Sentences with phrase «became head of government»

When I became head of a government that was near bankruptcy three and half years ago, most County departments were performing admirably under difficult -LSB-...]

The revelations did not cease, but their character changed, for Mohammed, at the invitation of the tribesmen of Medina, now became the head of its government which gradually spread during his own lifetime to include the whole of Arabia.

Not exact matches

Jotaka Eaddy, the head of government affairs at LendUp, a financial technology startup, once thought that Jealous — with whom she'd previously worked at the NAACP — was crazy for becoming a venture capitalist.

As a result, bilateral ties between the two countries have become highly personalized with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping directing government commissions, sitting officials, and heads of state corporations to develop financial and trade deals — most of which are large - scale, top - down investments of Chinese money into key sectors of the Russian economy.

But, in truth, he's probably just a megalomaniac — his only standard of belief is in whatever furthers his own grandiose dreams of becoming the first head of a world government.

The sage, when employed, becomes the Head of all the Officers (of government); and in his greatest regulations he employs no violent measures.

And the epithets chosen became progressively more sonorous, and the person invoked tended more and more to assume the likeness not of a Head of Government, but of the pioneer of a civilization.40

One of the scientists who was paid by the sugar industry was D. Mark Hegsted, who went on to become the head of nutrition at the United States Department of Agriculture, where in 1977 he helped draft the forerunner to the federal government's dietary guidelines.

Some signed treaties are left in limbo and never ratified, very few become contentious issues and fail (e.g. in a referendum) but for the most part, all the head of states / governments and their representatives around the table have a parliamentary majority behind them and can get whatever they agree on through their own parliament.

Mrs. Osei Opare who is a former lecturer and Head of the Department of Home Science at the University of Ghana and served under President John Kufuor's government becomes the first woman to occupy the Chief of Staff office in Ghana.

Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) recently became Europe's youngest head of government after reaching a coalition agreement with the right - wing FPÖ.

Thus, the head of the RCD, Azarias Ruberwa, became one of the four Vice-Presidents, and senior RCD officers were put into key positions across the East, thereby preserving a network within the security complex of the Kivus which guaranteed the interests of the Rwandan government in the region would be protected (stay tuned for more on what those interests actually are later).

Shinzo Abe became the first - ever Japanese head of government to make an official trip to Bucharest when he arrived on Tuesday (January 16).

Taking the title of VP, head of global comms and policy, she will advise the firm on how to lobby the government, although Rogers is banned from becoming personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of Deliveroo for two years after leaving office.

After a stint in the Marines, Radford, 45, became an activist and organizer on a number of fronts, including president of the student government at Erie Community College, a trainer with the Martin Luther King Institute for Nonviolence, and head of a youth detention center for at - risk kids and a homeless shelter for young women.

In 1884 the office became elective, and in 1938 the comptroller became head of a separate, independent department of the City's government.

Following the appointment, President Akufo - Addo became the first head of state in the 4th Republic to have more than a hundred (100) ministers serve in his government.

► «Engineer Jill Hruby was named director of the Sandia National Laboratories on Monday, becoming the first woman to head one of three U.S. government labs charged with developing and maintaining the country's nuclear arsenal,» Warren Cornwall wrote at ScienceInsider on Tuesday.

McCabe has in fact become one of the federal government's top advisers on these matters since the secretary of Health and Human Services tapped him last December to head the department's advisory committee on genetics, health, and society.

In March 2000, European heads of governments and of states agreed in Lisbon that by 2010, the European Union (EU) should become «the most competitive and dynamic knowledge - based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion.»

«Informed activists have become full participants in deciding the design and the kinds of trial that should be done,» says Anthony Fauci, head of the US government's AIDS research effort at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease in Maryland.

At 31 years of age, Sebastian Kurz is poised to become Europe's youngest head of government.

In several African countries, former refugees have become heads of state and government, including Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Africa to name but few.

He headed the government's Fulbright Program — later becoming chief of staff to Chief Justice Warren Burger.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: «It would be helpful if the government was open about how many people have applied to become part of the NTS.»

Association of Educational Psychologists (AEP), Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), National Union of Teachers (NUT), and UNISON comment on the Government's plans for all schools to become academies.

«The tables have become less a way of giving parents the information they want and more an arms - length policy lever by which successive governments have sought to influence the decisions heads take about how to run their schools,» said United Learning's chief executive, Jon Coles.

But hers was a science family: Her father was a physician, and her mother, a Ph.D. in pharmacology, taught and went on to become a government official, heading up the Nigerian version of the Food and Drug Administration.

Among those who became Pew Fellows in 1992 is a lawyer named Victor Sher who is described as «the former president of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund» and Jane Lubchenco — who now heads the US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (see more about her activist ties here).

Born in 1941, he became a climatologist at the University of Iowa, developed the groundbreaking «Zero Model» for projecting climate change, and later became the head of climate research at NASA, only to leave under pressure when, while still a federal employee, he filed a lawsuit against the federal government charging inaction on warming (along the way he got arrested a few times for protesting, too).

One of the scientists who was paid by the sugar industry was D. Mark Hegsted, notes the Times, who went on to become the head of nutrition at the United States Department of Agriculture, where in 1977 he helped draft the forerunner to the federal government's dietary guidelines.

As I've argued before, once we are firmly headed in a particular direction, the pace at which we get there becomes less about specific government targets, and more about the sheer momentum of social and technological change.

In 2000, Mike became the Staff Judge Advocate at Naval Air Station Brunswick, ME, where he advised the commanding officer, executive officer, and all department heads on a myriad of legal issues, including environmental law, labor relations, military justice, and government procurement activities.

The graph that results shows clearly the increase in public interest as legislation became imminent, spiking just after the government introduced Bill C - 61, and falling away within a day or two, headed for the usual level of general lack of interest.