As an example, republicans argue that Prince Charles has spoken and acted in ways that have widely been interpreted as taking a political stance, citing his refusal to attend, in protest of China's dealings with Tibet, a state dinner hosted by the Queen for the Chinese head of state ; his strong stance on GM food ; and the contents of certain memos which were leaked to the press regarding how people achieve their positions.

In 1948, Curtice became executive vice president of GM, and succeeded to the presidency in 1953 when GM president Charles Wilson became Secretary of Defense.

In 1946, GM President Charles Wilson offered him the position of executive vice president — to be Wilson's right hand man — but Curtice declined, stating that he wished to see Buicks rolling again off the assembly line before he left the division.

The prototype " Coupe de Ville " was used by GM President Charles E. Wilson until 1957 when he presented it to his secretary.

* Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet GM on his character

David Charles Purley, GM, ( 26 January 1945 – 2 July 1985 ) was a British racing driver born in Bognor Regis, West Sussex.

Designed by, Charles M. " Chuck " Jordan ( OPEL Design boss 1967-1971 and later vice-president of GM ) and his assistants George A. Gallion, David Holls, Herbert Killmer and Hideo Kodama, along with Erhard Fast ( director / conductor of the OPEL Designstudios 3 for Advanced Design since 1964 ) was involved.

Charles Wilson, nicknamed " Engine Charlie ", was formerly CEO of General Motors | GM

In June 2006, Milbury stepped down as Islanders GM to accept a position as Senior Vice President of Charles Wang's sports holdings.

After completing a demo package and shopping to different record labels, Jackie Patillo, GM of Integrity Music / Sony signed Charles and Taylor to a record deal.

Charles K. Smith argues that Swift ’ s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.

Ampère also applied this same principle to magnetism, showing the harmony between his law and French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb ’ s law of magnetic action.

Charles ’ s advisers convinced him not to go, and he sent a representative in his place.

Marlborough ’ s younger brother, General of Infantry, Charles Churchill, ordered four brigades of foot to attack the village.

Borthwick was killed, as was Charles O ’ Brien, the Irish Viscount Clare in French service, fighting at the head of his regiment.

" Malines, Lierre, Ghent, Alost, Damme, Oudenaarde, Bruges, and on 6 June Antwerp, all subsequently fell to Marlborough ’ s victorious army and, like Brussels, proclaimed the Austrian candidate for the Spanish throne, the Archduke Charles, as their sovereign.

Emperor Joseph I, acting on behalf of his younger brother King ’ Charles III ’, absent in Spain, claimed that reconquered Brabant and Flanders should be put under immediate possession of a governor named by himself.

As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

Charles I ’ s haste to make peace with France on the terms most beneficial to him meant that the new North American gains would be bargained away in the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye ( 1632 ).

Through the marriage, the future artist Romare Bearden became Charles ’ cousin.

The " stoic strength " seen within the community was later expressed in Charles ’ fine art.

Following her birth, Thomas de Pizan accepted an appointment to the court of Charles V of France, as the king ’ s astrologer, alchemist, and physician.

She successfully educated herself by immersing herself in languages, in the rediscovered classics and humanism of the early Renaissance, and in Charles V ’ s royal archive that housed a vast number of manuscripts.

Boyle ’ s law, Charles ’ law and Avogadro ’ s law could be combined to give a general relation between the volume, pressure, temperature and the number of moles of a particular gas.

They began corresponding in the late 1820s and met for the first time in March 1830, when Isaac D ' Israeli dined at Bulwer-Lytton ’ s house ( also present that evening were Charles Pelham Villiers and Alexander Cockburn.

In Crick ’ s view, Charles Darwin ’ s theory of evolution by natural selection, Gregor Mendel ’ s genetics and knowledge of the molecular basis of genetics, when combined, revealed the secret of life.

After successful settlement on the island of St. Christophe ( St. Kitts ), the French Company of the American Islands delegated ( Charles Lienard ) Liénard de L ' Olive and Jean Duplessis Ossonville, Lord of Ossonville to colonize one or any of the region ’ s islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique or Dominica.

Rossini ’ s popularity in Paris was so great that Charles X gave him a contract to write five new operas a year, and at the expiration of the contract he was to receive a generous pension for life.

* Charles Tyner as General Victor Ball, Harold ’ s uncle who lost an arm in the war and now pulls a hidden cord to make his wire prosthetic " salute.

Romantic painting by Charles Gleyre ( 19th c .) celebrating the Helvetian victory over the Romans at Agen ( 107 BC ) under Divico | Divico ’ s command.

In the century or so following Charlemagne ’ s death, his newly empowered warrior class grew stronger still, and Charles the Bald declared their fiefs to be hereditary.

September ’ 95, Kpormakpor ’ s Council of State is succeeded by one under civilian Wilton G. S. Sankawulo and with the factional heads Charles Taylor, Alhaji Kromah and George Boley in it.

* 1991 – The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor ’ s National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.

* Charles McCreery ’ s tutorials on chi-square, probability and Bayes ’ theorem for Oxford University psychology students

In desperation, Gregory sent ambassadors to Charles Martel, the Frankish Mayor of the Palace, begging him to intervene on the pope ’ s behalf.

* 1993 – Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his " dealings " with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

** Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his dealings with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

* Uri Treisman, professor of math and of public affairs at University of Texas at Austin, founder and executive director of the Charles A. Dana Center

In the DVD commentary for the series finale episode " Freak Nation ", executive producer and co-creator Charles H. Eglee detailed what was planned for season 3.

* Charles T. Hinde railroad executive, founder of the Hotel del Coronado, and long time friend of James J. Hill.

Charles Samuel Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey, the son of Grace M. ( née Spears ) and Charles Huy Addams, a piano-company executive who had studied to be an architect.

* Charles Somers ( 1868 – 1934 ), American executive and investor in baseball

One day, she sees Charles ' picture in a newspaper and manages to become his executive assistant, calling herself Margaret ( Paula being her stage name ), hoping that her presence will jog his memory.

EchoStar was formed in 1980 by its chairman and chief executive officer, Charles Ergen along with colleagues Candy Ergen and Jim Defranco, as a distributor of C band satellite television systems.

Charles D. McIver served the institution as its first chief executive officer with the title of President.

* Charles Saatchi ( Advertising executive )

St. Charles County is governed by a county executive and a county council.

He was preceded by Joe Oertwerth, who was preceded by Gene Schwendemann, the first county executive of St. Charles County under the new form of government.

St. Charles Parish is governed by an executive branch and legislative branch.

John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith, KT, GCVO, GBE, CB, TD, PC ( 20 July 1889 – 16 June 1971 ) was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom.

" There were a few things that were peculiar about this animal-feed production plant ," Charles Duelfer, UNSCOM's deputy executive chairman, later told reporters, " beginning with the extensive air defenses surrounding it.

Under Sullivan, a reluctant and ineffectual principal, the NTSM failed to provide a satisfactory alternative to the Royal Academy, and by 1880 a committee of examiners comprising Charles Hallé, Sir Julius Benedict, Sir Michael Costa, Henry Leslie and Otto Goldschmidt reported that the school lacked " executive cohesion ".

In 2000, the studio was bought by a consortium including advertising executive and art collector Charles Saatchi.

His sons, Charles G. Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, and David H. Koch, executive vice president, are principal owners of the company after they bought out their brothers, Frederick and William, for $ 1. 1 billion in 1983.

William Beebe at age 18, at his home in East OrangeCharles William Beebe was born in Brooklyn, New York, son of the newspaper executive Charles Beebe.

The current Chancellor is Mr. Charles Chi ( B. Eng ' 88 ), a venture capitalist and executive chairman of Lytro.

On November 4, 2007, Charles Prince quit as the chairman and chief executive of Citigroup, following crisis meetings with the board in New York in the wake of billions of dollars in losses related to subprime lending.