Ordinary methods of diplomacy within the free world are inadequate, said the former Prime Minister.

Former British Prime Minister Attlee says Eisenhower was not a `` great soldier ''.

We had nearly decided that all the tales of Lao lethargy must be true, when we were invited to take a trip with the Prime Minister.

In Keng Kok, the City of Silkworms, the Prime Minister bought fried chickens and fried cicadas, and two notebooks for me.

The Prime Minister paid his respects to the Buddhist monks, strode rapidly among the houses, joked with the local soldiery, and made a speech.

This was expanded upon by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, who established a Division of Anthropology within the Geological Survey in 1910.

The executive branch of the government was composed of the President, the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers.

Prime Minister Pedro Pires sent FARP soldiers to Angola where they served as the personal bodyguards of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos.

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visited Angola in June 2006, offering a US $ 9 billion loan for infrastructure improvements in return for petroleum.

After that case Poirot apparently came to the attention of the British secret service, and undertook cases for the British government, including foiling the attempted abduction of the Prime Minister.

* 1968 – Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.

* 1902 – Louis Beel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 1977 )

* 1924 – Raymond Barre, French politician, Prime Minister of France ( d. 2007 )

* 1803 – Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and statesman, 10th Prime Minister of Prussia ( d. 1879 )

* 1908 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland ( d. 1970 )

* 1949 – António Guterres, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal

* 1955 – Dimitra Liani, Greek air hostess, widow of Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou

* 1959 – Stephen Harper, Canadian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada

* 1918 – Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 2001 )

* 1928 – Péter Boross, Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary

* 1966 – Juhan Parts, Estonian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Estonia

* 1765 – Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 1848 )

* 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese politician and journalist, 8th Prime Minister of Malta ( d. 2012 )

* 1944 – Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician, 9th Prime Minister of Bangladesh

* 1961 – John Key, New Zealand politician, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

Prince Ranariddh and Hun Sen became First and Second Prime Ministers, respectively, in the Royal Cambodian Government ( RGC ).

During the First World War Prime Minister Robert Borden attempted to form a coalition with the opposition Liberals to broaden support for controversial conscription legislation.

He eventually started appointing First State Commissioners ( known elsewhere as Prime ministers ), with largely coordinating powers, and very little executive power.

Similarly, Lavrenty Beria, the First Deputy Prime Minister of the USSR, pursued German reunification, but an internal ( Party ) coup d ’ étât deposed him from government in mid-1953, before he could act on the matter.

* 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.

In the First World War, the Welsh Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, unveiled a statue to him in Cardiff City Hall and a postcard showing Owain at the Battle of Mynydd Hyddgen was sold to raise money for wounded Welsh soldiers.

As well as being head of government, a prime minister may have other roles or titles — the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, for example, is also First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service.

Today the Prime Minister ( First Lord of the Treasury ), the Chancellor of the Exchequer ( responsible for The Budget ) and other senior members of the Cabinet sit on the Treasury bench and present policies in much the same way Ministers did late in the 17th century.

The Premiership is still largely a convention of the constitution ; its legal authority is derived primarily from the fact that the Prime Minister is also First Lord of the Treasury.

The Treasury Commission ceased to meet late in the 18th century but has survived, albeit with very different functions: the First Lord of the Treasury is now the Prime Minister, the Second Lord is the Chancellor of the Exchequer ( and actually in charge of the Treasury ), and the Junior Lords are government Whips maintaining party discipline in the House of Commons ; they no longer have any duties related to the Treasury, though when subordinate legislation requires the consent of the Treasury it is still two of the Junior Lords who sign on its behalf.

Walpole is considered to have been the " First " Prime Minister.

The first official recognition given to the office had only been in the Treaty of Berlin in 1878, when Disraeli signed as " First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister of her Britannic Majesty ".

Unequivocal legal recognition was given in the Ministers of the Crown Act 1937, which made provision for paying a salary to the person who is both " the First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister ".

Explicitly recognising two hundred years ' of ambivalence, the act states that it intended " To give statutory recognition to the existence of the position of Prime Minister, and to the historic link between the Premiership and the office of First Lord of the Treasury, by providing in respect to that position and office a salary of ..." The Act made a distinction between the " position " ( Prime Minister ) and the " office " ( First Lord of the Treasury ), emphasising the unique political character of the former.

Nevertheless, the brass plate on the door of the Prime Minister's home, 10 Downing Street, still bears the title of " First Lord of the Treasury ", as it has since the 18th century.

First, the Great Reform Bill removed the Sovereign from the election process and the choice of Prime Minister.

* In 1973 Menzies was awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun, Grand Cordon, First Class ( other Australian Prime Ministers to be awarded this honour were Edmund Barton, John McEwen, Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam ).

First introduced in the 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Wounded ", the species originated on the fictional Alpha Quadrant planet Cardassia Prime.

The Prime Directive and Starfleet's first contact policies are at the center of several episodes in each Star Trek series and the film Star Trek: First Contact.

The First Menzies Ministry included the ageing former Prime Minister Billy Hughes and the young future Prime Minister Harold Holt.