Having served as rubberstamp bodies in the past, the DPR and MPR have gained considerable power and are increasingly assertive in oversight of the executive branch.

Having served as secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce, he also knew that the South lacked the military and naval resources necessary to defend itself if war were to break out.

Having served since February as the provisional president, Davis was elected to a full six-year term on November 6, 1861 and was inaugurated on February 22, 1862.

Having served his difficult apprenticeship in the puritanical atmosphere of the Australian universities, in 1974 the Wizard migrated to Christchurch in New Zealand and began to speak on a ladder in Cathedral Square.

Having served its original purpose in announcing independence, the text of the Declaration was initially ignored after the American Revolution.

Having become monarchs with a claim to represent the entire nation and stand above factions, the House of Orange decided to break with the song which served them as heads of a faction, and the Wilhelmus was hence replaced by Hendrik Tollens ' song Wien Neêrlands bloed door d ' aderen vloeit, which was the official Dutch anthem from 1815 till 1932.

Having fled the French Revolution, he had served in Catherine's army against the Turks.

Having been a member since 1986, he was appointed as a spokesman for the club in 1990, and later served on its board until 2012.

Having moved to the area that is now Miami County with the Wea tribe, he served as chief for several years before his death in 1848.

Having served 38 years, he was the longest serving justice of the court.

Having served his sentence, he attempted to obtain a liquor license in Scranton.

Having successfully served in the Mexican military in the war against the French occupation, José Maria Leiva's service proved so exemplary that in 1872 he was appointed to the office of " Alcalde Mayor " of the Yaqui by then Sonora Governor Ignacio Pesqueira.

Having already served as the Chairman of the Organisation of African Unity in 1986 to 1987, he was elected Chairman of the African Union, the OAU's successor body, in January 2006.

Having had some previous experience in transcribing when she was hired in 1963 as a clerk typist at the UCLA Department of Public Health to transcribe sensitivity-training sessions for prison guards, Jefferson began transcribing some of the recordings that served as the materials out of which Harvey Sacks ’ earliest lectures were developed.

Having served in the Senate for almost thirty years, Johnson died in the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, on August 6, 1945.

Having previously turned down a DBE offered to her by the then-Prime Minister Jim Callaghan, Williams was created a life peer as The Baroness Williams of Crosby, of Stevenage in the County of Hertfordshire, in 1993 and subsequently served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords from 2001 to 2004.

Having served another sentence for fraud, Harry comes to Boult and asks for a job.

Having assumed office on 17 October 2005, Stoltenberg previously served as Prime Minister from 2000 to 2001.

Having first been elected to Parliament in 1993 for the Oslo constituency, Stoltenberg served as

Having served under Bernard of Saxe-Weimar in Germany in 1634, he returned to the French service in 1636, and fought in the Rhenish campaigns of the following years.

Having begun his literary career, he did not return to NYU but rather took another series of odd jobs such as bank teller, mortuary assistant, and copy editor-all of which served to fuel what he referred to as his night-time " writing habit ".

Having failed to reach Rome, Psalmanazar traveled through the German principalities between 1700 and 1702, and appeared in the Netherlands around the year 1702, where he served as an occasional mercenary and soldier.

Having just served five years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Billy Brown ( Vincent Gallo ) kidnaps a young tap dancer named Layla ( Christina Ricci ) and forces her to pretend to be his wife.

Having served for five years in the Royal Navy in the West Indies he went up to Christ Church, Oxford, intending to take holy orders.

Having been a prime mover in establishing a tradition of palaeoanthropological inquiry, he was able to motivate the next generation to continue it, notably within his own family, many of whom also became prominent.

Having won ten seats in the 1999 elections, the Alliance went into coalition with Labour, forming a government with Anderton as deputy prime minister.

Having just turned 29 years of age, Đukanović was the youngest prime minister in Europe in what was the first salaried position in his life.

Having such a concentration of wartime production meant that the area was a prime target for bombers.

Having proved himself in this fashion, Jacobsen became a natural choice as the biographer of Trygve Bratteli, the former Labour Party prime minister ( 1995 ).

Having been vilified in the media for her support of free love, Woodhull devoted an issue of Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly ( November 2, 1872 ) to an alleged adulterous affair between Elizabeth Tilton and Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent Protestant minister in New York ( he supported female suffrage but had lectured against free love in his sermons ).

Having no children and being the last member of her dynasty, she had chosen one of her favorites, the former military finance minister, Michael VI Bringas, as her successor on the recommendation of her chief minister, Leo Paraspondylos.

Having had much of his property and wealth confiscated by the minister Nikephoritzes, he rebelled in around 1076, placing himself at the head of the garrisons under his command, which were already in a state of mutiny due to an arrears in their pay.

Having paid a visit to Paris in 1799, he was introduced to Joseph Fouché, minister of police, whose private secretary he became.

Having succeeded another dynamic young minister, Patrick Hillery, O ' Malley acted swiftly to introduce the recommendations that were made in an official report regarding education.

Having been the minister of law, power, prisons, irrigation and social welfare in the Government of Kerala, he was instrumental in bringing about many significant changes in thse sector.

Having graduated as a doctor of laws in 1810, he went to Paris for eight months to continue his studies of poetry ; and from 1812 to 1814 he worked as a lawyer in Stuttgart, in the bureau of the minister of justice.

Having studied theology for five years he was licensed in 1858, and in 1864 became minister of Renfield Free Church, Glasgow, where he worked for twenty-five years.

Having persistently absented himself from the meetings of presbytery held for the purpose of ordaining Andrew Richardson, an unacceptable presentee, as minister of Inverkeithing, he was, after a ministry of ten years, deposed by the Assembly of 1752 for maintaining that the refusal of the local presbytery to act in this case was justified.

Having come back to France, he joined the cabinet as minister of the External Trade in January 1976.

Having quarrelled with Danby and the Duchess of Cleveland, who denounced him to the king, Montagu was elected member of Parliament for Northampton in 1678, with the intention of bringing about the fall of Danby ; but, having produced letters seriously compromising the minister, the dissolution of Parliament placed him in such danger of arrest that he attempted to fly to France.

Having served as Parliamentary Secretary to a cabinet minister McKay carries the designations of Honourable and Privy Council ( PC ) for life.

Having entered the ministry of the Church of Scotland in 1861, he returned to serve in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, before being called to the St Matthew's congregation in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was minister from 1863 to 1877.

Having entered the Church he obtained several livings owing to the favour of Cardinal Wolsey ; after Wolsey's fall he rose high in the esteem of Henry VIII and of Thomas Cromwell, serving both king and minister in the business of suppressing the monasteries, and he is said to have celebrated Henry's secret marriage with Anne Boleyn in January 1533.

Having served as defense minister in the previous administration, Guevara was victorious in the 7 March 1982 presidential election to succeed outgoing President Romeo Lucas, who had hand-picked him as his successor.

Having become senator for the département of Doubs ( 1895 – 1902 ), Rambaud held the position of minister of Public Instruction from April 29, 1896 to June 28, 1898, and in that capacity endeavoured to carry on the educational work of Jules Ferry, to whose memory he always remained faithful.

Having come to power with the stated intent of restoring public order, Metaxas ' state largely achieved this goal, under the supervision of what can be described as its most fascist member, minister of public order Konstantinos Maniadakis.

Having offered a lavish festival for the king in the newly finished residence in 1661 ( Le Brun, Le Vau, Le Nôtre, the poet La Fontaine, the playwright Molière were all under Fouquet's patronage ), the minister was accused of misappropriation of funds and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The trial began in April the following year and Young was asked to justify his cartoon " Having Their Fling " in which four men, an editor, a capitalist, a politician, and a minister are depicted dancing in orgiastic bliss as Satan leads a band of war implements.