The appointment of U Thant of Burma as the U.N.'s Acting Secretary General -- at this writing, the choice appears to be certain -- offers further proof that in politics it is more important to have no influential enemies than to have influential friends.

Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.

“ Acting in the place of the Roman Pontiff, he also confers the pallium upon metropolitan bishops or gives the pallium to their proxies .” The current Cardinal Proto-Deacon is Jean-Louis Tauran.

He is best known for the claim that for one day ( March 4, 1849 ) he may have been Acting President of the United States.

Atchison was sworn in for his new term as President pro tempore minutes before both Fillmore and Taylor, which might theoretically make him Acting President for at least that length of time ; however, this also implies that many times when the Vice President is sworn in before the President, the Vice President is the de facto Acting President.

Regina Dubey, Acting Director for the Department of Defence Task Force for Business and Stability Operations ( TFBSO ) stated that " this is just one more piece of evidence that Afghanistan's mineral sector has a bright future.

* 1921 – Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.

According to Israeli law, if a Prime Minister is temporarily incapacitated rather than dies ( as was the case following Ariel Sharon's stroke in early 2006 ), power is transferred to the Acting Prime Minister, until the prime minister recovers ( Ehud Olmert took over from Sharon ), for up to 100 days.

When the chief justice dies in office or is otherwise unwilling or unable to serve, the duties of the chief justice temporarily are performed by the most senior sitting associate justice, who serves as Acting Chief Justice until a new chief justice is confirmed.

By 1966 all non-degree courses were moved to the Manchester Polytechnic which is now known as Manchester Metropolitan University, and in 1966 the name finally changed to the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology on the initiative of Acting Principal Frank Morton.

The course offered is a BA ( Hons ) in Acting.

The current OMB Acting Director is Jeffrey Zients.

Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank will serve as Acting Secretary of Commerce until a new one is nominated.

When the post of Secretary is vacant, the United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs or any other person designated by the President serves as Acting Secretary until the President nominates and the United States Senate confirms a new Secretary.

Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things.

; Acting: There is enormous historical and cultural variation in performance styles in the cinema.

In the novel, Jack Ryan is thrown into the position of Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) Acting Deputy Director ( Intelligence ) and discovers that he is being kept in the dark by his colleagues who are conducting a covert war against a drug cartel based in Colombia.

Acting as a competitive inhibitor of acetylcholine at postsynaptic and postjunctional muscarinic receptor sites in smooth muscle, exocrine glands, autonomic ganglia, and the brain, BZ decreases the effective concentration of acetylcholine seen by receptors at these sites.

The British Acting Consul-General reported that he had seen the bodies of Japanese males who had been castrated.

Indeed, when someone is addressed as " Acting sub-lieutenant " it can be seen as a way of patronizing an individual in a derogatory manner due to the emphasis of their " acting " rank.

In subsequent storylines, she is seen to have held positions as Chief of Staff and Acting Special Agent in Charge at CTU Los Angeles, and Associate Special Agent in Charge at Division.

This move followed an extraordinary week which had seen unusual troop and naval deployments, rumours of a possible coup, and the dismissal of Acting Land Force Commander Lieutenant Colonel Jone Baledrokadroka for alleged insubordination, culminating in a meeting at Government House ( the official residence of the President between the Prime Minister and Commodore Bainimarama under the auspices of Vice-President Ratu Jone Madraiwiwi on 16 January.

Acting in a situation without first informing oneself of the circumstances of the situation can lead to even the most well-intended actions yielding miserable consequences.

In fact, most post-1930 acting philosophies have been strongly influenced by Method acting, and it continues to be taught at schools around the world, including the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York and Los Angeles, the Actors Studio Drama School in New York, the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York and Los Angeles, the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, Calif., HB Studio in New York, Le Studio Jack Garfein in Paris and American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

Acting on the charges, Washington cut off most of its economic assistance in mid-1962, pending stricter accounting procedures, which Duvalier refused.

Henry A. Wallace, his Vice President for most of this period, was largely regarded by many governmental and Democratic insiders as too close to the Soviet Union and potentially a Communist sympathizer, so that moving him in to any sort of Acting Presidency or co-Presidency was never seriously considered.

In the spring of 6, Acting Emperor Wang selected the child Ying — then just one year old — as the designated successor to Emperor Ping, claiming that soothsayers told him that Ying was the candidate most favored by the gods.

If the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is asked to become a counselor in the First Presidency, the President of the Quorum retains that title but is not numbered among the Twelve, and the most senior Apostle who is not in the First Presidency is named Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

In the spring of 6 AD, Acting Emperor Wang selected Ying — then just one year old — as the designated successor to Emperor Ping, claiming that soothsayers told him that Ying was the candidate most favored by the gods.

If he is called into the First Presidency, the most senior Apostle remaining in the Quorum of the Twelve is called to be the Acting President of that Quorum.

His most successful film role was as the main character, Billy Hayes, in Midnight Express ( 1978 ), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Acting Debut-Actor.

If the President of the Quorum of the Twelve has been called to be a counselor in the First Presidency, the most senior apostle not called to the First Presidency is set apart and referred to as the Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Acting clients include Emmy Award winners Ellen DeGeneres, Edie Falco, Marg Helgenberger, Alfre Woodard, and Alan Alda, and television's most recognizable talent, including Jon Hamm, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Tony Shalhoub, Calista Flockhart, Kevin Dillon, Dule Hill, Lauren Graham, Jeff Garlin, Ian Somerhalder, Eric Mabius, Jada Pinkett Smith, Paul Wesley, Taye Diggs, and the four of the adult leads of the ABC hit series, Modern Family-Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ed O ' Neill, Eric Stonestreet and one of the child actor leads Ariel Winter.

The most recent Prime Minister to do this is Helen Clark in 2008 as Acting Minister, and prior to her was Mike Moore, in 1990.

Acting as both adapter and producer, Wilson created one of the BBC ’ s most popular and successful drama serials of all time, which was a huge hit on its eventual screening on BBC Two in 1967, and was quickly repeated on BBC One.

Zugibe spent most of his career as the chief medical examiner of Rockland County, New York, appointed on August 15, 1969, to his retirement on December 31, 2002, and continuing as Acting Medical Examiner from January 1, 2003, to March 31, 2003, until his successor, Lone Thanning, was confirmed.

The most notable moment of Lee's career occurred when Governor Mandel designated Lee as Acting Governor of Maryland, effective with a letter dated June 4, 1977, per Article 2, Section 6b, of the Maryland Constitution of 1867.

Provincial secretaries were usually the most senior member of the provincial cabinet outside of the Premier, and the office holder was often designated as Acting Premier when the Premier was out of province, ill or otherwise unavailable.

He served as the Acting Secretary of State for most of the period from January through August 1945 while the Secretaries of State Edward Stettinius and James F. Byrnes were away at conferences.

Only the dismissal of most of the cases by Acting United States Secretary of Labor Louis Freeland Post limited the number of deportations to 556.

However, the holder of this ministry position can hold other ministerial position, as the most recent designated Acting Prime Minister, Tzipi Livni, was also Minister of Foreign Affairs.

He entered the private sector following the end of his political career, and has most recently been an executive at Syscan International, serving as Acting Chief Executive Officer from 2000 to 2001.

Acting as a proxy for the Borad, the Maylin is the most senior of the five Counsellors of Karfel.

Acting as both biological vectors and definitive hosts, humans have spread Tunga penetrans from its isolated existence in the West Indies to all of Latin America and most of Africa via sea travel.

In 1941 when New 4th Army was attacked by Kuomintang army and lost most of its senior leaders, Rao had to work for Liu again, who was appointed as Commissar, and Rao as Acting Director of Political Department.