It will mark an unprecedented moment in the history of the EU – no leader before Mr Cameron has come to Brussels with the threat of leaving the EU if fellow leaders refuse to grant reforms.
Such an emotion-charged spectacle would have attracted thousands of spectators and placed pressure on Diệm's regime to grant reforms, so the government announced a curfew and put all armed personnel on duty around the clock to "prevent VC infiltration".
Obama will be battling committee chairmen who oppose his Pell-grant reforms, and placating senators who resent his willingness to use a feature of the budget process known as "reconciliation," which limits debate and prevents the use of a filibuster, to pass his health-care plan.
The Lithuanian insurrection had been brutally crushed by the "hangman of Vilnius," Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov; the new viceroy in Poland, Teodor Berg, similarly imposed a harsh regime in Warsaw; and Russian efforts (begun in the summer of 1863) to win the peasants' loyalty by granting reforms provided added incentive for the peasantry to abandon the rebels.
Willow Winsham describes the recent trend as "the excitement in rediscovering things that have been lost or taken for granted, reformed and presented afresh for a receptive, modern audience".
The resulting conversations became the basis for an National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to reform the pedagogy in the BSCI 207 class.
She would have preferred to grant administrative reforms rather than consent that her daughter should become a constitutional monarch.
Pius IX, now under the influence of the reactionary Giacomo Cardinal Antonelli, refused to grant any reforms in Rome.
Beginning in 1847, the leaders of the opposition set out to take advantage of this restless mood and to force the regime to grant liberal reforms.
During the prime ministry (1902 05) of Arthur James Balfour, Dillon came to believe that the British Conservative government intended to grant Irish reforms without independence, thereby "killing Home Rule by kindness".
The British, when faced with dissent, tended to grant political reforms in an effort to dispel the attractiveness of more-radical suggestions.
