Sentences with phrase «night of the long knives»

The photograph by Athi - Patra Ruga entitled Night of the Long Knives I is the cover image for the March 2014 edition of Art South Africa magazine.
There were two NatLibs in Cabinet until MAc sacked them in the night of the long knives (Hill and Maclay).
Furthermore, the prime minister is able to use honours for leverage: many of the victims of Harold MacMillan's «night of the long knives» were mollified with peerages; more recently it was alleged in some quarters that Tony Blair convinced a number of ageing Labour MPs to retire in 2001 to make way for young New Labour high - fliers, by promising them peerages.
Lord Kilmuir, the former lord chancellor, was among the third of the cabinet axed in Harold Macmillan's night of the long knives in 1962.
Social media was ablaze with rumours of Machiavellian tactics, and the night of the long knives.
The Night of the Long Knives was «an act of carnage» which had come out of the blue.
The press mockingly call it the «night of the long knives», after Adolf Hitler's brutal move against Ernst Rohm's SA.
Before the night of the long knifes, public order was repeatedly disturbed by the SA, which terrorized the population.
Firstly Macmillan's Night of the Long Knives, when seven cabinet ministers — including Selwyn Lloyd, then Chancellor of the Exchequer — were summoned to Downing Street and asked to relinquish their portfolios.
John McDonnell, who two years earlier had been dramatically deposed as shadow chancellor in what came to be known as Corbyn's night of the long knives, takes education while Diane Abbott gets local government.
During the Night of the Long Knives Gregor Strasser and leading members of this left wing were killed.
Harold Macmillan's 1962 reshuffle was famously dubbed the «night of the long knifes» after the then Conservative prime minister dismissed seven members of his cabinet.
There's a reason I had a Star Wars and not a Night of the Long Knives sticker book as a child.
«Cameron says «Never» to the Euro Main A Conservative government can leave Conservative - hating quangocrats in place, drawing out the pain, or it can institute a night of the long knives»
Macmillan famously sacked a third of his cabinet in 1962 in the «night of the long knives».
Mr McDonnell insisted his boss is actually «very caring and considerate» and that the reshuffle was «never going to be this hyped - up Night of the Long Knives».
The reshuffle was quickly nicknamed the Night of the Long Knives, referring to Hitler's purge of the SA in 1934.
Includes: - 9/11 terror attacks - Attack on Pearl Harbor - Beer hall putsch - «Brexit» - Chernobyl nuclear disaster - Crimean war - Cuban missile crisis - Falklands war - Holocaust - Kristallnacht - Night of the long knives - Russian revolution - Rwandan genocide - Sinking of the Titanic - Vietnam wat - War of the roses - Wounded knee massacre
That was like the night of the long knives.
Featured image: Athi - Patra Ruga, The Night of the Long Knives I, 2013.
Athi - Patra Ruga, The Night of the Long Knives III, 2014 Courtesy the artist and WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town and Johannesburg
Cape Town - based artist Athi - Patra Ruga's eye - tingling triptych, The Night of the Long Knives I - III (2013), forms part of Coetzee's group exhibition All Things Being Equal..., which also includes lens - based work by Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa, American Rashid Johnson, Briton Isaac Julien, and lesser - known South Africans such as twin brothers Hasan and Husain Essop, Mohau Modisakeng, and Thania Petersen.
Athi - Patra Ruga, The Night of the Long Knives I, 2013, Archival Inkjet Print on Photorag Baryta Paper 150 x 190 cm, Courtesy the artist, WHATIFTHEWORLD.
*** Malcolm Turnbull did him in, on the night of the long knives.
It is a night of long knives for many library budgets.
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