Sentences with phrase «becoming head of state»

Smooth the process of becoming head of state with respect to time, in various ways such as indirect election by a rolling elected panel.

To prevent a demagogue from becoming head of state, you need to abolish the position of head of state.

And then, by the time I became head of state, because I went to War College in the United States before the military handed over to the Second Republic and came back in 1980 and then, there was coup at the end of 1983.

Due to the structure of our state that is his position, someone who could become the head of state of this country, or atleast have influence over them.

Then Juan Carlos I became Head of State, and he chose as Prime Minister one of the more liberal members of the old regime, Adolfo Suárez.

After constitutional changes in 2010, Angola does not directly elect a president, but the leader of the winning party automatically becomes head of state.

President Buhari also reminisced on his time as General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 3 Armoured Division Jos, recalling that it was from this position that he was summoned to become Head of State in January 1984.

«I wish I became Head of State when I was a governor, just a few years as a young man.

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

Not exact matches

EU Parliament head Guy Verhofstadt told Business Insider that Brexit was an opportunity for the EU to become a tighter, more unified family of nations, but this ambition is under threat from populist, anti-EU movements in numerous member states.

A committee head in Russia's State Duma has suggested that the Moscow Stock Exchange may become the site of cryptocurrency trading.

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.

Having a degree is, statistically, the greatest corollary to becoming a self - made millionaire as roughly 90 out of 100 rich households in the United States are headed by someone with a four year degree or higher according to research done by the late Dr. Thomas Stanley at the University of Georgia.

That is, what we can observe today (states and their populations become more and more profane or secular), and moreover it is predicted in the book of Revelation of the Bible that finally the whole world will worship the Arch-Blasphemer (the head of the Beast) or the Wicked.

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

Joseph a much esteemed man of God was sold into slavery by his brothers and became the highest ranking state head in Egypt next to the Pharaoh.

It became a model for Protestant states, where generally the prince, rather than a priest, was head of the church, and at the highest level directed its affairs.

In an age like ours, when a Hollywood movie actor who was also head of the actors» union for a while became President of the United States, this prejudice might seem mere crankery.

«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,» reports the Times.

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.

You have to wonder that if Urban Meyer became the head coach for Florida State or Georgia would Tebow still be a fan of them?

• In 1984, when she was named athletic director at San Diego State University, Mary Alice Hill, 46, became the first woman to head the athletic department of a Division I school.

Forbidden by segregation to compete in an official meet with the state's black champ — a guy everybody called Cornelius Mitchell, who years later would become the first African - American signed by the Washington Redskins, a future Hall of Fame flanker known as Bobby Mitchell — the two boys from Hot Springs met on a track that had gone to seed and went head - to - head in a series of informal races.

OTL reports that at least 16 Michigan State football players have been named in accusations of rape or violence against women since Mark Dantonio became the head coach in 2007.

The present coach is Walter Shublom, a 45 - year - old social studies teacher who became head coach at Wyandotte 14 years ago, and since then has won nine state championships, five of them in a row, from 1957 to 1961.

He's a Florida State alum with plenty of ties to the Sunshine State (he's originally from Clearwater, Fla., west of Tampa — read more here about Frey), with aspirations to become a head coach.

In 1962 he became the Head Athletic Trainer at Lamar State College of Technology (Lamar University).

Recall that one of the earliest walls Gov. Eliot Spitzer ran head - long into was a proposal to allow undocumented workers receive drivers» licenses issued by the state, a move that was vehemently opposed by county clerks and became a campaign issue for Hillary Clinton, then running for the Democratic nomination for president.

It's also worth noting here that the HRC's effort to push for marriage equality in NY is headed by a former Bloomberg aide, Brian Ellner, who removed his name from the running to become head of the Empire State Pride Agenda after some LGBT advocates protested his close ties to the mayor.

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.

Two days later Kenyatta would become the first serving head of state to appear before the International Criminal Court in the Hague on charges of crimes against humanity.

That was aside from becoming accidental military head of state, after Murtala's assassination in 1976.

State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs confirmed the NYT report that he has tendered his resignation to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, clearing the way for the governor to select his own leader of an organization of which he became the de facto head when he was elected back in 2010.

During a recent conference on addiction held in Tehran, Saeed Sefatian, a prominent Iranian official and head of the working group on drug demand reduction in the Council for the Discernment of the Expediency of the State (also known as the Expediency Council), illustrated what could become a potential alternative to Iran's current drug policy — including a move which that could include measures towards legalisation of cannabis and opium.

«While the IDC is in the process of helping Shelley Mayer become the next senator of the 37th senate district, the head of the state party, Geoff Berman, is hellbent on undermining the IDC instead of making sure Democrats win seats.

Sen. Eric Schneiderman called Donovan a «nice man,» but noted he had lobbied against Rockefeller Drug Law reform as the head of the state DA's association (Rice was on the board, too, which has become an issue in the primary) said he «represents the past» and the «old, failed ways of thinking about the justice system.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday at the state Business Council's annual retreat in Bolton Landing gave what has become a sort of greatest - hits speech for his administration: A property tax cap, a self - imposed limit on annual spending increases, economic development spending and a tourism push that has paid out dividends of more people heading upstate.

While commending Governor Ambode for his efforts towards growing tourism through investment in infrastructure, he said with the billions of dollars revolving in the sector across the world and over 1.8 billion tourists, the State was heading in the right direction in its bid to become Africa's tourism hub.

It would then become politically possible for the head of state to refuse a dissolution, and a written constitution could specify the criteria the president would use in assessing such a request.

Cuomo is shuffling his staff heading into 2016, according to the DN's Ken Lovett, with Melissa DeRosa tapped to serve as the governor's new chief of staff, and the Senate GOP's Robert Mujica poached to become the new state budget director.

For this reason, when Australia held a vote on becoming a republic, the primary question at issue was abandoning the Queen as the head of state.

Barring unexpected events, it will become head of the armed forces, supreme governor of the Church of England, head of the Commonwealth and head of state of 16 countries.

Consequently, five new ministers, including Sir Ara Darzi — a consultant surgeon who became a health minister in the House of Lords, Sir Digby Jones — a former director general of the CBI who became minister of state for trade and investment and Sir Alan West — the former head of the Royal Navy who became a security minister at the Home Office.

The conventional political wisdom among many at the state Capitol was that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a major cheerleader for Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, would head south to Washington, D.C., to become part of her new administration.

For some of us, the man Buhari is a conviction, a resolution, a man to admire and adore since 1984, when he became military head of state.

The first Queens woman to become a state senator and the first female head of the Senate Higher Education Committee, Stavisky has had a lock on the seat for a decade.

Former Bronx City Councilman and state Attorney General Oliver Koppell continued the guessing game Sunday, although he said he is definitely «leaning toward» challenging Senate Independent Democratic Conference head Jeff Klein, who joined with Republicans to become co-leader of the Senate.

The first Queens woman to become a state senator and the first female head of the Higher Education Committee, Stavisky has had a lock on the seat for a decade.

Reacting to the latest killings by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State, Fayose wondered why a retired Army General and one - time military Head of State who contested and won election on the premises of providing security to the citizens had suddenly become a lame duck.

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.