The choice of the single member district was dictated to a certain extent by problems of communication and understanding in the more remote areas of the country, but it also served to minimize the national political value of the elections.

In 1934, he was made a member of the Privy Council and served as a member of the League of Nations ( 1934 – 37 ), becoming the President of the League of Nations in 1937.

The second president was another member of the Union of Demicratic Forces-Petar Stoyanov and served until 2002, when the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party-Georgi Parvanov began to replace him, he won two mandates and served until 2011, when Rosen Plevneliev of the right-oriented GERB was elected for a five-year mandate.

Coleman was assigned as a backup U. S. crew member for Expeditions 19, 20 and 21 and served as a backup crewmember for Expeditions 24 and 25 as part of her training for Expedition 26.

* Anti-Somozistas who had supported the revolution but felt betrayed by the Sandinista government – e. g. Edgar Chamorro, prominent member of the political directorate of the FDN, or Jose Francisco Cardenal, who had briefly served in the Council of State before leaving Nicaragua out of disagreement with the Sandinista government's policies and founding the Nicaraguan Democratic Union ( UDN ), an opposition group of Nicaraguan exiles in Miami.

He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Marquess, who was a member of the London County Council and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire.

He was elected governor at age 23 as a member of the Democratic Party in 1835 and served until 1840.

During 1995-96, Honduras, a founding member of the United Nations, for the first time served as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.

He served one term and, notably, was the ranking Republican member of the Science, Technology, and Space Subcommittee.

Because the final chapter of his book is a song, it is sometimes assumed that he was a member of the tribe of Levi, which served as musicians in Solomon's Temple.

His tour came 735 years after his ancestor, Edward I of England ( then Prince Edward ), had also been on military duty in the Middle East during the Ninth crusade, and also made Harry the first member of the Royal Family to have served in a war zone since his uncle, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, flew helicopters during the Falklands War.

One of the outstanding halakhists of the movement, he served as a leading member of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards from 1948 until his death in 1979.

* John Ford Messer ( 1889 – 1949 ), Canadian local-level legislator ; served as Conservative member of New Brunswick Legislative Assembly from 1939 to 1944

While a member of the Senate, Adams also served as a professor of logic at Brown University.

He was a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and served as Co-Chair of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Cabinet.

A member of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ), Kaifu ran successfully for the Diet in 1960 and served for sixteen terms totaling 49 years.

During the process leading up to elections in October 1994, the United States served as a significant financier and member of the most important commissions established to monitor implementation of the Rome General Peace Accords.

He served as a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board during 1981.

He also served as a member of the state constitutional convention, where he opposed the grant of universal suffrage and tried to maintain property requirements for voting.

He was an ordained Orthodox rabbi and later served as a member of the Israeli Knesset.

Since the establishment of the Faraday Society in 1903, Lowry had been its active member and served as its President between 1928 and 1930.

Panama is currently a member of the UN General Assembly ( and most major UN agencies ) and has served three terms in the UN Security Council.

Wine bought from a dealer should ideally be allowed to rest for several weeks before it is served.

His grandfather had served in several local political offices.

Before he entered parliament, Disraeli was involved with several women, most notably Henrietta, Lady Sykes ( the wife of Sir Francis Sykes, 3rd Bt ), who served as the model for Henrietta Temple.

In the Prose Edda Snorri Sturluson quotes many stanzas attributed to Bragi Boddason the old ( Bragi Boddason inn gamli ), a court poet who served several Swedish kings, Ragnar Lodbrok, Östen Beli and Björn at Hauge who reigned in the first half of the 9th century.

Additionally, from at least the 11th century and continuing for several centuries after that, there were several different circuits in the royal court system, served by itinerant judges who would travel from town to town dispensing the King's justice.

The international airport at N ’ Djamena was damaged in fighting in 1981, but is now served by several international carriers including Air Afrique, which is partly owned by Chad.

He served for several years as hydrographer to King William IV.

There are several distinctly Chicago sandwiches, among them the Italian beef sandwich, which is thinly sliced beef slowly simmered au jus and served on an Italian roll with sweet peppers or spicy giardiniera.

For several years his brother Husayn and several cousins served him as secretaries.

Manual labor often included singing by the workers, which served several practical purposes.

He traveled extensively, exposing himself to a wide variety of medical theories and discoveries before settling in Rome, where he served prominent members of Roman society and eventually was given the position of personal physician to several emperors.

Placing a story in a Gothic building served several purposes.

Opened during the 1880s and originally located at 11th Street and University Place, called the Hotel St. Stephan and then after 1902, called The Hotel Albert while under the ownership of William Ryder it served as a meeting place, restaurant and dwelling for several important artists and writers from the late 19th century well into the 20th century.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, the CGT leadership developed close ties to the National Party of Honduras ( Partido Nacional de Honduaras — PNH ), and several leaders served in the Callejas government.

* Irish regiments, many Irish regiments served in non-Irish military forces and took part in several conflicts of world history.

Many of the signatories would play a prominent role in Israeli politics following independence ; Moshe Sharett and Golda Meir both served as Prime Minister, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi became the country's second president in 1952, and several others served as ministers.

In addition to corporate boards of directors, Kemp served on several advisory boards such as the UCLA School of Public Policy Advisory Board, and the Toyota Diversity Advisory Board as well as the Howard University Board of Trustees, on which he served since 1993.

Jakarta is served by the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport, and Tanjung Priok Harbour ; it is connected by several intercity and commuter railways, and served by several bus lines running on reserved busways.

He later served as Parliamentary leader of the Centre Democrats in the House of Representatives from September 8, 1989 until May 19, 1998 when his party lost all its seats.

From 1997 to 2001, Ainger served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Wales Office ( and its predecessor the Welsh Office ), serving three successive Welsh Secretaries ( Ron Davies, Alun Michael and Paul Murphy ).

Ian McColl, Baron McColl of Dulwich who served as John Major's Parliamentary Private Secretary in the House of Lords, also lives there.

When the Parliamentary leader of Christian Democratic Appeal in the House of Representatives Wim Aantjes resigned of a World War II controversy, Lubbers succeed him as Parliamentary leader, he served from November 7, 1978 until November 4, 1982.

He resigned as Minister of Justice and Deputy Prime Minister to become the first Christian Democratic Appeal Party leader and the first Parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal in the House of Representatives which he served from May 26, 1977, until December 19, 1977, and a Member of the House of Representatives from June 8, 1977 until December 19, 1977.

He became the Labour Party Party leader on September 13, 1966 and served as the Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives from February 15, 1967 until May 11, 1973 and again a Member of the House of Representatives from February 23, 1967 until May 11, 1973.

After the Dutch general election of 1972 Biesheuvel again served as the Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives from November 30, 1972 until March 7, 1973 and a Member of the House of Representatives from December 7, 1972 until March 7, 1973

After serving as Prime Minister of the Netherlands De Jong became a member of the Senate, where he served from 1971 to 1974 and as the Parliamentary leader in the Senate.

The last British Royal Yacht, the post World War II HMY Britannia, was ostensibly constructed in a way as to be easily convertible to a hospital ship, but this is now thought to be largely a ruse to ensure Parliamentary funding, and she never served in this role-reputedly her lifts were too small to take standard-sized stretchers.

He previously served as Minister for Finance ( 1965 – 1966 ), Minister for Industry and Commerce ( 1959 – 1965 ), Minister for Education ( 1957 – 1959 ), Minister for the Gaeltacht ( 1957 ) and as a Parliamentary Secretary.

FitzAlan was elected Member of Parliament for Chichester in 1894, a seat he held until 1921, and served briefly under Arthur Balfour as a Lord of the Treasury in 1905 and under H. H. Asquith and later David Lloyd George as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from 1915 to 1921 ( jointly from December 1916 onwards ).

He served as Prime Minister until the Parliamentary election of 1970, which saw the other parties in his coalition government suffer heavy losses, and led to his resignation.

The eldest son Edward Henry, was a prominent politician and served under his father as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Secretary.

From 1918 to 1921 he represented Mid Down, and served in government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Pensions ( 1919 – 1920 ) and Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty ( 1920 – 1921 ).

He served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of Health and Social Security from 1969 until 1970.

Like her husband, she also served as a junior minister, as a Parliamentary Secretary at the Board of Trade, and also lost her seat at the 1970 general election.

He served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary for William Waldegrave at the Department of Environment, Nicholas Ridley as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and Kenneth Baker as Home Secretary before being promoted to Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport and Minister for Transport in London by John Major in 1992, where he was responsible for the Jubilee Line Extension, the largest extension of the London Underground network to date.

From 1968 to 1970, Owen served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Navy in Harold Wilson's first government.

During this period Law became a " self-improver "; despite his lack of formal university education he sought to test his intellect, attending lectures given at Glasgow University and joining the Glasgow Parliamentary Debating Association, which adhered as closely as possible to the layout of the real Parliament of the United Kingdom and undoubtedly helped Law hone the skills that served him so well in the political arena.

1607 ), Col .- Gen., an English soldier, served in the Thirty Years ' War under Ernst von Mansfeld before commanding Parliamentary forces in the English Civil War.

He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Commonwealth Relations from 1960 to 1962, Minister of State at the Commonwealth Relations Office from 1962 to 1963, and for Colonial Affairs from 1963 to 1964.

He has served as Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate.