Sentences with phrase «elected head of»

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

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.

So the newly elected head of the world's oldest scientific body interviews a journalist for three hours, then, knowing that he is a hypochondriac and ex-heavy smoker, chucks away the interview, throws him an irrelevant question about cancer, and films him squirming.

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

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

«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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

The Carnegie Report, so named for industrialist Sir Roderick Carnegie's role as inquiry head, was the first major piece of economic advice the newly elected Court Government received.

The news comes from a report issued Thursday by the Secure Our Smartphones («S.O.S.») Initiative, an international partnership of law - enforcement agencies, elected officials, and consumer advocates headed by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, and London Mayor Boris Johnson.

As Sy explains, the President - elect's picks for various cabinet posts — apart from his selection of Rep. Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services — could well have a significant effect on Americans» health and well - being over the next several years.

Rep. Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon and Georgia Republican who became an early supporter of President - elect Donald Trump, is among the top prospects being considered to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the new administration, according to Politico.

She was elected by ANSI to serve as chair and head of the U.S. delegation for the ISO Technical Advisory Group developing healthcare management standards.

The heads of most of America's biggest technology companies will look for common ground with President - elect Donald Trump this Wednesday.

At the hearing, Senator Elizabeth Warren pressed Carson over the fact that, as the head of the department, he would be in charge of numerous programs that the president could manipulate to profit his real estate empire, asking Carson, «Can you assure me that not a single taxpayer dollar that you give out will financially benefit the president - elect or his family?»

In a sign of Mr. Trump's rightward tilt [on financial regulation], former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins is heading up the president - elect's transition team's work concerning the SEC, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and other financial regulators that historically operate independently of the White House...

An atheist is never going to get elected to the head of one of these organizations, even if they theoretically have to be considered.

Since most heads of such groups are elected by the group itself.

I agree with you to a large extent, Christians are not going to elect an Atheist as head of their group (or our country unfortunately!).

5oo, ooo priests for 1.2 billion Catholics - There is the answer to why the abusing priests were tolerated.The conclave elected exactly who they wanted to be Pope - Someone who would not rock the boat.I believe Pope Benedict was advised to retire in light of the Federal indictment pending so this would not involve a standing Pope and the possiblity of him being found guilty.I further think this new election of Pope will allow the Church to change it's stance on the very controvertial issues the Church is facing ie.female priests being one, the decisions appearing more acceptable coming from a new head as opposed to reversed stance of standing Pope.This decision to retire, in the Churchs» view I believe is damage control and not neccessarily Pope Benedict's desire.If looked at for what it is - A very slick maneuver indeed.

The main business of a General Conference session is to elect the officers and departmental heads at both the General Conference and division levels and to make changes in the constitution of the church and in the Church Manual.

Israel, Wyschogrod suggested, should rename its head of state — the president elected by its....

When we first met in April 2011, what initially impressed me about Sviatoslav Shevchuk was his almost preternatural calm: which was striking, in that, less than a month before and still a few weeks shy of his 41st birthday, Shevchuk had been elected Major - Archbishop of Kyiv - Halych and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — the largest of the Eastern Catholic Churches, Byzantine in liturgy and governance while in full communion with the Bishop of Rome.

UN observer Lorne Gunter comments: «Rather than the People's Assembly being comprised of members or deputies from around the world, elected by and accountable to the people they represent [as is at least theoretically the case with the General Assembly], it would likely be made up of the heads of civil society NGOs, and, under most scenarios, only those NGOs accredited by the UN.

In 1993, Kathleen Richardson was elected president of the Conference, becoming the first female head of the Methodist Church and one of just a handful of British denominational leaders who are female.

We are not electing «head preacher of the US» — we're attempting to elect the candidate most likely to increase the greatness of our nation and be a better commander in chief than the other guy.

While the Electors and the Estates seem not to have been universally impressed with the romantic traditionalism of the young French - speaking chevalier, yet they had to avoid a head - on clash with their recently elected Lord.

He was elected because of his strong oratory skills, yet we've found out that, policy wise, there was not much going on in that head of his.

Not surprisingly, Thomas F. Zimmerman, head of the AG from I957 to date, in 1960 became the elected president of the NAE.

The champions - elect have spent a fortune since being taken over by Roman Abramovich 11 years ago but in the last two seasons with the threat of FFP hanging over their heads they have found a way to get round the rules by making a huge profit in their transfer sales.

Heading towards breaking Thierry Henry's record of 20 assists in a league campaign and is the creative spark behind the champions elect.

When the toss fell, the Ravens won with a call of heads and elected to defer.

Tomorrow - November 8, 2016 - tens of millions of Americans will be heading to the polls to elect...

On Tuesday, November 8, 2016, the United States of America will head to the polls to elect the next leader of the free world.

While the annual cut - off point came too early to include the lucrative sale of Kyle Walker to wealthy champions - elect Manchester City, Spurs still managed a # 40 million profit on player disposals, including those of Nacer Chadli to struggling West Bromwich Albion and the ill - fated Ryan Mason, who has since been forced to retire after suffering a serious head injury, to Hull.