According to these people the cosmos was one thing since it had one unbroken rule.

Her coalition's victory sent the People's National movement into opposition after more than four decades of almost unbroken rule.

In the early years, they had often flirted with each other, but Pitt had an unbroken rule about fooling around in his own office.

The general election which followed in 1957 gave Fianna Fáil an overall majority and started another sixteen years of unbroken rule for the party.

The Tuatha Dé Danann enjoy one hundred and fifty years of unbroken rule.

The vote ensures that the 24 years of unbroken rule there by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) will continue.

The emerging rivalry has presented the National Party with potentially its most serious internal crisis in 40 years of unbroken rule, according to politicians and other political analysts here.

Electoral defeats in 1976 and 1979 marked the end of Social Democratic hegemony in Swedish politics, which had seen 40 years of unbroken rule by the party.

Alberta general election, 1971 - End of the 36-year unbroken rule of the Social Credit Party, in favour of the Progressive Conservatives.

During most of its unbroken rule from 1948 to 1994, what was then called the National Party ran a dictatorship devoted to preserving white minority power by suppressing black majority rights.

The party gained a major foothold in 2000 when President Vicente Fox was elected, ending 70 years of unbroken rule from the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

During decades of unbroken rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, most papers acted as servile courtesans to successive Presidents.

After six decades of unbroken rule, the party's hold over Mexico weakened in recent years and Mr. Salinas barely squeaked into office amid widespread allegations of election fraud.

His 35-year long rule, marked by an uninterrupted period of repression in his country, was the longest unbroken rule by one individual in South America in the twentieth century.

However, the principle of general conservation of energy is so far an unbroken rule of physics - as far as we know, energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed in form.

The sad state of affairs in Mexico was created in large part by the old political regime, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which lost the presidency last year after seven decades of unbroken rule.

Sporting a new pair sandals and with most of his trademark beard shaved, Fernando Lugo, 57, has become Paraguay's president, ending 61 years of unbroken rule by the Colorado Party.

Instead, we find the virtually unbroken rule of a single "hegemonic" party, the Christian Democratic, with the second strongest party, the Communist, limited to no more than a third the electorate and tacitly excluded from ministerial responsibility.

The loss of the party's majority in the upper house in the elections of July 1989, against a background of scandals and the introduction of the unpopular consumption tax, had led to speculation that the party's 35-year period of unbroken rule was approaching its end.