And so the young minister resigned, to go and study and pray, having never passed a day, he told his parishioners, when `` I did not gain from you far more than I ever gave to you ''.

Twice during the Civil War it was saved from destruction by the opposing armies by the pleas and prayers of a local minister.

He and the prime minister would be back from the window, seated at Mahzeer's desk ; ;

news of a Protestant minister in Leamington who has offered to allow a Catholic priest to preach from his pulpit ; ;

But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the conflict between him and the Hunkerish society was not something which could be evaporated into a genteel difference about clerical decorum.

" Congo and Angola have agreed to suspend expulsions from both sides of the border ," said Lambert Mende, DR Congo information minister, in October 2009.

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.

In 1953, K. Omelchenko, the minister for the protection of military and state secrets in USSR banned the press from publishing any more information on the Ainu living in the USSR.

Today the choice is made in the name of the monarch by the prime minister, from a shortlist of two selected by an ad-hoc committee called the Crown Nominations Commission.

* In April 2004, Beverly Hughes was forced to resign as minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Counter Terrorism when it was shown that she had been informed of procedural improprieties concerning the granting of visas to certain categories of workers from Eastern Europe.

Tessa Jowell, Labour cabinet minister, embroiled in a scandal about a property remortgage allegedly arranged to enable her husband to realise £ 350, 000 from an off-shore hedge fund, money he allegedly received as a gift following testimony he had provided for Silvio Berlusconi in the 1990s.

The business of making the changes was then entrusted to a small committee of bishops and the Privy Council and, apart from tidying up details, this committee introduced into Morning and Evening Prayer a prayer for the Royal Family ; added several thanksgivings to the Occasional Prayers at the end of the Litany ; altered the rubrics of Private Baptism limiting it to the minister of the parish, or some other lawful minister, but still allowing it in private houses ( the Puritans had wanted it only in the church ); and added to the Catechism the section on the sacraments.

* Reverend Norman McLeod, Presbyterian minister, St Ann's, who migrated in the 1850s with 800 settlers from surrounding communities to Waipu, New Zealand.

Carrington argued that a warrant from a Government minister, the Earl of Halifax was valid authority, even though there was no statutory provision or court order for it.

Prime minister Caambi El-Yachourtu became acting president until Djohar returned from exile in January, 1996.

Not only does the minister serve by the approval of the congregation, but committees further constrain the pastor from exercising power without consent by either the particular committee, or the entire congregation.

His father was born into slavery in 1851 in Pittsboro, North Carolina ; after the Civil War, he graduated from St. Augustine's College and became a prominent minister and founder of St. Michael's Episcopal Church.

Dartmouth was founded by Eleazar Wheelock, a Puritan minister from Columbia, Connecticut, who had previously sought to establish a school to train Native Americans as missionaries.

Occom became an ordained minister after studying under Wheelock from 1743 to 1747, and later moved to Long Island to preach to the Montauks.

He was licensed a minister of the Church of Scotland, but only preached from the pulpit on one occasion.

With help from Plancius Peter, a Flemish minister who was engaged in producing maps, globes and nautical instruments, they sought for a northeastern or northwestern access to Asia to circumvent the VOC monopoly.

The most popular symbol for which David was responsible as propaganda minister was drawn from classical Greek images ; changing and transforming them with contemporary politics.

Soon after, George Washington appointed Adams minister to the Netherlands ( at the age of 26 ) in 1794.

Stuyvesant was born in Peperga, Friesland in the Netherlands, to Balthazar Johannes Stuyvesant, a minister, and Margaretha Hardenstein around 1612.

The politics of the Netherlands Antilles, a former constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, existed in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic country, in which the prime minister was the head of government, and of a multi-party system.

The inquisition policy in the Netherlands, carried out by Cardinal Granvelle, prime minister to the new governor Margaret of Parma ( 1522 – 83 ) ( natural half-sister to Philip II ), increased opposition to Spanish rule among the – then mostly Catholic – population of the Netherlands.

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte described his death as " a loss for Dutch literature and the Netherlands ".

Because the Netherlands ' hope for liberation was now the entry of the US or the USSR into the war, the Queen dismissed her prime minister and replaced him with Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, who worked with Churchill and Roosevelt on ways to smooth the path for an American entry.

The 2009 meeting participants in Greece included: Greek prime minister Kostas Karamanlis ; Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen ; Sweden foreign minister Carl Bildt ; United States Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg ; U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ; World Bank president Robert Zoellick ; European Commission head José Manuel Barroso ; Queen Sofia of Spain ; and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Guillaume Dubois, formerly tutor to the Duke of Orléans, and now his chief minister, caused war to be declared against Spain, with the support of Austria, England and the Netherlands ( Quadruple Alliance ).

Lubbers took over the post, a position he held three successive governments through to 1994, making him the longest serving prime minister in the history of the Netherlands.

The news of the couple's relationship and eventual marriage plans caused controversy in the Netherlands, due to the involvement of Máxima's father as a cabinet minister during the regime of Argentine President Jorge Rafael Videla.

The Netherlands played an important role in the creation of NATO and the European Coal and Steel Community during Stikker's time in office as minister of foreign affairs.

* December 3: Bernard Bot takes office as foreign minister of the Netherlands.

After serving as minister to the Netherlands, he was ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1932.

In the summer of 1792 Charles Dumouriez, the French foreign minister and now commander of the Armée du Nord, had believed that the best way to prevent an Austrian and Prussian invasion of France to invade the Austrian Netherlands ( now Belgium ), but the Allies had launched their invasion before Dumouriez was ready to move, and he had been forced to move south to ask them.

He was also for a short time Prussian minister in the Netherlands, where he endeavoured without success to fund a loan.

Although Seyss-Inquart had proposed that Mussert should be made prime minister of the Netherlands, he was only given the honorary title ' Leader of the Dutch People ', and he was allowed to build a marginal State Secretariat, but he was given little or no actual power.

Aruba, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic country, whereby the prime minister is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.

General Verveer, plenipotentiary minister of the king of the Netherlands to the Central America Federation, attempted to mediate between the Government under siege and Morazán, but they could not reach an agreement.

: Prime minister Wim Kok of the Netherlands announced that 1000 soldiers would join the efforts of the war against terrorism.