At Augustus ' death, the equites, or knights, chose Claudius to head their delegation.

The rules are very strict: allowing the head of the delegation, his or her spouse, and one other person.

So to discredit his rival, he appointed Ribbentrop head of the delegation sent to London to negotiate it.

The absence of armed personnel had worried Israeli delegation head Shmuel Lalkin even before his team arrived in Munich.

For example, the head of the Swiss delegation at the NNSC in Korea ( see below ) had a rank of major general.

* 1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.

For the second round of negotiations with the Central Powers, Leon Trotsky replaced Adolph Joffe as the head of the Soviet delegation.

Frustrated with continued German demands for cessions of territory, Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs ( more or less Foreign Minister ), and head of the Russian delegation, on February 10, 1918, announced Russia's withdrawal from the negotiations and unilateral declaration of the ending of hostilities, a position summed up as " no war — no peace ".

This time Lenin had a majority with him on the Central Committee and the Soviet government sent George V. Chichern and Lev Karakhan to head a new delegation to the peace conference with instructions to sign this proposal.

This expert group meets once or twice a year in V4 capitals on a rotation basis, and the head of the host country delegation always chairs the meeting.

( The following year White accepted Taft's appointment to head a delegation to the Pan-American Conference in Buenos Aires.

" This recalls an incident at the 1940 Republican National Convention when the head of a state delegation from the Midwest announced " two votes for Villkie " in a Scandinavian accent.

When the head of the delegation fell ill, Stevenson assumed his role.

At the London Economic Conference of 1933, the head of the German delegation, the Economics Minister Dr. Alfred Hugenberg of the German National People's Party, put forth a programme of German colonial expansion in both Africa and Eastern Europe as the best way of ending the Great Depression, which created a major storm at the conference.

Before he assumed the position of Minister of Finance, he was well known as head of the Vietnamese delegation to the Vietnam-France post-war negotiations at Fontainebleau ( France ) in May 1946.

Macmillan with Indian Minister and head of Indian delegation Ashoke Kumar Sen and wife Anjana, daughter of Sudhi Ranjan Das

The American delegation, headed by former Secretary of State William R. Day-who had vacated his position as United States Secretary of State in order to head the commission-arrived in Paris on September 26, 1898.

He served as President of Dáil Éireann from January to August 1922, and was head of the Irish delegation at the negotiations in London that produced the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, attending with Michael Collins.

In October 1921, de Valera, President of the Irish Republic, asked him to head the delegation of Irish plenipotentiaries to negotiate with the British government.

On the third day, at the head of a small delegation, he presented himself to the prefect, and when ordered to give up the treasures of the Church, he presented the poor, the crippled, the blind and the suffering, and said that these were the true treasures of the Church.

Sir Alfred Milner, head of the British delegation, took exception to his dominance, and conflict between the two led to the collapse of the conference, consigning South Africa to war.

In 1950, he became head of the Swedish delegation to UNISCAN.

In June 1951 the German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, appointed him state secretary ( a top-ranking civil servant ) in the Federal Chancellery ( Kanzleramt ) and made him head of the German delegation for the Schuman Plan negotiations.

Jacques de Reynier, head of the International Red Cross delegation in Palestine, visited Deir Yassin on April 11, 1948 and observed " a total of more than 200 dead, men, women, and children.

Until the dissolution of Holy Roman Empire and mediatization of smaller imperial fiefs by Napoleon, the evangelical Abbess of Quedlinburg was also per officio the head of that reichsunmittelbar state.

As well as being arch chancellors of the Holy Roman Empire after the 9th century, bishops generally served as chancellors to medieval monarchs, acting as head of the justiciary and chief chaplain.

The head of the church and the See of Alexandria is the Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy See of Saint Mark.

Opposition to Jesus comes to a head with accusations that his deeds are done through the power of Satan ; Jesus in turn accuses his opponents of blaspheming the Holy Spirit.

His head is believed to be now in Armenia, his left hand at Echmiadzin, and his right at the Holy See of Cilicia in Antelias, Lebanon.

Adding to their battles in France, the Kings of France and England were trying to install their respective allies at the head of the Holy Roman Empire.

Saving ordinances ( or ordinances viewed as necessary for salvation ) include: Baptism by immersion after the age of accountability ( normally age 8 ); Confirmation and reception of the Gift of the Holy Ghost, performed by laying hands on the head of a newly baptized member ; ordination to the Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthoods for males ; an Endowment ( including washing and anointing ) received in temples ; and Marriage ( or sealing ) to a spouse.

Joseph Ratzinger, then a member of the faculty at the University of Tübingen but later a much more conservative figure as the head of the successor to the Holy Office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and later still Pope Benedict XVI.

A Papal Nuncio ( officially known as an Apostolic Nuncio ) is a permanent diplomatic representative ( head of diplomatic mission ) of the Holy See to a state or international organization ( e. g., the Arab League ), having the rank of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, usually with the ecclesiastical rank of titular archbishop.

It is as head of the Holy See, not of Vatican City, that the U. S. Justice Department ruled that the Pope enjoys head-of-state immunity.

( Cardinal Frings's theological advisor was the young Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, who would later, as Cardinal, head the same department of the Holy See.

The Holy See, of which the current pope is head ( often referred to incorrectly as the Vatican or Vatican City State, a distinct entity ) claims sovereign immunity for the pope, supported by many international agreements.

More frequently, he played parts that no one else wanted to play ( generally because they required a lot of make-up or uncomfortable costumes, such as a recurring knight in armour who would end sketches by walking on and hitting one of the other characters over the head with a plucked chicken ) and took a number of small roles in the films, including Patsy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( which he co-directed with Terry Jones, where Gilliam was responsible for photography, while Jones would guide the actors ' performances ) and the jailer in Monty Python's Life of Brian.

The Politics of Vatican City takes place in a framework of an absolute theocratic elective monarchy, in which the head of the Catholic Church, the Pope, exercises ex officio supreme legislative, executive, and judicial power over the State of the Vatican City ( an entity distinct from the Holy See ), a rare case of non-hereditary monarchy.

Elected King of the Romans 16 February 1486 in Frankfurt-am-Main at his father's initiative and crowned on 9 April 1486 in Aachen, Maximilian also stood at the head of the Holy Roman Empire upon his father's death in 1493.

Thus, without holding any land directly under the Holy Roman Emperors, the Liechtenstein dynasty was unable to meet the primary requirement to qualify for a seat in the Imperial diet, the Reichstag, although its head was elevated to princely rank in the late 17th century.

According to a Portuguese legend Władysław survived the Battle of Varna ( although the Turks claimed to have his head, his body in royal armor was never found ) and then journeyed in secrecy to the Holy Land.

Due to his administrative tasks, the head of the chapel of the imperial palace during the Holy Roman Empire was called Chancellor.

At the funeral of Pope John Paul II, President Chen Shui-bian ( far left ), whom the Holy See recognized as the head of state of China, was seated in the front row ( List of dignitaries at the funeral of Pope John Paul II | in French alphabetical order ) beside the first lady and president of Brazil.

Frederick II ( 26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250 ), was one of the most powerful Holy Roman Emperors of the Middle Ages and head of the House of Hohenstaufen.

The Emperor confirmed the privileges of the Holy See as head of the Catholic Church and sent to Rome a codex of the Gospels in a cover of gold richly ornamented with precious stones as a good-will gesture.

In 1918, Nauhaus was contacted in Munich by Rudolf von Sebottendorf ( or von Sebottendorff ), an occultist and newly elected head of the Bavarian province of the schismatic offshoot, known as the Germanenorden Walvater of the Holy Grail.

In this quandary, the head of the hermitage, who had no one among his own humble friars suitable for the occasion, called upon Anthony, whom he suspected was most qualified, and entreated him to speak whatever the Holy Spirit should put into his mouth.

He was a plump, bald, ebullient southerner who had once served five years in a prison on a charge of exposing himself before a group of children and was now the head of a religious diploma mill in Florida and of a seedy, flat-roofed stucco church called the Church of Holy Love, Incorporated.