Sentences with phrase «elected head»

In each case the newly elected parliament elected the head of the new government.

The author should be elected head of the chamber of commerce.

One of the more obscure events in the political calendar for outsiders, this question time only takes place on the fourth Tuesday of every month, and has seen Clegg field questions on subjects such as democratically electing a head of state, the AV referendum and, er, House of Lords reform.

Except that Hansen, by writing a personal letter to Obama, and getting worldwide publicity for it, seems rather closer to asserting his will over the world than most elected heads of government.

Or are those quaint and irrelevant considerations in electing a head of state in 21st - century America?

Majoritarian systems can and do have a strong sense of public legitimacy (for example, those which directly elect a head of government, particularly where there are other checks and balances); part of the argument here would be that individual MPs would have greater legitimacy under AV because they need a majority of their local vote.

There are few real checks and balances in the Hungarian political system, which is unicameral and has an indirectly elected head of state.

Similarly, the churches such as Orthodox Church and Catholic Church elect their heads because the positions are not hereditary, even though the churches do not consider themselves «democratic» bodies.

The month before Foye's testimony, Christie was formally elected head of the RGA in Arizona at the organization's annual conference.

Africa's first female elected head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is stepping aside after a maximum two six - year terms.

Therefore, Buhari inherited a calm country that no other elected head of state had witnessed.

The gathering was organized to give the mayors - elect a head start on their new jobs, with seminars and speeches about the many issues and challenges they will face at city hall.

The Committee elects heads of research groups on the basis of international competitions.

In the Parker / Armstrong dining hall (from which whites are soon expelled when Sam is surprisingly elected head of house), Simien lets Kurt bark his complaints to Sam about affirmative action, and propose the dubiousness of colleges» diversity - driven enrollment practices, before spinning the tables back in favor of Sam, who claims Kurt's dad is promoting random housing out of fear that blacks will «congregate and cause trouble on his plantation.»

The government's regional schools commissioners - 8 education experts with in - depth local insight supported by elected head teacher boards from the local community - will then assess whether or not the school has a credible plan to improve and ensure all children make the required progress.

This is the very institution whose elected head and parliamentary secretary (Pierre Poilievre, who commented on the call) are supposed to be leaders in upholding Canadians» privacy protections.»

«The Right Honourable Gentleman's foreign policy is to object to and insult the democratically elected head of state of our most important ally.

It's the first time an Islamist has been elected a head of state in Egypt, and the repercussions for Egyptians are, at this stage, unclear...

Lombardo is the elected head of the metropolitan police department.

It was this same period when, in 1961, AG minister David J. du Plessis was asked to cease his developing ministries among churches aligned with the NCC and WCC — no doubt an embarrassment to the NAE at a time when du Plessis» denominational chief executive was serving as the NAE's elected head.

In these circumstances it does not fall to the Queen to decide who shall be First Minister, or in Ireland to the President; under their constitutions it falls to the newly elected parliament, whose first business (after election of a presiding officer) is to elect the head of the new government.

Which would you prefer — a substantially post-capitalist society with a crowned head of state, or a good, bourgeois republic with an elected head of state?

Other territories followed suit, with most adopting an elected head of state or — more simply still — combing the role of head of state with that of prime minister.

Some 36 % (24 %) said voters should be able to sack their MP between General Elections; 33 % (47 %) backed an elected House of Lords; 24 % (25 %) supported a written constitution while 11 % (21 %) supported replacing the monarch with an elected head of state.

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak, has stated that he is heading to the Supreme Court to seek an interpretation of the law that requires the Speaker of Parliament to be sworn in to act as President when the elected Head of State and deputy are unable to perform their functions.

Article 60 (12) of his same constitution mandates the Speaker of Parliament who can be described as the third man of the land and also the head of the legislature, to be sworn in as the acting President in the absence of the elected Head of State and his vice.

His title is pekaseh, the elected head of a green and fruitful pocket of the watershed, which includes 110 families and their separate - but - cooperating rice paddy operations.

She is elected head of an all - black dormitory, beating her ex-boyfriend Troy Fairbanks (Brandon P. Bell), who is the son of the school's dean.

The Founders of the United States devised the electoral college system to elect the head of the Executive Branch.

Randy Dorn, the elected head of the state's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, believes that the state Constitution requires all public schools to be under his department's jurisdiction.

There is periodical voting amongst the constituents to elect a head of the organization.

DAC Beachcroft has elected the head of its Leeds office and its insurance sector leader to replace its longstanding senior and managing partners.

An elected Head of State is incompatible with a parliamentary regime since it would set up a competing centre of democratic legitimacy — one emanating through election — to cabinet government responsible to Parliament, and ultimately to the people.

In addition, Vern has been a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1991 and served as its elected head (Treasurer) from 2001 — 03.

Now sitting in his final months as the elected head of Ontario's governing body of lawyers, Paul reflects -LSB-...]

You may be very proud that you've just been elected head of your practice group, but clients don't care.

The Roundtable is open only to chairmen, CEOs, presidents, managing directors (or their functional equivalent) of national, market - leading real estate entities, and to the elected heads of major real estate trade associations.

The Roundtable also includes the elected heads of the top real estate trade associations.