In a paper written in 2008, Cass Sunstein, legal scholar, and Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, wrote of appropriate government responses to conspiracy theories.

* Technical, Commercial and Regulatory Challenges of QoS: An Internet Service Model Perspective by Xipeng Xiao ( Morgan Kaufmann, 2008, ISBN 0-12-373693-5 )

There are many brands of tequila ; the Consejo Regulador del Tequila ( Tequila Regulatory Council ) reported 901 registered brands from 128 producers for the year 2008.

On December 14, 2007 Duke Power submitted a Combined Construction and Operating License to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with an announcement that it will spend $ 160 million in 2008 on the plant with a total cost of 5-6 billion dollars.

On 3 October 2008 Peter Mandelson, at the time of appointment not a member of either House, became Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and was immediately made a life peer.

In March 2008 the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency concluded that GSK should have warned of the possible ill effects of taking Seroxat a lot sooner.

In October 2008, the climate team at Defra was merged with the energy team from the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform ( BERR ) to create the Department of Energy and Climate Change, headed by Ed Miliband.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a license extension of 44 years for both the Wanapum dam and the downstream Priest Rapids dam on April 17, 2008.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a license extension of 44 years for both this dam and the upstream Wanapum dam on April 17, 2008.

Following the banking collapse of 2008 – 9, the Government re-unified the organisation under a Central Bank of Ireland Commission to replace the board structures of the Central Bank and the Financial Services Regulatory Authority which became effective on 1 October 2010.

On 7 October 2008, David Cameron formally appointed him to the front bench to shadow Peter Mandelson in the House of Lords on Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform matters.

He then became PPS to the Minister of State, Malcolm Wicks, first in the Department of Trade and Industry, and later in the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform until Wicks stood down in October 2008.

Russell Frisby, 2008 – 2009 Chair of the ABA's Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice section, at a Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service | Rappaport Center roundtable

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission performed a tri-annual inspection July – August 2008.

For example, critics say the 2008 financial crisis was caused by banking regulators who were captured by the financial services industry and failed to spot trouble on the horizon ... Regulatory capture is rarely the result of corruption.

In Minnesota in 2008, the Regulatory Assistance Project estimated that about one-third of the cost of utility energy conservation programs could be provided by these cost of capital savings.

The punishment was handed down to City chairman John Gibson and our then vice chairman Alasdair McMillin during a Regulatory Hearing at the Association ’ s offices at Wembley, and was in relation to alleged illegal payments to players, described by the FA as financial irregularities, by the club during the 2008 – 09 season.

In June 2007, he was appointed PPS to Lord Malloch-Brown, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and also served as PPS to Lord Digby Jones, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, and between July 2007 and October 2008.

The UK government department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform ( now the Department for Business Innovation and Skills ) consulted in 2008 on proposals to modify and merge the Act with the Partnership Act 1890, but the proposals did not go ahead, and the 1907 Act remains the governing Act.

Indian Point began " dry casking " spent fuel rods in 2008, a " safer alternative ", according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

In September 2008, NPPD applied to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) for a renewal of the operating license for CNS, extending it for an additional twenty years.

On July 28, 2008, Ameren Missouri submitted an application to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ), seeking a Combined Construction and Operating License ( COL ) for a potential second unit.

In April 2008, Marvin Yoder, a consultant on the reactor, said that Toshiba was planning to make the application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2009, and that if approval had been given in 2010 or 2011, the reactor could have been operational by 2012 or 2013.

On February 12, 2008, Unistar Nuclear, a joint venture between Constellation Energy and Électricité de France ( EdF ) announced it had notified the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ) of its plan to submit a combined construction and operating licence ( COL ) application in late 2008 for an advanced-design U. S. Evolutionary Power Reactor ( U. S. EPR ) at Constellation Energy's Nine Mile Point site.

* 2008 Alizain Hirji ( Impeached by the Council of Residence Presidents at Vic in 2009 )

In a letter dated 18 February 2008, Castro announced that he would not accept the positions of president and commander in chief at the 24 February 2008 National Assembly meetings, saying " I will not aspire nor accept — I repeat I will not aspire or accept — the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief.

Neither body sent representatives to the CUIC plenary on January 11 – 14, 2008, though the AME Council of Bishops never voted to suspend membership officially.

In December 2008, Iran ’ s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Saeed Jalili visited Ecuador.

Since the 2008 Guinean coup d ' état, the head of state has been Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, an army officer and President of the National Council for Democracy and Development.

Most foreign militaries operated under the umbrella of the Multinational force in Iraq ( the MNF – I ), authorized under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1546, 1637, 1723, and 1790 until December 31, 2008.

The Group's Second Interim Report was presented to the States by the Council of Ministers in June 2008.

In 2008, Prime Minister John Key ruled out any abolition of the Supreme Court and return to the Privy Council.

2008 saw a new twist to Lebanese politics when the Doha Agreement set a new trend where the opposition is allowed a veto power in the Lebanese Council of Ministers and confirmed religious Confessionalism in the distribution of political power.

On 16 October 2007, Libya was elected to serve on the United Nations Security Council for two years starting in January 2008.

In 2008, Torbay Council finally permitted the film to be shown after it won an online vote for the English Riviera International Comedy Film Festival.

The 2008 – 09 Manchester display, titled " Lindow Man: A Bog Body Mystery Exhibition at the Manchester Museum ", won the category " Best Archaeological Innovation " in the 2010 British Archaeological Awards, run by the Council for British Archaeology.

* Easington Council in County Durham, UK paid half of a medium's exorcism fee to remove a poltergeist from council housing in Peterlee, deemed more cost effective than relocation of the tenant ( 2008 )

Because of the split-off of the Conservative Democratic Party from the Swiss People's Party in 2008, since then the latter holds again only one seat in the Federal Council as of 2011.

In September 2008, a new constitution was accepted by the People's Council.

In September 2008, the People's Council unanimously passed a resolution adopting a new Constitution.

The latter resulted in the abolition of the Council and a significant increase in the size of Parliament in December 2008.

Elections: People's Council – last held in April 2003 ( next to be held December 2008 ); Mejlis – last held 19 December 2004 ( next to be held December 2008 ).

Tricky's 2008 studio album, Knowle West Boy, was released in the UK and Ireland in July 2008 and September 2008 in the U. S. The first single was " Council Estate ".

Murphy Student Centre ( 2002 ), MacLauchlan Arena ( 2004 ), Bill and Denise Andrew Hall residence facility ( 2006 ), expansions to the Atlantic Veterinary College ( 2007 and 2009 ), Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre ( 2007 ), a research and development laboratory which is home to the National Research Council of Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and other partners, and Don and Marion McDougall Hall ( 2008 ).

Putin also served as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus from 2008 to 2012.