoming increasingly concerned.

With the ruling Liberal Party being reduced to a minority government, revelations of the sponsorship scandal damaging its popularity to the point where both the Conservative Party and the Bloc Québécois were pressing their advantage for a snap election, the Prime Minister approached the NDP for its support.

With a significant minority of students below the legal drinking age, 18-year-olds are legally excluded from campus events and social activities.

With the 1975 provincial election, the governing Conservatives were reduced to a minority government for the first time in thirty years.

With Corin and Vanessa Redgrave, he formed a minority tendency which called for a more pro-Soviet alignment, and split away in 1987 to form the Marxist Party.

With Bolsover being in close proximity to both the towns of Mansfield and Chesterfield, the fan base is mixed ; however most of the town support Chesterfield FC and are known as Spireites although there always has been and is a growing minority of Mansfield Town FC supporters in the town which creates a great rivalry between the Stags and the Spireites.

With their success in the 1924 general election, Labour were able to form their first minority government, led by Ramsay MacDonald.

With the investment of € 167-191, Vector Capital will retain a minority stake in Technicolor of up to 29. 94 %.

With the formation of the 49th New Zealand Parliament after the 2008 election, it has a single member of the Parliament of New Zealand – party leader Peter Dunne, an electorate MP – and it has signed a confidence and supply agreement with the National Party, making it, along with ACT and the Maori Party, a support partner to the minority National government.

With the party Congress of 1926 held in Lyons, crowned by Gramsci's famous Lyons Theses, the left majority was now defeated and on course to becoming a minority within the party.

With regard to racial policies, he believed strongly in the perpetuation of white minority rule and during his term " Coloured " voters were removed from the common voters roll and put on a separate Coloured voters roll, something that Malan started to do but could not push through.

With a minority government, Fentie called the 2006 election for October 6.