Foreign economists have characterized the RTC's operations as inefficient, a result both of shortages of qualified staff and of barge capacity.

John Jay had been serving in as Secretary of Foreign Affairs as a holdover from the Confederation since before Washington had taken office and would continue in that capacity until Jefferson returned from Europe many months later.

In that capacity he accompanied Salisbury ( then Foreign Secretary ) to the Congress of Berlin and gained his first experience in international politics in connection with the settlement of the Russo-Turkish conflict.

" However, looking back across Home's career, The Times considered that his reputation rested not on his brief premiership, but on his two spells as Foreign Secretary: " He brought to the office ... his capacity for straight talking, for toughness towards the Soviet Union and for firmness ( sometimes interpreted as a lack of sympathy ) towards the countries of Africa and Asia.

In 1993, he was appointed as Special Adviser to Malcolm Rifkind the then-Secretary of State for Defence, and worked in the same capacity when Rifkind became Foreign Secretary between 1995 and 1997.

In Henry Addington's government, he entered the cabinet as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in which capacity he negotiated the Treaty of Amiens with France.

In his capacity as Foreign Minister, he was one of the German signatories of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

Doctrinally, the churches of the Interstate and Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptist Association hold that Christ died for all men ; salvation is by grace through faith ; the saved are eternally secure ; the church is local only and was organized by Christ while He was on earth ; baptism by immersion and the Lord's supper are church ordinances ; feet washing is to be performed in church capacity ; ministerial support must be by freewill offerings ; and the Great Commission is given to local churches only.

In 1992, Barroso was promoted to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, and served in this capacity until the defeat of the PSD in the 1995 general election.

The president's role is largely political, preparing the work of the European Council, organising and chairing its meetings, seeking to find consensus among its members and reporting to the European Parliament after each meeting ; the president will also " at his level and in that capacity, ensure the external representation of the Union on issues concerning its common foreign and security policy, without prejudice to the powers of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security ".

Dos Santos was appointed as Angola's first Minister of Foreign Affairs upon independence, and in this capacity he played a key role in obtaining diplomatic recognition for the MPLA government in 1975 – 76.

In 1999, she became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Peter Hain while he was Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Industry and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office before in 2002 becoming Parliamentary Private Secretary to Dr John Reid, in his capacity as Leader of the House of Commons and Minister without portfolio.

On 7 March 2012, Minister for Transport and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Lui Tuck Yew told Parliament that, in conjunction with Tuas West Extension, a much larger depot will be built by 2016 to house the additional trains needed to enhance the capacity of the North South and East West Lines.

Shortly afterwards, however, in his capacity as a government employee, he was given by the then Minister of Foreign Relations, Oswaldo Aranha, the commission to follow American writer Waldo Frank-already a literary acquaintance of Vinícius's-on a tour across Northern Brazil.

In his capacity of acting Foreign Minister, Otyrba headed the Abkhazian delegation to the meeting on repatriation of refugees held 20 July 2004 in Sochi.

The bill amended the Crimes ( Foreign Incursions and Recruitment ) Act to make it an offence for a person to commit hostile activities while serving in any capacity in or with the armed forces of a foreign state.

Sumulong also served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, and in that capacity, he led a Philippine delegation to the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in 1960.

From 1994, until her retirement, she was Political Director in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in which capacity she led the British delegation to the Dayton negotiations on the Bosnia peace settlement.

There was much pressure on Rohlfs to be in the medicine field, and he eventually joined the French Foreign Legion in a medical capacity.

* Report on Licensing of railway undertakings ( amendment of Directive 95 / 18 / EC ), allocation of capacity and levying of charges, Committee on Transport and Tourism, February 1999 Report on the future development of relations with Turkey ( communication from the Commission to the Council ), Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence Policy, November 1998.

He served continuously in that capacity as well as stints as Minister of Finance, and Minister of Foreign Affairs for the next ten years.

In its capacity as an EU agency, it also offers analyses and forecasting to the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton.

From 1992 until 1995, he served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs before becoming Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2001.

Protestations from Ganteaume and Minister Étienne Eustache Bruix later reduced the degree of criticism Blanquet faced, but he never again served in a command capacity.

Macdonald was designated as the first Prime Minister of the new nation, and served in that capacity for most of the remainder of his life, losing office for five years in the 1870s over the Pacific Scandal ( corruption in the financing of the Canadian Pacific Railway ).

In an executive capacity the Prime Minister appoints ( and may dismiss ) all other cabinet members and ministers, and co-ordinates the policies and activities of all government departments, and the staff of the Civil Service.

The Prime Minister, in consultation with the Cabinet, schedules and attends the sessions of the Houses of Parliament and is required to answer the question from the Members of Parliament to them as the in-charge of the portfolios in the capacity as Prime Minister of India.

From 2 July to 14 September he was Minister of War, in which capacity he displayed great ability.

His immediate successors did not always reside in Number 10 ( preferring their larger private residences ) but the home has nevertheless become established as the official residence of the Prime Minister ( in his or her capacity as First Lord of the Treasury ).

When the non-socialist formed government in 1976, Bildt came to serve as the Moderate party coordinator in his capacity as close collaborator of the then party leader and Minister of Economy Gösta Bohman.

Since 1998 this is the Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations ; when he is acting in this capacity the council has the status of the Government of the Realm to treat minor issues.

At the tribunal Desmond O ' Malley severely criticised Reynolds, in his capacity as Minister for Industry and Commerce, for an export credit scheme.

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.

He was elected to the first Diet of Japan in 1870 and soon became Minister of Finance, in which capacity he instituted property and taxation reforms that aided Japan's early industrial development.

As Home Minister, he systematically dismissed local bureaucrats in local governments in every capacity from governor down to high school principal.

" A RAF Intelligence report in late October 1940 circulated to all pilots and their squadrons, with copies to Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and the War Cabinet, declared: ' The manoeuvrability of the CR. 42s, in particular their capacity to execute an extremely tight half roll, has caused considerable surprise to other pilots and undoubtedly saved many Italian fighters from destruction.

Apart from the fact that this is understood to include a Queen regnant as well, references to the King acting in a political capacity are understood to mean the Prime Minister, as the Constitution stipulates that the King exercises his powers through the Cabinet.

He was appointed Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces when the Ministry was founded in October 1959 and served in that capacity until February 2008 ; he is also the nation's highest ranking general.

In this capacity Getty partially continued his responsibility for relations with the federal government, as energy policy was a major sticking point between the two governments ( at one point, federal Energy Minister Donald Macdonald called Getty " dripping with venom ").

He attended the 2012 Bilderberg Conference in his capacity of Minister for Finance at Chantilly, Virginia from 31 May-3 June 2012.

The same year, in her capacity as Minister for Health, Mary Harney introduced risk equalisation into the Irish healthcare market.

Additional functions of the First Minister include promoting and representing Scotland, in an official capacity, at home and abroad and responsibility for constitutional affairs, as they relate to devolution and the Scottish Government.

In his capacity as Acting Prime Minister during Gough Whitlam's overseas trip covering late 1974 to early 1975, Cairns arranged a meeting at the Reserve Bank in Canberra attended by various senior officials, including Lionel Murphy and Rex Connor.

Son Sen, later the Deputy Prime Minister for Defense of Democratic Kampuchea, was in charge of the Santebal, and in that capacity he appointed Comrade Duch to run its security apparatus.

In this new capacity he reported directly to the Prime Minister.