The epistates ( ἐπιστάτης ), an official selected by lot for a single day from among the currently presiding prytany, chaired that day's meeting of the boule and, if there was one, that day's meeting of the assembly ; he also held the keys to the treasury and the seal to the city, and welcomed foreign ambassadors.

The European Council was declared a separate institution from the Council, also chaired by a permanent president, and the different Council configurations were mentioned in the treaties for the first time.

It is chaired by the President of the Republic, which is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

Robinson also chaired the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's ( NAACP ) million-dollar Freedom Fund Drive in 1957, and served on the organization's board until 1967.

There were also initial discussions in the subgroup WP3 network aspects chaired by Jan Audestad ( Telenor ).

In December 1982, the PNDC announced a plan to decentralize government from Accra to the regions, the districts, and local communities, but it maintained overall control by appointing regional and district secretaries who exercised executive powers and also chaired regional and district councils.

Once Republicans regained control of the Senate, Glenn also served as the ranking minority member on a special Senate investigative committee chaired by Tennessee senator Fred Dalton Thompson that looked into illegal foreign donations by China to U. S. political campaigns for the 1996 election.

He also sat on the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute and chaired its Center for Advanced Film Studies.

Warren was also the vice-presidential nominee of the Republican Party in 1948, and chaired the Warren Commission, which was formed to investigate the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The British government also set up an independent inquiry, chaired by Lord Justice Bingham, in 1992.

During the same period he also chaired the Shipbuilding Board and the Committee on Government Information Reform.

Crocker also chaired the Panama-Pacific Exposition Committee and SE Community Chest, and was a key member of the committee that built the San Francisco Opera House and Veterans Building.

Under statutes the University Senate also elects two members to the University Council, chaired by the Provost and having the Senior Lecturer of the College as secretary, which governs academic matters.

The discussion was chaired by Tim Marlow and also included Roger Scruton, Waldemar Januszczak, Richard Cork, David Sylvester and Norman Rosenthal.

He was also involved in Joker's Wild, an ITV celebrity comedy game show ( 1971 – 74 ) which was chaired by Barry Cryer.

The Senate is chaired by the President of the senate ( Senatspräsident ), who is also one of the mayors of the city of Bremen ( Bürgermeister ) and is elected directly by the Bürgerschaft.

Initiator of a French law in 1971 ( la formation professionnelle continue – FPC ) requiring firms to set aside part of their profits for educational opportunities for their employees, he also chaired a UNESCO Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century from 1993 to 1996 whose final report was published as Learning: the Treasure Within.

CAS started the Global Atmospheric Research Programme ( GARP ) in 1967, which Bolin also chaired ; GARP became the World Climate Research Programme in 1980.

Mitchell also chaired the key Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee.

He also chaired the President's Oil Policy Committee and was instrumental in revising the mandatory oil import program in April 1973.

He also chaired the Republican Party Platform's subcommittee for National Security and Foreign Policy when George W. Bush ran for president in 2000.

The panel of judges was chaired by the artist Michael Landy, and also included the curators Russell Ferguson, Maria Lind and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

The Vienna Circle ( in German: der Wiener Kreis ) was an association of philosophers gathered around the University of Vienna in 1922, chaired by Moritz Schlick, also known as the Ernst Mach Society ( Verein Ernst Mach ) in honour of Ernst Mach.

He also chaired two subcommittees: Manufacturing and Competitiveness, and Immigration.

He also convinced Roosevelt to support the creation of a Senate defense committee chaired by Truman, a position that brought Truman into the national spotlight and helped him gain the vice presidency.

This could be either the normal military dress, with a tunic to about the knees, armour breastplate and pteruges, but also often the specific dress of the bodyguard of the Byzantine Emperor, with a long tunic and the loros, a long gold and jewelled pallium restricted to the Imperial family and their closest guards.

For Joseph and his supports of Imperial reform, besides encouraging any first buddings of pan-national pride that would unite his multi-lingual and ethnic subjects under one common language ; they also hoped to save a considerable amount of money in the process.

The victory also lies on the planar surface ; The sun outshone the moon just as the Imperial and allied army successfully repel the Turks.

However, following the death of an Emperor, they became known also for plunder in the Imperial palaces.

He also put the Imperial provinces of Macedonia and Achaea back under Senate control.

This theory also claims there can be only one rightful sovereign ruling all under heaven at a time but throughout Chinese history there have been many contentious and long periods of disunity where the question of legitimacy is moot ; see also Imperial Seal of China.

The first duke was also honoured with Imperial titles: Emperor Joseph I created him a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1704, and in 1705, he was created Imperial Prince of Mindelheim ( once the lordship of the noted soldier Georg von Frundsberg ).

This curtailment of governors ' powers as the Emperors ' representatives may have lessened the political dangers of an all-too-powerful class of Imperial delegates, but it also severely limited governors ' ability to oppose local landed elites.

The Imperial cartographer Johann Friedrich Endersch completed a map of Warmia () in 1755 and also made a copper etching of the galley named " The City of Elbląg " ().

The liaison conference created in 1893 also made the Emperor the leader of the Imperial General Headquarters.

" the Imperial person ") was also used in Old Japanese.

The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, conferred the additional title upon her by an Act of Parliament, reputedly to assuage the monarch's irritation at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her own daughter ( Princess Victoria was the wife of the reigning German Emperor ); the Indian Imperial designation was also formally justified as the expression of Britain succeeding as paramount ruler of the subcontinent the former Mughal ' Padishah of Hind ', using indirect rule through hundreds of princely states formally under protection, not colonies, but accepting the British Sovereign as their suzerain.

* Ōomi ( Great Imperial chieftain ): Soga no Iname no Sukune, also known as Soga no Iname.

** Imperial Princess Kasanui ( also named Princess Satake )

There is also Fraser Square which is not so square-like since it now opens out into Middle Street but it still houses the Imperial Hotel.

* German Army ( German Empire ) ( 1871 – 1919 ), also known as the Imperial Army ( Reichsheer ), armed forces of the German Empire

Some key elements of the German Empire's authoritarian political structure were also the basis for conservative modernization in Imperial Japan under Meiji and the preservation of an authoritarian political structure under the Tsars in the Russian Empire.

Foreign powers, including France and Sweden, intervened in the conflict and strengthened those fighting Imperial power, but also seized considerable territory for themselves.

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When King Conrad III died without adult heir in 1152, Frederick also succeeded him, taking both German royal and Imperial titles.

In India, water wheels and watermills were built ; in Imperial Rome, water powered mills produced flour from grain, and were also used for sawing timber and stone ; in China, watermills were widely used since the Han Dynasty.

It concluded not only that the Cuban and American Ivory-billed woodpeckers are genetically distinct, but also that they and the Imperial form a North American clade within Campephilus that appeared in the Mid-Pleistocene.

The system of imperial units or the imperial system ( also known as British Imperial ) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which was later refined and reduced.