* Strategy, including: Funding sources ( individuals, corporations, foundations, donors / governments, endowments, sales / events ) and business model ( independent research, contract work, advocacy ); The balance between research, consultancy, and advocacy ; The source of their arguments: Ideology, values or interests ; applied, empirical or synthesis research ; or theoretical or academic research ( Stephen Yeo ); The manner in which the research agenda is developed — by senior members of the think tank or by individual researchers, or by the think tank of their funders ; Their influencing approaches and tactics ( many researchers but an interesting one comes from Abelson ) and the time horizon for their strategies: long term and short term mobilisation ; Their various audiences of the think tanks ( audiences as consumers and public-this merits another blog ; soon ) ( again, many authors, but Zufeng provides a good framework for China ); and Affiliation, which refers to the issue of independence ( or autonomy ) but also includes think tanks with formal and informal links to political parties, interest groups and other political players.

The conduct of the battle has been a source of controversy: senior officers such as General Sir Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force and Henry Rawlinson, the commander of Fourth Army, have been criticised for incurring very severe casualties while failing to achieve their territorial objectives.

Besides the extant wooden churches, a major source of knowledge is still saved by a number of practicing senior carpenters with relevant knowledge and skills in traditional carpentry.

In reality de Valera got a high media profile from a different source, the Fiftieth Anniversary commemoration of the Easter Rising, of which he was the most senior survivor.

The heroin problem, and attempts to contain it, were the source of much controversy and failed actions involving politicians, senior police, human rights organisations and the media.

In May 2003, Adam Shapiro from ISM stated that Sukiya was not named a " senior Islamic Jihad terrorist " by any official Israeli military or government source, and was being held in administrative detention in Israel without any charge.

Unsecured senior debt obligations of the bank were not assumed by the FDIC, leaving holders of those obligations with little meaningful source of recovery.

Friendly relations continued with Madame de Salzmann and her groups throughout 1951 and 1952, but by then Bennett was convinced that his more senior students were not making progress, and that he had to find out for himself whether there still existed an ancient tradition or source from which Gurdjieff had derived his teaching.

Bob Woodward, a reporter working for the Washington Post was told by a source ( Deep Throat ) who was employed by the government that senior aides of President Richard Nixon had paid the burglars to obtain information about his political opponents.

A senior political source said: " The Budget was an accident waiting to happen.

A key source are the diaries of Yosef Nahmani, a senior officer in the Haganah, who was also director of the Jewish National Fund in Eastern Galilee from 1935 until 1965.

In December 1994, de Raadt was asked to resign his position as a senior developer and member of the NetBSD core team, and his access to the source code repository was revoked.

In December 2005, the Director of National Intelligence appointed Eliot A. Jardines as the Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open Source to serve as the Intelligence Community's senior intelligence officer for open source and to provide strategy, guidance and oversight for the National Open Source Enterprise.

The city features the Bobo-Dioulasso Old Mosque ( built in 1880 according to some, 1893 according to others ), the Konsa house which is the ritual center of a senior house of the Zara ( or Bobo-Jula ) group, and a sacred natural pond called Dafra at its southern fringes, which is the source of the We river.

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In May 2003 the ISM's Adam Shapiro stated that Sukiya was not named a " senior Islamic Jihad terrorist " by any official Israeli military or government source, and was being held in administrative detention in Israel without any charge.

In addition, various senior officers had become identified with the government and political structure, a source of criticism from the tenentes.

Previously the power supply had been destroyed, but a senior military officer installed an alternative generator (< needs confirmation / source >-it is reasoned that the tower would not have been bought down if transmittions using the tower had not been resumed.

According to one source, it was this official decision to establish a large Israeli city at Yamit which, for Anwar Sadat and senior Egyptian officials, " was the straw that broke the camel's back ", eventuating in the loss of hopes for a peace agreement and the onset of the Yom Kippur War.

Another leading group Families Need Fathers is recognised as source of help by The Department of Constitutional Affairs, and regularly provides evidence to parliamentary sub-committees, resulting on one senior Family Court judge indicating that it was a key player in the debate about on-going contact and joint residence.

Gupta-II case ) that the Government of India would be bound to nominate only the most senior judge of the Supreme Court for the position of Chief Justice, thereby removing a potential source for Government influence over the judiciary.

" Mr Russell was last night accused of " bullying " councils into agreeing to his moratorium. A senior local government source said: " Russell is acting like a school bully on this and bullying councils into backing this delay.

Even though a local Turkish militant group, the Great Eastern Islamic Raiders ' Front, claimed responsibility for the attacks, police claimed the bombings were " too sophisticated to have been carried out by that group ", with a senior Israeli government source saying: " the attack must have been at least coordinated with international terror organizations ".

When, in 1832, the South Carolina nullifiers adopted the principle of state interposition which Madison had advanced in his old Virginia Resolve, they elicited no encouragement from that senior statesman.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

It ranged from a freshman woman, just married, through the various academic growth stages, including one senior-graduate student, to a young faculty member recently married to a senior man who also attended.

Rep. Henry C. Grover, who teaches history in the Houston public schools, would reduce from 24 to 12 semester hours the so-called `` teaching methods '' courses required to obtain a junior or senior high school teaching certificate.

A 208-pound, 6-foot 1-inch senior from Stamford, Moritz practices nothing but place-kicking.

Millie Jansen, high school senior from Verboort, had the championship dollar dinner, and Jody Jaross of Hillsboro also won a blue ribbon.

Since the hero, a sterling and upright fellow, is a rich Brown senior, while two Yalies are cast as virtual rapists, I suppose I should disqualify myself from sitting in judgment on `` Where The Boys Are '', but I shall do nothing of the sort.

There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal dating from 22 June 1675 ; the second is the Astronomer Royal for Scotland dating from 1834.

Since the passage of the Act of Settlement, the most senior member of the Royal Family to have married a Roman Catholic, and thereby been removed from the line and later lines of succession, is Prince Michael of Kent, who married Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz in 1978 ; he was fifteenth in the lines of succession at the time of his marriage.

The government of Mohammed Daoud Khan tried to scale back the PDPA's influence dismissing PDPA members from their government posts, appointing conservative elements instead and finally announcing the dissolution of the PDPA arresting senior party members.

After this, the senior priest ( or bishop ) pours pure olive oil and a small amount of wine into the shrine lamp, and says the " Prayer of the Oil ", which calls upon God to "... sanctify this Oil, that it may be effectual for those who shall be anointed therewith, unto healing, and unto relief from every passion, every malady of the flesh and of the spirit, and every ill ..." Then follow seven series of epistles, gospels, long prayers, Ektenias ( litanies ) and anointings.

For senior citizens, he removed the sales tax from medications and increased the home property-tax exemption.

Not only did senior army generals occupy the presidency from 1964 until 1985, but most of the officers who held cabinet posts during that time were from the army.

Keith Gottfried served in senior executive positions with the company from 2000 to 2004.

The term epískopos was not from the earliest times clearly distinguished from the term presbýteros (" elder ", " senior ", nowadays used to signify a priest ), but the term was already clearly used in the sense of the order or office of bishop, distinct from that of priest in the writings of Ignatius of Antioch ( died c. 108 ), and sources from the middle of the 2nd century undoubtedly set forth that all the chief centres of Christianity recognized and had the office of bishop, using a form of organization that remained universal until the Protestant Reformation.

The King, senior Anglican bishops, MPs from the Liberal and Labour parties, Oswald Mosley, Jan Smuts, the Trades Union Congress and parts of the press were increasingly critical of the actions of the Black and Tans.

Vandenberg, the senior Republican in the Senate, was the " favorite son " candidate of the Michigan delegation and was considered a possible compromise candidate if Taft or Dewey faltered.

With Eisenhower refusing to run, the contest for the Republican nomination was between New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, Ohio Senator Robert Taft, California Governor Earl Warren, General Douglas MacArthur and Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, the senior Republican in the Senate.

* Kit Bond ( born 1939 ), senior United States Senator of Missouri and member of the Republican Party

He served alongside Republican Strom Thurmond for 36 of those years, making them the longest-serving Senate duo in history, and him the most senior junior senator ever.

Longstreet was the only senior Confederate officer to join the Republican party during Reconstruction.

William McKinley, an Ohio Republican and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee worked with John Sherman, the senior Republican Senator from Ohio, to create a package that could both pass the Senate and receive the President's approval.

On Feb. 8, 2001, the federally funded International Republican Institute's ( IRI ) senior program officer for Haiti, Stanley Lucas, appeared on the Haitian station Radio Tropicale to suggest three strategies for vanquishing Haiti's president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

He was a rarity in politics at the time — a truly senior Republican congressman from a former Confederate state.

The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Republican Orrin Hatch, elected in 1976.

In support of this, the Dublin Brigade's Fianna Éireann marched to The Smithfield where they were reviewed by senior Republican leaders.

The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Republican Mike Crapo, elected in 1998.

Massachusetts is currently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator, ( Democrat ) John Kerry and junior senator Republican Scott Brown.

The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Republican Richard Burr, elected in 2004.

The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Republican Richard Burr, who was elected to the Senate in 2004.

In 1993, Chao married Mitch McConnell, the senior United States Senator from Kentucky and the Republican Leader of the United States Senate.

General George Washington ( 1732 – 1799 ) proved an excellent organizer and administrator, who worked successfully with Congress and the state governors, selecting and mentoring his senior officers, supporting and training his troops, and maintaining an idealistic Republican Army.

These Republican Guards belong to the Cavalry Regiment and not to the infantry units whose mission is to ensure the security of these palaces and of senior government figures.

Stevens became the Senate's President Pro Tempore when Republicans regained control of the chamber as a result of the 2002 mid-term elections, during which the previous most senior Republican senator and former President Pro Tempore Strom Thurmond retired.

In 2004 Landrieu became Louisiana's senior senator upon the retirement of John Breaux, who was replaced by Republican David Vitter.

Richard " Dick " Lugar ( born April 4, 1932 ) is the senior United States Senator from Indiana and a member of the Republican Party.

He is also the longest-serving Senator in Indiana's history, and is the most senior Republican member of the senate.

This led to a conversation on April 6, 1971, between then-President Richard M. Nixon and the Republican minority leader, Gerald R. Ford, Jr., in which Nixon said that he could no longer take counsel from Boggs as a senior member of Congress.