They often suffer a stormy, feet - first exit — either
dying in office or as the victim of a palace revolt.
He once told Albertans that he would «
die in office» rather than retire and collect his gold plated severance package, but this week Speaker Ken Kowalski opted for retirement instead of the afterlife.
When asked about the expected $ 1,000,000 severance he could collect for having served as an MLA and cabinet minister since 1979, Speaker Kowalski told the media not to worry, because «I'll never collect it,» «I'll
die in office.»
There have been 56 presidential elections, and 8 presidents have
died in office.
The fourth vacancy came when Assemblyman Tom Kirwan
died in office last November.
As mentioned, FDR
died in office and Truman succeeded him for the remainder of his term and was re-elected for a full term, and then retired.).
In the exceptional case that you describe of a Majority Leader losing her own seat, is similar to the situation that would occur were the PM to
die in office (in that she would no longer be a member of the privy council, nor the Cabinet).
Presidents normally didn't run for a third term as it was deemed that after 8 years, either out of respect for Washington's dedication to the nature of the office, or because
they died in office, or they were just so unpopular they wouldn't have been elected.
Silver became speaker in 1994, when Saul Weprin
died in office after only two years as Miller's replacement.
Many knew then that President Yaradua will
die in office.
He had his staff look up a second figure: How many presidents of the United States had
died in office?
Its recommendations have since been swept under the carpet, perhaps because the initiator of the project
died in office.
Kevin wants to
die in office.
Boateng is reported to have told Accra - based Adom FM that electing the late professor was a «mistake» the ruling party made in the past considering the fact
he died in office due to ill health.
What happens to his campaign funds if he is impeached (and actually removed), resigns, or
dies in office?
While Arthur was single for the entirety of his term, he did not serve a full one; he became president after James Garfield
died in office, serving from September 1881 until March 1885.
Indications are that there has been no support from the Akufo - Addo administration towards the commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the death of President John Evans Atta Mills, who was the first Ghanaian Head of State to
die in office on July 24, 2012.
I believe the longest - serving speaker in history (22 years, four months) was Oswald D. Heck, who was elected in 1937 and
died in office during his 13th term in 1959.
SAMUEL ATTA MILLS — THE OPPORTUNISTIC STRANGER IN KEEA On July 24, 2012, Prof Mills became the first Ghanaian leader to
die in office, but with the exact cause of death withheld from the public, speculations have been rife that there may have been foul play in the former law professor's passing which occurred only six months to the 2012 polls.
Cuomo has already appointed two Democrats to the court, Jenny Rivera and Sheila Abdul - Salaam, but they replaced Democratic judges Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, who retired and Judge Theodore Jones, who
died in office.
Flanagan, a former assemblyman, replaced his father, who
died in office in 1986.
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 — April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States, an American military officer and politician, and the first president to
die in office.
Roosevelt, who was married to distant cousin Eleanor (niece of Teddy Roosevelt),
died in office from a cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, 1945, only a month before the Allied victory over the Nazis in May and a few months before Japan surrendered in August 1945.
During the floor debate a House member attempted to amend the bill to impose a «Scalia rule»: if a Florida Supreme Court justice
died in office during a governor's 4th year in office, the governor was banned from naming a replacement (Amendment 962737)
More than half the judges appointed to the U.S. court since its creation have
died in office.
Amy Fledderman, 18, who lived near Philadelphia,
died in the offices of plastic surgeon Richard Glunk and while under the care of nurse Edward DeStefano.
Not exact matches
One day some other members of Lapointe's team were
in his
office, admiring his collection of miniature
die - cast sports convertibles.
He can see how poorly it looks on national TV to have wheelchair - bound protestors arrested after staging a «
die -
in» outside your
office.
The sophisticated fund - raising experts at Share Systems Inc., ensconced
in Boston - area
offices a mile from Harvard University, may not have much
in common with the operators of the
die - casting machines at Pace Industries» Cast - Tech Division,
in rural Monroe City, Mo..
It's always seemed a bit sad that trees
died in vain to create books that sit
in our Midtown
offices, which is as close as I'll ever get to waxing environmental.
One of Schulich's favourite aphorisms (he keeps them posted to the door frame
in his
office) is «You only
die when you're forgotten.»
Even when he tried to sprinkle
in a few catered to the under - 30 crowd
in that time — «The BFG» and «The Adventures of Tintin» — they were box -
office duds that were mostly ignored by the Spielberg
die - hards.
On the day he
died in 2006, at age 82, he arrived early to his
office like any other day.
Terms like «executive
offices» and «executive suites» appear to already be
dying,
in terms of terminology.
Joseph Wakshlag, a nutritionist on the faculty at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, recalls becoming aware of Blue Buffalo
in 2005 when he worked at a vet's
office in Woodbury, Conn.: «They had salespeople who paid for «lunch and learn» sessions where they talked about the owner's dog, Blue, who had
died of cancer, and now they had a new dog food that prevented cancer.
He was fortunate that LBJ
died so soon after leaving
office, making it possible for the men and women who participated
in his rise to power to speak frankly about his habits while the memory of their years with him was still fresh.
«He didn't have a pension because the presumption was he would be
in office until he
died,» Hilgartner said.
Such an
office of the dead or «dirge» was timely
in the Middle Ages when so many people
died young.
The Foreign and Commonwealth
Office (FCO) confirmed on Monday that Alanna Carson, David Donovan and Shirley Donovan had returned safely to the UK after their ordeal but a fourth Briton had
died while being held
in captivity.
I sat at my desk surrounded by the usual chat
in the open plan
offices, I overheard someone talking about her friend who was
dying of cancer, I began to shake and a feeling of doom overcame me, I dashed off to the toilet to get away from it all.
But no sooner was the Greek installed
in office than he began lobbying Jordanian politicians, with the result that the «reforms»
died in committee.
Youa re also forgetting that the number of troops that have
died in Afghanistan is higher
in the 5 years O has been
office than the 8 years BUsh was
in office.
When he left
office in 2009, Americans were still
dying in the the two wars he started.
It could be an effort to unseat Benedict's secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who will run the conclave to choose the next pope if he is
in office when Benedict
dies, according to the Rev. Thomas Reese, author of «Inside the Vatican.»
This strategy was aided,
in highly personal terms, by the outgoing Democratic Governor, Barbara Roberts (whose husband
died during her term of
office) and by the widow of former Republican Governor Tom McCall (a totemic figure for many Oregonians).
Doubtless, suspicions
in Rome will
die down as Archbishop Nichols» tenure of his
office runs its course.
While none of Jesus Christ's 1st century Christian leaders ever involved themselves
in politics to the point that they ran for public
office, after they all
died out those men Jesus said would sneak into the church did sneak
in and did get involved with political leaders and
in just a couple of centuries the Holy Roman Empire was the old Roman Empire whitewashed to appear to be something of God's and both the church and the State being led by the very same man, Pontifex Maximus who had his own wife killed for proving that his trinity doctrine was horsepucky.
Just before the re-election of Ronald Reagan
in 1984, for example, Greene told a Spanish priest that, if he
died, he wanted it known that he would have become a Communist if Reagan were returned to
office.
A lot fewer of our sins and daughters will
die in horrible places with Obama
in office.