Former " kulaks " and their families made up the majority of victims of the Great Purge of the late 1930s, with 669, 929 arrested and 376, 202 executed.

Former detainees of the labor camp system have reported that Falun Gong practitioners are one of the largest groups of prisoners ; in some labor camp and prison facilities, they comprise the majority of detainees, and are often said to receive the longest sentences and the worst treatment.

Since 1990, 16, 000 immigrants have arrived in Karmiel, the majority of whom are from the Former Soviet Union.

Former President Bill Clinton joined Soul majority owner Jon Bon Jovi on stage to announce a project that would rehab 15 townhouses in North Philadelphia.

Former leader of the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Canada, which won five back-to-back majority provincial governments in Saskatchewan.

Former ally, Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson wrote the majority opinion in this case, which also concerned Jehovah's Witnesses students expelled from school for refusing to salute the flag.

* 2008 Liberal Democrats lose overall control of city on 1 May in local elections, however a midnight defection of an Independent ( Former Labour ) Councillor gives them a majority of 1.

The majority of those who survived the war in Ukraine were forcibly deported to the Former eastern territories of Germany after Poland was shifted to the West by the Allied Potsdam Agreement after World War II.

Former Nottingham Forest player, Phil Starbuck, was appointed manager in July 2006 and despite challenging near the top of the table for the majority of 2006 – 07 season, a slump in form after Christmas saw the team eventually finish in 7th position.

Although the majority of those foreign-born residents are from Latin America, the majority from Mexico ( especially from the state of Michoacán ) and Guatemala, substantial numbers are from the Philippines, India, Korea, Cambodia, Somalia, the Former Yugoslavia ( Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia ), Romania, Pakistan and the Middle East ( especially Iraq, Iran, and Lebanon ).

Nevertheless, OTE's mobile arm Cosmote ( which also owns mobile operators in Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslavic Republic of Macedonia and Albania ) agreed to buy the majority ( 70 %) of shares from Romtelecom and relaunch the troubled Romanian operator under its management.

Former Liberals continued to be involved in politics, and most of the Mormon majority continued to view them unfavorably.

CITIC Bank International ( Traditional Chinese: 中信銀行國際 )( Former stock code: )( formerly known as CITIC Ka Wah Bank ( Traditional Chinese: 中信嘉華銀行 ) and Ka Wah Bank ) is a Hong Kong bank majority owned by CITIC.

Former Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka withdrew his candidacy as it was opposed by the majority of European countries.

* Dr. Abdel Ahad Gamal Eddin: Professor Emeritus-Faculty of Law-Department of International Laws, Former Minister of Youth and sports from 1982 – 1990, Member of Parliament and former head of human rights division at the Egyptian Parliament and currently the leader of the majority Party at Egyptian Parliament

* F. Joseph Loeper ; Class of 1962: Former majority leader of the Pennsylvania Senate WoF

Former alum, majority owner Stephen M. Ross has donated half of a $ 164, 000 grant to the school.

Former warlords and their followers gained the majority of seats in both the lower house and the provincial council ( which elects the members of the upper house ).

Former MSI members were however still the bulk of the new party and former MSI leader Gianfranco Fini was elected leader of the new party.

Former Browns RB Jim Brown, who was a prominent member of the 1964 NFL Championship team, the team's all-time leader in rushing yards, and a Pro Football Hall of Fame member.

Former Polish president and Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa set the toppling in motion.

* 1990 – Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.

* Bo Lundgren, Former leader of the Swedish Moderate Party

* 1806 – Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.

Former leader Brumby, appointed Treasurer, was regarded as a major part of the government's success.

Former Prime Minister Edward Natapei became interim prime minister until a new leader could be elected.

* February 27 – Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavšić is sentenced by the U. N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to 11 years in prison.

* Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was indicted for allegedly ordering the killings of protesters and civilians during the 2011 Libyan civil war, however he was killed before he could stand trial in October 2011.

Former Treasurer Stanley Bruce was chosen as leader, and quickly entered into a coalition with the Country Party.

Former Liberal leader Robert Doyle ultimately won the election.

Former Illinois congressman and House Republican party minority leader Bob Michel caused a minor stir in 1988, when on the USA Today television program he fondly recalled minstrel shows in which he had participated as a young man and expressed his regret that they had fallen out of fashion.

* Former MP and leader of the Labour Party Neil Kinnock, Baron Kinnock of Beddwellty

Former educator and community leader Barbara Massey-Reece ( D-Menlo ) represents the district, which includes all of Chattooga and parts of Floyd County, in the State House of Representatives.

Former Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe was the first to announce his intention to run for party leadership, on 11 May 2007.

Former Prime Minister of India and BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2000.

Former Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader John Bruton said FitzGerald would ; stand out as a man who changed Ireland and that he had changed attitudes to in the Republic to Northern Ireland and to Europe and that he saw that Ireland could do best in Europe if it contributed creatively to goals and ambitions of other members.

Former party leader Michael McDowell has said that he sees liberalism as not being on the left-right spectrum as it is a mix of the ideals of both.

Former Prime Minister and leader of the Christian Democratic Party Kjell Magne Bondevik currently lives in Oppegård.

* Former leader Ruairi Quinn

* Former Social Democratic and Labour Party minister in Northern Ireland and deputy SDLP leader, Bríd Rodgers

Exorcist author / screenwriter William Peter Blatty said in the book Former Child Stars: The Story of America's Least Wanted that he had " no such recollection " of Plato being offered the role.

Former First Ladies ( from left to right ) Rosalynn Carter, Hillary Rodham Clinton | Hillary Clinton, Barbara Bush and Laura Bush at the dedication of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in 2004.

* 1921 – Former U. S. President William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.

Image: WHenryHarrison. png | Former Senator William Henry Harrison of Ohio

Image: WilliamLMarcy. png | Former Secretary of War William L. Marcy of New York

Image: William McKinley by Courtney Art Studio, 1896. jpg | Former Governor William McKinley of Ohio

Image: William Averell Harriman. jpg | Former Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman of New York

Former Secretaries John W. Weeks and Chief Justice of the United States | Chief Justice William Howard Taft are standing beside him.

* November 3 Former Enron finance director Dan Boyle and former Merrill Lynch bankers Daniel Bayly, Robert Furst, William Fuhs and James Brown are each convicted of one conspiracy count and two counts of wire fraud and face up to 15 years in prison

Former Senator William M. Gwin, a Confederate sympathizer, was arrested and fled to Europe.

Former distinguished faculty include the author of the McGuffey Reader, William Holmes McGuffey and journalist Ida Tarbell.

* William Richard Motherwell, Former Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture and Federal Minister of Agriculture

Former U. S. Secretary of War and 1824 U. S. Presidential candidate William Harris Crawford, as well as famed American explorer Meriwether Lewis during his youth ; his family owned lands along the Broad River in The Broad River Valley located in Wilkes ( now Oglethorpe ) County which borders Elbert County.

Former Deputy Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, and United States Secretary of the Interior William P. Clark, Jr. resides near Shandon and has built a small chapel in the hills of his ranch.

Former U. S. Senator Bob Graham, younger half brother of family patriarch William " Bill " Graham, is one of the owners, and the late publisher of the Washington Post, Katharine Graham, had a share by marriage.

Former U. S. Representative William Henry Harrison of Wyoming, a descendant of two U. S. presidents, retired in North Redington Beach and died in 1990 in St. Petersburg.

* William H. Danforth, MD, Former Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis

* William " Hootie " Johnson, Former chairman of The Augusta National golf course.

* William Jennings Bryan Dorn, Former U. S. and state Congressman

Former Confederate General William Easley, a lawyer working for the railroad company, negotiated to have the tracks laid through the southern part of Pickens County.

* Former President of the United States Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to William H. Crawford, Secretary of War under President James Madison, on June 20, 1816: " In your letter to Fisk, you have fairly stated the alternatives between which we are to choose: 1, licentious commerce and gambling speculations for a few, with eternal war for the many ; or, 2, restricted commerce, peace, and steady occupations for all.

* Former Louisiana Lieutenant Governor and Education Superintendent William J.

On 28 March 2003, Judicial Watch filed a complaint to the Office of Government Ethics, the Office of the Defense Department Inspector General, the Office of the Homeland Security Inspector General, United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller in the matter of Former Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard N. Perle, Former President Bill Clinton, Former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe and Global Crossing.