* Margaret Thatcher who had been the United Kingdom's Prime Minister since 1979 resigned as Prime Minister on 22 November 1990 after being challenged for the leadership of the Conservative Party by Michael Heseltine because of widespread opposition to the introduction of the controversial Community Charge and the fact that her key allies such as Nigel Lawson and Geoffrey Howe resigned over the deeply sensitive issues of the Maastricht Treaty and Margaret Thatcher's resistance to Britain joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

: This article deals with the Wall Street Journal Prime Rate.

The Wall Street Journal Prime Rate ( WSJ Prime Rate ) is defined by The Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ) as " The base rate on corporate loans posted by at least 70 % of the 10 largest U. S. banks.

Because most consumer interest rates are based upon the Wall Street Journal Prime Rate, when this rate changes, most consumers can expect to see the interest rates of credit cards, auto loans and other consumer debt change.

With the exception of the first term, it has been held by the Labour Party, and for seven years was held by Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister in 1924 and from 1929 to 1935.

Disraeli's term as Prime Minister would therefore be fairly short, unless the Conservatives won the general election.

He was the first Labour Prime Minister to serve a full Parliamentary term, and the first to command a Labour majority in Parliament.

Former Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and Attorney General Mohamed Shahabuddeen served a 9-year term on the International Court of Justice ( 1987 – 96 ).

In 1930, King George V and the Australian Prime Minister James Scullin discussed the appointment of a new governor-general to replace Lord Stonehaven, whose term was coming to an end.

His term as Prime Minister was brought to an early and dramatic end in December 1967 when he disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria, and was presumed drowned.

After eight years in opposition, the Coalition won the federal election of December 1949 and Menzies began his record-setting second term as Prime Minister.

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi ( Indirā Priyadarśinī Gāndhī, née Nehru ; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984 ) was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms ( 1966 – 77 ) and a fourth term ( 1980 – 84 ).

* 1898 – Itō Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.

Prime Minister ( first term ), 4 June 1937.

After the election of then-commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces Émile Lahoud as President in 1998 following Hrawi's extended term as President, Salim al-Hoss again served as Prime Minister.

Although Mokhehle completed his term as Prime Minister, due to his failing health, he did not vie for a second term in office.

St-Laurent was the first Prime Minister to live in the present official residence of the Prime Minister of Canada: 24 Sussex Drive, from 1951 to the end of his term in office.

* 1979 – Margaret Thatcher is elected to her first term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

In a 1996 article for The Independent about a talk former Prime Minister Edward Heath gave at a Unification Church sponsored conference, Andrew Brown commented: " The term ' Moonie ' has entered the language as meaning a brainwashed, bright-eyed zombie.

While the Office for National Statistics and others describe the United Kingdom as a " nation state ", others, including a then Prime Minister, describe it as a " multinational state ", and the term Home Nations is used to describe the four national teams that represent the four nations of the United Kingdom ( England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales ).

On 15 November 2007 the National Assembly completed its term and a caretaker government was appointed with the former Chairman of The Senate, Muhammad Mian Soomro as Prime Minister.

The term " Prime Minister " appears at this time as an unofficial title for the leader of the government, usually the head of the Treasury.

However, towards the end of his term and largely as a result of the deep divisions within Likud over Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, Sharon broke away from his party to form Kadima, managing to maintain his position as Prime Minister and also becoming the first Prime Minister not to be a member of either Labour or Likud ( or their predecessors ).

The term was used by the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill during an address to both houses of Congress in the United States of America on 26 December 1941.

Under the 1963 constitution, Massamba-Débat was elected President for a 5-year term and named Pascal Lissouba to serve as Prime Minister.

Menzies ' first term as Prime Minister commenced in 1939, after the death in office of the United Australia Party leader Joseph Lyons and a short-term interim premiership by Sir Earle Page.

The mark of the Prime Ministership of Canada, applied to the arms of prime ministers who pursue them

On Star Trek: Voyager, the Prime Directive was used more than once as a plot device as well, and on more than one occasion, Captain Kathryn Janeway also applied the Prime Directive to a situation which clearly did not involve a pre-warp civilization.

One criticism regarding the Prime Directive is that it is inconsistently applied, depending on a planet's strategic importance or the circumstances in which a starship crew finds itself.

* Prime rate, of interest applied in banking

The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany between 1937 and 1939.

The couple started a school of applied art, the Leeds Technical School of Art, in 1871, and became well renowned for their work in fixing colour photography on to metal and pottery, leading to them being commissioned for portraits of Queen Victoria and the long-serving Prime Minister William Gladstone produced in this way, that were included alongside other mementos of the time in a time capsule – manufactured by Whitley Partners of Hunslet – which was placed in the foundations of Cleopatra's Needle on the embankment of the River Thames.

The label ' Tory ' was, in this sense, applied to the Prime Ministers Lord Bute ( 1762 – 1763 ) and Lord North ( 1770 – 1782 ); but these politicians considered themselves Whigs.

Therefore, Prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan imposed extreme restrictions and applied tremendous pressure on communist party for not being properly allowed to function openly as a political party.

In July 2007 Polish Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński halted work on the bypass after the European Commission applied for an immediate injunction.

With the full support of the Chinese Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, in February 2006, an Expert Panel called by former Petroleum Minister Dr Wang Tao, unanimously agreed Hsu's ROR invention was innovative, and should be tested and applied in China.

Prime rate or prime lending rate is a term applied in many countries to a reference interest rate used by banks.

A ' brake ' dynamometer applies variable load on the Prime Mover ( PM ) and measures the PM's ability to move or hold the RPM as related to the " braking force " applied.

The term " wet " was originally applied to supporters of Thatcher's predecessor as party leader, Edward Heath ( who was Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974 ), as well as Heath's associates such as Jim Prior and Peter Walker.

Carnegie's charm aided by his great wealth meant that he had many British friends, including Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

In the 1997 federal election, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Liberals endured a bitter defeat to the PCs and NDP in many ridings as a result of unpopular cuts to unemployment benefits for seasonal workers, as well as closures of several Canadian Forces Bases, the refusal to honour a promise to rescind the Goods and Services Tax, cutbacks to provincial equalization payments, health care, post-secondary education and regional transportation infrastructure such as airports, fishing harbours, seaports, and railways.

This is certainly true for the Prime Ministers, but there are many Ministers and Members of Parliament with no relation to political families.

However, despite these laws, East Timor has many problems with illegally armed militias, including widespread violence in 2006 which resulted in over 100, 000 people being forced from their homes, as well as two separate assassination attempts on the Prime Minister and President in early 2008.

Holt spent 32 years in Parliament, including many years as a senior Cabinet Minister, but was Prime Minister for only 22 months.

Prime Ministers Callaghan and Blair have been amongst the many in Britain of part-Irish ancestry, with Blair's mother coming from County Donegal.

Despite a 1995 apology regarding World War II by Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, tensions still remain, mostly because many Chinese feel there is a lack of true remorse for wartime crimes committed by Imperial Japanese forces.

" This was the among many historic steps led by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to strengthen global economic stability.

To the surprise of many, Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, who had vehemently opposed this amendment, appeared to have finally accepted it, and so did most of his party.

During the terms of Dr. Mahathir Mohamad as the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia, many constitutional amendments were made.

* 1992 – Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3, 500 arrests.

As such, the prime minister, supported by the Office of the Prime Minister ( PMO ), controls the appointments of many key figures in Canada's system of governance, including the governor general, the Cabinet, justices of the Supreme Court, senators, heads of crown corporations, ambassadors to foreign countries, the provincial lieutenant governors, and approximately 3, 100 other positions.

Solely upon the advice of the Prime Minister, the Sovereign exercises many statutory and prerogative powers, including high judicial, political, official and Church of England ecclesiastical appointments ; the conferral of peerages, knighthoods, decorations and other honours.

Scattered across 800 years, the British constitution consists of many documents — such as Magna Carta ( 1215 ), the Great Reform Bill ( 1832 ), and the Parliament Act ( 1911 )— and, most important for the evolution of the office of Prime Minister, customs known as conventions that became accepted practice.

For example, many of the Prime Minister's executive and legislative powers are actually “ royal prerogatives ” and still formally vested in the Head of State, the Sovereign.

Furthermore, many thought that the title " Prime Minister " usurped the Sovereign's constitutional position as " head of the government " and that it was an affront to other ministers because they were all appointed by and equally responsible to the Sovereign.

He also implemented many procedural reforms, to make Parliament and the Liberal caucus meetings run more efficiently, significantly expanded the size and role of the Prime Minister's office, and substantially expanded the welfare state, with the establishment of new programmes, and significant improvements in existing ones, with welfare payments to the aged, the young, and the underprivileged greatly expanded in an attempt to bring about a European-style social democracy in Canada.

Meanwhile, among the many V. I. P. s who came to look were U. S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy ( 22 February 1962 ), Prime Minister Harold Wilson of the United Kingdom ( 6 March 1965 ), H. M. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ( 27 May 1965 ), H. R. H.

President's deputy, the Prime Minister, leads the ruling party in parliament and shares many executive responsibilities, mainly in domestic affairs.

Thereafter Channel Nine attempted many new soap operas, several produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation, including Taurus Rising, Waterloo Station, Starting Out and Possession, along with Prime Time produced by Crawford's.

Tony Blair, the Prime Minister of Britain at the time of the British intervention, is regarded as a hero by the people of Sierra Leone, many of whom are keen for more British involvement.

Spain has been an effective example of transition from dictatorship to democracy, as shown in the many trips that Spain's King and Prime Ministers have made to the region.

However since 1932, when the military, with the help of civilians, decided to overthrow the system of absolute monarchy and instead created a constitutional system, the military has dominated and been in control of Thai politics, providing it with many Prime Ministers and carrying out many Coup d ' états, the most recent being in 2006.

) They were followed by other small-scale private banks established between 1994 and 1995, during the DYP government of Prime Minister Tansu Çiller, who introduced drastic changes to the banking laws and regulations ; which made it very easy to establish a bank in Turkey, but also opened many loopholes in the system.