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Apparently in thrall to the resignation deadline set by David Trimble, the British government moved towards reintroducing direct rule.
English governments were keen to centralize the control of colonial matters, and charters were sometimes revoked in favour of direct rule.
However, their activities were focused to resisting the democratic activities and mobilizing the people in favour of king's direct rule.
This system of direct rule by proxy enraged the Unionist right and eventually unleashed a downward spiral of loyalist reaction and republican assertiveness.
In any case, however, we cannot give up direct rule as a method of management.
The British government restored direct rule in Northern Ireland, but only, it hoped, for the weekend.
After a political crisis, the Constitution was suspended in 1985 and direct rule by the administering Power was imposed.
It was on 1 September 1977 that South Africa reimposed direct rule over the enclave and reasserted its claim to sovereignty based on the original annexation.
Barring a dramatic change, it looked as if the British Government would have no option but to suspend the institutions and reintroduce direct rule from London.
This action was reluctantly accepted by local rulers as preferable to direct rule by either the Germans or Boers.
In 1334 Balliol had to pay the price, performing liege homage to Edward for his kingdom, and ceding much of southern Scotland to Edward III's direct rule.
Since then it has dissolved the assembly and imposed direct rule.
Owing to the civil unrest during the Troubles, the British government suspended home rule in 1972 and imposed direct rule.
The Spanish government thus imposed direct rule on the region, calling for a new election.
The new Archbishop revoked the city charter of Mainz and put the city under his direct rule.
German direct rule never extended to the north.
Balochistan is now under direct rule from Islamabad, Pakistan's capital.
With the end of the Hundred Years' War, Aquitaine returned under direct rule of the king of France and remained in the possession of the king.
The Dutch West India company was abolished in 1791, and its colonies in Suriname and the Caribbean brought under the direct rule of the state.
After peace was restored, and Palmerston in early 1858 brought in legislation for direct rule of India by the Crown, Disraeli opposed it.
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Considerable regions of North China came at once under the direct rule of the Liao.
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