On October 4, 2005 Croatia finally received green light for accession negotiations after the Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY, Carla Del Ponte officially stated that Croatia is fully cooperating with the Tribunal.

Krulak has served as the Senior Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MBNA Europe ( 2001 – 2005 ) and was based at the Chester campus in the UK.

In 2005 over 50 reforms were approved, which eliminated some of the remaining undemocratic areas of the text, such as the existence of non-elected Senators ( appointed senators, or senators for life ) and the inability of the President to remove the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

A diplomatic row with China erupted on 5 May 2005, when President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan arrived for a private visit and was welcomed at a private function at Suva's Sheraton Resort by Vice-President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, Ratu Ovini Bokini ( Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs ), Senate President Taito Waqavakatoga and several other Senators and MPs, and several judges including Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki.

On 12 March 2005, the Chief Executive, Tung Chee-hwa, resigned.

* 2005 – Tung Chee Hwa resigns from his post as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong after widespread public dissatisfaction of his tenure.

* General John P. Jumper, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 2001 to 2005

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 )

In 2005, the Constitutional Reform Act separated the powers with Legislative functions going to an elected Lord Speaker and the Judicial functions going to the Lord Chief Justice.

Round 10, 2005 saw St Kilda and its Coleman Medal-winning full-forward, Fraser Gehrig, claim more revenge for its defeat to Sydney in the corresponding fixture the previous season, winning by 43 points, 15. 11 ( 101 ) to Sydney's 8. 10 ( 58 ), after which the Swans earned the ire of the media and the AFL Chief Executive, Andrew Demetriou, for their game plan in the match.

* A Short Guide to Tristan da Cunha by James Glass and Anne Green, Tristan Chief Islanders ( 2005, Whitby Press, 12 pages ).

Sometimes a great length of time passes between nominations such as the eleven years between Stephen Breyer's nomination in 1994 and the nomination of John Roberts in 2005 to fill the seat of Sandra Day O ' Connor ( though Roberts ' nomination was withdrawn and resubmitted for the role of Chief Justice after Rehnquist died ).

* Lucian Grainge, Chairman and Chief Executive since 2005 of Universal Music Group International, and of Universal Music UK from 2001-5

She led the ALP to a record win at the 2005 election, before resigning as Chief Minister on 26 November 2007.

Chief among the Post's anonymous sources was an individual whom Woodward and Bernstein had nicknamed Deep Throat ; thirty years later in 2005, he was revealed to be William Mark Felt, Sr., the former Deputy Director of the FBI.

2005 was a record year for the tourism sector, with 9 % growth according to Viliame Gavoka, Chief Executive of the Fiji Visitors Bureau.

He was appointed as a member of the Hong Kong Chief Executive's Council of International Advisers in the years of 1998 – 2005.

* Connie Butler, Chief Curator of Drawings from 2005

Further afield, in northeast India, the Kuki-Chin-Mizo Jews claim descent from Manasseh, and call themselves Bnei Menashe ; in 2005 Shlomo Amar, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, announced that he regarded this claim to be true, which under the Law of Return allows them to migrate to Israel, as long as they formally convert to Judaism in accordance with halachic standards.

In 2005, Ross Armstrong from Tannu Lodge served as Western Region Chief for the Order of the Arrow.

Since 2005, the Chief Executive has been Cambridge-educated Sue Holden.

* In 2005, the Tupelo Rotary Club sponsored a commission for a statue of Chief Piomingo, a leader of the Chickasaw people, which was erected in front of the new city hall.

* Danny Alexander — Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament ( MP ) ( 2005 —), currently Chief Secretary to the Treasury

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.

For eight years up to late 2005 the president of the movement was Rabbi Ehud Bandel.

Rabbi Chaim Weiner succeeded Louis Jacobs as head of the New London Synagogue, but when Weiner was appointed head of the new European Masorti Beth Din in 2005, Jacobs returned.

* Rabbi Israel Salanter: Religious-Ethical Thinker, Menahem G. Glenn ( 1953, 2005 )

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi in 2005.

Rabbi Steve Gutow has served as executive director since August 2005.

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a leader of the Jewish Renewal movement, in 2005.

Moore and Kutcher married on September 24, 2005, in a private ceremony conducted by a Rabbi of the Kabbalah Center.

In 2005, the Bobover Rebbe, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Halberstam died, and Bobov split between his son-in-law, Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger, and the former's brother, Rabbi Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam.

These being his grandsons Danfi, Tsedakah, Mafraj and Sarawi Further afield, in northeast India, the Mizo Jews claim descent from Manasseh, and call themselves Bnei Menashe ; in 2005 Shlomo Amar, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, announced that he regarded this claim to be true, which under the Law of Return allows them to migrate to Israel, as long as they formally convert to Israel's official form of Judaism.

Directors of NFTY include Rabbi Samuel Cook ( 1945 – 1967 ), Rabbi Henry Skirball ( 1963 – 1971 ), Rabbi Allan Smith ( 1971 – 2002 ) Rabbi Michael Mellen ( 2005 – 2011 ).

* R. Benny Lau, Mimaran ad Maran: Mishnato ha-Hilkhatit shel ha-Rav Ovadiah Yosef ( From R. Yosef Karo to R. Ovadiah Yosef: The Halachic Teaching of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef ): Tel Aviv 2005

* Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence ( 2005 – present )

Rabbi Naftali Zvi died on March 23, 2005 ( 12 days in Adar, 5765 ) at age seventy-four leaving a wife, two daughters and two sons in-law ; Rabbi Yehoshua Rubin and Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger ; as well as his brother and sisters.

Members who have studied Hebrew and who observe the Sabbath and other Jewish laws received in 2005 the support of the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel in arranging formal conversion to Judaism.

In 2005, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's ( SWC ) Rabbi Marvin Hier announced plans to construct a " Museum of Tolerance and Human Dignity " in Jerusalem by destroying the historic Mamilla Cemetery.

In 2005, a group of Haredi rabbis in Israel and the United States, including Yosef Sholom Eliashiv, Dovid Feinstein, Aharon Leib Shteinman, Chaim Pinchos Scheinberg, and Shmuel Auerbach declared a ban on Slifkin's books, so that Haredi Jews in their communities could not purchase or read his work.

Krinsky was named to the Forward 50 in 2005.