Guinea's armed forces are divided into five branches — army, navy, air force, the paramilitary National Gendarmerie and the Republican Guard — whose chiefs report to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who is subordinate to the Minister of Defense.

As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current commandant of the Marine Corps ( General James T. Conway ) in terms of seniority and time in grade — the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace ; former commandant Michael Hagee, commander of U. S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.

* General Khalid Shameem Wynne — Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee

The earliest known citation on the Internet is from 1986 on Usenet in the signature of a poster from Convex Computer Corporation as "' I think there is a world market for about five computers ' — Remark attributed to Thomas J. Watson ( Chairman of the Board of International Business Machines ), 1943 ".

Prior to signing the accords, Arafat — as Chairman of the PLO and its official representative — signed two letters renouncing violence and officially recognizing Israel.

( See GAO Report — Perchlorate: A System to Track Sampling and Cleanup Results is Needed — Report to the Chairman, Dr. Adam Dierkers, Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives — May 2005 ).

* Chairman — Rodney A. Butler

* Andrew Gould — Chairman and former CEO of Schlumberger ( 2003 – 2011 )

* David M. Guill, District G-Bacon / Saxe, Chairman — Term expires 12-31-11

* Charles Tomaro ( Edison ) — Chairman, Business Development and Education Committee ( 2011 )

* W. S. Stuckey, Jr. — a former Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives that represented Georgia's 8th congressional district ( 1967 – 1977 ) and former President of Stuckey's ( 1958 – 1966 ) currently Chairman of the Board.

* C. Wesley Roberts — Chairman of the Republican Party, father of U. S. Senator Pat Roberts.

* Sir Peter Parker ( 1924 – 2002 ) — Chairman of the British Railways Board, 1976 – 1983

* James Hagedorn — Scotts Miracle-Gro CEO, co-Chairman of National Fund for the U. S. Botanic Garden, and Chairman of Farms for City Kids Foundation

* Ben Bernanke — Chairman of the Federal Reserve

* Jeffrey O. Henley — 1966, B. A., Economics, Chairman of Oracle Corporation

* Chairman of the Central Military Commission — Hu Jintao ( also General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China ) ( since September 2004 )

* Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission — General Guo Boxiong ( since November 2002 )

* Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission — General Xu Caihou ( since September 2004 )

* Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission — Xi Jinping ( also Secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist Party, Vice President of the People's Republic of China ) ( since October 2010 )

In a review of the board's evidence and findings — solicited by the Navy and kept secret with the report until 2004 — Chairman of the American Psychiatric Association Dr. Winfred Overholser concluded that Forrestal " came to his death by suicide while in a state of mental depression ," but the report's own conclusions were seen to have been accurately reported 55 years earlier, that is simply that Forrestal died from the fall.

Paul travels to Jerusalem where he meets with the apostles — a meeting known as the Council of Jerusalem ().

However, early church documents, such as those of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) had always listed the Pope of Rome first among the Ancient Patriarchs ( first four, and later five: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem — collectively referred to as the Pentarchy ).

The guilds, asserting that the Jews were responsible — several had been tortured and confessed — demanded they be executed, which the Council did in January 1349, except for a few who escaped to Alsace.

The Oriental Orthodox Churches ( also called Old Oriental Churches ) are those eastern churches that recognize the first three ecumenical councils — Nicaea, Constantinople and Ephesus — but reject the dogmatic definitions of the Council of Chalcedon and instead espouse a Miaphysite christology.

In a letter dated 18 February 2008, Castro announced that he would not accept the positions of president and commander in chief at the 24 February 2008 National Assembly meetings, saying " I will not aspire nor accept — I repeat I will not aspire or accept — the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief.

Roman Legate Hilary, who as pope dedicated an oratory in the Lateran Basilica in thanks for his life, managed to escape from Constantinople and brought news of the Council to Leo who immediately dubbed it a " synod of robbers " — Latrocinium — and refused to accept its pronouncements.

1946 — Legislative Council is established.

* The Communist Party of China — Council on Foreign Relations

The Council of Chalcedon in 451 issued a formulation of the being of Christ — that of two natures, one human and one divine, " united with neither confusion nor division.

Separating from his superior, Metropolitan Acacius of Caesarea, a partisan of Arius who taught that Jesus was a divine being created by — and therefore inferior to — God the Father, St. Cyril took the side of the Eusebians of the post-Nicene conciliation party and thus got into difficulties with his superior that were increased by Acacius's jealousy of the importance assigned to St. Cyril's See by the Council of Nicaea.

Decisions of Catholic Church councils — in particular, those of the Council of Tours ( 1163 ) and of the Third Council of the Lateran ( 1179 )— had scarcely more effect upon the Cathars.

Draco introduced the lot-chosen Council of Four Hundred ( in reality, 401 )— distinct from the Areopagus — which evolved in later constitutions to play a large role in Athenian democracy.

Similar to the cities of Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Waterford — Dublin is administered separately from its respective County with its own City Council.

The Council of Europe now shares responsibility with the European Commission for ensuring that use of the symbol respects the dignity of the flag — taking measures to prevent misuse of it.

The Council of Trent's catechism — the Roman Catechism, written during the Catholic Church's Counter-Reformation to combat Protestantism and Martin Luther's fideism — echoes St. Thomas: There is a great difference between Christian philosophy and human wisdom.

By 451 he was designated Theologus, or Theologian by the Council of Chalcedon — a title held by no others save John the Apostle and Symeon the New Theologian.

Secondly, an East Roman force had crossed the Danube under the command of another officer also named Aetius — who had participated in the Council of Chalcedon the previous year — and proceeded to defeat the Huns who had been left behind by Attila to safeguard their home territories.

Currently Raúl Castro — brother of former President Fidel Castro — is President of the Council of State, President of the Council of Ministers ( sometimes referred to as the Prime Minister ), First Secretary of the Communist Party, and Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.

The Duchess of Devonshire campaigned for the Whigs — particularly for a distant cousin, Charles James Fox — at a time when the King ( George III ) and his Ministers had a direct influence over the House of Commons, principally through their power of patronage.

In the years leading up to the Revolution, he communicated with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson — who served successively as United States Ministers to France in that period — and used materials provided directly by each of them in several of his pre-Revolution publications.

Foreign dignitaries were described as Ministers in other Churches: for example, George W. Bush usually appeared in the Parish News each week as " Rev Dubya Bush of the Church of the Latter-Day Morons " ( or, in some issues in 2003 — during the Invasion of Iraq and early Iraq War — the Latter-Day Morbombs ), in reference to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons ).

* The Right Honourable — former and current Governors General, Prime Ministers, Chief Justices of Canada and certain eminent Canadians for life

** In office only — Speaker of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Commons, Ministers of the Crown ( however Canadian ministers invariably enter the Privy Council upon their initial appointment, thus assuming the honorific for life ), judges of provincial courts, premiers of provinces and territories, territorial commissioners, and provincial and territorial cabinet ministers

* The Right Honourable — the current and former Prime Ministers, the current and former Speakers of the Parliament of New Zealand, the current and former Chief Justices and the current and future former Governor Generals.

* The Honourable — Ministers of the Crown

The Prime Minister thought him overly pompous and self-important, and it was said that he used him as if he were using a Rolls-Royce to deliver a parcel to the station ; Lloyd George said much later that Churchill treated his Ministers in a way that Lloyd George would never have treated his: " They were all men of substance — well, except Curzon.

The three existing service Ministers — the Secretary of State for War, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Secretary of State for Air — remained in direct operational control of their respective services, but ceased to attend Cabinet.

Afterwards Conservative leader David Cameron mocked Armstrong during an exchange with Tony Blair, saying “ She must be the first Chief Whip in history to put the Prime Minister in the frame for losing a key vote — which is an interesting career move, to say the least .” This was the second time David Cameron had attacked her during Prime Ministers Questions ; on his debut as Leader of the Opposition on 7 December 2005 she was singled out by Cameron when he said " That's the problem with these exchanges-the chief whip on the Labour side shouting like a child.

The prime minister is not authorized to request the dissolution of the Parliament of Italy or to dismiss ministers, and must receive a vote of approval from the Council of Ministers — which holds effective executive power — to execute most political activities.

Without ever charged with any crimes, he was unconditionally released from detention on 1 October 1984, alongside 249 other politicians of that era — former Ministers Adamu Ciroma and Maitama Sule were also on that batch of released politicians.

Many others — old Nazis, Cabinet Ministers and even Salman Rushdie — would regularly pay to buy his silence.

State funerals were also organised for India's Prime Ministers who died in office — Jawaharlal Nehru ( 1964 ), Lal Bahadur Shastri ( 1966 ), and Indira Gandhi ( 1984 ).

* 1982 — appointed as the Chairman of the State Planning Committee of Azerbaijan SSR and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Azerbaijan SSR.

* January 1989 — appointed as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Azerbaijan SSR.

* Fatali Khan Khoyski — attorney, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic ( 1918 – 1919 ).