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'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.
U Thant of course, will hold office until the spring of 1963, when Mr. Hammarskjold's term would have come to an end.
The mayor's present term of office expires Jan. 1.
She had been sentenced to 180 years in prison, but former Gov. Stratton commuted her term to 75 years, making her eligible for parole, as one of his last acts in office.
When an election was held at the conclusion of Mackenzie's five-year term, the Conservatives were swept back into office in a landslide victory.
In 1881 Alfonso refused to sanction a law by which the ministers were to remain in office for a fixed term of 18 months.
Later, he was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice in a scandal involving a White House intern, but was acquitted by the U. S. Senate and served his complete term of office.
The Directorate's term of office lasts six years and is renewable once.
The term epískopos was not from the earliest times clearly distinguished from the term presbýteros (" elder ", " senior ", nowadays used to signify a priest ), but the term was already clearly used in the sense of the order or office of bishop, distinct from that of priest in the writings of Ignatius of Antioch ( died c. 108 ), and sources from the middle of the 2nd century undoubtedly set forth that all the chief centres of Christianity recognized and had the office of bishop, using a form of organization that remained universal until the Protestant Reformation.
" The term is traceable to the 1789 Form of Government of the PC ( U. S. A .) and the Presbyterian understanding of the pastoral office.
There is no evidence that the term was a title that had any practical use, with implications of formal rights, powers and office, or even that it had any existence before the 9th-century.
Throughout his term in office Kamral tried to establish a support base for the PDPA by introducing several changes.
Note: in Greek, the term for " consul " is " ypatos ", which translates as " supreme one ", and hence does not necessarily imply a joint office.
The reforms of Lucius Cornelius Sulla required a ten year period between holding another term in the same office.
After a term as Praetor, the magistrate would serve as a provincial governor in the office of Propraetor, wielding Propraetor imperium, commanding the province ’ s legions, and possessing ultimate authority within his province ( s ).
After a term as consul, the final step in the Cursus Honorum was the office of censor.
This was the only office in the Roman Republic whose term was a period of eighteen months instead of the usual twelve.
Washington's first term in office saw attention given to poor and previously neglected minority neighborhoods.
The Commandant is nominated by the President for a four-year term of office and must be confirmed by the Senate.
Terms invented by Adams in relation to the strip, and sometimes used by fans in describing their own office environments, include “ Induhvidual .” This term is based on the American English slang expression “ duh !” The conscious misspelling of individual as induhvidual is a pejorative term for people who are not in the DNRC ( Dogbert's New Ruling Class ).

term and 1917
From 1907 on, English language articles sometimes used the term " Maximalist " for " Bolshevik " and " Minimalist " for " Menshevik ", which proved confusing since there was also a " Maximalist " faction within the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1904 – 1906 ( which after 1906 formed a separate Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists ) and then again after 1917.
* Edgar Degas ( a realist who despised the term Impressionist, but is considered one, due to his loyalty to the group ) ( 1834 – 1917 )
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi ( Indirā Priyadarśinī Gāndhī, née Nehru ; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984 ) was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms ( 1966 – 77 ) and a fourth term ( 1980 – 84 ).
In 1917, Rudolf Pannwitz used the term to describe a philosophically-oriented culture.
The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union.
In the first edition of the English Pronouncing Dictionary ( 1917 ) he named the accent " Public School Pronunciation ", but for the second edition in 1926 he wrote " In what follows I call it Received Pronunciation ( abbreviation RP ), for want of a better term.
During his term in office, Wilson gave a well-known Flag Day speech that fueled the wave of anti-German sentiment sweeping the country in 1917 – 18.
* The Russian Revolution ( 1917 ) is the collective term for the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union.
He was convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 and sentenced to a term of 10 years.
The first use of the term recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary was by philosopher and social theorist Alain Locke in 1924 to describe Robert Lowie's " extreme cultural relativism ", found in the latter's 1917 book Culture and Ethnology.
The 1917 Code of Canon Law reserved the term " nun " ( Latin: monialis ) for women religious who took solemn vows or who, while being allowed in some places to take simple vows, belonged to institutes whose vows were normally solemn.
The term was coined by the naturalist Joseph Grinnell in 1917, in his paper " The niche relationships of the California Thrasher.
In common parlance, all members of male religious institutes are often termed " monks " and those of female religious institutes " nuns ", although in a more restricted sense, a monk is one who lives in a monastery under a monastic rule such as that of Saint Benedict and the term " nun " was in the 1917 Code of Canon Law officially reserved for members of a women's religious institute of solemn vows, and is sometimes applied only to those who devote themselves wholly to the contemplative life and belong to one of the enclosed religious orders living and working within the confines of a monastery and reciting the Liturgy of the Hours in community.
The term “ defamiliarization ” was first coined in 1917 by Viktor Shklovsky ( also spelled Shklovskij ) in his essay “ Art as Device ” ( alternate translation: “ Art as Technique ”) ( Crawford 209 ).
The Nineteenth Amendment ( which gave women the right to vote everywhere in the United States ) was not ratified until 1920 ; therefore, during Rankin's term in the 65th Congress ( 1917 – 1919 ), many women throughout the country did not have the right to vote, though they did in her home state of Montana.
A number of factors contributed to the downfall of the Tsarist regime in the spring of 1917, both short and longer term.
Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana ( 1960 – 66 ), coined the term neo-colonialism in the book Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism ( 1965 ) As a political scientist, Nkrumah theoretically developed and extended, to the post – War 20th century, the socio-economic and political arguments presented by Lenin in the pamphlet Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism ( 1917 ), about 19th-century imperialism as the logical extension of geopolitical power to meet the financial investment needs of the political economy of capitalism.
For example, in the British sitcom Blackadder Goes Forth, set in 1917 ( 27 years before the word was first used ), the character General Melchett declares that he likes the term and orders his batman to take note of it because he wants to " use it more often in conversation ".
* from " the Army slang term " umpty " used in 1917 for the dash when reading Morse code " ( however, the station name was in use in 1910 )
* Jerry Wexler ( 1917 – 2008 ), music producer who coined the term " Rhythm and blues ".
Thomas starred in a similar role in 1917, though it was not until The Flapper that the term was used.
Historically the term guberniya () was used for the län / lääni in the Grand Duchy of Finland as a part of Russia from 1809 to 1917.
After Yuan died, the National Assembly reconvened on 1 August 1916 under the pretext that its three-year term had been suspended and had not expired, but President Li Yuanhong was forced to disband it due to the Manchu Restoration on 13 June 1917.

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