cause on-site inspections to be made of promising projects, domestic and foreign, and, in the case of projects located in the United States, cooperate and participate in their development in instances in which the purposes of this Act will be served thereby ; ;

He also served as Prime Minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954 and at various times served as foreign minister and defence minister as well.

Parliament approved “ An Act to enable His Majesty to grant commissions to a certain number of foreign Protestants, who have served abroad as officers or engineers, to act and rank as officers or engineers in America only, under certain restrictions and regulations .” Earl of Loudoun, who as commander-in-chief of the forces in North America, was appointed colonel-in-chief of the regiment.

In August 1883, he served as a foreign secretary and counsellor for a special Korean diplomatic mission to the United States.

The foreign policy of Sweden is based on the premise that national security is best served by staying free of alliances in peacetime in order to remain a neutral country in the event of war.

* Miguel D ' Escoto, a Maryknoll Roman Catholic priest ; served as Nicaragua's foreign minister

Vietnam has become a leading agricultural exporter and served as an attractive destination for foreign investment in Southeast Asia.

The locations where he served can be reconstructed from, for example, descriptions of the building methods of various " foreign tribes ".

The French encyclopedia Quid reports that 30-40, 000 foreign volunteers from about 40 nationalities served in the French army.

King, who served as his own secretary of state for external affairs ( foreign minister ), said privately that if he had to choose he would not be neutral, but he made no public statement.

The exact nature of their subjection to the Spartans is not clear, but they seem to have served partly as a kind of military reserve, partly as skilled craftsmen and partly as agents of foreign trade.

A more balanced view suggests a highly capable military ruler whose oft-reviled peculiarities seemed to have served him well, but who neglected his base in Sweden in pursuit of foreign adventure.

Ernst Jaakson, the longest-serving foreign diplomatic representative to the United States, served as vice-consul from 1934, and as consul general in charge of the Estonian legation in the United States from 1965 until reestablishment of Estonia's independence.

Caravaggio, a Canadian who served in Britain's foreign intelligence service since the late 1930s, was a friend of Hana's father, who died in the war.

Zhou served under Mao Zedong and was instrumental in consolidating the control of the Communist Party's rise to power, forming foreign policy, and developing the Chinese economy.

A skilled and able diplomat, Zhou served as the Chinese foreign minister from 1949 to 1958.

In reality, however, Walpole shared power with his brother-in-law Lord Townshend, who served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department and controlled the nation's foreign affairs.

On 15 June 1975 Lieutenant-Commander Didier Ratsiraka ( who had previously served as foreign minister ) came to power in a coup.

His great-grandfather's brother Carl Bildt served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Cabinet-Secretary ( Under secretary of state of foreign affairs, in Swedish kabinettssekreterare ) and was a renowned diplomat and member of the Swedish Academy.

Tariffs, taxes on foreign goods entering a country, served two purposes for the United States in the late 19th century.

The Act served as an institutional reform intended to authorize the president to negotiate with foreign nations to reduce tariffs in return for reciprocal reductions in tariffs in the United States.

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.

Serbian refugees and military served in great European armies, and were the progenitors or instrumental in several foreign military structures: Hussars ( light cavalry in Hungary and Poland ), Seimeni ( infantry in Moldavia and Wallachia ), Stratioti ( light cavalry mercenaries in southern and central Europe, 15th-18th c .), Uskoks, etc.

The Ninth Party Congress also served as a forum for examining the future challenges facing the party in domestic and foreign policy.

However it did not have its own minister and it was served, when at all, by the curate of one of the adjacent chapels.

William E. Gladstone served as prime minister four times ( 1868 – 74, 1880 – 85, 1886, and 1892 – 94 ).

Having served as prime minister for six years and 92 days, his reign as prime minister was the longest unbroken reign of any Labour leader until Tony Blair more than 50 years later.

From 1982 to 1986 he served as deputy to the Bavarian secretary of the state and then as minister of state from 1982 to 1988.

His father was a minister in an Assemblies of God congregation, served as president of Evangel University ( 1958 – 74 ), and jointly as President of Central Bible College ( 1958 – 63 ).

Iori served with distinction in putting down the rebellion and gradually rose to the rank of karō — a position equal to a minister.

French finance minister and mercantilist Jean-Baptiste Colbert served for over 20 years.

During the reign of Augustus, Maecenas served as a quasi-culture minister to the Emperor.

Zahir Shah served in the government positions of deputy war minister and minister of education.

During 1973, Letelier was recalled to Chile and served successively as minister of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Defense.

The large, continuously upgraded satellite ground stations, originally installed in 1972 to provide live coverage of the visits to China by U. S. president Richard M. Nixon and Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka, still served as the base for China's international satellite communications network in the mid-1980s.

The leaders of the three parties, Alfred Deakin, George Reid and Chris Watson each served as prime minister before losing a vote of confidence.

Both churches were served by the same minister until the fall of 2005.

From 1976 to 1979, he also served as the prime minister of Democratic Kampuchea.

Bennett served as the Rector of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario from 1935 – 1937, even while he was still prime minister.

Jenkins is seen by many as a key influence on " New Labour ", as the Labour Party marketed itself after the election of Tony Blair ( who served as prime minister from winning the first of three successive general elections in 1997 ) in 1994, when the party abandoned many of its long-established policies including nationalisation, nuclear disarmament and unconditional support for the trade unions.

Goh's predecessor Lee Kuan Yew served as Singapore's prime minister from independence through 1990.

The first prime minister, Vladimír Mečiar, had served as the prime minister of the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia since 1992.