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.

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.

Two former prime ministers — Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir Mackenzie Bowell — served in the 1890s while members of the Senate ; both, in their roles as Government Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( John A. Macdonald in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894 ), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an interim leader in such a scenario.

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.

Kekkonen also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs for periods in 1952 – 1953 and 1954 concurrent with his prime ministership.

( 17th government ; Hasan Saka had served twice as a prime minister )

( 12 th government ; Refik Saydam had served twice as a prime minister )

( 14th government ; Şükrü Saracoğlu had served twice as a prime minister )

** İsmet İnönü of CHP forms the new government of Turkey ( 28th government, coalition partners ; independents, İnönü has served 10 ten times as a prime minister, this is his last government )

* December 11 – Nihat Erim forms the new government of Turkey ( 34th government, Nihat Erim had served two times as a prime minister )

( 8th government ; During Atatürk's presidency, İnönü had served seven times as a prime minister )

The current governor general is David Lloyd Johnston, who has served since 1 October 2010 ; Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper recommended him to succeed Michaëlle Jean.

From 1984 to 1990, he served as Minister of Defence in several national unity governments led by prime ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres.

He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and a former prime minister, having served from 2006 until his inauguration as president after winning the 2007 East Timorese presidential election.

Antoine Gizenga, who served as Lumumba's Deputy Prime Minister in the post-independence period, was a 2006 Presidential candidate under the Unified Lumumbist Party ( Parti Lumumbiste Unifié ( PALU )) and was named prime minister at the end of the year.

One of his final public appearances came on 29 April 2002, when at the age of 90 he sat alongside the then prime minister Tony Blair and the three other surviving former prime ministers at the time at Buckingham Palace for a dinner which formed part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations, alongside his daughter Margaret, Baroness Jay, who had served as Leader of the House of Lords from 1998 to 2001.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

After finishing his education, Albuquerque first served in North Africa and in the Mediterranean where he took part in numerous successful campaigns against the Arabs and the Ottomans.

Alcopops tend to be sweet and served in small bottles ( typically 330 ml in Europe and 355 ml, the normal size of a soda pop can, in North America ), and between 4 % and 7 % alcohol by volume.

Boone was served by the narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ( nicknamed " Tweetsie ") until the flood of 1940.

The British Army was heavily involved in the Napoleonic Wars in which the army served in multiple campaigns across Europe ( including continuous deployment in the Peninsular War ), the Caribbean, North Africa and later in North America.

He served nine years as a volunteer 1st class, midshipman, and shipmate, including one year in the English Channel and Bay of Biscay ( 1809 ), four years at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies ( 1809 – 14 ), two and a half years on the North American and West Indian stations ( 1814 – 16 ), and a year and a half in the Mediterranean ( 1817 – 18 ).

Couscous ( or ) ( Berber: Seksu ) is a North African Berber dish of semolina traditionally served with a meat or vegetable stew spooned over it.

With the third-party funds, North created an organization called " The Enterprise " which served as the secret arm of the NSC staff and had its own airplanes, pilots, airfield, ship, operatives and secret Swiss bank accounts.

Other key executives responsible for the company's meteoric growth in the late 80s and early 90s were Ross A. Cooley, another former IBM associate, who served for many years as SVP of GM North America ; Michael Swavely, who was the company's chief marketing officer in the early years, and eventually ran the North America organization, later passing along that responsibility to Mr. Cooley, when Swavely retired.

He had previously been a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II, and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe ; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942 – 43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944 – 45, from the Western Front.

He studied law at Columbia University in New York City but his education was interrupted by service with the United States Navy in World War II during which he served with American amphibious forces in Europe and North Africa.

Communist leaders like Mao Zedong and North Vietnamese Ho Chi Minh both implemented guerrilla warfare giving it a theoretical frame which served as a model for similar strategies elsewhere, such as the Cuban " foco " theory and the anti-Soviet Mujahadeen in Afghanistan.

His charts of the North American northwest coast were so extremely accurate that they served as the key reference for coastal navigation for generations.

Oyo, as a northern Yoruba kingdom, served as middle-man in the north-south trade and connecting the eastern forest of Guinea with the western and central Sudan, the Sahara, and North Africa.

North Africa served as a transit region for people moving towards Europe or the Middle East, thus, the region's inhabitants have been influenced by populations from other areas.

Helen's father, Arthur H. Keller, spent many years as an editor for the Tuscumbia North Alabamian and had served as a captain for the Confederate Army.

During the Seven Years ' War, he served in North America as master of Pembroke.

In Asia, Stalin fostered relations with Mao Zedong in China and Kim Il-sung in North Korea, and his rule served as a model for their newly formed respective governments.

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.

Kiel on the Baltic Sea and Wilhelmshaven on the North Sea served as the Navy's principal naval bases.

They served in the Prussian navy, the navy of the North German Confederation, the Imperial German Navy and briefly in the modern Federal German Navy, the Bundesmarine.

Later served as the capital of the Vandal Kingdom of North Africa, before being destroyed by the Arabs after its capture in AD 697.

North of Grand River Avenue, the main street of the side, lie warehouses and light industrial areas served by a major rail line that runs through Lansing.

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