In 2003, together with fellow Roman Catholic MP Edward Leigh, Widdecombe proposed an amendment opposing repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, which banned the promotion of homosexuality by local governments.

In 2002 Chile signed an association agreement with the European Union ( comprising FTA, political and cultural agreements ), in 2003, an extensive free trade agreement with the United States, and in 2004 with South Korea, expecting a boom in import and export of local produce and becoming a regional trade-hub.

In both 1996 and 2003, the Panthers were responsible for eliminating the Cowboys in the playoffs which led to the local nickname for the Panthers being the " Cowboy killers ".

It was recorded for years in the local history books that the land on which Columbus sits was donated by General Tipton ; however, a deed purporting to show a sale of the land was acquired in 2003 by Historic Columbus Indiana.

In 2003, the agenda shifted heavily towards local democratic reforms, opposition to the succession of Gamal Mubarak as president, and rejection of violence by state security forces.

In 2003, a poll showing that most Rotterdammers believed Erasmus to be the designer of the local " Erasmus Bridge " instigated the founding of the Erasmus House, dedicated to celebrating Erasmus's legacy.

Many international artists such as Banksy have left their work in Melbourne and in early 2008 a perspex screen was installed to prevent a Banksy stencil art piece from being destroyed, it has survived since 2003 through the respect of local street artists avoiding posting over it, although it has recently had paint tipped over it.

The only party convention in 2003 was planned for November 2003, but about 20 % of the local organisations forced the federal party to hold a special party convention in Cottbus early to discuss the party position regarding Agenda 2010, a major reform of the German welfare programmes planned by Chancellor Schröder.

On September 21, 2003, after 14 years in space and 8 years in the Jovian system, Galileos mission was terminated by sending the orbiter into Jupiter's atmosphere at a speed of over per second, to avoid any chance of it contaminating local moons with terrestrial bacteria.

The World Bank, who view the cancellation of those projects will ruin Haiti road Infrastructure Concise into creating, FER ( Fond d ’ Etretient Routiers ) in 2003, this was a way to cut down corruption, get local company involved, and not stopping those works because of political Contestation.

The local currency appreciated considerably in 2003 and the first months of 2004.

In the financial year 2003 / 2004 coastal cargo in New Zealand totalled around 8. 6 million tonnes, of which 85 % was still carried by local, and 15 % by overseas shipping.

In 2002 and 2003, FARC broke up ten large ranches in Meta, an eastern Colombian province, and distributed the land to local subsistence farmers.

In March 2003, The Stems reunited for a national tour of the local and international music scene.

Reprinted in 2003, its new foreword states that Winchester has been banned from Tristan da Cunha due to his writing about the war-time romance of one of the local women.

In 2003, Bornholm County merged with the local four municipalities, forming the Bornholm Regional Municipality.

However, British imperial honours were discontinued in 1996, the Governor-General has taken a more active role in representing New Zealand overseas, and appeals from the Court of Appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council were replaced by a local Supreme Court of New Zealand in 2003.

The oldest public house in Caernarfon is the Black Boy Inn, which remained in the same family for over 40 years until sold in 2003 to a local independent family business.

Theorists believe that downwardly accountable or representative authorities with meaningful discretionary powers are the basic institutional elements of decentralisation that should lead to local efficiency, equity and development .” Ribot, 2003 ; 53

Given the harsh conditions of the retreat, the infant was left with a local family ( Two Europeans retracing the Long March route in 2003 met a woman in rural Yunnan province, said by local officials to be Mao and He Zizhen's long-lost daughter ).

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

Towards the end of 2003, the focus of political controversy shifted to the dispute of how subsequent Chief Executives get elected.

São Tomé and Príncipe's army is a tiny force with almost no resources at its disposal and would be wholly ineffective operating unilaterally ; infantry equipment is considered simple to operate and maintain but may require refurbishment or replacement after 25 years in tropical climates ; poor pay, working conditions, and alleged nepotism in the promotion of officers have been problems in the past, as reflected in the 1995 and 2003 coups ; these issues are being addressed with foreign assistance aimed at improving the army and its focus on realistic security concerns ; command is exercised from the president, through the Minister of Defense, to the Chief of the Armed Forces staff ( 2005 )

Brigadier-General Tom Carew was Chief of Defence Staff from April 2000 to November 2003.

The fact that he had only recently left his position as IDF Chief of Staff prevented him from participating in the 2003 election ( by which time Mofaz had joined Sharon's Likud ).

In 2003 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) conducted an audit of the PNA and stated that Arafat diverted $ 900 million in public funds to a special bank account controlled by Arafat and the PNA Chief Economic Financial adviser.

** Donald Regan, American Treasury Secretary and White House Chief of Staff ( d. 2003 )

* Editor in Chief ( 1998 – 2002 ), Columnist ( 1996 – 1998 ), Editor in Chief Emeritus ( 2003 – 2007 ) IEEE Software magazine

In 2003, he opened a new company, Snocap, along with Jordan Mendelson ( Napster's Chief Architect ), and Ron Conway.

* In November 2003, he represented Andrew Fastow, deposed Chief Financial Officer of Enron.

He was Chief of Robotics for the NASA Astronaut Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas from 2003 – 2006 and was Chief of International Space Station Operations from 2006 – 2008.

In 2003, Chief Pleas voted to vary the longstanding ban on divorce in the island by extending to the Royal Court of Guernsey power to grant divorces.

In more recent years, Sutherland was noted for his role as Reverend Monroe in the Civil War drama Cold Mountain ( 2003 ), in the remake of The Italian Job ( 2003 ), in the TV series Commander in Chief ( 2005 – 2006 ), in the movie Fierce People ( 2005 ) with Diane Lane and Anton Yelchin, and as Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice ( 2005 ), starring alongside Keira Knightley.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court investigated allegations of War Crimes during 2003 invasion of Iraq and he published an open letter containing his findings.

* Mack McLarty, Carlyle Group Senior Advisor ( from 2003 ), White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1994.

On 27 January 2003 Chief UN Weapons Inspector Blix addressed the UN Security Council and stated " Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance – not even today – of the disarmament, which was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace.

* Chief Michael Taylor ( 2003 ), Chief of Police.

His Chief of Staff, Park Ji-Won, was sentenced to twelve years in prison in 2003 for, among other charges, his role in the Hyundai payment to North Korea for the North – South summit.

Six of the current nine members of the court attended HLS: Chief Justice John Roberts, and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, who also served as the Dean of Harvard Law School from 2003 to 2009.

In recent years, more non-members of Her Majesty's Government have been permitted by the Prime Minister to attend Cabinet meetings on a regular basis, notably Alastair Campbell in his capacity as Director of Communications and Strategy between 1997 and 2003, and Jonathan Powell the Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister under Tony Blair, with a distinctly separate role from the Cabinet Secretary / Head of the Civil Service.

Previous Prosecutors have been Ramón Escovar Salom of Venezuela ( 1993 – 1994 ), Richard Goldstone of South Africa ( 1994 – 1996 ), Louise Arbour of Canada ( 1996 – 1999 ), Eric Östberg of Sweden, and Carla Del Ponte of Switzerland ( 1999 – 2007 ), who until 2003, simultaneously served as the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda where she led the OTP since 1999.

On 14 June 2002 Uganda deposited its instrument of ratification of the Rome Statute, and on 16 December 2003 the Government of Uganda referred the situation concerning Northern Uganda to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ( ICC ).

In June 2003, the Prosecutor to the Special Court unsealed the indictment and announced publicly that Taylor was charged with war crimes.

In late 2000, after the Russian Deputy Prosecutor General demanded that Berezovsky appear for questioning, he did not return from abroad and moved to the UK, which granted him political asylum in 2003.

On 7 March 2003, the Prosecutor of the Special Court issued his first indictments.

* 2003 Statement by Prosecutor Ewa Koj, Head of Divisional Commission, for Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation

In 2003, the U. N. Security Council removed Del Ponte as the Prosecutor for the ICTR, and replaced her there with Hassan Bubacar Jallow in an effort to expedite proceedings in that Tribunal.