* Foreign Affairs ( FAC ): Chaired by the High Representative, rather than the Presidency, it manages the CFSP, CSDP, trade and development cooperation.

Chaired by General Joseph Joffre, the commander-in-chief of the French Army, Allied representatives agreed on a concerted offensive against the Central Powers in 1916 by the French, British, Italian and Russian armies.

Chaired jointly by him and Boniface, the synod ruled that priests were not allowed to bear arms or to host females in their houses and that it was one of their primary tasks to eradicate pagan beliefs.

Chaired by National Security Advisor Bundy, the new body included the Director of Central Intelligence, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Under Secretaries from the State and Defense Departments.

Chaired by retired international businessman Ben Smoes, they are currently focused on justice and peace in regard to the Israel / Palestine conflict.

Chaired by former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, the board was convened during the Air Mail scandal to study Air Corps organization.

Chaired by Dr. James Ham, it became known as the Ham Commission.

Chaired by Jonathon Harmsworth the foundation is charged with raising funds to support the redevelopment of Imperial War Museum London's permanent galleries.

Chaired through its difficult early days by Brian Richards, Waverley Hoppa has burgeoned into a low priced provider of minibus and MPV personalised transport for the elderly, the disabled, the young and others for whom simply getting from where they are to where they want to be is a problem.

Chaired by John von Neumann, its purpose was to study the development of ballistic missiles, including ICBMs.

Chaired by the prime minister, the Cabinet is a committee of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and the senior echelon of the Ministry, the membership of the Cabinet and Ministry often being co-terminal ; there are currently five members of the latter who are not also members of the former.

Chaired by Britain's foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, the ambassadors ' conference initially decided to create an autonomous Albania under continued Ottoman rule, but with the protection of the Great Powers.

Chaired by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, the commission consisted of five Democrats and five Republicans.

Chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and composed of leading citizens, the National Council draws on members ' deep understanding of UN issues to bolster the nationwide advocacy and outreach of UNA-USA.

Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 54 members of the National Council and 5 of the Council of States.

Chaired by the sovereign, the council comprises all cabinet ministers and the Crown prince or hereditary princess when he or she is of age.

Chaired by Lord De La Warr, President of the Board of Education, the Council was government-funded and after the war was renamed the Arts Council of Great Britain.

Chaired by Zhou personally, the committee included Chen Yun, Pan Hannian, Guang Huian and Kang Sheng.

Chaired by Henry Clay, the committee helped draft the Missouri Compromise, which attempted to resolve the question of whether slavery would be permitted in newly admitted states.

Chaired by Conservative politician Chris Patten, it was better known as the Patten Commission.

Chaired by former TD Anne Colley, this working group included GLEN, the gay rights lobby organisation, who said they expected a recommendation for civil marriage.

Although he had Chaired the ILP for a second time, from 1917 to 1920, Snowden resigned from the party in 1927 because he believed it was " drifting more and more away from ... evolutionary socialism into revolutionary socialism ".

Although still Chaired by Sukarno, the Indonesians had less freedom of movement than they had had in Putera.

Chaired by Lord Crowther, the Committee began sitting in December that year and eventually extended their review to cover consumer credit generally rather than just the bills of sale and moneylending they had initially been concerned with, and their report was finally published in March 1971.

Chaired by Senator McClellan and staffed by Robert F. Kennedy, the Subcommittee ’ s chief counsel, and other staff members, this special committee directed much of its attention to criminal influence over the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, most famously calling Teamsters ’ leaders Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa to testify.

Chaired by the Prime Minister, members were usually cabinet ministers, the heads of the military services, and key civil servants ; Prime Ministers from Dominion countries were de facto members of the Committee in peacetime as well.

In this role, he led the Inquiry for the Premier League into alleged irregular payments in football player transfers and Chaired the Federation Equestre Internationale Ethics Panel on behalf of HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein.

* The Centre for Commercial Law, Chaired by The Rt Hon.

Chaired by Sola, the club formed a solid team for 1946 season, winning the second division championship with a season record that took over forty years to be broken.

Chaired by Sandra Loosemore, this subcommittee created proposals for issues relating to Lisp compilation.

Chaired by Kent Pitman, the Error Handling Subcommittee plugged what was described as " the biggest outstanding hole in Common Lisp " with the condition system, a general mechanism for handling errors, warnings, and other exceptional situations.

* Chaired various international conferences at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa ( UNECA ).

* During " Proceedings of the International Seminars and Public Lectures " Organized by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO, October 18 – 19, 2004, Fontenoy building, 125 Avenue De Suffren, Paris, France, Professor Jose David Lapuz, Professor of International Relations, Politics of Development and Comparative Foreign Policy of the University of Santo Tomas, Chaired the panel on " REQUIREMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY " participated in by several United Nations agencies ; such as, the UNDP, ILO, UN-HABITAT, the WORLD BANK, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ( OHCHR ), LABORATOIRE D ' ANTROPOLOGIE JURUDIQUE DE PARIS ( LAJP ), France ; Centre for Development and the environment, Norway ( Studies of South Asia and Latin America ); and finally, the several UNESCO's assistant Directors-General for education, FOR SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES, FOR NATURAL SCIENCES, FOR COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION, AND FOR CULTURE.

* Chaired the royal commission to enquire into the affairs of Mauritius in 1909.

The transformation of the Jardin from the medicinal garden of the King to a national public museum of natural history required the creation of twelve Chaired positions.

Chaired by the Secretary of the Treasury, CFIUS includes representatives from 16 U. S. departments and agencies, including the Defense, State and Commerce departments, as well as ( most recently ) the Department of Homeland Security.

Chaired by Karl Mundt of South Dakota, the proceedings became known as the Army-McCarthy Hearings.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

A busy president, conversant with a problem and its ramifications and beset by pressures to meet deadlines, tends naturally to assume that others must be as familiar with a problem as he is.

This two-part bridge is best described by Rev. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, in his `` Travels In New-England And New-York '', published in New Haven in 1821.

Builder Eddie Carr of Washington, past president of NAHB, cut his bricklaying costs $150 a house by adopting the `` SCR masonry process '' worked out after careful time-&-motion studies by the Structural Clay Products Research Foundation to help bricklayers do better work for less.

At the close of Davis' speech the following preamble and resolutions were read by the president, and on the question of their adoption passed unanimously:

His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.

Appointment of William S. Pfaff Jr., 41, as promotion manager of The Times-Picayune Publishing Company was announced Saturday by John F. Tims, president of the company.

John C. Houghton, president of the Tareytown Acres Homeowners Association, followed that by announcing plans last night for a door-to-door fund drive throughout their subdivision on behalf of the Kowalski family.

Vast spraying programs conducted by `` technicians with narrow training and little wisdom '' are endangering crops and wildlife, Carl W. Buchheister, president of the National Audubon Society, said today.

Election of Howard L. Taylor to membership in Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, effective Tuesday, has been announced by Thomas P. Phelan, president of the exchange.

C & O president Walter J. Tuohy was summoned back for cross-examination by New York Central attorneys before examiner John Bradford who is hearing the complex case.

The silver and ebony plaques will be presented at noon luncheons by Stanley Marcus, president of Neiman-Marcus, Beneficiary of the proceeds from the two showings will be the Dallas Society for Crippled Children Cerebral Palsy Treatment Center.

The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.

Burnside, against the advice of the president, prematurely launched an offensive across the Rappahannock River and was stunningly defeated by Lee at Fredericksburg in December.

He felt such action could only be taken by the commander-in-chief using war powers granted to the president by the Constitution, and Lincoln was planning to take that action.

" In keeping with that sentiment, Lincoln led the moderates regarding Reconstruction policy, and was opposed by the Radical Republicans, under Rep. Thaddeus Stevens, Sen. Charles Sumner and Sen. Benjamin Wade, political allies of the president on other issues.

Governors of the 18 provinces were appointed by and served at the pleasure of the president.

* 2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.

* 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d ' état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

In summer 1992, the nascent Defense Ministry received a resolution by the Azerbaijani president on the takeover of units and formations in Azerbaijani territory.

Kocharyan's re-election as president in 2003 was followed by widespread allegations of ballot-rigging.

The president is elected for a five year term by the people ( absolute majority with 2nd round if necessary ).