The President of Costa Rica has limited powers, particularly in comparison to other Latin American Presidents.

Hoover, who had made a small fortune in mining, was the first of two Presidents to redistribute their salary ( President Kennedy was the other ; he donated all his paychecks to charity ).

They include Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and many other well known figures in American history.

His death came 55 years after the U. S. Declaration of Independence was proclaimed and 5 years after the death of two other Founding Fathers who became Presidents: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

At Young's death in 1877, he was followed by other LDS Presidents, who resisted efforts by the United States Congress to outlaw Mormon polygamous marriages.

Presidents in this system are either directly elected by popular vote or indirectly elected by an electoral college or some other democratically elected body.

#* " When it comes to Monroe's ... thoughts on religion ", Bliss Isely comments in his The Presidents: Men of Faith, " less is known than that of any other President.

They bore the images of Queens, Presidents and other political figures.

It is of particular note that it was here that Nobel Laureate and former Presidents of South Africa Nelson Mandela and Kgalema Motlanthe, alongside many other political prisoners, spent 27 years imprisoned during the apartheid era.

On hearing of his nomination as vice president, he announced that he was not surprised, as " Indiana is the mother of Vice Presidents ; home of more second-class men than any other state.

From this date until the death of Former U. S. President James Madison on June 28 1836, there are a total of 19 Presidents of the United States ( 3 former, 1 current, and 15 known future ) living ; which is more than any other time period in U. S. history.

As of early July 2007 the draft resolution, backed by the United States, the United Kingdom and other European members of the Security Council, was rewritten four times to try to accommodate Russian concerns, and despite talks between the Presidents of Russia and the United States.

They include the biennial Ryder Cup played by two teams, one representing the USA and the other representing Europe ; the biennial Presidents Cup for teams representing the USA and International ( non-European ) players ; the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship ; and the older Volvo World Match Play Championship, an invitational event which is now part of the European Tour.

His house eventually grew into the Rod and Gun Club, visited by United States Presidents and other notables.

Presidents have invited other world leaders to travel with them on Air Force One at times, including Nixon inviting Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to travel with him to California from Washington, D. C. in June 1973, and George W. Bush traveled with Mexican President Vicente Fox to Toledo, Ohio on 6 September 2001 In March 2012, President Obama took the British Prime Minister David Cameron to a basketball game in Ohio aboard Air Force One.

Traditionally monarchs, particularly European ones, address each other in formal communications in the singular e. g. ‘ I being desirous ’ but address Presidents and other Heads of State in the majestic plural e. g. ‘ We being desirous ’.

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations ( CoP ; often referred to as the Presidents ' Conference ) is a non-profit organization that describes itself as " a central address for key American, Israeli and other world leaders to consult on issues of critical concern to the Jewish community.

The seniority of the figure who delivered the message varied wildly from country to country, ranging from Presidents and Prime Ministers on one end of the spectrum to junior ministers or ambassadors on the other, but a few very significant European political figures did appear, including long-serving Swedish premier Göran Persson and President Alija Izetbegović of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The act passed by the 106th Congress can be deciphered as so: To amend section 879 of title 18, United States Code, to provide clearer coverage over threats against former Presidents and members of their families, and for other purposes.

He is one of only two French Presidents ( the other is Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing ) who were born outside France ( Deschanel in Belgium, Giscard in Koblenz, Germany ).

Despite his great contributions to early American society, Rush may be more famous today as the man who, in 1812, helped reconcile the friendship of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams by encouraging the two former Presidents to resume writing to each other.

Presidents in Brazil also have significant lawmaking powers, exercised either by proposing laws to the National Congress, or else by using Medidas Provisórias ( Provisional Measures ), an instrument with the force of law that the President can enact in cases of urgency and necessity, except to make changes to some areas of Law ( provisional measures cannot be used to change criminal law, electoral law, tax law, among other cases ).

But if they really hoped to succeed they needed professionals, men who knew how to use a gun against men, who would match the killers on the other side.

But there were other homesteaders who passed the Lewis murder off as a personal grudge killing, the work of one of his neighbors.

`` You know who the other man was ''??

He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

He saw the most action, beat up more badmen with his bare fists, broke up the most gangs and sent more murderers to the gallows than any other U.S. marshal who lived before or after him.

To him, law is the command of the sovereign ( the English monarch ) who personifies the power of the nation, while sovereignty is the power to make law -- i.e., to prevail over internal groups and to be free from the commands of other sovereigns in other nations.

I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.

The other variables include the dancer who is to perform the movement and the length of time he is to take in its performance.

In the Stalag, Helion came to know and love his comrades, most of them plain folk, who, in their extremity, showed true courage and ran great risks to help each other.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

Taking into account Thompson's capacity for self-dramatization and the possibility of a wish to identify his own life with the misfortunes of other poets who had known unhappy loves, there can be no doubt about his genuine emotion for Katie King.

My other nugget of art and architectural knowledge -- besides remembering that it was Ghiberti who designed the doors of the baptistery in Florence -- is the three styles of Greek columns.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

In other words, as students go through college, those who are most successful academically tend to become more committed to a `` Bill of Rights '' orientation.

On the other side are the Celtic survivalists who have taken a tack divergent from both these schools of nineteenth century thought.

It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

There were other Italians who still bore scars they had earned in police station basements, resisting.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

Registered Democrats in New York City this year have the opportunity to elect their party's candidates for Mayor and other municipal posts and the men who will run their party organization.

State Controller Arthur Levitt, on the other hand, cannot effectively deny that he has chosen to be the candidate of those party leaders who as a rule have shown livelier interest in political power than in the city's welfare.