During his tenure as Emir of Afghanistan, Omar seldom left the city of Kandahar and rarely met with outsiders, instead relying on Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil for the majority of diplomatic necessities.

Hillery's tenure at the Department of Foreign Affairs wasn't consumed by affairs in Northern Ireland.

If anything his tenure at the Department of Foreign Affairs helped him to achieve the leadership of the party.

During his tenure, he got into numerous rows with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and other ambassadors.

His tenure as Foreign Minister was marked with increasing tension between Japan and Russia over Korea and Manchuria, cumulating in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.

During his tenure as Jamaica ’ s Foreign Minister he served as President of the ACP / EU Ministerial Council and led negotiations for the ACP group of countries with the European Community.

It is believed that Straw's public opposition to potential military actions in Iran during his tenure as Foreign Secretary was one of the main reasons behind his demotion.

Cowen's tenure as Foreign Minister saw extensive negotiations continue regarding the Northern Ireland peace process and other international activities, particularly when Ireland gained a place on the United Nations Security Council.

Hurd was widely regarded as a statesmanlike British Foreign Secretary, his tenure having been particularly eventful.

One of the defining features of Hurd's tenure as Foreign Secretary was the British reaction to the increasingly vicious Yugoslav Wars.

During his tenure, he served as chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs and was a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Simon served as Foreign Secretary under MacDonald, highlights of his tenure of office being the repudiation by Germany, under its new chancellor Adolf Hitler, of the League of Nations and of Disarmament efforts, and the Japanese occupation of Manchuria.

Castlereagh is best remembered for his tenure as Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1822 and played an important role at the Congress of Vienna of 1814 to 1815.

Ali Jawdat served as Military Governor for Aleppo and Homs, during the short-lived tenure of the first Arab kingdom in Syria, under King Faisal, and thereafter served in turn as Governor of Hilla, Nejef, Kerbela, Mosul, Diyala, and Basra and variously as Minister of Finance, Minister of the Interior, Foreign Minister and Iraqi Ambassador to the Court of St. James, France and Washington, where he established the first Iraqi embassy in the US.

He chaired many committees during his tenure in office, including the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the U. S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Joint Committee on Printing, and others.

During his tenure as Foreign Minister, he made substantial efforts to end the atrocities committed by Serbs in the Yugoslav Wars.

By October 2007, at the end of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz ’ s tenure, Pakistan raised back its Foreign Reserves to $ 16. 4 billion.

During his tenure, Atassi appointed the statesman Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar, one of the leaders of the Syrian nationalist movement against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, as Foreign Minister.

During his tenure in Congress, Broomfield served as a member of the U. S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs and was ranking member from 1975 until his retirement in 1993.

After his tenure as Malaysian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ' Deputy Secretary-General, he became increasingly involved with the United Nations.

After his tenure at the Finance Ministry, Surakiart went on to serve as Vice-Chairman of the Advisory Council on Economic and Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh until 1997.

His great-uncle, the 15th Earl, served twice as Foreign Secretary and was Prime Minister Lord Salisbury's stepfather, while his best-known ancestor was his great-grandfather, the 14th Earl of Derby, who was Leader of the Conservative Party for 22 years ( 1846 – 1868 ; the longest tenure in that office ) and Prime Minister three times ( 1852, 1858 – 59, and 1866 – 68 ).

During his tenure in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tanzania played a significant role in bringing about peace in the Great Lakes region, particularly in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC ).

During Wechsler's tenure as director, the American Law Institute completed the second restatement of the Conflict of Laws, Contracts, Judgments, and Torts, as well as the original restatement of Foreign Relations Law of the United States and large parts of the Second Restatement of Property.

* 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei ; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.

His tenure saw the establishment of the Defense Investigative Service, the Defense Mapping Agency, the Office of Net Assessment, and the Defense Security Assistance Agency ( to administer all DoD military assistance programs ).

Following his tenure in Congress, Hendricks was appointed Commissioner of the General Land Office by President Franklin Pierce and served there from 1855 until 1859.

During Chao's tenure, Labor Department gave Congress inaccurate and unreliable numbers that understated the expense of contracting out its employees ' work to private firms, according to a Government Accountability Office report issued on November 24, 2008.

Retired ministers wishing to write their memoirs are given access to papers from their tenure, but are usually not allowed to borrow them from the Cabinet Office archive.

Sutherland describes his tenure from 1963-65 as head of the Information Processing Techniques Office ( IPTO ) and new initiatives such as ILLIAC IV.

However, Wanamaker's tenure at the Post Office was riddled with controversy, including the firing of some 30, 000 postal workers under the then common " spoils system " during his four-year term, which caused severe confusion, inefficiency and a run-in with civil-service crusader Theodore Roosevelt, a fellow Republican.

He responded with designs on several occasions during his tenure as a commissioner, less so after 1802 when he took on the superintendency of the Patent Office.

After an interval in opposition from 1874 to 1880, Lord Kimberley returned to the Colonial Office in Gladstone's next ministry ; but at the end of 1882 he exchanged this office first for that of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and then for the secretaryship of state for India, a post he retained during the remainder of Gladstone's tenure of power ( 1882 – 1885, 1886, 1892 – 1894 ), though in 1892-1894 he combined with it that of the lord presidency of the council.

During his tenure at the India Office during the short-lived minority Conservative administration, Churchill reversed policy over Burma.

He gained tenure there in 1987, and served as the director of the Office of Climatology until 2004.

The Faculty Office Building was one of the major construction projects completed during Brown ’ s tenure.

During Friend's tenure, ATIC contemplated passing oversight Blue Book to another Air Force agency, but neither the Air Research and Development Center, nor the Office of Information for the Secretary of the Air Force was interested.

An Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight ( OFHEO ) report from September 2004 found that, during Johnson's tenure as CEO, Fannie Mae had improperly deferred $ 200 million in expenses.

Grey's first tenure at the Home Office notably saw him deal with relief efforts to the victims of the Irish Potato Famine and trying to subdue the Irish rebellion of 1848.

For example, the UN's " Final Clauses of Multilateral Treaties, Handbook ", 2003 ( a publication which predated his tenure in Office ) states:

Throughout his tenure at the Home Office, Joynson-Hicks was noted for his reform of the penal system-in particular, Borstal reform and the introduction of a legal requirement for all courts to have a probation officer.

His length of tenure was exceeded in the twentieth century only by Chuter Ede, R. A. Butler and Herbert Morrison, yet he was not included in a list of long-serving Home Secretaries presented to Jack Straw in 2001 on his departure from the Home Office.

The Government Printing Office was formed during his tenure.

Delano's tenure corruption permeated in the Department of Interior as bogus agents in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and fraudulent clerks in the Patent Office made tremendous profits at the expense of tax payers and Native Americans.

In December 1942, Roosevelt selected Brown to take over as administrator of the Office of Price Administration, replacing Leon Henderson, whose tenure as administrator was listed as one of the major reasons for Democratic losses in the 1942 elections.

He became reporter in 1916 and during his tenure, the Government Printing Office took over publication of the United States Reports ; previously private printers had issued them.

In 2004 the Courtyard Societies went to court against the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister over the terms of their tenure of the apartments in Burlington House, which they have enjoyed rent-free.

During his tenure, he established the Office of Evangelization, ministries for Hispanics and victims of HIV, and a drug prevention program.