Hague rose through the ranks of John Major's government and entered the Cabinet in 1995 as the Secretary of State for Wales.

On 2 December 1998, the Conservative Leader of the Opposition, William Hague, rose in the House of Commons to attack Tony Blair's plans.

It offers master's degree and doctoral programmes at its main headquarters in San José, Costa Rica, and carries out various activities related to the international peace and security objectives of the United Nations ( UN ) through centres and offices located in Addis Ababa, Geneva, New York, The Hague, and South Korea, and through partnership arrangements with numerous other institutions worldwide.

After a progress through several cities and so many festivals he arrived in The Hague, where on 1 January 1586 he was urged to accept the title governor-general by the States General of the United Provinces.

However, the new Dutch political leader Johan de Witt deemed commerce more important than territory, and saw to it that New Holland was sold back to Portugal on August 6, 1661 through the Treaty of the Hague.

Drawing of the Zee-straetOn his return, Huygens designed the new sand road in The Hague, running through the dunes to Scheveningen.

Nootdorp is connected to The Hague through the Randstadrail public transport system, and also with a tram line.

Although the invitation was not signed by Churchill ( he was not, as yet, of sufficient political rank to be a signatory ), he declared his intention through William's principal English contact in The Hague – " If you think there is anything else that I ought to do, you have but to command me.

Returning to the Commons through a by-election in Kensington and Chelsea in 1999, Portillo rejoined the front bench as Shadow Chancellor, although his relationship with Conservative Leader William Hague was strained.

This influence could have been formed through the works of Adriaan van Roomen or Jacques Aleaume at the Hague, or through the book by Jean de Beaugrand.

* Hague Conference on Private International Law, the preeminent organisation in the area of private international law from the early 1900s through the present day

Prosecutors at the Hague argued that " the indictments were all part of a common scheme, strategy or plan on the part of the accused to create a ' Greater Serbia ', a centralized Serbian state encompassing the Serb-populated areas of Croatia and Bosnia and all of Kosovo, and that this plan was to be achieved by forcibly removing non-Serbs from large geographical areas through the commission of the crimes charged in the indictments.

Carnegie and the original map of the Peace PalaceThe idea of the Palace started from a discussion in 1900 between the Russian diplomat Friedrich Martens and the US diplomat Andrew White, over providing a home for the Permanent Court of Arbitration ( PCA ), which was established through the first Hague Peace Conference in 1899.

The French Seventh Army was also advancing through Belgium into the Netherlands near the Hague, increasing the threat in a situation which was getting out of control.

Brussels became a vital link in the chain of Habsburg Courts and the diplomatic conduits between Madrid, Vienna, Paris, London, Lisbon, Graz, Innsbruck, Prague and The Hague could be said to run through Brussels.

He declined any knowledge of the Apology for a late Resignation, in a Letter from an English Gentleman to his Friend at The Hague, which ran through four editions in 1748, but there is little doubt that he was, at least in part, the author.

The primary goal of the air landings was to capture the Dutch seat of residence, The Hague ; a secondary goal was to secure critical bridges in order to allow a German mechanized advance through the fortified positions of the Dutch defenses.

This has led to the nickname The Hague Invasion Act, since such freeing of US citizens by force might only be possible through an invasion of The Hague, Netherlands, the seat of several international criminal courts and the seat of the Dutch government.

* < i > Dancing through Fire </ i > by JoAnn Hague is a fictionalized account of the events from 1775 to 1782 which culminated in the massacre.

Through The Hague Fellowship, held annually at International Court of Justice, UNITAR provides government officials with training courses on international law and through its programme on operational satellite applications ( UNOSAT ) the institute provides satellite imagery and analysis.

Here, too, his independent character suffered him to remain only a year: he resented having to transact all business with the grand-duke ( king of the Netherlands ) through a Dutch official at the Hague ; he protested against the absorption of the Luxembourg surplus in the Dutch treasury ; and, failing to obtain redress, he resigned ( 1840 ).

Secondly, in the area of international child protection obligations to which the UK government is a signatory, the Official Solicitor deals with cases brought under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction through the International Child Abduction and Contact Unit ( ICACU ).

From 1910 to 1931 he was chairman of The Hague branch of the Social Democratic Workers ' Party and between 1913 and 1941 a member of the Municipal Council of The Hague.

Frank Hague ( January 17, 1876 – January 1, 1956 ) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as the mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey from 1917 to 1947, Democratic National Committeeman from New Jersey from 1922 until 1949, and Vice-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1924 until 1949.

Hague's victory in the Constable election brought him to the attention of Hudson County Democratic political boss " Little Bob " Davis, and Davis asked Hague to help get out Democratic votes for the upcoming 1897 Mayoral election.

Over this time, Hague took a leadership role in the Second Ward Democratic club.

In the same year, Hague cemented his control of the Hudson County political machine by securing for himself the leadership of the Hudson County Democratic Organization Executive Committee.

Hague proclaimed himself leader of the New Jersey Democratic Party, and Edwards allowed him to recommend dozens of appointments to high state offices.

In 1932, Hague, a friend of Al Smith, backed Smith against Franklin D. Roosevelt during the race for the Democratic nomination.

Edge ’ s campaign manager, Enoch “ Nucky ” Johnson, who was by that time the boss of the Atlantic County Republican machine, and Frank Hague, boss of the Hudson County Democratic machine, are widely credited with securing Edge ’ s election as governor.

Johnson reached out to Hague, who feared the Democratic candidate, H. Otto Wittpenn, a reformer whose election would threaten Hague's control of Hudson County.

In any event, Hague instructed those in his Democratic organization to crossover and vote for Edge in the Republican primary, thereby securing a narrow victory for Edge.

By now, any assistance provided to him by Hudson County Democratic boss Frank Hague in the 1916 election was long forgotten, and Edge hammered on the theme of Hague ’ s power, campaigning that a vote for Murphy was a vote for the domination of “ labor leaders, communists and Hagueism ”.

Johnson and Hudson County Democratic leader Frank Hague were widely credited with engineering Edge ’ s 1916 victory, and Johnson also served as Edge ’ s campaign manager during his successful run for the United States Senate in 1918.

Stassen said that because the Democratic Party was at that time controlled by undemocratic bosses —" by Hague in New Jersey, Pendergast in Missouri and Kelly-Nash in Chicago, should not be called a ' Democratic Party.

He became a friend and close political ally of Mayor Frank " Boss " Hague, who ran the Democratic machine in Hudson County, and later the whole state of New Jersey.

Campaigning against the 18th Amendment ( Prohibition ) and with the support of the Hague Democratic Political Machine, Edwards defeated incumbent Republican Joseph S. Frelinghuysen by almost 90, 000 votes and served from March 4, 1923, to March 4, 1929.

The WCL was founded at The Hague in 1920 under the name of the " International Federation of Christian Trade Unions " ( IFCTU ) as a confederation of trade unions associated with the Christian Democratic parties of Europe.

Gerrit Bolkestein ( 9 October 1871, Amsterdam – 8 September 1956, The Hague ) was a Dutch politician and member of the Free-thinking Democratic League.

Black acted as legal counsel to the FDU-Inkingi Rwandan political party and the Rwanda National Congress, who were joined by the Congolese civil society groups Approdec and Congonova, on August 17, 2012 when they presented a complaint to the prosecutor's office of the ICC in the The Hague seeking an ICC investigation of and the laying of criminal charges against Paul Kagame and other Rwandan military officers for war crimes committed by them in assisting the M23 group in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Hague ignored a subpoena to testify in Hudson County Court and traveled to Massachusetts to provide an alibi for Dugan.

It is unclear whether Edge and Hague reached some agreement in exchange for Hague's assistance, with one authority concluding there was " robably no outright deal ", another stating Edge provided Hague with " a pledge of cooperation ", and a third stating that Edge " had a working arrangement with Hague ; the former to be left alone in South Jersey and Hague to be ' protected ' in Hudson ".

In 1944, Edge and Hague fought over how certain railroad tax money should be allocated ( with Hague ’ s position ultimately prevailing ), while Edge was successful in obtaining legislation that required the use of voting machines in Hudson County, thereby reducing the chance of electoral fraud.

In June 1944, he led raids on Hudson County horse race betting rooms, later obtaining the indictments from " new " Hudson grand juries – the first indictments for such activities since Hague had come to power.

* Saving the Palisades Documentary, shown at Weehawken Public Library, portrays women's role in preserving cliffs, by Jim Hague, Hudson Reporter