Under the shah's regime, Iran saw nationalization of its oil and a strong movement toward modernization.
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Financial expert, TV host, and Sun-In aficionado Suze Orman has a simple bit of algebra that she suggests using to decide if it makes sense to be part of the 250, 000-strong movement of Americans who are deciding to bid goodbye to their houses and good credit in order to recoup their losses and try again at some point (way, way, way) in the future.
Mass immigration from European countries with a strong socialist movement swelled the ranks of the radical unions.
So the national party picked Nevada with it's ethnically diverse population and strong labor movement to join the exclusive group of early voting states.
Some idealists believed that a strong peace movement in Western Europe would inspire those behind the Iron Curtain to demand disarmament from their rulers too.
Also, a strong "movement" is usually led by a group of people with considerable organisational experience, something which few members in Mr Hazare's core team have.
And while there was a strong abolitionist movement in England, it was the Industrial Revolution, and its mechanization that did away with the need for vast amounts of cheap labor in the colonies, that eventually turned England against the slave trade.
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At the same time, the wily leader of Nahdlatul Ulama, the 30-million-strong Muslim mass movement, was constantly positioning and repositioning himself in the byzantine world of Indonesian politics.
The new pope may not halt the region's recent shift toward more liberal social issues, illustrated by the recent legalization of abortions in Mexico City and the strong gay rights movement in countries such as Argentina, said Julia Young, a professor of Latin American history at the Catholic University in Washington, D.
The Director of Defense Intelligence told Congress the movement remains strong and resilient.
There is a strong draft-Gore movement going on right now and the former vice president could parlay his Nobel Peace Prize win into a bid for the White House.
Among its offshoots are the Tablighi Jama'at, a huge, worldwide missionary movement (strong in Yorkshire and London), in which lay people help to propagate the idea of a pious life.
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In particular, he makes a strong pitch for the freer movement of people across borders.
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The authors, all supporters of the green movement, were strong on contempt and sneering, but weak on substance.
But the movement is now strong enough in areas like the north-east to flourish in spite of such measures.
Given most Texans' dislike of regulations, there has never been a strong grass-roots environmental movement in the state, so the issue has never been high on the agenda of any governor.
Annetta Cheek, chairwoman of the Center for Plain Language, says the Plain Writing Act of 2010, which requires public agencies to lighten their leaden language, has given strong support to the antijargon movement.
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Since its founding, the organization has grown from a handful of activists to a movement of 75, 000 strong.
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Despite its dominance, the Muslim Brotherhood appeared to have been caught by surprise by the strong showing of the more conservative Salafist movement, which advocates the adoption of strict Islamic law.
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The Italian election, in contrast, is taking place after a two-week opinion poll blackout, amid mounting investor anxiety that former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and maverick outsider Beppe Grillo, leader of the Five Star Movement, may make a strong showing.
"There's the first half of the movement, which is really getting strong teachers, " Kumar says.
Wahid's National Awakening Party (PKB), based on the 30-million-strong Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) mass Muslim movement that he leads, was considered the PDI-P's natural partner in the coming coalition-building battle for the presidency.
But at the same time, that desire to ask bigger and better questions is also on the rise in the US, according to the author Warren Berger, who has been tracking a movement toward questioning that is running very strong in Silicon Valley, but also seems to be spreading throughout the business, nonprofit and education sectors, according to Berger.
It is up to the Syrian people to choose their own leaders, and we have heard their strong desire that there not be foreign intervention in their movement.
Opinion polls suggested there would be a strong turnout for comedian Beppe Grillo's anti-establishment movement.
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The image of the tough, strong, healthy, clean and kind Uralmash guys permeates the movement's election campaign.
Italy's richest man still hopes for a movement on the centre-right at least as strong as the Democratic Party on the centre-left.
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And even, with such a movement, if it was, if it were strong enough, a military action against Iran would put the reformist camp, it would put them in a very difficult position.
Does President Bush's victory with strong support from the right mean he owes something to the conservative movement?
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