In 2000, Swinney was elected Leader ( or National Convenor ) of the SNP, becoming Leader of the Opposition in the Scottish Parliament.

Raised in Australia, she returned to Scotland and was a member of the left-wing 79 Group inside the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) in the early 1980s, but avoided expulsion as she was not a member of its steering committee ( future SNP Convenor Alex Salmond by contrast who served on the 79 Group committee was expelled, whilst Margo MacDonald resigned from the party in protest before she could be expelled ).

William Cuthbertson Wolfe ( 22 February 1924 – 18 March 2010 ) was the National Convenor ( leader ) of the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) from 1969 to 1979.

In 1969 he replaced Arthur Donaldson as SNP National Convenor, and it was during Wolfe's period as leader that the party had its greatest electoral success to the Westminster parliament, winning 30 % of the vote in Scotland and 11 of the 71 Scottish seats in the October 1974 General Election, though Wolfe failed to win a seat of his own.

In opposition he was Shadow Deputy Health Minister before becoming Shadow Deputy Justice Minister with responsibility for Prisons and Drugs policy, Convenor of the SNP Group in the Scottish Parliament and Deputy Convenor of the Parliament's Justice 1 Committee.

Ho was also Convenor of the Land Fund Investment Commission of the MSAR of the PRC.

From 1984 to 1986, he was the first Labour Convenor of Edinburgh Council's Recreation Committee, beginning the Council's programme of new libraries and museums, sports centres, and swimming pools ( including the Ainslie Park Swimming and Leisure Centre in Pilton ).

MacDougall was elected to the new Fife unitary council in 1995 and became Convenor of the council when it assumed its powers in April 1996.

He was previously a councillor and Convenor of the General Purposes Committee of Angus District Council.

He has also served as a member of the national executive of the Young Scottish Nationalists and from 1984 to 1988 he served as a councillor on Angus District Council, where he was Convenor of General Purposes.

During this period, Khan was also the Honorary General Secretary of the Muslim League, the deputy leader of their party, Convenor of the Action Committee of the Muslim League, Chairman of the Central Parliamentary Board and the managing director of the newspaper Dawn.

For the sake of form this amendment was formally proposed by Lord Weatherill, Convenor of the Cross-Bench Peers.

He ran John Swinney's campaign to be re-elected as SNP National Convenor when he was challenged by Dr. Bill Wilson in late 2003.

SA member and Victorian Equal Love Convenor Ali Hogg, was voted the most influential LGBTI Australian by Samesame. com. au and the sixth most influential Melburnian by The Age for her activism in gay and lesbian rights in 2011.

He was also the Convenor for, " National Forum for Housing Rights ".

Later that year he became the elected Vice Convenor of the SNP responsible for Publicity ( succeeding Alex Salmond ) and in 1990 was Salmond's campaign manager during the SNP leadership campaign.

He was a member of the SNPs National Executive Committee as well as serving as the Vice Convenor in charge of Publicity during 2003-2004.

In 2005 Macintosh had to resign from his position as Deputy Convenor on the Standards Committee after it was revealed he had failed to declare £ 330 of hospitality from McDonald's within the required time.

In 2000 John Swinney MSP was elected leader, defeating Alex Neil MSP by 547 votes to 268 in a hotly contested leadership election to replace Alex Salmond as National Convenor.

He is Patron of the Bankruptcy Association ( 4th Lord Sudeley was foreclosed upon by Lloyds Bank in 1893, when his debt was covered twice over by large assets ), and Convenor of the Forum for Stable Currencies.

The earlier of them was an unofficial enterprise, sponsored by Life magazine, under the title of The National Purpose.

The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

Recently the secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation was interviewed on the air.

The Symposium, which was jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, the Instrument Society of America, and the National Bureau of Standards, attracted nearly one thousand registrants, including many from abroad.

In 1959, the Yacht Safety Bureau was reorganized by the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers and a group of insurance underwriters to provide a testing laboratory and labeling service for boats and their equipment.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

The graphite was National Carbon NC 60, which has a porosity of 50% and an average pore size of 30.

To prepare the latter, silver chloride was precipitated from a solution containing Af obtained from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The Istiqlal-sponsored U.M.C.I.A. ( L'Union Marocaine Des Commercants, Industrialistes et Artisans ) was opposed by candidates of the new U.N.F.P. ( L'Union National Des Forces Populaires ) in nearly all urban centers.

The latest major change in this program was introduced by the National Defense Education Act of 1958, Title 8, of which amended the George-Barden Act.

For the Smith-Hughes, George-Barden, and National Defense Act of 1958, the cumulative total of Federal expenditures in 42 years was only about $740 million.

The Title 8, program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was a great spur to this trend toward area schools.

National identification was not new, but it was accelerating in intensity and scope throughout Europe as new unifications occurred.

National identification was reflected jurisprudentially in law theories which incorporated this Hegelian abstraction and saw law, domestic and international, simply as its formal reflection.

The plan was supported by Frederick P. Fish, counsel for the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce.

The Republicans some weeks ago served notice through Senator Thruston B. Morton ( R ) of Kentucky, chairman of the Republican National Committee, that the Kennedy administration would be held responsible if the outcome in Laos was a coalition government susceptible of Communist domination.

Skorich was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm Van Brocklin permission to seek the head coaching job with the Minnesota Vikings, the newest National Football League entry.

His goal was to obtain a National League team for this city.

When he was unable to bring about immediate expansion, he sought to convince another National League club to move here.

He was the lawyer for Ted Collins' old Boston Yankees in the National Football League.