During the 2001 Conservative leadership election, she could not find sufficient support amongst Conservative MPs for her leadership candidacy.

During the years of his leadership, membership increased dramatically, from a few individuals to sixty-nine Lodges.

During the 1930s and 1940s Joseph Stalin's NKVD carried out numerous assassinations outside of the Soviet Union, such as the killings of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists leader Yevhen Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, Leon Trotsky, and the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) leadership in Catalonia.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

During the interwar period the Luftwaffe leadership rejected the concept of terror bombing, and confined the air arms use to battlefield support of interdiction operations.

During Vladimir Lenin's leadership of the Communist Party, the Central Committee functioned as the highest party authority between congresses.

During the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, eventual winner David Cameron pledged to withdraw the Conservatives from the EPP-ED coalition, while opponent David Davis argued in a letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph that the current ED arrangement allowed the Conservatives to maintain suitable distance from EPP while still having influence in the largest parliamentary grouping.

During the first part of his reign Honorius depended on the military leadership of the general Stilicho, who had been appointed by Theodosius and was of mixed Vandal and Roman ancestry.

During his leadership of the Conservative Party, Major was portrayed as honest (" Honest John ") but unable to rein in the philandering and bickering within his party.

During the period where all of the Congress leadership were in jail, the Muslim League under Jinnah grew in power.

During the season, Woodfull's physical courage, stoic and dignified leadership won him many admirers.

During The Mongol invasion of Europe, Tatars under the leadership of Kadan, experienced a major failure in March 1242 at Klis Fortress in southern Croatia.

During the 1930s and 1940s, the state passed labor laws, implemented agrarian reform, and assumed a role in modernization, influenced in part by the leadership of Juan Domingo Perón in Argentina and Getúlio Dornelles Vargas in Brazil.

During the early part of the 20th century, under the leadership of Harry Payne Whitney, polo changed to become a high-speed sport in the United States, differing from the game in England, where it involved short passes to move the ball toward the opposition's goal.

During the difaqane in Natal, another band of refugees arrived in this area under the leadership of Mzilikazi.

During his leadership projects completed included the first storage reservoir at Lake Minnewanka, a second transmission line to Calgary and the construction of the Kananaskis Falls hydro station.

During this time, struggle for Independence was fought on " constitutionalist " lines under the leadership of D. S. Senanayake.

During the 1920s, he first started to systematize and extend the Bahá ' í administration throughout the world where there existed Bahá ' í communities ; because the Bahá ' í community was relatively small and undeveloped when he assumed the leadership of the religion, he strengthened and developed it over many years to the point where it was capable of supporting the administrative structure envisioned by ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

* During this period of confusion and change amongst Egypt ’ s leadership, armies under the Seleucid king, Antiochus III, make serious inroads into the Egyptian territories in Coele Syria.

During Nicolae Ceaușescu's leadership ( 1965 – 1989 ), much of the historic part of the city was demolished and replaced with Socialist realist development such as the Centrul Civic ( the Civic Centre ), including the Palace of the Parliament, where an entire historic quarter was razed to make way for Ceaușescu's megalomaniac constructions.

During February 1975, after winning the leadership election, Margaret Thatcher refused to offer Powell a Shadow Cabinet place because " he turned his back on his own people " by leaving the Conservative Party exactly 12 months earlier and telling the electorate to vote Labour.

During the long and complicated campaign against Vicksburg, one newspaper complained that the " army was being ruined in mud-turtle expeditions, under the leadership of a drunkard, whose confidential adviser was a lunatic.

During World War II, under the leadership of P. Messori Roncaglia SJ, it became the center of the resistance movement against the Nazis.

During his youth he was " shaped " by his father and was regarded as an outstanding member of the Bahá ’ í exile community.

During the next decade ` Abdu ' l-Bahá would be in constant communication with Bahá ' ís around the world, helping them to teach the religion ; the group included May Ellis Bolles in Paris, Englishman Thomas Breakwell, American Herbert Hopper, French Hippolyte Dreyfus, Susan Moody, Lua Getsinger, and American Laura Clifford Barney.

During the obligatory prayer Bahá ' ís face the Qiblih, which is the Shrine of Bahá ' u ' lláh in Bahjí, Israel.

During this time Bahá ' ís in good health between the ages of 15 and 70 abstain from eating and drinking.

During this conclave the Hands of the Cause decided that the situation of the Guardian having died without being able to appoint a successor was a situation not dealt with in the texts that define the Bahá ' í administration, and that it would need to be reviewed and adjudicated upon by the Universal House of Justice, which hadn't been elected yet.

During these endeavours, they established departments of research and archives at the Bahá ' í World Centre, and, as of 1983, have collected over 60, 000 letters of Bahá ' u ' lláh, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi.

During the drafting of the revised constitution the wording intentionally excluded the Bahá ' ís from protection as a religious minority.

During the time that both Bahá ' u ' lláh and Subh-i-Azal were in Baghdad, since Subh-i-Azal remained in hiding, Bahá ' u ' lláh performed much of the daily administration of the Bábí affairs.

During this time Bahá ' ís in good health between the ages of 15 and 70 abstain from eating and drinking.

During the 1992 Earth Summit, which was held in Brazil, the international and local Bahá ' í community were given the responsibility for organizing a series of different programs, and since then the involvements of the Bahá ' í community in the country have continued to multiply.

During the time that both Bahá ' u ' lláh and Subh-i-Azal were in Baghdad, Bahá ' u ' lláh publicly and in his letters pointed to Subh-i-Azal as the leader of the community.

During his stay in this garden, Bahá ' u ' lláh announced to his followers that he was the messianic figure of He whom God shall make manifest, whose coming had been foretold by the Báb.

During Bahá ' u ' lláh's lifetime, he referred to his eldest son, Abbás, by terms such as " Sirru ' lláh " ( Mystery of God ), or " Sarkár-i-Áqá " ( the Master ).

During his time as head of the religion, while still a prisoner of the Ottoman Empire, he met with many pilgrims and was in constant communication with Bahá ' ís around the world.

During the period between the death of Shoghi Effendi and the election of the Universal House of Justice the Hands of the Cause held a convocation from which they constituted a body of nine from among their number to serve in the Holy Land and to act as Custodians of the Bahá ’ í Faith, a body which functioned without officers and with a quorum of five, whose duties included taking care of Bahá ’ í World Center properties and other assets ; corresponding with and advising National and Regional Spiritual Assemblies ; acting on behalf of the Bahá ’ í Faith for its protection ; and maintaining close contact with the rest of the Hands, who would henceforth devote their time to the successful completion of the goals of the Ten Year Crusade.

During the administrative portion Bahá ' ís are asked to consult in a specific manner, termed Bahá ' í consultation, where people put aside prejudices and personal attitudes and rather fully explore the matters under consultation.

During the Ten Year Crusade which ran from 1953 to 1963, hundreds of pioneers settled in countries and territories throughout the world, which eventually led to the establishment of 44 new National and Regional Spiritual Assemblies and the increase in the Bahá ' í population.

During the 1950s and 1960s the Bahá ' í Faith spread rapidly in Vietnam, and the nearby countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

During the 1937 Bahá ' í North American Convention, Shoghi Effendi cabled advising the convention to prolong their deliberations to permit the delegates and the National Assembly to consult on a plan that would enable Bahá ' ís to go to Latin America.

Despite the nature of the politics of that time, we presented our teachings on unity and the oneness of humankind to prominent individuals in politics, commerce and academia and leaders of thought including State Presidents .... oth individual Bahá ' ís and our administrative institutions were continually watched by the security police .... Our activities did not include opposition to the previous Government for involvement in partisan politics and opposition to government are explicitly prohibited by the sacred Texts of our Faith .... During the time when the previous Government prohibited integration within our communities, rather than divide into separate administrative structures for each population group, we opted to limit membership of the Bahá ' í Administration to the black adherents who were and remain in the majority of our membership and thereby placed the entire Bahá ' í community under the stewardship of its black membership ....

During that time Bahíyyih Khánum assumed the role of acting leader of the Bahá ' í Faith, which was a rare position for a woman to be in at that time.

During the period between the death of Shoghi Effendi and the election of the Universal House of Justice the Hands of the Cause held a convocation from which they constituted a body of nine from among their number to serve in the Holy Land and to act as Custodians of the Bahá ’ í Faith, a body which functioned without officers and with a quorum of five, whose duties included taking care of Bahá ’ í World Center properties and other assets ; corresponding with and advising National and Regional Spiritual Assemblies ; acting on behalf of the Bahá ’ í Faith for its protection ; and maintaining close contact with the rest of the Hands, who would henceforth devote their time to the successful completion of the goals of the Ten Year Crusade.

During the period they destroyed the national Bahá ' í Center in Tehran, confiscated properties and made it illegal for a time to be Bahá ' í ( punishable by 2 to 10 year prison term.